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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
Reconceptualising the learning of expressiveness in music performance: Malaysian undergraduate voices beyond Western traditions
Full text linkExpressiveness learning in music performance within higher education has
been predominantly shaped by Western classical music and conservatoire
traditions, often privileging notation, stylistic correctness, and the composer’s
intentions. In post-colonial contexts such as Malaysia, this dominance risks
marginalising students’ culturally embedded, oral, embodied, and participatory
musical knowledge. To date, limited attention has been given to the perspectives of
non-Western students, including Malaysian students. Therefore, this study
reconceptualises the learning of expressiveness in music performance through the
voices of Malaysian undergraduate music education (BMus Ed) students. Situated
within the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts at Sultan Idris Education
University (FMSP, UPSI), this study interrogates the dominance of Western
conservatoire norms. It explores how BMus Ed students understand expressiveness,
how their prior and current learning experiences shape that understanding, and the
strategies they employ to develop expressive performance in culturally hybrid
settings.
Framed by constructivist and phenomenological perspectives, this research
positions expressiveness as a culturally mediated, student-constructed, and
teachable competence. Therefore, a sequential mixed-methods design was
employed to explore how students construct expressive knowledge through lived
experience, reflection, and interaction. Study 1 involved a survey questionnaire (n = 66), generating descriptive and thematic insights into students’ conceptualisations and learning experiences of expressiveness. Moreover, Study 2 consisted of Video-Stimulated Recall Interviews (VSRI)
(n = 10), enabling in-depth exploration of students’ strategies and decision-making
of expressiveness in music performance. Quantitative data were analysed
descriptively, while qualitative data were analysed by using Thematic Analysis
(TA).
The findings indicate that students conceptualise expressiveness as a
multidimensional synthesis of emotional communication, musical meaning,
technical mastery, personal interpretation, and embodied gesture. Previous learning
experiences, often rooted in participatory, oral, improvisatory, and community-based traditions, provided intuitive and affective foundations for expressiveness.
Current higher music education training has refined these foundations through
technical, analytical, and ensemble-based practices, largely shaped by Western
conservatoire models. Specifically, students’ learning strategies clustered into three
interrelated domains: contextual understanding and emotional resonance (informed
by previous experiences), technical proficiency and dynamics control (developed
through current experiences in formal training), and adaptive practice that integrates
both.
These findings challenge transmission-based pedagogies that frame
expressiveness as stylistic compliance or innate talent. Instead, Malaysian BMus Ed students actively negotiate and assemble hybrid expressive strategies, blending
Western analytical tools with movement, ornamentation, improvisation, and
narrative association drawn from local traditions. Thus, expressiveness emerges as
emotionally grounded, culturally situated, and enacted through both technique and
embodiment.
Consequently, this study contributes to music performance pedagogy by
articulating cross-cultural strategies that foreground students’ expressive agency.
For Malaysian higher music education, it advocates curricula, assessment, and
pedagogies that legitimise oral, embodied, and community-based knowledge
alongside notation-based technique. Additionally, this research offers a framework
for reconceptualising expressive learning beyond Western-centric paradigms,
positioning students as active constructors of expressive artistry within diverse
musical ecologies
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
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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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