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The generic structure of the call for papers of predatory journals: A social semiotic perspective
Get PDF“Predatory journals” are profit-oriented journals which ignore academic quality. In 2014 Jeffrey Beall, a librarian from the University of Colorado Denver, compiled two lists in order to highlight this issue: one which listed questionable publishers and another which listed questionable standalone journals. He insisted that these publishers and journals were “corrupt” and that they “exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts” (Beall 2014). In his study of “bogus journals”, Renandya (2014, pp. 4–7) identified the key characteristics of predatory journals as: (1) publication fees; (2) high frequency publication; (3) an extremely high acceptance rate; (4) quick turnaround times; (5) a rapid review process; and (6) low or extremely uneven quality of published articles. While Beall’s (2014) and Renandya’s (2014) contributions to the detection of predatory publishers are very important, there is currently a lack of available information on the generic structure of the predatory publishers’ call for papers. As the first point of contact for many academic writers, the call for papers plays a vital part in early detection of predatory publishers. This chapter addresses this issue by analysing the generic structure of 25 calls for papers using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The chapter draws from Martin’s work on genre as “…staged, goal oriented” and “purposeful activity” (2009, p. 13) and Halliday’s features of field, tenor and mode that exist within the context of situation in SFL (Halliday 1978; Halliday and Hasan 1985/1989), to interpret the social context of the predatory call for papers. Further analyses of the appraisal devices (Martin and White 2005) and lexico-grammatical choices within the texts were conducted and are outlined in this chapter (Halliday and Matthiesen 2014; Sardinha 2013), with some analysis of the spoken and written forms of text emerging in the email (Halliday 1989). Beall’s (2014) and Renandya’s (2014) concepts were used to identify the 25 predatory emails used in this study. Understanding the generic structure and the lexico-grammatical construction is beneficial to writers seeking to publish their work in reputable circles
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
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
Applying SFL to the Qurʾān: textual metafunction in some of the Qurʾānic narratives of Abraham
Get PDFThis study is an endeavor to apply SFL to the Qurʾān. Its focus is to analyze the textual metafunction in some passages of Abraham’s story mentioned in four Suras (Q.6, 11, 15 and 19). The textual metafunction domain is the text internal relationships and the context in which it is produced. It does so by managing the linguistic resources of the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions that are reflected in the thematic, information and cohesive systems. The study examined principally two elements of this metafunction, i.e., the thematic structure (Theme-Rheme), and the cohesion system. As to the first, the text made use of the multiple types of the textual, interpersonal and topical themes. In the latter, the study showed the thematisation of the verbal group (process) in the declarative VS clause type, which represented the unmarked type of theme in the majority of the clauses; and within that the ‘saying’ verbs are prevalent, establishing a projection relation. The results showed that the paratactic relation between the projecting and projected clauses made possible the separate analysis of thematic structure of both clauses. Related to the thematisation of the verbal group is the presence of the Subject, through the verbal inflection, in different pronominal forms. Therefore, a reconsideration of theme limit is needed to reflect this fact of Arabic, and extends its range. The interrogative and imperatives clauses fit well the SFL theme considerations. The cohesion was partially analyzed focusing only on the reference as a grammatical cohesive device. The ties established by both the personal and demonstrative pronouns, as components of reference relation, hold the text parts together, contributing thus to its cohesion. To better understand the controversial issue of the Qurʾānic cohesion, we believe other devices such as ellipsis and conjunctions as well as the lexical devices (repetition for example) need to be examined. As the text unfolds in a context, the contextual factors were examined, in particular, the mode of discourse as being the element that correlates with, and activates, the textual meanings. In this regard, language represents the whole activity, and its role then is a constitutive. The mode orientation is more towards the tenor of the discourse than to the field of the discourse, reflecting more the interpersonal than the experiential meanings. Finally, the medium of the language is particular in that it combined both features of the spoken and the written. This study showed that the Qurʾānic Arabic, so different from other Arabic varieties, actually lent itself to SFL analysis. And a promising area to improve understanding the text would be the translational studies. An extensive research in Arabic Linguistic Tradition is required to get more insights regarding other alternatives of considering the Theme in the Qurʾānic Arabic. Finally, it should be remembered this is an old Semitic text (Arabic) that had been shaped and created within its own grammatical and rhetorical realms; and our study is but an approximation in terms of SFL.Thesis (M.Phil.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2016
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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