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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
Cinq décennies depuis Prejudices and Antipathies
No full textHow has the evolution of both library classification and the critical classification field affected the legacy and relevance of one of its most celebrated works? Sanford Berman’s 1971 monograph Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People, while being by no means the first to critically assess the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), gained significant interest (both positive and negative) from the cataloguing community. Steven A. Knowlton’s 2005 follow-up article Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings examined the impact of Berman’s book on the LCSH.
In 2025, this paper returns to Berman’s book to follow up on both works. Through an analysis of trends across published critical classification literature of the past five decades—in particular in relation to the approach taken by the book to criticism of the Library of Congress and LCSH in comparison to other topics—this paper examines how the landscape of critical classification has changed and, through that, how perceived obstacles and goals have shifted in the half century since the publication of Berman’s book, in order to examine its place and legacy.Comment l\u27évolution de la classification bibliographique et du domaine de la classification critique a-t-elle affecté l\u27héritage et la pertinence de l\u27un de ses ouvrages les plus célèbres ? La monographie de Sanford Berman intitulée Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People, publiée en 1971, n\u27était certes pas la première à évaluer de manière critique les vedettes-matières de la Bibliothèque du Congrès (LCSH), mais elle a suscité un intérêt considérable (tant positif que négatif) de la part de la communauté des catalogueurs. En 2005, Steven A. Knowlton a examiné l\u27impact du livre de Berman sur les LCSH avec son article Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
En 2025, cet article revient sur le livre de Berman pour faire le point sur ces deux publications. En examinant les tendances émergentes dans la recherche critique sur la classification au fil des cinq dernières décennies, et en mettant l’accent sur l’approche de Berman pour critiquer la Bibliothèque du Congrès et les termes LCSH par rapport à d’autres sujets, cet article explore l’évolution du paysage de la classification critique. Il examine comment les défis et les objectifs perçus ont évolué depuis la publication du livre de Berman, tout en évaluant sa pertinence et son héritage
Time and The Catalogue
Full text linkThis paper explores the multiple ways in which concepts of time are incorporated in cataloguing and classification to see how these temporal concepts influence how material is organised in library space. It discusses multiple concepts, including the structural influences of the capitalist ‘exchange-view’ of time in how the discipline is organised and its incorporation into the so-called ‘universal’ cataloguing systems. The continued issues of obsolescence within cataloguing systems as language and concepts constantly evolve, and how these are integrated into the systems themselves. The paper also discusses the semantic difficulties with how time itself is expressed within cataloguing systems, as time is one of the most widely expressive subjects in the English language. However, a significant amount of time related words are reliant on socially constructed context for their meaning, making them complicated to effectively express in cataloguing systems. Finally, it discusses how researchers have used the temporal issues in cataloguing as a way to examine the evolution of society and hold up mirrors to both the system and ourselves
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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