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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
El manuscrito del 'Cancionero de Baena' (PN1): Descripción codicológica y evolución histórica
No full textThe present article attempts to establish as accurately as possible the chronological trajectory of the unique codex of the Cancionero de Baena (PN1 in the Dutton nomenclature). It begins with a detailed examination of the codicological aspects of the manuscript, which serve to date its origin to around 1465. This origin, combined with the historical data, supports a conjecture that the manuscript probably belonged to Gonzalo de Beteta, an official of both Enrique IV and the Catholic Kings. It would have passed from him to his grandson, Jorge de Beteta y Cárdenas, who gave it to the Real Biblioteca de El Escorial in 1576. The article then follows the vicissitudes of the manuscript from its disappearance from the Escorial at the beginning of the 19th c. until its sale in London in 1824 and its acquisition in 1836 by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, its current home. In passing, the article refutes the thesis that the manuscript would have belonged to the library of Isabel I in 1503 and would have been left by her, along with other books, to the Capilla Real of the cathedral of Granada, whence it would have passed to El Escorial
Sobre documentos perdidos y amistades peligrosas: Leonor López de Córdoba y Fadrique Enríquez de Castilla y Castro, duque de Arjona
No full textA pesar de que ya el clásico de Cicerón sobre la amistad enfatizaba cuántos daño podría producirse al considerarla “como compañera de los vicios” en vez de “ayudante de las virtudes”, en realidad el concepto medieval de las malas amistades, dejando al margen el significado de ‘amistad’ como ‘tratado’ o ‘confederación’, se explica mejor en términos morales, como el “temor que viene de amistades” redactado en las Partidas de Alfonso X el Sabio (II, XIII, 14). Como es obvio para el lector avezado, se trata de un elemento básico del conocido tópico de amar y temer al rey, que se acabó convirtiendo prácticamente en doctrina política a través de diversos escritos de los que no haré ulterior mención, por innecesarios y por falta de espacio.
El binomio ‘amistades peligrosas’, en plural o en singular, solo comenzó a funcionar en términos fraseológicos con el tremendo éxito obtenido por el clásico dieciochesco de Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Lacros, publicado por primera vez en 1782 como Les liaisons dangereuses, y que se tradujo al español con el etimológicamente más apropiado título de Las relaciones peligrosas en 1929. No obstante, la popularización de las andanzas eróticas del vizconde de Valmont y la marquesa de Merteuil explosionó a través de series de televisión y películas en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, bastante conocidas por todos y que no precisan de mayor glosa, salvo mencionar que, desde entonces, hablar de amistades peligrosas ha quedado convertido casi en un cliché para definir, tanto en sentido erótico como desprovisto de él, cierto tipo de relaciones que no se deberían tener y que, sin embargo, acaban manteniéndose hasta que el peligro que las define acaba por hacerlas detonar: escójase aquí un significado literal o metafórico
Juan Fernández de Heredia: renombrado poeta, popular deportista... ¿y criminal encubierto?
No full textPese a su prestigio académico y a la importancia de su producción poética, el valenciano Juan Fernández de Heredia es un poeta cancioneril de cuya vida y obra todavía albergamos bastantes lagunas. Un factor que podría explicar esta situación es que sus poesías completas, editadas por Rafael Ferreres a mediados del siglo pasado, (Fernández de Heredia 1955), piden a gritos una nueva edición, aunque aquella era buena para la época es todavía útil. Se entiende poco que haya pasado tanto tiempo sin llevar a buen puerto una revisión filológica e histórica del genio poético “eminentemente valenciano” al que alabó Gracián en su Agudeza y Arte de Ingenio (2001, 512). Quizás en el subconsciente de la comunidad académica hispánica siga pesando demasiado la opinión de Dámaso Alonso sobre Fernández de Heredia, de quien decía que “no es ciertamente un gran poeta” sino “simplemente esto: un poeta interesante” (Alonso, 1958: 165)
Witchcraft, Heresy, and Inquisition: The Prosecution of the ‘Otherness’ in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (14th-17th c.)
Full text linkThis module will deal with the study of a few texts written in Medieval and Early Modern Europe related to Witchcraft, Heresy and Inquisition. The main purpose of this course is to consider how some patterns and stereotypes in the European cultural history of the past use to appear also in our current times. The outline below gives the general parameters of the material to be covered, indicating texts and secondary sources that students are required to read each week. Articles and texts for this course will be uploaded to Moodle by your tutor. There is also a suggested movie for each one of the texts / historical periods under study, as well as a Digital Humanities tool that should be used in order to improve your research skills. Students will engage in the study of the socio-historical events and features of European society from the 14th to the 17th centuries, as well as the literary mechanisms utilised by authors of each one of the texts under study. It is essential to understand the dynamic of these events in order to have a better understanding of the texts we shall read during this course
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