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Profile - Lyle Dick CHA Vice-President
Full text linkLyle Dick is the author of 90 publications on topics in Canadian and American history, historiography, and Arctic history, including the book Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact(University of Calgary Press, 2001), which was awarded the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Canada’s best-English-language book in the social sciences in 2003, and Farmers “Making Good”(Revised edition, University of Calgary Press, 2008), co-awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio Prize in 1990 for the best book on the history of the prairie provinces
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
Profil - Lyle Dick , Vice-président de la SHC
Full text linkLyle Dick est l’auteur de 90 publications traitant de l’histoire canadienne et américaine, l’historiographie et l’histoire de l’arctique, y compris le livre Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact (University of Calgary Press, 2001), qui a reçu le prix Harold Adams Innis pour le meilleur ouvrage de langue anglaise en sciences humaines en 2003 et Farmers « Making Good » (Édition revue et corrigée, University of Calgary Press,2008), co-lauréat du prix Clio de la Société historique du Canada en 1990 pour le meilleur livre sur l’histoire des provinces des prairies
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
Renseignements à l'intention des collaborateurs du Bulletin
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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
Editors' Note / Note de la rédaction
Full text linkI write my last editor’s note feeling a mixture of relief and sentimentality.
It was before Christmas in 2006 when the military historian, Jean Martin, at the Department of National Defence,
approached my branch at Parks Canada, looking for someone enthusiastic to replace John Willis as the English-language
secretary. Jean and I had represented our respective organizations on the inter-departmental heritage review committee that
assigns heritage scores to federal buildings over 40 years in age, and from that experience I knew he would be easy to work with.
Moreover, I had great respect for the CHA and fond memories of attending conferences over the years.With little arm-twisting,
I concluded that this was a worthy cause and I put my name into the hat.About six months later I was meeting with Jean and John
in one of the boardrooms of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. I had no idea what the next few years would yield, and no crystal ball to tell me that the CHA was on the cusp of a major transformation
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