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A critical socio-cultural autoethnography: a soldier, here, there and back again
Full text linkThis thesis takes an unconventional approach to much of social science in developing the
idea and practice of a critical social-cultural autoethnography. In bridging the social sciences
and humanities, it cultivated a more thorough social version of autoethnographic research
around the metaphor of its different components akin to a diamond’s facets. The development
of autoethnography has markedly changed the scene of ethnography, making reflexivity and
the central researcher’s role better developed. My thesis incorporates this by building on what
others have done and adding a documents of life approach. It first considers the self as auto,
juxtaposed against how much the other and society are incorporated. Next, it explores the
slippery relationship between fact/fiction. Here, I have created an auto/biographical novella
to investigate how autoethnographers navigate the interiority of fact, fiction, knowledge and
truth. The next focus for discussion concerns the exteriority and how we craft narrative,
myths and stories from these claims as a part of truth and knowledge systems through a
dialogical voice/writer/reader motif and also considered the role of the hero in textual
narratives. I will then chart how these associations between my novella, myself and relations
to other people and their accounts were shaped by knowledge claims and how they fed
through relations of ruling into a power/knowledge system by examining a copy of my
military orders. I then autoethnographically look at two war memorials that help me better
untangle all of this. The discussion here also examined how the self can become more
constricted as it becomes more social, thereby further helping me explore the socially
constructed character of self and society. However, it is also crucial to consider the individual
and each stipulation in developing better knowledge claims through critical thinking and
learning from our history and other lives. The conclusion considers the different facets of the
diamond of methodological contributions to autoethnography and also explores what a future
autoethnography built on these would comprise
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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