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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Anphi-nomy: a creative relationship between cities and heterotopias
No full textThe contribution refers to a series of researches about cemetery space and inner areas, exploring possible expansions about the dichotomy “autonomy” (from Greek, autos – means “self”, – nomos means “rule”) and “heteronomy” (from Greek, hetero- means “other”). An intersection of these themes has found the opportunity to be investigated in the project developed for the ideas competition “Non Architecture Competition: Dying, alternative designs for cemeteries”. Reflecting about forms, meanings and role of the cemetery space in the contemporary landscape, an opportunity was glimpsed also to find out answers to the long-standing problem of abandoned inner areas reasoning about the autonomy and heteronomy that govern the relationships between the city and some marginal landscapes identifiable in a transcalar perspective. In this contribution inner areas are considered heterotopias in the same way as cemeteries. Heterotopias – according to the foucaultian meaning – are autonomous by definition and structured on their own rules. When they cease their activity, heterotopias become heteronomous, since they are considered referring to the city rules (-nomos) and not anymore to their own rules. Nowadays, only a project based on a creative thought aimed to define an “anphinomy” (from Greek, anphi- means “on both side”) can change the state in which this legacy is. Anphinomy will refer to a biunivocal and equal relationship among the parts without imposition of the rules of one of the two subjects. The Inner Park project focus on the anphinomy between the city and those heteronomous heterotopias. Urban and rural areas as well as “the city of the living” and “the city of the dead” are two pairs of landscapes that must be considered complementary and not alternative. Inner Park is a pretext, a futuristic proposal set in 2050. The project defines a park of “lost things” – people, places, histories – consisting of Italian inner areas dedicated to inner life that seems to find no more place in the hyper-dense urban. In this futuristic scenario, the gentrification of the city finds a complementary and necessary double in the inner areas. Inner Park is proposed as an “anphinomous” system recognizing its otherness, as an identity value statement, not comparable with the city identity but complementary to that, so necessary and worthy of being valued. The project proposal could be both a “double heteronomy” and a “conscious autonomy”, therefore a “connected heterotopia”
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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