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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
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
Towards an autonomous and explainable artificial intelligence for uncertain environments
No full textNous nous sommes intéressés au développement d'une intelligence artificielle autonome et explicable pour des environnements incertains. Les tâches à résoudre par les intelligences artificielles, et plus particulièrement par les algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique, sont de plus en plus complexes : ils doivent pouvoir s'adapter et co-évoluer en autonomie avec des environnements complexes, changeants et incertains qui sont à l'image de nos environnements quotidiens. Dans le même temps, il est de plus en plus nécessaire de pouvoir expliquer les comportements de ces algorithmes, ceux-ci pouvant être amenés à prendre des décisions critiques dans des situations qui peuvent profondément impacter la vie d'un individu. Pour répondre à ce double objectif, les concepts d'autonomie et d'explicabilité des intelligences artificielles, ainsi que d'incertitude environnementale, ont été cadrés afin de guider nos choix de conception d'une intelligence artificielle d'abord vers un algorithme d'apprentissage automatique intrinsèquement explicable comme les approches à base de règles, puis vers les systèmes de classeurs à anticipation. Nous avons alors mis en place de nouveaux systèmes de classeurs à anticipation dont le but était de renforcer leurs capacités à évoluer en autonomie et de manière explicable dans des environnements incertains. Les capacités de chacun de ces systèmes de classeurs à anticipation ont été évaluées au travers d'un protocole d'évaluation expérimental que nous avons conçu. Ce protocole expérimental nous a notamment permis d'agir sur l'incertitude des environnements pour mettre en avant les capacités des systèmes de classeurs à anticipation que nous avons développés. Nous avons également conçu un algorithme d'extraction des connaissances propre aux systèmes de classeurs à anticipation capable de renforcer l'explicabilité inhérente à ces systèmes, sans détériorer leurs capacités d'apprentissage et leur autonomie.We are interested in the development of autonomous and explainable artificial intelligence for uncertain environments. The tasks to be solved by artificial intelligences, and more particularly by machine learning algorithms, are increasingly complex: they must be able to adapt and co-evolve autonomously with complex, changing and uncertain environments that reflect our daily environment. Meanwhile, it is increasingly necessary to be able to explain the behavior of these algorithms, as they could make critical decisions that could have a major impact on an individual's life. To meet this double objective, the concepts of autonomy and explainability of artificial intelligences, as well as environmental uncertainty, have been framed to guide our design choices towards an intrinsically explainable machine learning algorithm such as rule-based approaches, and then towards anticipatory learning classifier systems. We then developed new anticipatory learning classifier systems to strengthen their ability to evolve autonomously and in an explainable way in uncertain environments. The capacities of each of these anticipatory learning classifier systems were evaluated through a carefully designed experimental evaluation protocol. This protocol enabled us to control the uncertainty of the environments to highlight the capabilities of the anticipatory learning classifier systems we devised. We also designed an algorithm dedicated to the extraction of knowledge that is specific to anticipatory learning classifier systems, capable of reinforcing the inherent explainability of these systems, without degrading their learning capacities and autonomy
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