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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
What's History Got to Do With It?: Reconsidering the Place of Historical Knowledge in Archival Work
Get PDFThis article discusses the changing place of historical knowledge in archival work, particularly in Canada since the mid-twentieth century. The author begins by noting that knowledge of the history of one's country or community was the centrepiece of the early professional identity of Canadian archivists between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, when most archivists saw themselves as historians. The article then discusses the circumstances which subsequently prompted serious questioning and sometimes rejection of historical knowledge as a key component of an archivist's expertise and professional identity. The role of historical knowledge has thus been contested and problematic for many archivists across the recent intellectual history of the Canadian archival profession. The author then points to recent archival, intellectual, and societal trends which suggest that the pendulum is swinging back, not in a simple return to the past, when archivists were largely indistinguishable from academic historians, but toward appreciation of the central place of historical knowledge in the distinctive body of knowledge, research, and daily work of the new archival profession which has emerged over the last quarter century.RÉSUMÉCet article aborde l’évolution de la place du savoir historique dans la pratique archivistique, au Canada en particulier, depuis les années 1950. L’auteur commence en notant que la connaissance de l’histoire de son propre pays ou de sa propre communauté était au centre de l’identité professionnelle des archivistes canadiens entre la fin du 19e et le milieu du 20e siècles, alors que la plupart des archivistes se définissaient comme historiens. L’article commente ensuite les circonstances qui ont mené au questionnement et parfois au rejet du savoir historique comme composante-clé de l’expertise des archivistes et de leur identité professionnelle. Le rôle de la connaissance historique a donc été contesté et pose problème pour plusieurs archivistes au cours de l’histoire récente de la profession archivistique canadienne. Par une analyse des tendances récentes au niveau archivistique, intellectuel et sociétal, l’auteur suggère que le pendule effectue un retour vers l’arrière, non pas vers l’époque où les archivistes étaient indissociables des historiens, mais plutôt vers une valorisation de la place centrale du savoir historique au sein de l’ensemble particulier des connaissances, des recherches et des tâches quotidiennes de la nouvelle profession archivistique qui a émergé durant le dernier quart de siècle
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
Learning to Think Archivally: Thesis Research in the Archival Studies Program at the University of Manitoba
No full textThis article outlines the role of the thesis in the approach to archival education of the master’s program in archival studies at the University of Manitoba. The article discusses the role of the thesis in educating students to think archivally, or to enable them to identify significant work problems, conceptualize their issues, research the relevant sources, analyze and assemble the resulting information, and share it with others. The author maintains that this research ability is vital in the increasingly complex archival workplace of the twenty-first century.RÉSUMÉCet article décrit le rôle des thèses dans l’enseignement de l’archivistique au sein du programme de maîtrise en études archivistiques de l’Université du Manitoba. L’auteur soutient que les thèses jouent un rôle important en apprenant aux étudiants à penser de façon archivistique ou en leur permettant d’identifier les problèmes significatifs, à conceptualiser leurs questions, à faire des recherches dans les sources appropriées, à analyser et rassembler les informations pertinentes et à partager les résultats avec les autres. Il fait valoir que cette capacité de recherche est vitale dans le monde de travail de plus en plus complexe des archivistes en ce XXIe siècle
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
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