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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
Beyond the Borders of Esotericism: A Sociostylistic Analysis of Gabriel Bamgbose's "Something Happened After the Rain"
Full text linkThe deployment of language by a writer creates a distinct style through which he/she reaches out to the audience. Hence, a socio-stylistic study of Gabriel Bamgbose’s “Something Happened After the Rain” is undertaken in order to reveal how the poet makes use of language. To achieve this, lexico-syntactic choices, graphological devices, and morphological choices of the poet are analysed. At the end of the study, it is discovered that Bamgbose employs the use of Pidgin English, figurative expressions like metaphor, personification, euphemism, repetition, pun, refrain and foregrounding in order to make his ideas and messages relatable to his readers. In this regard, he has succeeded in deploying sarcasm even in the most serious and sensitive of issues like death, child labour and delivery as in “Song of a child” and “If I die”. It has also been found out that Bamgbose presents the poems in the studied text in five sections and each section has a distinctive title. Each title captures the general image, mood and tone of the poems in each section. “Sing” expresses celebration and joy of birth, childhood and maidenhood, “Speak” expresses a break away from repression and silence; “Die” captures dying and death itself; “Dream” expresses hallucination and how loneliness or frustration makes one’s mind, unguardedly, stroll into wild imaginations; then “Rain” carries the burden of sorrow and pains accruable after the disasters of the rain. It can therefore be concluded that Bamgbose’s language style underscores the Yoruba assertion that tragic matters often deserve smileful reactions
Ecocide and Rebellion in Chimeka Garricks’ Tomorrow Died Yesterday
Full text linkHuman activities such as oil exploration and release of harmful chemicals are instances of the plunder of natural environment. This plunder, in the case of Niger Delta, is occasioned by the collaboration of oil companies and members of host communities, which has resulted in aggrieved individuals taking up arms to stage insurgency and rebellion. Hence, this study examines the nuanced factors responsible for the degradation of natural environment in Niger Delta. For the purpose of this study, postcolonial ecocriticism is employed as a theoretical framework to analyse the novel, “Tomorrow Died Yesterday” selected for this study. This multidisciplinary approach lends strong credence to the harmonisation of postcolonial and environmental issues suitable for a critical analysis of a literary work that makes ecocritical statements. Findings reveal that the Nigerian government, the oil companies and the people of Niger Delta are guilty of ecocide. The study also reveals the horrible human activities that culminate in the social inequalities and environmental injustice that lure the youth of the host communities to take up arms to demonstrate their grievances. The study therefore, concludes that ecocide in Niger Delta manifests displacement, immorality, violence, killing and kidnapping, proliferation of deadly weapons, debauchery and above all, disruption of social and ecosystem
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
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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