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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
Program: A room for running in a world in flux
Get PDFFor all the attention paid to notions of flux in philosophy and architecture in recent years – of the movement and oscillation between seemingly hermetic states, the perpetual becoming of the world – it is surprising how little effort has been devoted to the architectural element most concerned with the dispersal of bodies between static spaces, namely the corridor.
The thesis is theoretically oriented – aiming to think and discuss architectural ideas. The first part is an essay, which explores the corridor as a narrative element: a concept which oscillates between real and fictional (non-)spaces, even connecting them (as corridors tend to do). The second part of the thesis researches the corridor through works, testing and twisting the architectural typology.
There are many stories about the corridor, that by no means falsify each other as much as they reveal the subtleties by which the truths and meanings of concepts are constructed and negotiated about in the social world. Etymologically, the corridor denotes “to run” (from the latin curere), a word initially used to describe a person carrying political messages across vast territorial distances. Later, political communication was progressively veiled by architecture, such as in the elevated Vassari Corridor connecting the Palazzo Vecchio to the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. From 1565 and onwards, the room served as a secret passageway for the Medici family. The political dynasty did not wish to disclose to their surroundings when, why, or by whom its communication channels were roamed. When the corridor-word appeared in plan drawings in the following century as the metonymic “room for the runner,” replacing the runner-person with the architectural element, they were new manifestations of Giorgio Vasari’s political invention. In the 1600s, the corridor’s capacity for covert communication made it essential in aiding the Counter-Reformation alliances between the Jesuits and Roman administration. Separating circulation from the official courtyard entrance, the corridor spread to monastic construction, particularly in Austria and Germany, such as in the vast Augustinian complex of St. Florian (1686–1751)2. Importantly, the functional political passageway concurrently entered the symbolic realm. By implying to outsiders that the corridor’s proprietor needed a political pipeline into their residences, the corridor itself became a potent sign of influence. The optical illusion of Francesco Borromini’s transformation of Palazzo Spada in 1632, plays out the fantasy of a purely symbolic corridor in emblematic fashion: while the visual appearance the arcaded passageway suggests thirty-seven meters long corridor, it is in fact only eight.
Nowadays corridors are most often “narrow hallways” – spatial entities with walls on either side that distributes traffic to connecting rooms, or “a passageway (as in a hotel or office building) into which compartments or rooms open.”4 Yet, this general definition enables the corridor to be proficiently used as analogy, applicable for a wide range of phenomena. In the Norwegian national news media in 2022, the corridor was used as analogy in association with the Russian war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, global warming, and the electricity crisis, to name a few examples. These so-called corridors varied in dimension from some interior square meters of a building (“We are standing in the end of a corridor in an office building in Kongsvinger [...]”) to contiguous spatial sequences crossing geographical borders (“For many years, polar bears have commuted between the ice edge and Svalbard. In the past, there was a corridor of ice between the two destinations all year round, this is no longer the case.”). There are instances where it is more ambiguous whether the corridor-word refers to a physical place or an abstract phenomenon: “On Wednesday, the Russians tried to storm the facility, although claiming to be opening a humanitarian corridor from it.” Or: “20,000 civilians finally got out through a humanitarian corridor.” Or even: “Such a corridor will give Russia control over the entire Sea of Azov.” The corridor-word insinuates both spatial and temporal events, and is even used in poetic subversion, when Willy Pedersen writes of Maria Stepanova’s new book that “the hope is to find a corridor leading to new knowledge, and to new, bright rooms.”
Despite the fit-for-all, explanatory potential inherent to the term’s vagueness, and its fullcircle morphology from exterior route to interior passageway and back to exterior route, there are several reports of architectural corridor-fatigue. According to Rem Koolhaas, the corridor is now “simply an exit-route” from what is regarded the architecture proper, only a “void sustained by a glimmering array of devices, from exit signs to motion sensors to fire sprinklers to illuminated, way-finding carpets.” “To be honest, these spaces are merely passages, volumes to pass through on the way to somewhere else. These are the parts of the journey most likely to be done on autopilot, the minutes and hours vanishing into routine habit. Dead time and dead space,” writes Roger Luckhurst of the space separating the territory of his London duplex from the street outside.
However, fatigued circumstances in combination with ambiguity can provide first-rate growth conditions for curiosity. Thus, A room for running in a world in flux investigates whether the architectural potential of the corridor is not entirely exhausted. This thesis postulates that architecture becomes more readable as processes in the stories that it co-produces. The text is structured into three separate, but interconnecting corridor-stories. Here, the concept of story refers to a purposeful narrative frame of meaning. The corridorconcept becomes in the systematization of historical accounts, architectural plans and the abundance of fiction and non-fiction in which it is propositioned. This form of analysis does not suggest a mechanical 1:1 relationship between a story and a physical building. While stories and their propositions about space do not faithfully represent “true” events, they still have an affective purchase on reality, since stories exchange affect as “intensities that pass body to body (human, nonhuman, part-body, and otherwise).”
The first story, Corridic grandeur and modern progress, revolves around the notion of the corridor as a device for modern progress. The second, Corridic alienation and modern discontent is unsurprisingly more skeptical, dealing with the corridor as a manifestation of class division and disaffection. The third and final story, Corridic non-space, discusses the corridor as neutral, insignificant-bordering-invisible – what will be called, paraphrasing Marc Augé, non-space. In the final work-based part of the thesis the parallel truths these stories contain are treated as generative, not of specific architectural instructions, but of an architectural way of thinking, judging and valuing.submittedVersio
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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