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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
Mirror Jellies: Clones, Cyborgs and Hybrids in 3D Animation
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only."We are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism." Donna Haraway, The Cyborg Manifesto, 1997.
"Welcome to the Jellyfish Factory" - a laboratory where the manufacturing of gelatinous sea flesh constitutes a whole new industry of products and dreams for future humans and living others. Here you will discover a visual circus of objects and organisms reflecting and refracting off each other amidst images from the golden sands of the Coromandel's, Wharekaho Beach. The distinctions between machinery, flesh, object and terrain are deliberately blurred in this work, further re-enforcing the breakdown of material and cultural boundaries we are likely to encounter in years to come. Exploring artefacts from the natural world, in contrast to the biology of cells, altered through genetic engineering, has provided the conceptual interface for the digital materiality of my work. I have crafted a cinematic reality using photography and 3D modelling to imagine how genetically modified, reflective, jelly-fish parts might be manufactured in the future. Set within a factory landscape using translucent and globular matter, artificial jellyfish are reproduced within a constructed, reflective ocean. The process of creating a fabricated living artefact has been documented from the initial cloning of polyps through to the production of tentacles and finally the flesh making laboratory. The resulting narrative has led me to consider how the development of cyborg flesh may intersect with the life cycles of other human, android or hybrid machines in the speculative manufacturing of tomorrow
Lalaga mai. lalaga atu: Weave here, and there, to give and receive
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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
FOR THE LOVE OF MY PEOPLE: The Power and Influence of Fashion and Contemporary Photography, in relation to the portrayal of Black and African Communities in NZ
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.The aim of this masters research paper is to examine the power of images in the
contemporary world, through fashion and contemporary fine art photography. I investigate
how these images help us understand beauty, ideas about individuals or communities, and
how these images influence our thoughts. I will also explore how photography as a medium
actively works beyond print, unifying and bringing different people together in New
Zealand, specifically Auckland. I also aim to navigate how fashion and photography
restructure societal views on the beauty of Africans in Auckland. Additionally, how
photography can inform new or alternative views on beauty, race and gender around the
identities and narratives of the Auckland Black community
Fragments, fixations and footnotes. Diaspora of the queer self
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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
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