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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
Ethnographie d’une construction spatiale et paysagère. Quand une association de jeunes nettoie l’environnement
No full textLa récupération des déchets au sein de l’environnement, envisagée telle une construction culturelle, autorise l’ethnologue à visiter la notion de paysage. Une étude menée auprès d’une association de jeunes qui organise de grands nettoyages dans les Alpes-Maritimes a permis de soulever différents mécanismes sociaux à grande portée anthropologique. Entre environnement et paysage, cette action engage ces jeunes au sein d’un processus dynamique à plusieurs niveaux : émotionnel et sensitif, historique et temporel, spatial et territorial. Cet article propose d’analyser dans les grandes lignes l’ethnographie de ce contexte afin de dégager les éléments sous-jacents de leurs intérêts, de leurs intentions et de leurs logiques d’action, à l’intérieur de ce processus. Le paysage, ici marqué par la présence de déchets, devient le lieu d’expression d’une situation symptomatique. C’est donc la mise en scène et la mise en pratique du système de valeur qu’ils construisent que nous souhaitons interpréter.Morice Coline. Ethnographie d’une construction spatiale et paysagère. Quand une association de jeunes nettoie l’environnement. In: Analyse culturelle du paysage : le paysage comme enjeu. Actes du 135e Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, « Paysages », Neuchâtel, 2010. Paris : Editions du CTHS, 2012. pp. 29-38. (Actes des congrès nationaux des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, 135-6
Youth and environmental actions in the PACA region, issues and partnerships
No full textCette recherche s’attache aux pratiques de nettoyage et d’enlèvement des déchets en bordure de routes dans les Alpes-Maritimes (France). La réflexion proposée porte sur la déterritorialisation et/ou la reterritorialisation des déchets dans les lieux et sur « l’esthétique de la disparition ». Les résultats émanant d’enquêtes ethnographiques – menées auprès des élus et techniciens du Conseil Général du 06 et des membres d’une association de jeunes : « les Rikikibians » – sont l’occasion d’explorer leurs manières respectives ou communes d’agir avec les déchets sur l’environnement. Cette recherche entend revisiter la monographie, en tentant la « science nomade » de Deleuze et Guattari. Partant d’une approche ethnologique du sensible, il s’agit d’évaluer la relation entre les hommes et les déchets dans les usages politiques et sociaux de l’espace-nature contemporain. Le déchet, en tant que chose entre matière et substance, objet manipulé et objet de manipulation, est envisagé suivant son inscription dans le monde du sauvage et dans ses manières d’habiter l’abandon. Le déchet est analysé dans sa valeur praxique plutôt que dans sa valeur signe, dans la pratique plutôt qu’en termes de symbolique. Au-delà du rejet, l’accent est mis sur le détachement et plus largement sur les processus de subjectivation à l’oeuvre dans « l’apprentissage par corps de savoir-comment » avec les déchets.This research attempts to look at the cleaning and waste removal practices along the roads in the Alpes-Maritimes (France). The reflection involves the deterritorialisation and/or reterritorialisation of waste in areas and on the “esthetic of disappearance”. The results from ethnographic investigations – which were conducted with elected officials and technicians of the General Council of 06 and members of a youth association : "the Rikikibians" – are an opportunity to explore their respective or common ways of acting with waste on the environment. This research intends to revisit the monograph, trying “nomadic science” of Deleuze and Guattari. From a sensitive ethnological approach, it is to assess the relationship between humans and waste in the political and social uses of contemporary natural-spaces. Waste, as something between material and substance, as manipulated object or object of manipulation, is considered following its inclusion in the world of the wild and in its ways of living the abandonment. Waste is analyzed in praxis value rather than in sign value, in practice rather than in symbolic terms. Beyond the reject, the emphasis is put on the detachment and more broadly on the processes of subjectivation at work in the “know-how body learning” with waste
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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