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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
Storing (Re)Storing Sculpture
Get PDFIT’S A QUESTION OF STORAGE.
From an economic, social and environmental standpoint storing sculpture is a huge undertaking and once removed from its site-specific location it lacks the context that is so fundamental to its meaning.
My Gustav Holst sculpture was commissioned to mark the centenary of the composer Gustav Holst and his celebrated suite The Planets. Situated on the plinth outside Morley College for three years the challenge was to find a way of storing the sculpture once the three years were up.
The Storing Sculpture (SS) research question was born out of a pressing need to solve this problem. I began by asking ‘Can I reimagine the sculpture in other forms and find alternative ways of ‘storing’ my sculpture?’
If alternative forms of documentation could give the sculpture new meaning could alternative ways of storing the sculpture achieve the same thing
Assemblage Part 1
Get PDFGroup exhibition of prints, paintings and sculptures at the Vortigern Gallery Margate in 2017.
Assemblage Part 1 was the first in a series of exhibitions examining fabric and function. It was a group exhibition of prints, paintings and sculptures. This output concentrates on the sculptures only
SBSS: Self-Build Sustainable Sculpture
No full textThis practice-based research is the culmination of the research generated by my Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant and my collaboration with the Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS) a CLT whose current development in Lewisham has a self-build requirement embedded in the project.
This self-build sustainable sculpture commemorates the legacy of self-build construction born out of the Walters Segal project (winner of the World Habitat award in 1987) the most pioneering self-build community group led scheme in London started in 1982. Dave Dayes was one of the original self-build residents and 30 years later his third son Kareem Dayes founded RUSS
RISE: Realtime Immersive Sculpture Experience
No full textThe research revolves around my temporary Holst sculpture commissioned by Morley College to mark the centenary of the composer Gustav Holst and his celebrated suite The Planets.
This research draws on ‘sculpture within the digitally expanded field’ by using my site-specific sculpture as a focal point for practice- based research, by generating new knowledge through the reimagining of this site-specific sculpture as digital entities.
Using frame by frame animation as a framework to generate digital ‘moving image sculpture’ that incorporates sound. The outcomes will be generated to allow the viewer to be immersed in the work. Exploring the relationship between the viewer traditionally ‘animating’ themselves around sculpture to being ‘inanimate’ as the sculpture moves around them
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
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