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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
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
Il porto teatroide. Metodi e tecniche per la riforma della città-porto mediterranea = Port as theater. Methodologies and techniques for the renovation of the mediterranean port city
No full textLa città-porto è nella sua forma costitutiva l’esito di una relazione, che si è definita e riformulata nei secoli, a seconda del carattere di permeabilità e dipendenza, o viceversa, di distacco e indifferenza, tra le due diverse parti che la compongono.
I porti del Mediterraneo a differenza degli altri porti europei che hanno dismesso, delocalizzato e riconvertito ad uso urbano interi quartieri e parti urbane, convivono ancora oggi in una condizione di sovrapposizione con la città consolidata. Il porto, nei limiti imposti della morfologia costiera, è interno al corpo della città, finanche nella sua dimensione territoriale contemporanea.
Questo fenomeno, esito di un lungo processo di stratificazione di usi nel tempo, assieme alle difficoltà a riconoscere le parti di un “tutto” eterogeneo, fatto di pieni e vuoti, spazi abitati e spazi abbandonati, causa l’indeterminatezza della modalità trasformative del territorio delle città-porto mediterranee. Allo stesso tempo, offre le opportunità di riflettere su un’alternativa ai metodi di costruzione della città portuale.
Lo specchio d’acqua, che definisce i limiti territoriali del porto, si è trasformata oggi in superficie infrastrutturale, unico medium in grado di tenere funzionalmente assieme delle diverse parti e sezioni portuali. Il vuoto naturale d’acqua, potrebbe aprirsi a nuove interpretazioni, costituendosi come l’intervallo necessario al riconoscimento degli ambiti portuali e del loro dialogo con gli elementi cardine della città.
Un rapporto chiaramente espresso nei porti mediterranei del passato, che si fondava sul carattere di visibilità, e sulla costruzione di una scenografia: circoscritta dai limiti fisici geografici e che aveva per punto di vista, la rappresentazione della città dal mare.
All’interno di questo contesto operativo, si inserisce la presente tesi di ricerca dottorale, che ha inteso indagare la “formatività” di un’idea di città-porto che potesse esprimere una sintesi tra la qualità di un progetto unitario e la molteplicità e complessità di attività e funzioni legate al microcosmo portuale.
Per fare ciò, risulta necessario rifondare il punto di vista sulle città portuali, in una prospettiva che superi la “cecità” (espressa negli interventi degli ultimi decenni) della visione dicotomica ed escludente, tra area portuale ed area urbana. Quindi modificare i processi di conoscenza, prima ancora delle forme di intervento.
L’interesse della ricerca è stato rivolto alla descrizione e analisi dei caratteri fondativi della città-porto mediterranea. A partire da una riscoperta degli aspetti identitari delle eccezionalità geografiche, costituite dai porti naturali. Allo stesso modo, ed in forma complementare, si è provato ad elencare e interpretare le “forme tecniche” artificiali che popolano, stratificatesi nel tempo, lo spazio portuale contemporaneo.
Le forme fisiche dell’approdo condizionano fortemente le strutture formali e le disposizioni delle attività del porto; tanto quanto le forme artificiali influenzano la conformazione delle parti di città in prossimità della linea di riva ed interi brani di paesaggio.
Un obiettivo centrale per la ricerca è stata la messa a punto di un metodo che indagasse sulle modalità trasformative, in grado di suggerire categorie, e risposte, adeguate.
È stato sviluppato un atlante interpretativo di alcune esperienze progettuali, svolte negli ultimi decenni, che possano costituire “buone pratiche” ai fini della valorizzazione della relazione tra porto e città. Un abaco che mira alla traduzione delle “tecniche” progettuali, dotate di valore generale, e quindi applicabili a diversi contesti, componendo un “toolkit” destinato agli attori dei processi rigenerativi.
Il carattere di innovatività che propone questa ricerca, precisando il campo di indagine rispetto all’intero bacino del Mar Mediterraneo, consiste nell’uso di rinnovate metodologie progettuali, che mettono al centro il valore di sistema e il ruolo che ha la forma architettonica nella definizione dell'identità degli spazi.
Un metodo alla base sia del lavoro critico-analitico, che delle sperimentazioni sul progetto, concretizzatosi in una proposta di intervento sul porto di Bari.The port-city is the result of a relationship, which has been defined and reformulated over the centuries, depending on the character of permeability and dependence, or vice versa, detachment and indifference, between the two different parts that compose it.
Mediterranean ports, unlike other European ports that have decommissioned, relocated and converted entire neighborhoods and urban parts to urban use, still coexist today in a condition of overlap with the consolidated city. The port, within the limits imposed by coastal morphology, is internal to the body of the city, even in its contemporary territorial dimension.
This phenomenon, result of a long process of stratification of uses over time, together with the difficulties in recognizing the parts of a heterogeneous "whole", made of full and empty spaces, causes the indeterminateness of the transformation of the Mediterranean port cities. At the same time, it offers opportunities to reflect on alternative methods of building a port city.
The body of water, that defines the territorial limits of the port, is transformed today in infrastructural surface, as a medium able to keep functionally together the different harbour sections. The “natural void” of water, could open to new interpretations, constituting as the necessary interval for the recognition of port areas, and their dialogue with the key elements of the city.
A relationship clearly expressed in the Mediterranean ports of the past, which was based on the character of visibility, and on the construction of a scenography: circumscribed by geographical physical limits and that had for point of view, the representation of the city from the sea.
Within this operational context, the present doctoral research thesis, which aimed to investigate the "formativity" an idea of a city-port that could express a synthesis between the quality of a unitary project and the multiplicity and complexity of activities related to the port microcosm.
To do this, it is necessary to refound the point of view on port cities, in a perspective that overcomes the "blindness" (expressed in the interventions of recent decades) of the dichotomous and exclusive vision, between port area and urban area. Then modify the processes of knowledge, even before the forms of intervention.
The research interest was directed to the description and analysis of the founding characteristics of the Mediterranean port city. Starting from a rediscovery of the identity aspects of geographical exceptionalities, constituted by natural ports. In the same way, and in a complementary form, we tried to list and interpret the artificial "technical forms" that populate, stratified over time, the contemporary port space.
The physical forms of the landing strongly condition the formal structures of port activities; as much as the artificial forms influence the conformation of the parts of city in proximity to the shore line and whole pieces of landscape.
A central focus of the research was to develop a method that would investigate transformative modes, suggesting appropriate categories and responses.
An interpretative atlas of some project experiences, carried out in recent decades, has been developed, that can constitute "good practices" for the purpose of enhancing the relationship between port and city.
An “abacus” that aims to translate the "techniques" of design, endowed with general value, and therefore applicable to different contexts, composing a "toolkit" intended for the actors of regenerative processes.
The innovative nature of this research, specifying the field of investigation in relation to the entire Mediterranean basin, consists in the use of new design methodologies, that focus on the value of architectural form in defining the identity of spaces.
A method at the basis of both critical-analytical work, and experiments on the project, which has been materialized in a proposal for intervention on the port of Bari
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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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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