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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
Staying in touch: State recording and state making in northeast China, 1900-1949
No full textIn this paper I use official population and land records to compare relationships between the central state and local communities in present-day northeast China from the late nineteenth century to 1949. Within five decades, the Manchu Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Japanese Manchukuo (1932-1945), and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (1945-present) each attempted to organize, categorize, and control rural communities in what is now Shuangcheng county, Heilongjiang, through processes of state registration. For the past twenty-five centuries, Chinese states have consistently instituted sophisticated population and land registration systems for political purposes like taxation, conscription, and social control, but in the European tradition similar political technologies, most akin to the census and social survey, are primarily a modern national development. I believe the emergent interest in modern political tools of state-making requires a closer investigation of Chinese registration practices and their political implications. In this vein, I analyze and compare a variety of registers produced by three different states over a short period of time for the same local community, in order to better understand processes of registration and the relationships they create between the state and its subjects at the local level. In particular, registers from early twentieth-century Shuangcheng demonstrate that the need to categorize, classify, and record are common strategies of state-making from the Qing to the PRC, while at the same time the information each state chooses to record reveals an increasingly “modern” political agenda but ultimately a more alienated relationship between central state and local community
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
A culture of revolution: Ethnography, history, and a Chinese community in 1946-49
No full textThis paper is the beginning of a larger project aimed at an empirically thick history of modern revolution in China. In this study I focus on the Land Reform movement as it took place in a rural county of several hundred villages in Northeast China (formerly Manchuria) from 1946-1949. I have acquired personal information from nominal lists of almost 9,000 individuals in the county who had their property confiscated, who were “struggled” against and punished, who fled, or who were executed. Furthermore, I use descriptive village reports, historical population registers, genealogies, and contemporary oral histories (to be collected this summer) to situate individual actors in their respective social and kin networks and evaluate individual and group experiences of the revolution. I use all of this data to move beyond official and scholarly narratives of the Land Reform as a radical socioeconomic revolution either dictated from above or grown up from below, and instead embed the practice of revolution in continuous cultural processes of social organization and reorganization. By focusing on a description of the revolutionary experience in just one village situated within this larger county community, I argue for a view of the Land Reform as a Chinese social process informed by cultural expectations of kinship and state
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
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