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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
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
Das Sozialraummonitoring als kleinräumiges Stadtbeobachtungsinstrument: Erfahrungen und Perspektiven
Get PDFDas Sozialraummonitoring hat sich in den letzten Jahren als kleinräumiges Instrument der Raumbeobachtung in den Verwaltungen vieler deutscher Städte etabliert. Primäres Ziel dieses Instruments ist es, sozialräumliche Ungleichheiten und deren Entwicklung regelmäßig zu erfassen, um frühzeitig gebietsbezogene Handlungsbedarfe identifizieren zu können. Die Notwendigkeit eines Sozialraummonitorings wird u. a. damit begründet, dass der räumlichen Konzentration sozial benachteiligter Bevölkerungsgruppen stadtplanerisch entgegengewirkt werden soll, da das Wohnumfeld Einfluss auf die Bewohner*innen nehmen kann. Für die Nutzenden innerhalb der Verwaltung bietet das Instrument zudem eine datenbasierte Argumentations- und Entscheidungsgrundlage. Es ermöglicht Vergleiche von Gebieten innerhalb einer Stadt und die Priorisierung von Bedarfen.
Ziel dieser Dissertation ist es, die Erfahrungen im Umgang mit dem Sozialraummonitoring zu evaluieren, um Empfehlungen für dessen Konzeptionierung abzuleiten und Perspektiven der Weiterentwicklung zu identifizieren. Dafür werden sowohl qualitative als auch quantitative Analysemethoden angewandt. Die Synopse bestehender Ansätze in Deutschland zeigt, dass es zwischen den methodischen Herangehensweisen der Analyseinstrumente der Stadtverwaltungen viele Ähnlichkeiten gibt. Im Detail ist jedoch jedes Instrument stadtspezifisch individuell ausgestaltet. Aufgrund dessen eigenen sich die Sozialraummonitorings nicht für Stadtvergleiche. Basierend auf dieser Gegenüberstellung wird eine Begriffspräzisierung des Sozialraummonitorings sowie eine Typisierung in thematisch fokussierte und themenübergreifende Sozialraummonitorings vorgenommen. Darauf aufbauend erfolgt anhand von ausgewählten Fallstudien eine Auswertung und Analyse der Erfahrungen zu der Nutzung des Instruments im verwaltungsbezogenen Kontext. Interviews mit den Verantwortlichen innerhalb der Stadtverwaltungen dienen dem Ziel, Erkenntnisse über die methodischen und konzeptionellen Aspekte eines Sozialraummonitorings sowie die Herausforderungen und Erfolgsfaktoren im Entwicklungsprozess zu gewinnen. Die teilstandardisierten Befragungen mit Nutzenden innerhalb der Stadtverwaltungen ermöglichen eine Evaluierung der Nutzungskontexte und Stärken des Instruments sowie die Identifizierung von Weiterentwicklungsbedarfen und -potenzialen Darüber hinaus wird überprüft, ob das Instrument seine Zielsetzungen erfüllt.
Abschließend werden die Erfahrungen im Umgang mit dem Instrument und die Perspektiven der Weiterentwicklung zusammengefasst und diskutiert. Daraus gehen Empfehlungen methodischer und konzeptioneller Art für den Aufbau eines Sozialraummonitorings hervor. Dies umfasst u. a. die Fortschreibungsfrequenz, Erfolgsfaktoren und methodische Fragen wie die Sozialraumtypisierung, die Indikatorenwahl und deren Standardisierung, die räumliche Ebene sowie die Analyse langfristiger sozialräumlicher Trends. Darüber hinaus werden Weiterentwicklungen wie die Vereinheitlichung des Sozialraummonitorings, die Stadt-Umland-Betrachtung, thematische Erweiterungen und die nutzungsfreundliche Ergebnisaufbereitung in Form eines digitalen, interaktiven Tools diskutiert.In recent years, social space monitoring has become a popular tool for observing small-scale spatial patterns in many German city administrations. The primary aim of this tool is to regularly record and analyze socio-spatial inequalities and their development enabling early identification of area-specific needs for action. One reason for the need of such a tool is to prevent the spatial concentration of socially disadvantaged groups. This is based on the assumption that the neighborhood has an effect on its residents. The tool also provides a data-based foundation for argumentation and decision-making within the administration. It enables city-wide comparisons and prioritization of needs.
The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the experience gained in social space monitoring and provide recommendations for its conceptualization and further development. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis are utilized. The review of existing approaches in Germany reveals many similarities in the methodological approaches of the analytical tools used by city administrations. Nevertheless, each instrument is specific to its respective city. Therefore they are not suitable for city comparisons. This comparison leads to a definition of social space monitoring and its classification into thematically focused and cross-thematic social space monitoring. Selected case studies are then used to evaluate and analyze experiences with the instrument in an administrative context. Interviews with municipal administrators aim to provide insights into the methodology and concepts of social space monitoring, as well as the challenges and success factors in the development process. Partially standardized surveys conducted with users within city administrations enable an evaluation of the tool's contexts of use and strengths, identification of further development needs and potentials. Furthermore it is verified if the instrument meets its objectives.
In conclusion this paper summarizes and discusses the experiences of using the instrument and provides methodological and conceptual recommendations for the development of social space monitoring. This section covers among other things the frequency of updates, success factors, and methodological issues such as social space typification, indicator selection and standardization, spatial level, and analysis of long-term socio-spatial trends. Additionally, potential further developments, such as nationwide standardization of social space monitoring, urban-rural considerations, thematic extensions, and user-friendly preparation of results in the form of a digital usage tool are discussed
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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