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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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Frugal agropastoral systems : animal husbandry and agroecology in middle mountain and foothill areas
No full textSur la Montagne limousine et dans le Lodévois, deux petites agricoles respectivement de moyenne montagne humide et de piémont méditerranéen du Massif central, le développement de l'élevage centré sur l'accroissement de la productivité physique du travail a conduit à l'augmentation de la part des fourrages distribués et des aliments concentrés dans l'alimentation des troupeaux et au recentrage du pâturage sur les prairies. Les parcours, qui fournissaient auparavant la base de l'alimentation des troupeaux, ont été progressivement abandonnés, ou ont pu faire l'objet de plantations de résineux. À rebours de ce mouvement dominant, quelques éleveurs ayant un accès limité aux terres moto-mécanisables ont au contraire cherché à replacer au centre de l'alimentation de leurs troupeaux le pâturage des parcours, ce qui implique une modification systémique des logiques de production. L'analyse du fonctionnement technico-économique de ces systèmes agro-pastoraux révèle une importante réduction des besoins en fourrages et aliments concentrés, qui se traduit par des investissements en matériel agricole et des achats d'intrants très limités. Malgré une baisse des niveaux de production par animal et une taille de cheptel élevé par actif inférieur, ces systèmes qualifiés d'économes sont bien plus créateurs de richesses et d'emplois agricoles que ceux restés dans le mouvement de développement agricole dominant, tout en utilisant des terres qui seraient autrement à l'abandon. Si ces systèmes économes semblent pouvoir constituer une alternative au développement agricole dans ces régions, leur diffusion reste limitée par les débouchés pour une production agricole hors des standards de l'aval et par le mode actuel d'attribution des subventions de la Politique Agricole Commune, dont ils bénéficient moins et qui peuvent entraver leur fonctionnement.On the Limousine Moutain and the Lodévois, two small middle mountain and foothills regions of the Massif central, animal husbandry development focused on increasing physical productivity of human work led to an increased part of fodder and concentrated feeds in the flock diet, and increased the grassland use at the expense of the rangelands. One the basis of flock feeding, those rangelands were mainly abandoned or planted with conifers. Several breeders with limited access to moto-mechanized areas go against this dynamic. Thus, they try to reorganize the alimentation of their flocks around diversified rangeland grazing, which implies a systemic modification of production logics. The technoeconomic analysis of these agropastoral systems indicates a significant reduction of fodder and concentrated feed needs and consequently allows less farm equipments investments and input purchases. Comparing the economic results of agro-pastoral farms and farms that have remained within the dominant agricultural development movement shows that despite the reduction of the production per animal and the flock size per active person, these systems called frugal create more added value and help maintaining or even creating jobs in areas that would have been abandoned otherwise. This frugal agro-pastoral systems seems an alternative to the dominant agricultural development in these two middle mountain and foothills regions. However, the development of these systems on a larger scale is currently restrained by the lack of short-circuit outlets for agro-pastoral products, which are often out of step with standard products. Furthermore, the current subsidies allocation of the Common Agriculturis is less advantageous for agropastoral systems and can also impeach their running
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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