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About scholarly publication and early-career LGBTQ+ scholars
No full textThis introductory chapter gives a rationale for exploring the publishing practices of novice LGBTQ+ researchers and those publishing research on LGBTQ+-related topics, and it explains the book’s frame of reference. The chapter begins by outlining some of the challenges facing early-career scholars in academic publishing and explains how many of these factors are exacerbated for those who also identify as LGBTQ+. The chapter provides an overview of key issues that LGBTQ+ scholars, particularly those at the early stages of their academic career, face when publishing for scholarly purposes. It explores the challenges early-career LGBTQ+ scholars experience in navigating heteronormative practices and accessing appropriate support for publishing and argues that LGBTQ+ early-career scholars’ experiences of academic publishing are under-researched and dominated by studies from Anglophone contexts and the Global North, making this volume, which takes an international and multidisciplinary perspective, a much-needed one. Finally, the chapter outlines the structural organisation of the book and provides an overview of the content of the constituent chapters
Conclusion and final thoughts
No full textThis chapter brings together the threads of the preceding chapters in the volume and draws out implications for practice. It highlights the need that has been demonstrated in the chapters of this volume for a less adversarial and more supportive publishing culture that recognises the pivotal role of identity, including gender and sexual identities, in academic writing and publishing. The chapter calls for a holistic perspective on scholarly publishing that recognises the importance of the material conditions in which research and writing occur and focuses on the processes of writing and publishing rather than over-emphasizing ‘outputs’ as though these were produced in a vacuum. It also encourages a view of scholarly publishing that acknowledges the need for researcher authenticity. The chapter outlines how mentors, supervisors, and gatekeepers can contribute to tackling the heteronormative attitudes that make scholarly publishing a potentially hostile place for novice LGBTQ+ scholars and calls for a more inclusive environment in scholarly publishing
Novice LGBTQ+ Scholars’ Practices in Writing for Scholarly Publication
No full textThis collection brings together perspectives from early-career LGBTQ+ scholars as they navigate the scholarly publishing landscape, highlighting their experiences and challenges toward providing greater representation within the academic community and existing scholarship. // The volume reflects on the ways in which scholarly output is intricately linked with scholarly identity and the challenges LGBTQ+ scholars face when their scholarly and gender and sexual identities can often seem to be in conflict. The book showcases perspectives from doctoral students and early-career scholars from around the world working across different disciplines, supported by case studies, autoethnographic narratives, and discourse analysis, to explore key issues facing those who identify as LGBTQ+ or who wish to research and publish on topics relating to gender and sexual identity. These include negotiating positionality, the role of writing styles in identity construction for queer scholars, the ways in which publishing gatekeepers perpetuate heteronormativity, and the part support networks play for researchers. // The book gives voice to a wider range of scholars toward creating a more inclusive publishing environment and will be of interest to students and researchers who identify as LGBTQ+ and those working in such fields as applied linguistics, English for academic purposes, queer theory, and gender studies
Blooming with Brazilian queer studies Reflecting on experiences of co-authoring and publishing with LGBTQ+ academics
No full textIn this chapter, the author analyses his past experiences as a Brazilian early-career researcher publishing on queer studies. First, he draws on publications developed as part of a knowledge exchange (KE) project called Diversidade Sexual na Escola (Sexual Diversity at School) which trained teachers on gender and sexuality. Second, he discusses publications coming from engagement with other queer and feminist activists, academics, and students in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He focuses particularly on establishing partnerships through academic projects, activism, and affects for co-authoring, networking, and publishing within the LGBTQ+ community, as well as the challenges that moving to England brought and the need to build new local support networks. He also addresses the context of queer studies in Brazil, and particularly their presence in education policies and research. Finally, he suggests reinforcing partnerships by LGBTQ+ academics to support their capacity to thrive, paying special attention to those from marginalised backgrounds
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
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
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