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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
Fragen des Christen: Bilanz einer religiösen Sendereihe des ORF
Get PDFIm Juni 1975 läutete das Telefon. Ernst Niesner, damals Leiterder Abteilung Kirche im Fernsehen, rief an, ob ich nicht Lust hätte, bei einer neuen Sendereihe mitzumachen. Man wüßte zwar noch nicht genau, wie sie ausschauen sollte, aber das Wichtigste wäre aufjeden Fall, daß man ganz auffeedbackausgehen wollte, auf Gespräch mit dem Zuschauer. Die Themen sollten aus der Zuschauerschar selbst kommen, und in der letzten Sendung wollte man sogar schon auf die Briefe der vorhergehenden Sendung eingehen. Aber alles andere würde sich ganz von selbst aus den Reaktionen und Erfahrungen ergeben. Diese Fünfminutensendung war also irgendwie eine Nachahmung von Pfarrer Sommemuers Hitsendung aus dem Bayerischen Fernsehen. (...) English The "Chruch and TV" Department ofth Austrian Radio and Television Network !ORF) has for about three years aired a programme entitled "Questions the Christian asks." This programme aims at pastoral contacts and care rather than evangelisation. The live minute transmission is on Saturday evenings after 10 o\u27clock, sandwiched between Sport and a Detective programme. The content is determined by viewers themselves, and pictures and illustrations are used with thesubjects treated. Its success seems to be considerable, and there are 1,000 personalletters a year, many phone calls, and also visits. The programme fills a gap in the unsuspected loneliness of modern man and his deep human sorrows which cannot be formulated or analysed when alone. The "home effects" of television, meeting man in his private and personal environment, helps to build up a semblance of partnership. The positive attitude of the programme and a certainhuman warmth of the speakers manages to break through the block built up against human relationships. Letter and phone are media which are on the one hand sufficiently anonymaus to Iet the loneliness remain, but, on the other hand, can build up a personal relationship. This programme demonstrates a new form of pastoral care which could provide openings for the Church. The author is one of the speakers in the series and at the same time parish priest in a small Tyrolean village.
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
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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