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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
Singing Redface: The Misappropriation of American Indian Culture in Popular Music
Get PDFThis project examines the role of cultural appropriation in the creation of Native American stereotypes that are present in Western popular music in post-colonial America through the completion of an in-progress book. Similar to how minstrel blackface performances developed racial archetypes by “displaying blackness,” singing redface occurs when a non-Native person takes on the racial archetype of a Native American character through song. This research not only analyzes the use of singing redface in popular music, but also examines how these songs lead to cultural confusion, cultural misappropriation, racial antipathy, and idealized sympathy towards Native Americans and their culture
Interculturalidad en el discurso de los niños miskitos en Corn Island
Get PDFIn this article, the author begins her examination about interculturality among Miskito children in Corn Island, which are based on ethnographic and linguistic-anthropologic researches that she performed in 2002 and 2003. The transcribed interactions conscientiously disclose how the Miskito children combined the traditional knowledge and the one from the media, as well as the multilinguism and the imaginative game in their everyday speech in Corn Island. It is proposed that the interculturality is not only a pedagogy promoted by regional and transnational institutions, but also a daily communication practice, based on the stories of interaction and exchange. The official interculturality discourse has been a way to negotiate the cultural differences among educational institutions in the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast and other places. Nevertheless, the interculturality practice emerges in daily interaction, which provides native resorts for the dialogue and the identity. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/wani.v59i0.257Wani No.59 2009 pp.31-49Con este artículo, su autora inicia sus estudios sobre la interculturalidad entre los niños miskitos de Corn Island, basados en las investigaciones etnográficas y antropológica-lingüísticas que realizó en 2002 y 2003. Las interacciones transcritas cuidadosamente demuestran cómo los niños miskitos combinan el conocimiento tradicional, el conocimiento mediático, el multilingüismo y el juego imaginativo en su discurso cotidiano en Corn Island. Se sugiere que la interculturalidad no sólo es una pedagogía promovida por las instituciones regionales y transnacionales sino, también, una práctica cotidiana de la comunicación basada en las historias de interacción e intercambio. El discurso oficial de la interculturalidad ha sido un medio de negociar la diferencia cultural en las instituciones educativas en la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua y en otros lugares. Sin embargo, la práctica de la interculturalidad surge en la interacción cotidiana que provee recursos autóctonos para el diálogo y la identidad. Corn Island ra miskitu luhpia naniba aisi banghwan iwanka ailal tilara iwaia ba dukiara Naha ulbanka wal, ulbi sakan dawanka na ta krikisa iwanka ailal ba stadi muni laki kaikaia dukiara, Corn Island ra miskitu tuktika naniba tilara, witin mani 2002 bara 2003 ra, stadi muni laki kaikan kan, indian daknika sirpi nani iwanka laka ba, bara witin nani ai bila aisinka laka nani basin, bara naha lainkara ai wark ka ba daukbia. Diara nani aisanka bara daukanka nani dukiara nahara ulban na pain aisi kaikuma bara mahrikisa, nahki miskitu luhpia naniba mixmunisa Blasi pyuara iwanka tanka nani, diara pain lan takras munan laka, bila ailal aisanka laka nani bara Corn Island ra yu bani sturi aisanka laka nani luki kaiki ba. Kupia kraukisa tawan kum satka ailal iwanka laka ba sika, upla iwanka bara natka nani dukiara baman stadi munaia dukiara wan tasbaia bilara apis nani ta briba bara tawan wala wina apiska nani buisin tabaikan ai taura waras, sakuna, baku sin, yu banira pana pana sturi aisanka laka kumsa, blasi pyua wina wan almuka nani sturka, nahki witin nani pana pana aitabaiki kan laka bara diara nani pana pana sinsmuni bara yui banghwi kanba dukiara sin. Iwanka satka ailal ba tanka pali rait aisi sakan bawal, Nikarawa Karibi kuska ra bara tawan