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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
Interview with Natasha Egan
Full text linkNatasha Egan (she/her) grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has served as the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography since 2011, and prior to that, she was its associate director and curator. At Columbia College Chicago, she teaches photography and humanities. She also attended Columbia College Chicago as a student, receiving two degrees: an MA in museum studies and an MFA in photography. She has served as guest curator for the FotoFest Biennial in Houston, the United States pavilion curator for the Photo Dubai Exhibition and guest curator for the Lianzhou Photography Biennial in China and has received travel grants to Korea and Germany where she served as a freelance curator. Exhibitions she has curated at the Museum of Contemporary Photography include Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea and Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place. She has written essays for several cultural art publications. Besides her degrees from Columbia College Chicago, she also earned a Certificate in Photography from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Puget Sound. Length: 60:50 minutes. Transcript: 22 pages.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ohx2022/1006/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Colbey Reid
Full text linkColbey Reid (she/her) was born in Hawaii. As the daughter of a military man, she has lived in places like Japan, Germany, and Florida. She earned a BA in English and French Literature at the University of Florida, and an MA and PhD in English Literature from the University of Washington. Before coming to Columbia College Chicago, she worked at York College in Pennsylvania and North Carolina State University. Reid is a professor of Fashion Studies and the director of the School of Fashion. She also founded the school’s Fashion Lab in 2019. Outside of teaching, Reid has written articles on fashion and environmentalism, and authored books, her most recent is Designing the Domestic Posthuman. This book explores aesthetic intelligence, detailing how humans can shape everyday commodities for the future. Length: 65:29 minutes. Transcript: 23 pages.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ohx2022/1003/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Duncan MacKenzie
Full text linkDuncan MacKenzie (he/him) was raised in Calgary, a city in Alberta, Canada. He is currently Interim Chair of Design and the Chair & Associate Professor of Art and Art History. Before becoming a teacher, he created items for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, making materials for the manufacturing exhibit, including a model train. He continues this creative practice at his career at Columbia, teaching drawing, printmaking, and silk-screening classes. MacKenzie has a BFA in art from the Art University of Calgary and an MFA from The Art Institute. Through collaboration with Christian Kuras, he has created a collection of artwork, shown internationally, and at art fairs such as EXPO Chicago and PULSE Miami. He also is a founder of the podcast Bad at Sports, where he discusses contemporary art and interviews the creative minds of the Midwest, producing more than 550 interviews. Length: 52:09 minutes. Transcript: 19 pages.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ohx2022/1004/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Erin McCarthy
Full text linkErin McCarthy (she/her) is from the South Side of Chicago and grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. She holds a BA in history from the University of Illinois, and an MA and a PhD in history from Loyola University. She was the first person in her family to complete a college degree. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Department at Columbia College Chicago. McCarthy’s oral history class and its students have produced more than 400 transcribed oral history interviews for collections such as the Veterans History Project, the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Project, and Photography at Columbia College Chicago. She has also written papers on oral history, published articles in Oral History Review and her essay “Oral History in the Undergraduate Classroom: Getting Students into History” is included in Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: an Anthology of Oral History Educators. She states that oral history creates knowledge and offers insight into people’s individual experiences. Besides teaching oral history at Columbia College Chicago, McCarthy also teaches sports history and history after the 1930s. Length: 62:13 minutes. Transcript: 21 pages.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ohx2022/1005/thumbnail.jp
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
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