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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
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
The Administrative State in the United States
No full textAux États-Unis, l’administration fédérale est composée d’un ensemble d’entités, que le droit administratif appelle agences (agencies) et qui sont créées par le Congrès par voie législative. Sous la plume des juristes américains, l’expression d’ « État administratif » traduit l’idée, surprenante pour un spécialiste de droit public français, qu’à l’échelon fédéral, ce sont surtout ces agences qui exercent les trois fonctions juridiques de l’État, à savoir la fonction législative, la fonction exécutive et la fonction juridictionnelle. Cette thèse part du constat qu’il y a, aux États-Unis, une certaine réticence à qualifier d’ « État » le gouvernement fédéral. Le développement de la structure administrative fédérale, de la coercition administrative et du pouvoir discrétionnaire des agences impose-t-il néanmoins de reconnaître qu’un État fédéral, au sens que les juristes français donnent à ce terme, existe désormais aux États-Unis ? Cette thèse répond à cette question par la négative. Elle entend alors rechercher les caractères de l’ « État » fédéral à partir d’une analyse des grandes théories du droit administratif américain. Tout d’abord, cet « État » ne repose pas sur l’idée d’une puissance publique, le droit administratif ayant cherché à organiser la soumission de l’administration à la rule of law. Ensuite, il ne poursuit pas la réalisation d’un intérêt général substantiel et transcendant, mais retient une conception procédurale de l’intérêt public. Enfin, il n’est pas fondé sur un principe d’unité du pouvoir, parce que le droit administratif n’adopte pas une conception hiérarchique de l’administration et ne lui confie pas la mise en œuvre d’une volonté politique unifiée.In the United States, the federal government includes a set of entities that administrative law calls agencies, which Congress creates through legislation. American lawyers use the term “administrative state” to express the idea, surprising to a French public-law specialist, that at the federal level, these agencies generally exercise the three legal functions of the state, namely legislative, executive and judicial functions. This dissertation starts from the fact that, in the United States, there is a certain reluctance to call the federal government a “state.” Does the development of the federal administrative structure, of administrative coercion, and of agency discretion nevertheless require recognizing that a federal state, as French lawyers understand the term, now exists in the United States? This dissertation claims that the answer is no. It then seeks to identify the characteristics of the federal “state” through an analysis of the main theories of federal administrative law. First, unlike France, this federal “state” is not based on the idea of a public power (puissance publique) since administrative law sought to organize the submission of the administration to the rule of law. Next, it does not pursue a substantial and transcendent general interest, but retains a procedural conception of the public interest. Finally, it is not based on a principle of unity of power, because administrative law does not adopt a hierarchical concept of the administration and does not entrust it with the implementation of a unified political will
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
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