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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
Deleuze, Grodal, and the Metaphysics of Cognitive Film Theory
Get PDFThe broader objective of this study is to provide a critical assessment of the accusations of revelationism, relativism and phoney scientism levelled at Gilles Deleuze by Malcolm Turvey and other theorists belonging to the cognitive movement in film theory. While cognitivists are opposed to continental theory in general, a significant chunk of their criticism has been directed towards Lacanian and Marxist approaches. While cognitivists such as Bordwell, Currie and Smith have made reference to Deleuze in passing, the most systematic attack on his philosophy can be found in Malcolm Turvey's Doubting Vision (2008). Turvey’s work is a polemic directed against certain film theorists who are accused of peddling a ‘revelationist’ idea of cinema. This includes classical theorists such as Epstein and Kracauer, and contemporary philosophers like Deleuze and Cavell. According to Turvey, these theorists ascribe special powers to cinema - powers which have the potential to "reveal" a hidden dimension or an aspect of perception that eludes everyday life. He is severely critical of Deleuze's claim that time-image cinema can render 'visible' the relations of time in its 'pure state'. However, by drawing upon the ontological arguments on time in Bergsonism (1988) and Difference and Repetition (1994), I argue that Turvey and other cognitivists are guilty of offering naive readings of Deleuze without sufficient knowledge of the metaphysical premises that inform his works. Turvey tends to conflate temporality with causal direction, whereas Deleuze conceptualises time as a synthetic process whose production can only be explained in relation to the virtual. Furthermore, by drawing upon the works of Torben Grodal, the thesis attempts a Deleuzian assessment of Ecological Film Theory and concludes that these theories propose reductive accounts of spectatorship that do not sufficiently address the synthetic powers of the passive subject. In his account of the passive and active syntheses in Difference and Repetition, Deleuze provides a richer ontology of aleatory subjectivity that not only explains passivity at the level of the larval subject but also the genesis of representation at the level of the active self
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
Margaret Tait: Poetry, Stories and Writings
No full textMargaret Tait (1918-1999) was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. In 'documentary', she wrote, real things 'lose their reality ... and there's no poetry in that. In poetry, something else happens.' If film, for Tait, was a poetic medium, her poems are works of craft and observation that are generous and independent in their vision of the world, poems that make seeing happen.
Sarah Neely, Lecturer in Film at the University of Stirling, draws on Tait's three poetry collections, her book of short stories, her magazine articles and unpublished notebooks to make available for the first time a collection of the full range of Tait's writing. Her introduction discusses Tait as filmmaker and writer in the context of mid-twentieth-century Scottish culture, and a comprehensive list of bibliographic and film resources provides an indispensible guide for further exploration
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