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Omega Coherence Theory – Peter Hopkins
No full textThis project presents a coherence-based unifying theory of physics in which quantum collapse, gravity, entropy, and time are derived from a directional coherence field Ω. It introduces a variational principle, a coherence Lagrangian, and testable predictions grounded in experimental physics
Scotland’s Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity, edited by Peter Hopkins, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017
No full textBook review of Scotland’s Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity, edited by Peter Hopkins, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, xii + 291 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 4744 2723
Review of Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale (eds), Muslims in Britain - Race, Place & Identities. Edinburgh University Press, 2009
No full textThis item reviews the book 'Muslims in Birtain - Race, Place and Identities' edited by Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale, Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 236 pp., £19.99 (pb)
Andrew Gorman-Murray and Peter Hopkins in conversation : reflections on masculinities and sexualities research on GPC’s 25th anniversary
No full textIn this piece, Andrew Gorman-Murray and Peter Hopkins reflect upon the relationships between sexualities, masculinities and feminist geographies, including how these fields have shaped each other. They also reflect on the emergence of research about masculinities, and the place of men, within feminist geography. Andrew previously served as one of the Book Review Editors of Gender, Place and Culture and Peter has served as one of the Book Review Editors before becoming an Editor and then Managing Editor of the journal. Andrew is Professor of Geography at Western Sydney University in Australia; his research has focused upon geographies of gender and sexuality, with recent work centring on LGBT experiences of disasters and on the impact of mobile work on household transformations. Peter is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University in the UK. His earlier work explored youthful Muslim masculinities and intergenerational relations. He continues to focus on the intersections of gender, ethnicity, religion and youth with recent working focusing on gendered Islamophobia, everyday geopolitics and equality and diversity. In 2014, Andrew and Peter co-edited a collection on Masculinities and Place with many contributions from feminist geographers
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
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