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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
Poetic effects and visuospatial form: a relevance-theoretic perspective
Full text linkSperber and Wilson (1995:222) posit the term poetic effect for the peculiar effect of an
utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak
implicatures. Crucially, the input to pragmatic processing, which prompts the derivation
of a poetic effect, is achieved via some stylistically pronounced linguistic feature: for
example, a repeated lexical item, a peculiar syntactic form, a piece of alliteration, and so
on. However, what has never been considered to any great depth from a relevancetheoretic perspective is how unusual elements of visuospatial form might also impact
upon the reader’s basic understanding and wider interpretation of a given poetic text in
ways that result in the derivation of specialised poetic effects. Therefore, the thesis
posits a relevance-theoretic account of the cognitive-pragmatic effects of short linelength and line divisions, when employed and interpreted within complex forms of
poetry.
The account is split into two hypotheses relating to short line-length and line
divisions respectively. Hypothesis 1 states that the use of short line-length leads to the
majority of the text’s lexical material being perceived in a much slower, and therefore
intense fashion, which consequently causes the lexical and encyclopaedic entries that
such material links to within the mind to remain active for relatively longer periods of
time. During such extended periods of lexical and encyclopaedic activation, literary
readers are encouraged to inferentially process the text’s explicit-propositional content
in relation to a range of further items of encyclopaedic-contextual material, which can
give rise to arrays of additional contextual effects of a weakly implicit and therefore
poetic nature.
Hypothesis 2 states that line divisions are often intentionally utilised in poetic
texts by writers in order to visuospatially separate integral syntactic units upon the page.
This can encourage readers to pause and briefly consider, upon an anticipatoryhypothetical basis, the various possible pragmatic extensions of the text’s momentarily
incomplete logical and propositional status, pre-line division as it were. The various
pragmatic extensions may be formulated as arrays of weak explicatures, which for some
readers may achieve poetic effects (in the specialised relevance-theoretic sense of the
term). The process effectively constitutes the visuospatial equivalent of a deliberate
‘pause for effect’, which triggers a considerable degree of further inferential processing,
and provides a distinct communicational ‘reward’ primarily at an explicit-propositional
level
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
Relational deictic metaphors: real-reader response and interpretation of young-adult fiction
Full text linkThis thesis presents a unified and innovative contribution to the field of cognitive poetics, and the
related field of cognitive stylistics. Its aims to establish the concept of relational deictic metaphors
(also referred to as RDMs) as a framework within cognitive poetic analysis. It also aims to extend and
augment the frameworks of cognitive deixis, conceptual metaphor, and text-world theory. In this
thesis, the discussion centres on the ways in which real readers negotiate their own understanding and
interpretation of the relational deictic information and conceptual metaphors they encounter in three
passage from three young-adult novels; Why We Broke Up (Handler, 2011), To all the Boys I’ve
Loved Before (Han, 2014), and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Albertalli, 2015). By
combining these frameworks in an in-depth cognitive poetic analysis, I aim to explore how relational
deixis and metaphor work together to inform and reflect social relationships and personal identit
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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