wala nanira sin kul sinska laka smalki apiska nanira naha dukiara trabil nani takisa, baku sakuna, iwanka satka ailal lakara iwaia ba taki aulasa, nitka kum tara baku yawan wan bila kat aisaia nitka bara wan natka kat aikuki wan uplika nani wal iwaia nitka nani sut. Corn Island kau wayah walanibis balna yuyulwi alas yalahnin lani satni mahni pas kau bang atnin lani. Ulna adika karak, ulwi yakna daniwan adika tunan bahwi alas yalahnin lani satni mahni kidika tadi munwi laihwi talnin yulni, Corn Island kau wayah walanibis balna pas yakat, witin kurih 2002 dawak 2003 yakat, tadi munwi laihwi talna dai, indian balna aslah kalududuhna dibin balna ampat yalalahwa kidi lani, dawak witingna ampat yulbabauwa kidi yulni bik, dawak adika warkni yamna dai kapat nawatwi yamwarangki. Witingna ampat yulbabauwa kidi dawak ampat bang kidi yulni adika ulna akat ma nikinkawi. Ampat wayah walanibis balna kidi mixmumunwa kidi sara puyuni kau ampat bang dai lani balna, di yamni lan kalalahwas dai yulni, tuni mahni yuyulwa kidi yulni dawak Corn Island kau ma bani tuni uk uk yuyulwa kidi bitik kulwi laihwi tatalwi. Isnin pakwi tawan askau alas yalahnin lani satni mahni duduwa kidika kuduh, muih balna ampat yalalahwa kidi dawak ampat bang kidi yulni kamanah tadi munnin yulni ma sauki paskau apis balna tunan duduwa kidi dawak sau uk kaupak dawak sau uk kaupak anipis balna yaklauiwi bik kalparaswak tanit kau kiwaski, kaunah, kaput bik, ma bani kau biri biri yulbauda kidi lani aski, sara puyuni kaupak ma sulaki balna yulnina, witingna ampat biri biri kalparaswa dai kidi yulni dawak witingna biri biri di sinsmumunwa dai kidi dawak di prisant yuwada kakaswa dai kidi yulni bik. Ampat muih balna yalalahwa dai kidi lani balna ramh laih palni yulwi yakna yulni, Nikarawa Karibi kusni kau dawak tawan uk balna kau bik kul sinsni lani sumamalwa anipis balna kau adika yulni trabail balna kalahwi, kaput kaunah, alas lani kat yalahnin lani satni mahni balna kidika kaikalahwa sak ki, nitni as nuhni kapat mayang ma tuki kat yulnin nitni dawak mayang ma laki kat ma muihki balna karak kalpakdi yalahnin lani nitni balna DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/wani.v59i0.257Wani No.59 2009 pp.31-4
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
Crossing to Care: Movement and Flexibility in Mexican Massage Healing
Get PDFTransnationalism and border studies have often rightly focused on the movement of people, materials, and ideas across national lines as well as issues of migration such as along the U.S.-Mexico border. This thesis examines the concept of border crossing from a different angle, where rather than looking at the movement of people across a national border, I examine the social borders crossed within the context of massage cupping therapy, a medical form that itself has traversed borders. My research revolves around a Mexican massage therapist, who frequently travels between the state of Texas and her home in the state of Nuevo Leon. She maintains a large pool of clients in both places. The Texas clients are mostly working-class migrants from Mexico, while the Mexican clients are wealthy Mexican citizens, most of whom own multiple businesses. My findings primarily focused on the interactions during the massage encounter, and acknowledge Teresa’s unique approach of communicating with her clients. Additionally, in examining these interaction, I also found that this massage healing practice, which literally crosses the U.S. Mexico border, also crosses social and metaphorical borders of class, intimacy, mind/body, and traditional/modernity. My overall argument is that in crossing different social borders, this practice emphasizes the massage healer’s flexibility in being able to fit in and create meaningful experiences for clients in two very distinct social contexts. This argument can be extended out to consider the benefit in flexibly crossing border and social categories that structure hierarchies. This thesis adds to existing bodies of anthropological literature on transnationalism, and border crossing, by reaffirming how borders are complex and demonstrating how different, more metaphorical borders can all be crossed within a single cultural practice, in this case massage healing encounters
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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