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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
Impact of Cyberspace on Human Rights and Democracy
No full textThis paper focuses on the asserted ‘boundlessness’ of cyberspace in order to examine
how and to what extent jurisdiction, in its various meaning and forms (jurisdiction to prescribe,
to adjudicate and to execute), over activities taking place in the cyberspace may be asserted and
even exercised, based on traditional jurisdictional links and also on new trends. The paper also
examines confl icts of law in civilian (mainly tort laws and laws on the protection of rights of
the personality as well as intellectual property) and criminal matters. Determining what set of
rules applies to a certain fact or situation implies a reference to those rules establishing where
such a fact or situation has legally taken place and is to be localised (locus commissi delicti),
and a reference to main criteria including those focusing on the conduct, the localisation of the
hardware, the effect, the access to the informatics system, the accessibility of the information
and future trends. The paper further highlights that the enforcement of activities in cyberspace
appears to be affected by an assimilation to traditional forms of investigative activities, such
as search or inspection or even the interception of communication or data fl ow, which are to a
certain degree misleading in respect of the specifi c means employed. A specifi c reference to the
role of providers in enforcement activities is also included. The second part of the paper deals
with the traditional human rights relevant to cyberspace and to the broader concept of ‘right to
access’ cyberspace, as well as the uncertainties derived from the fact that a plurality of state and
non-state actors may limit and interfere with human rights in cyberspace. The paper specifi cally
deals with the commercial dimension of cyberspace and with eventual corporate liability for
human rights violation (multinational corporations violating rights to privacy in connection
with or on behalf of states or enforcing censorship) based on US legislation and also taking into
consideration European trends. The paper fi nally highlights the supportive role to the protection
of human rights of regulatory bodies enforcing fair-trade and anti-trust regulations, and the
multinational dimension of free trade in promoting human rights, by eventually considering
restrictions in cyberspace and censorship as restrictions to trade under WTO agreements
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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