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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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Democracy, totalitarianism and logos : how Hannah Arendt renews the ancient greek tradition
No full textCette thèse envisage l'héritage grec antique de Hannah Arendt dans son ensemble, « héritage » qui n'est « précédé d'aucun testament », selon la formule de René Char qu’elle reprend à son compte. Elle soutient l’idée qu’Arendt envisage les Grecs comme des exemples qui lui permettent d’incarner des capacités humaines que la modernité, et a fortiori le totalitarisme, ont pu nous faire oublier. Loin d’être une disciple des Grecs en général ou d’un auteur grec en particulier, Arendt dialogue avec eux, dans un échange vif et fécond, les considérant comme des « amis » que l’on peut suivre ou contredire. Cette thèse distingue chez Arendt trois types de logoi (de paroles) qu'elle conceptualise à l'aide des Grecs pour contrer les failles de la modernité et du totalitarisme. La première partie analyse la parole politique, qu'elle pense comme une forme d'action et d'opinion à l'aide, notamment, d'Aristote et de Périclès (qui nous transmettrait la mentalité de la polis). Elle oppose ainsi une forme d’exercice démocratique véritable, fondé sur l'échange des doxai sur la scène publique, à la Vérité dogmatique du philosophe (dont Platon est alors l’incarnation) qui entend imposer une transcendance au domaine des affaires humaines, alors que celui-ci se construit en réalité entre-les-hommes. La seconde partie se penche sur le rôle du récit, ou parole narrative, qu’Arendt examine à l'aide de la double figure antique du poète et de l’historien, pour contrer le langage de la science qui explique les actions humaines au lieu de leur donner un sens par la compréhension. La troisième partie examine la parole dialectique, ou le dialogue intérieur de la pensée, qu’Arendt pense, avec Platon et Socrate, comme un antidote à l'absence de pensée et à l'idéologie totalitaires. Ce faisant, elle réhabilite Platon dans une perspective éthique, démontrant ainsi que les figures qu’elle tire de l’Antiquité sont mouvantes, pouvant endosser des rôles différents selon les contextes de pensée.This thesis considers the ancient Greek legacy of Hannah Arendt as a whole, an “inheritance” that is “preceded by no testament,” according to the formula of René Char that she adopts as her own (“Notre héritage n’est précédé d’aucun testament”). It supports the idea that Arendt sees the Greeks as examples to embody human capacities that modernity, and even more so totalitarianism, may have caused us to forget. Far from being a disciple of the Greeks in general or of a particular Greek author, Arendt engages in a lively and fruitful dialogue with them, considering them as “friends” that one can follow or contradict. This thesis distinguishes in Arendt three types of logoi (speech) that she conceptualizes with the help of the Greeks to counter the flaws of modernity and totalitarianism. The first part analyzes political speech, which she thinks of as a form of action and opinion with the help, notably, of Aristotle and Pericles (who, she argues, transmits to us the mentality of the polis). She thus opposes a form of true democratic exercise, based on the exchange of doxai on the public stage, to the dogmatic Truth of the philosopher (of whom Plato is then the incarnation) who intends to impose a transcendence on the realm of human affairs, while in reality, it is constructed between-men. The second part examines the role of narrative speech, which Arendt looks at with the help of the twofold figure of the ancient poet and historian, to counter the language of science that explains human actions instead of giving them meaning through understanding. The third part examines dialectical speech, or the internal dialogue of thinking, which Arendt conceives, with Plato and Socrates, as an antidote to thoughtlessness and totalitarian ideology. In doing so, she rehabilitates Plato in an ethical perspective, thus demonstrating that the figures she draws from Antiquity are fluid, capable of assuming different roles depending on the contexts of thought
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