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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?

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    In this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We 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

    Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce

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    Letter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

    Actualité : une voix de l'islam s'éteint

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    Disparition d'Abdelwahab Meddeb 06.11.2014 Abdelwahab Meddeb CB © RADIO FRANCE Abdelwahab Meddeb, était producteur depuis 1997, sur France Culture et animait tous les vendredis l’émission « Cultures d’Islam ». Entre tradition et modernité, il y décortiquait et interrogeait les enjeux de civilisation de notre temps, en mettant en regard l’Orient et l’Occident, l’Islam et l’Europe. Passionné de littérature française, Abdelwahab Meddeb entame des études de Lettres et d’Histoire de l’Art à l..

    Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing

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    Hear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing. Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Sponsored by CWU Veterans Center and CWU Libraries.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1252/thumbnail.jp

    Lillian L. Lambert, Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur

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    Lillian L. Lambert, Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneu

    Letter to Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 10, 1948

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    A handwritten letter from an unknown author addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 10, 1948. Within, the author discusses the Pennsylvania Dutch word for Ash Wednesday, along with traditions associated with this day.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/1118/thumbnail.jp

    Relecture de l œuvre romanesque de Mouloud Mammeri

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    Cette thèse est une relecture de l œuvre romanesque de Mouloud Mammeri. Premièrement, elle situe les romans de l écrivain dans le contexte socio-anthropologico-historique de leur production, celui de l histoire de l Algérie (coloniale et post-coloniale). Ensuite, elle étudie la conception de l écriture romanesque chez le romancier. Deuxièmement, elle analyse les deux premiers romans (La Colline oubliée et Le Sommeil du juste) de la période coloniale, suivi de l étude de L Opium et le bâton. Enfin, une relecture de La Traversée, quatrième et dernier roman de l auteur, qui nous révèle l après-indépendance de l Algérie. La deuxième partie de la thèse est l analyse de quelques aspects de la culture amazighe dans les romans de Mouloud Mammeri à la lumière de l anthropologie et de la sociologie.This dissertation is a rereading of Mouloud Mammeri s novels. Firstly, it situates writer Mouloud Mammeri s novels in their socio-anthropologic-historic context, i.e., the history of Algeria (colonial and post-colonial). It then analyzes the creation of the writer s fictional writing. Secondly, it analyzes the writer s first two novels of the colonial period (La Colline oubliée and Le Sommeil du juste), followed by a study of several aspects of the war in L Opium et le bâton. Finally the paper revisits La Traversée, the fourth and also the last novel of the writer, which reveals certain hidden aspects of the war as well as those of the post-independence Algeria. The second part of the dissertation is an analysis of several aspects of amazighe culture in Mouloud Mammeri s novels, viewed in the light of anthropology and sociology.NANTERRE-BU PARIS10 (920502102) / SudocSudocFranceF
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