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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
If a duck is drawn in the desert does anybody see it?::Humour and infrastructures of Palestinian statehood
Get PDFThe perception that the merit of a work is measured by its usefulness, is a burden long-shouldered by artists operating across diverse zones of conflict. This is particularly pronounced in Palestinian cultural production, where as part of the nation building project artists have long been charged with the responsibility of validating collective identity and narrating the Palestinian »story«. This chapter investigates the way in which humour is employed in contemporary Palestinian art as a means through which to temper both this aforementioned burden, as well as the political, cultural and social impact of the failed »peace process« and the continual denial of a Palestinian sovereign state. Providing a conceptual framework of humor in contemporary art built around the key terms of the burden of proof, anticipatory aesthetics, over-identification, and futurity, this chapter aims to shed light on the ways in which contemporary Palestinian art offers a space through which to enact infrastructures of Palestinian statehood, and in turn mediate understandings of Palestine's past, present and future
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
Debatten und Agenda-Setzungen deutscher Politik zu Islam und MuslimInnen (2014-2015) – ein vitales Interesse? Islam und Muslime als Gegenstand von Debatten im Deutschen Bundestag (2014 – 2015) und in den Grundsatzprogrammen der deutschen Parteien – eine Untersuchung zu Inhalten und Agendasetzungen
Get PDFEs ist Aufgabe der politischen Parteien und der Abgeordneten als Repräsentanten dazu beizutragen, dass auf Seiten der Bevölkerung das Verständnis für berechtigte Ansprüche von religiösen wie nichtreligiösen Minderheiten entsteht, aber auch die Fähigkeit wächst, über die Berechtigung solcher Ansprüche informiert zu streiten. Das aber erfordert eine öffentliche Debatte über eine integrierende Religionspolitik. Ingrid Overbeck untersucht in diesem Beitrag folgende These: „Die AkteurInnen deutscher Parteien im Bundestag nehmen in der parlamentarischen Begleitung des Dialogs zwischen Staat und muslimischen Gemeinschaften in den Jahren 2014 und 2015 weitgehend eine Zuschauerrolle ein.“
Thematisch verankert ist der vorliegende Beitrag im Bereich der Religionspolitik, im Besonderen zum parlamentarischen Umgang mit kultureller bzw. religiöser Pluralität. Dabei wird über die Heranziehung des politisch-rechtlichen Umgangs mit (vor allem durch Zuwanderung verursachter) religiöser Pluralisierung in dieser Untersuchung als Fallbeispiel präzisiert. Anhand einer detaillierten Nachzeichnung der Parlamentsdebatten und der Parteienprogramme in den Jahren 2014 und 2015 in diesem Bereich in Deutschland setzt sich dieser Beitrag zum Ziel, in einer auf Deutschland bezogenen Analyse den Umgang politischer Repräsentanten mit religiöser Pluralität zu überprüfen. Aufgezeigt werden die Spannungsfelder in den Debatten über „humanitäre Verpflichtungen und Sicherheitsinteressen“ sowie unter dem Label der Identitätspolitik zu fassende „Auseinandersetzungen um kulturelle Differenzen und nationale Identität“ bis hin zur Frage nach der „Kompatibilität von Ethnizität und Religion der Zuwanderer mit der Aufnahmegesellschaft“. Genau diese soll im Rahmen dieses Beitrages als Analysegegenstand im Zentrum stehen. Konkret ist der vorliegende Beitrag eine empirische Überprüfung. Dabei wird konkret der politische Umgang mit dem Islam als sich vor allem durch Zuwanderung in Deutschland etablierter und sich (gerade im Zusammenhang mit der 2015 stark gestiegenen Zuwanderung von Flüchtlingen) weiterhin etablierender Großreligion im Zentrum stehen. Damit geleistet sein könnte zugleich eine mögliche Vorarbeit für weitergehende vergleichende Forschungen, die sich detailliert und fokussiert auf diesen Bereich der staatlichen Identitätspolitik in international vergleichender Perspektive widmen
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
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