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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Environmental Destruction versus Responsible Trade versus Domestic Bliss: Assessing the Representation of Risk in Civil Society, Aboriginal, Industry and Government Bitumen Sands Advertising
No full textAlberta’s bitumen sands have become a flash point for political action and campaigning in the debate around Canada’s energy future. The stakes are high and contested, yet the public has been witness to an increasing prevalence of promotional and marketing-oriented information on the issue. This study utilizes risk society theory, social constructionism and agnotology theory to explore the representation of risk in paid bitumen sands advertisements collected online between January 01, 2014 and August 31, 2015. Utilizing a mixed method approach of content and discourse analysis, the study assesses illustrative examples of the most frequently referenced risk topic in civil society, Aboriginal, industry and government ads. The results show that the top bitumen sand mythologies present a conflict over risks to the environment and local communities, versus risks to responsible trade and domestic bliss. These mythologies perpetuate opposing ideologies about the human-nature relationship – a view of nature as a resource for commodification; versus a view of nature as a divine resource requiring protection
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Systemic Discrimination Persistence Within Progressive Environments: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mediated Political Discourse on the Feminist Passing of Justin Trudeau During the 2015 Election Campaign = Persistance de la discrimination systémique : une analyse critique des discours politiques médiatisés du passage de Justin Trudeau comme féministe lors de la campagne électorale fédérale de 2015
No full textThe 2015 Canadian election campaign was seen as a decisive moment for women's rights in Canada. In the decade preceding the elections, the country had been led by Stephen Harper, of the Conservative Party of Canada. Massive cuts in funding for women's organizations had been disastrous for the advancement of gender equality, a prime example being the shutdown of 12 of the 16 regional offices of Status of Women Canada. Hope for support of women's rights came with the Liberal Party Leader, Justin Trudeau, declaring himself as a staunch feminist. Now, almost a decade later, progress has been slow on many fronts; a breadth of reports, analysis and commentaries have come to question or attack Trudeau on his feminist claims. How is it possible that systemic discrimination has persisted under a government that ran a campaign based on inclusivity, equality, and fair representation? One way of answering this question is through understanding how the word feminism was utilized by the prime minister and interpreted by a sample of media actors during the 2015 federal election campaign.
Understanding that knowledge is situated and constructed via communicative practices, such as discourse, this thesis examines what feminism has been made to mean by three different actors: Prime Minister Trudeau, through his public speeches; traditional English newspapers, through their commentary on Trudeau's 2015 campaign; and, by feminist activists and organizations that covered the campaign through online publications. The thesis takes on a feminist standpoint and intersectional approach to critical discourse analysis and mobilizes the concept of passing to analyze these three different corpora. NVivo was used to support the analysis in two of three articles, and Voyant was added as a tool for the third article, written in French. The thesis reveals that Trudeau supports a neoliberal feminist stance, one that undermines a large part of feminist endeavours as it only serves to support colonialist, capitalist, and patriarchal goals, three of the strongest systems of power that oppress women, especially women whose intersecting identities may make them vulnerable to different and accumulating forms of oppression
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