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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
خارطة الكتابة: حوار مع أهداف سويف / The Map of Writing: An Interview with Ahdaf Soueif
No full text[After introducing the works of Ahdaf Soueif, her background, and critical response to her novels, Mehrez raises questions on Anglophone writing with the author. The following are excerpts from Soueif\u27s answers: The first language in which I read was English. My introduction to written stories was in English. I have truly not considered my reader till after the publication of In the Eye of the Sun... its reception in the Arab World and in the West and how people reacted to it. I imagine that one can explain or interpret The Map of Love as being a more accentuated awareness of my position as an Egyptian writer writing in English and addressing the Western reader to tell him our story with them from our point of view-an Egyptian Arab one. A quick glance at the world situation will suffice to show that we remain in the throes of certain kinds of colonialisms that have more effective power and are certainly an extention of older forms. A number of critics have written about an innovative aspect of my work that has to do with my use of the English language to relay an Arab context. The Arabic language... is my first and principle language. Consequently, I cannot allow the appearance of a translation of my work into Arabic. Rather, I feel the need to Arabize it, to rewrite it myself. The nomination to the Booker Prize... for a writer like myself, coming to the English language from the outside without belonging to its literary history is a recognition of considerable importance.
Race and the humanities.
No full textRecorded in Ithaca, NY by Cornell University., Speaker(s): Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University., Lecture, April 16, 1988.70 minutesMehrez discusses the recent development of bilingual writing among Francophone writers (specifically Arab) as being distinct from the currently-existing alternatives of writing in French while adhering to a metropole perspective or of immersing oneself in Arabic. She points out the political implications of such a choice.1_2be3rp1x1_fje39gv
Translation, gender, and knowledge production : a one day symposium
No full textMeeting: Translation, Gender and Knowledge Production, May 9th, 2010, Cairo, EGThe Symposium analyzed aspects of translation and the publication of six readers: The Gender and Political Science Reader; The Gender and History Reader; The Gender and Religion Reader; The Gender and Psychology Reader; The Gender and Anthropology/Sociology Reader; The Feminism and Literary Criticism Reader. Translators and editors provided presentations about the implications of language use, problematic words and expressions. For instance, “…using bible with a small b, not capitalizing it, maybe to use as a text, to discredit its authority… this was the general purport of the article... (and) impossible to render in Arabic because we don't have capitals and smalls…
Ahmed de Bourgogne : The Impossible Autobiography of a Clandestine / ﺃﺣﻤﺪ ﺍﻟﺒﺮﺟﻮﻧﻲ: ﺍﻟﺒﺪﻭﻥ ﻭﺍﺳﺘﻌﺼﺎﺀ ﺍﻟﺴﻴﺮﺓ ﺍﻟﺬﺍﺗﻴﺔ
No full text[The article deals with the problematic reconstruction of the tragic autobiography of a clandestine. The book, Ahmed de Bourgogne is born of the collaboration between the clandestine ex-convict Ahmed Beneddif and the renowned French writer and social scientist Azouz Begag, both of whom are of Algerian origin and belong to the same beur generation in France. Begag who had already published his own, widely acclaimed autobiography, Le gone du Chaâba, renders Bennedif\u27s fluid oral testimony into a structured literary account, thereby molding the self-representation of the subaltern subject. By adopting Beneddif\u27s oral odyssey Begag writes his other unlived destiny-that of the anti-hero which, through personal perseverence, he was able to escape. Indeed, the encounter between Beneddif and Begag, crowned by the co-signed autobiography Ahmed de Bourgogne, provides both sides of the North African immigrant community\u27s story in France. For Beneddif Ahmed de Bourgogne becomes the last chance for salvation, for Begag it becomes an act of redemption. /تعرض المقالة لإشكالية كتابة السيرة الذاتية لأحمد بن الضيف، رجل من مواليد فرنسا من أصل جزائري محكوم عليه في أكثر من قضية في فرنسا، يتم ترحيله إلى الجزائر (التي لا يعرفها قط) حيث يبدأ محاولات العودة المستحيلة، ويظل مشرداﹰ بين بلاد حوض المتوسط وشرق أوروبا بدون أوراق حتى يدخل فرنسا سراﹰ بعد مضي أكثر من عامين على رحلته المأساوية المروعة التي يتعرض خلالها للضرب ﻭﺍﻟﺘﻌﺬﻳﺏ والسرقة، ويعيش شهوراﹰ في معسكرات ((البدون)) المنتشرة في كل البلاد التي وطئها٠ وتصبح نهاية هذه الرحلة المخيفة للبدون الفرنسي نقطة البداية في قصته مع الكاتب الفرنسي المعروف، ذي الأصول الجزائرية، عزوز بجاج٠ ويعرض المقال لعلاقة التماهي التي تحدث بين الكاتب المعروف و((البدون)) المهمش التي ينتج عنها نص السيرة الذاتية أحمد البرجوني الذي يحمل توقيعهما معاﹰ؛ إذ يحوّل بجاج شهادة أحمد بن الضيف ﺍﻟﺸﻔﺎﻫﻴﺔ عن رحلته المروعة إلى نص مكتوب٠ ويخوض المقال قي تداعيات هذا ((التدخل)) المكتوب في صوت ((البدون)) الشفاهي فيما يخص مفهوم البطولة بالنسبة إلى الرجلين والتأريخ للهجرة المغربية وموقعها في المجتمع الفرنسي، علاوة على أهمية سيرة ذاتية كهذه في سياق ما نحياه اليوم من أحداث عالمية تستوﺟﺐ الالتفات إلى مثل هذه الشهادة٠
The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima (I love cinema) and the emergence of the coptic community in the egyptian public sphere
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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