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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
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
世俗化論における宗教概念批判の契機
No full text本稿の狙いは、世俗化論をそれが伴ってきた「宗教とは何か」という問いについて再解釈するとともに、宗教概念批判論を経た現在においてこの問いが持つ意義を示すことにある。世俗化論と称されてきた諸理論は、「従来的な意味における宗教」と「従来見逃されてきた種類の宗教」の双方を捉えようとする上で、宗教に関する高度に一般的な考察を展開したところに特徴があった。しかし、宗教復興現象への関心の高まりや、宗教の定義に関する理論構成上の不備といった理由から世俗化論に対する批判が強まると、それが担ってきた宗教の一般的考察もまた回避されるようになった。また近年では、系譜学的手法による宗教概念批判論によって、この概念の学的な使用自体が問題視されてきてもいる。しかし、適切な理論的前提の下では、近現代社会について「宗教とは何か」を問う視点は、系譜学的概念批判論の洞察を深めながら、これと相互に補完しあう社会学的宗教概念批判とも称しうる研究実践を導くものである。The aim of this paper is to reinterpret the so-called secularization theories and then to show the significance of continuous investigation for the question of "what is religion?" from the sociological viewpoint. The classical version of secularization theories implies a theoretical examination for the concept of religion with comparative analysis of religion in a conventional sense ("church-oriented religion") and in a non-conventional sense. However, these theories have an inadequate presupposition in which the concept of religion is treated as just an analytic instrument each sociologist can define before beginning a research project. In addition to this methodological issue, the worldwide "religious revival" after 1980s had sociologists recognize the "failure" of the secularization thesis, and unfortunately led to avoidance of a general theoretical approach to religion in the sociology of religion. Recent genealogical studies of the concept of religion criticize academic use of the concept of religion, but this criticism does not indicate the necessity to renounce it. Rather, the research program they require is a sociological study to examine the concept in its positional value within the global social order with a reflective perspective. This sociological critique of the concept of religion should make a unique contribution by examining not only social and historical restraints but also possible applications of the concept
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