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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
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
A \u27Ludicrous and Inappropriate\u27 Dinner Guest:: The Character of the Titus Andronicus Fly
No full textThis article proposes a new approach to Titus Andronicus\u27s infamous ‘Fly-Killing Incident’ in act 3, scene 2 which prioritizes the role of the segmented fly as a character alongside the dismembered Andronici. Rejecting the critical tendency to read the diminutive figure as a passive emblem for interpreting humanity, this article explores the subjectivity of the fly as an individual with a particular focus on the implications of its murder and dismemberment. Whilst acknowledging its often-flippant critical history, this article asks, ‘What if we took the fly seriously’
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
Corporeal selfhood: visceral identity in early modern medicine and Shakespearean text
No full textThe body is an integrated participant in identity formation, and the autonomous interpretation of its visceral matter by the individual subject provides an opportunity to construct a notion of selfhood grounded in the fabric of the body. Its transhistorical and interdisciplinary presence as the physical mediator of human experience situates corporeal materiality within a nexus of critical discourses. Within literature, the body is often subject to metaphorical, rhetorical, and poetic readings which tend to displace its viscera into symbols and emblems. However, the corporeality crafted throughout Shakespearean text exposes, satirizes, and refutes these conceptual readings by confronting their immaterial interpretations with reassertions of the physical body. My work holds that conceptual displacement poses a detriment to the legibility of the physical body by usurping its homeostatic meanings with more easily manipulated allegorical ones. This thesis examines the ways in which Shakespearean bodies reject conceptualization and reassert corporeal materialism as a component of the self.
Before exploring the examples of corporeal selfhood embedded throughout Shakespearean characterization, the first chapter situates these readings within the context of the early modern body. By investigating the scientific advancements heralded by anatomists like Andreas Vesalius, this chapter traces the dissemination of body knowledge to a wider public from the mid to late sixteenth century. Bookending Shakespeare’s life and work, this history moves from pre-Vesalian foundations in Galenic tradition to the application of Vesalian empiricism in mid seventeenth century imperatives of nosce te ipsum, “to know thyself” through corporeal self-exploration. The Diary of Samuel Pepys provides a case study in the individuated practice of corporeal self-creation through autonomous engagement with the experience of surgery.
The close readings of Shakespearean text move from the boundaries of the bodily exterior to the inner workings of the vital body via Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, and King Lear. Chapter 2 puts the visceral body in dialogue with the rhetorical body politic, using the wounds of Coriolanus to explore the interpreted public body, the bodily interior as a sanctuary of selfhood, and the continuity of self with the generative maternal body. Chapter 3 reads the fragmented body in Titus Andronicus as a condensed unit of meaning, which contains and transmits identity in the corporeal unit severed from homeostatic purpose, whilst reframing the corporeally altered remaining body within adaptive modes of agency. Chapter 4 unpacks the homeostatic mechanisms of form and function relations underscoring anatomy and physiology in the context of King Lear’s linguistic vivisections and reunifies the human body with its animalistic continuity in nature.
Although its textual bodies are early modern, the transhistorical performance of Shakespearean drama revives the historical experience of corporeality in the present physical bodies of modern actors. Reading the bodies of these texts within the context of their contemporary medical understanding illuminates more nuanced elements of their characterization and facilitates a more continuous view of medical history as an inherent component in humanity’s ongoing development, rather than an isolated oddity of the past. By reasserting the visceral into readings of humanity through the Shakespearean lens, we allow the body and its parts to retain value, not as representations of other ideas, but as the manifest matter of humanity
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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