1,721,577 research outputs found
Bill Berkson & Michael Friedman
No full text34.5 43 cm.Broadside of poetry reading announcement by Bill Berkson and Michael Friedman at the Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, with illustration by Jim Ringley, ca. 1999. 34.5 x 43 cm
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
Kantische Antworten auf die moderne PhysikOder Sollen wir Kants Apriori mit Michael Friedman relativieren?
Get PDFDieser elektronische Text wird hier nicht in der offiziellen Form wiedergegeben, in der er auf Papier erschienen ist. Zwar gibt es keine inhaltlichen Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Erscheinungsformen der Texte, wohl aber Unterschiede im Layout.Die meisten Beispiele Kant fürs synthetische Apriori sind von der modernen Physik aus dem Spiel geworfen worden. Können wir Kants anti-empiristische Erkenntnistheorie so umbauen, dass sie nicht länger unter den neueren Ergebnissen der Physik leidet? Michael Friedman schlägt vor, Kants Begriff vom apriorischen Urteil zu relativieren. Ein apriorischer Satz muss laut Friedman nicht ein für allemal und mit Notwendigkeit apriori gelten; vielmehr gilt ein Satz apriori relativ zu der Theorie, deren Möglichkeitsbedingung er ausspricht. Meiner Ansicht geht diese Liberalisierung des kantischen Programms zu weit. Wir sollten uns nicht mit bloss relativ apriori gültigen Sätzen abspeisen lassen. Ich schlage vor, einem Satz absolute Apriorität zuzusprechen, wenn er relativ zu jeder Theorie apriori gilt. Gibt es Beispiele für absolut apriorische Sätze, die zugleich synthetisch sind? Ja; um sie zu finden, müssen wir Kants ursprüngliche Beispiele (die nur relativ zu Newtons Physik apriori galten wie z.B. das Kausalitätsprinzip) erheblich abschwächen. An die Stelle des von der Quantenphysik überholten Determinismus aller physikalischer Ereignisse tritt dann eine schwächere Sicht der kausalen Dinge, die absolut apriori gilt, da sie eine Bedingung für die Möglichkeit jedweder objektiven empirischen Erkenntnis formuliert: Nicht alle Veränderungen ereignen sich rein zufällig.Most of Kant's examples for synthetic sentences known apriori have been repudiated by modern physics. Is there a way to modify Kantian anti-empiricist epistemology so that it no longer contradicts the results of modern science? Michael Friedman proposes to relativize Kant's notion of the apriori and thus to explain away the apparent contradiction. But how do we have to understand the relative apriori? I define a sentence to be known apriori relative to a given theory if the sentence makes it possible to test objective knowledge claims that belong within the frame of that theory. Are there sentences that can be known apriori relative to every possible theory, i.e., are there any examples for absolute aprioricity? My answer is to the positive. By weakening Kant's original examples (e.g., the principle of causality) we arrive at sentences that must be true if objective empirical knowledge is to be possible at all. The sentence "Not every change is due to pure chance" is an absolute example for synthetic apriori knowledge.Peer Reviewe
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
- …
