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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
Suburban Development - in Search of the Language of the Suburbs
Get PDFSeveral Danish suburbs are facing major challenges that endeavour to cope with (among other factors) counteracting the segregation of suburbs into socially sharply separated residential areas. Therefore, these years see the post-war era’s suburban areas being revitalized and urban life, urban qualities and community are being discussed in relation to the suburbs. In the process of re-imagining the suburb it is important to analyse which factors could counteract segregation. Therefore, different types of suburban public spaces are mapped, with the purpose of exploring the design and the everyday use of suburban public spaces through urban life studies, architectural analysis and anthropological fieldwork. At play in the case studies of the PhD project are physical settings for community and as theoretical framework Hajer & Reijndorp’s term “exchange” (compared to “the meeting”) is used to open up the discussion and the cultural mind- set related to the development of the Danish suburb.Several Danish suburbs are facing major challenges that endeavour to cope with (among other factors) counteracting the segregation of suburbs into socially sharply separated residential areas. Therefore, these years see the post-war era’s suburban areas being revitalized and urban life, urban qualities and community are being discussed in relation to the suburbs.In the process of re-imagining the suburb it is important to analyse which factors could counteract segregation. Therefore, different types of suburban public spaces are mapped, with the purpose of exploring the design and the everyday use of suburban public spaces through urban life studies, architectural analysis and anthropological fieldwork.At play in the case studies of the PhD project are physical settings for community and as theoretical framework Hajer & Reijndorp’s term “exchange” (compared to “the meeting”) is used to open up the discussion and the cultural mind- set related to the development of the Danish suburb
Arkitektur-antropologi anvendt som metode i et dansk forstadsstudie
No full textCombining anthropological and architectural methods in suburban studies in Vejle, DenmarkThis paper will outline the research methods, which are used to explore suburban life and suburban space. Through architectural analysis and urban life registrations a study of suburban physical frames are conducted to reflect upon how the space have impact and shape the use of the suburban public spaces. There are relatively many people who pass the suburban spaces, but fewer who actually make a stay – because the frames are not offering the possibilities.Therefore, to comprehend the people, their everyday life and the social connections of the suburb, anthropology methods are also tested in the project. Qualitative interviews, logbook and fieldwork have been used to see and engage with the lived everyday life, as it is taking place in a typical Danish suburb. As a result of this interest, my family and I have moved in to the case study area ‘Søndermarken’ in Vejle for 9 months. From here the everyday life and the social connections and community was examined through daily registrations (pictures, notes and GPS-tracking) and broad participation in collective activities of the suburb.The objective is to see how the physical connections have impact on the social connections in the suburb and to find potentials in the everyday life to develop suitable suburban spaces.<br/
Suburban areas and urban life:Space for ‘the good life’ in the suburbs - between ideals and everyday life
No full textDanish suburbs are facing major challenges trying to coping with demographic changes, with structural changes in retail businesses and especially with sustainability-related challenges that have to do with cutting back on energy consumption for heating and transportation.Also climate changes and counteracting the segregation of the suburbs into sharply socially-separated residential areas are major challenges.Therefore, in these years the post-war era’s suburban areas are being revitalized and the suburb urban life and urban qualities are concepts, which are often brought up in this context.In this paper I will explore the concepts “suburb” and “urban life”.More than half of the Danish population live in suburban areas, and the majority of suburbs were built in a short and hectic period in the years from 1960 to 1975 and in conformity with the functionalist ideals that gave rise to a number of mono-functional enclaves that were sharply differentiated from one another. Commercial, residential, institutional and recreational areas were placed outside the traditional city centre, and these enclaves were separated by an infrastructure skeleton. This structure created the appropriate spacing - a principle which at that time was the planners' best answer to the city's challenges: disease, pollution and overpopulation.Thus the suburbs were not planned to have a vibrant city life with traditional urban qualities. The suburb had a strong dependency to the city centre in their origin, where the cultural and urban life took place in squares, shops, cafes, etc.However, changed conditions as new forms of everyday life, the current climate andsustainability agenda, increasing social segregation, etc. give us a need to see the suburb in a new perspective.This industrial PhD project examines which forms of ‘urban life’ are suitable for the suburbs and discusses which urban life activities are resilient in the suburbs.What do the residents of respectively single-family housing areas and social housing areas want? Does the idea of vibrant urban qualities in suburban areas, that today's planners and architects articulate, have roots in residents' dreams of the future suburb? How do we support urban life between the enclaves of the suburb, and can this urban life provide a framework for community?It is important to establish knowledge of the conditions in suburban areas. This is where more than half of the Danish population lives. And as architects’ and planners’ projects in recent years have proposed to establish more 'city life' in the suburbs, there is reason to question whether it meets a real desire among suburban residents.<br/
The planned and the lived suburb:An architectural-anthropological search for exchange between suburban enclaves
Get PDFI disse år står nogle af de danske efterkrigstids forstæder over for store udfordringer - social segregation og demografiske ændringer samt udfordringer forbundet med den bæredygtige omstilling. Særligt segregeringen forhindrer, at det sociale liv udfoldes på tværs af sociale, økonomiske og kulturelle skel, da forstæderne i deres fysiske struktur er opdelt i enklaver, med hver sin boligform, hvert sit funktionelle program, adskilt af infrastruktur. Der eftersøges derfor i denne afhandling potentialer for fysisk og social brobygning mellem forstadens enklaver i form af offentlige domæner. Det sker i en arkitektur-antropologisk kortlægning af offentlige rum i forstaden Søndermarken Syd i Vejle. Der sættes i afhandlingen fokus på forholdet mellem den planlagte forstad og det levede liv i Søndermarken, og det påvises, at forstaden som bymodel både virker og værdsættes. Der påvises endvidere en række potentialer for brobygning mellem forstadens enklaver gennem udvikling af forstadens offentlige rum
Study of urban space / urban life in the suburb
No full textThis abstract outlines a section of the methods, which I use in my PhD study, to investigate urban space and urban life in suburban areas in Denmark. I will touch upon the overall methodological considerations in the project, and then go deeper into a specific section: the architectural analysis of a public suburban space.I use anthropological fieldwork to explore the space and place of everyday suburban life in a Danish suburb. I combine two disciplines – architecture and anthropology, to find layers that have commonality, and in this abstract, I focus on the projects architectural analysis, in form of a pilot case study.The pilot case study involves to elements, an architectural analysis and an urban life registration of a suburban urban space in ‘Søndermarken’ in Vejle. The object is to study the physical frames and look at how these frames shape the use and patterns of movement in the selected suburban public space.In the architectural analysis I register the physical frames and conditions of the space (scale, architecture, functions, boundaries, connections etc.) and through the urban life registrations, inspired by the Danish architect and researcher Jan Gehl, I map the stay, activity and encounters of people. Through these studies I seek a deeper understanding of the physical and social connections in the suburb
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
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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