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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
"While We Must Suffer, We Must Not Rebel:" The Calvinist Framework of Susan Warner\u27s The Wide, Wide World
No full textAccording to Barbara Welter, religion or piety was at the heart of a “true” woman’s cardinal attributes. This “peculiar susceptibility” to religion, reportedly bestowed upon women by God Himself, blessed them with an intrinsic virtuosity and, in so doing, appointed them as the bastions of morality within the domestic realm. This emphasis on religion stemmed from the revivalist movement that spread throughout the Unites States in the antebellum decades. The movement, known as the Second Great Awakening, was particularly successful at converting women, and at involving them in pastoral activities, including preaching. In this way, it laid the groundwork for the creation of a culture of female piety that unlocked the production of a literature infused with theology. In that respect, one the most popular writers of the era was Susan Warner, the author of The Wide, Wide World. The novel, published in 1850, stands out in the genre for the magnitude and scope of the religious aspect and, above all, for the doctrines espoused by the writer. Warner depicts the circumstances surrounding the protagonist’s ordeal through orphanhood and subsequent adoption exclusively through the lens of a stern Calvinist approach – a notable exception in the genre, which was characterized mainly by Unitarian writers, who employed fiction to undermine Calvinism and to promote their doctrines of choice. The immense popularity of Warner’s novel offers ample evidence that Puritan influence persisted in the country with undiminished strength
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
The Crisis of the Social Realist Novel in the United States: The "Tragic" Case of Jonathan Franzen\u27s Strong Motion
No full textJonathan Franzen’s production is characterized by a body of non-fiction writing that has greatly contributed to the heated debate about the declining relevance of the novel in contemporary America. In his controversial essay “Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels,” published in 1996, Franzen acknowledged the diminished cultural role of highbrow novels in a nation dominated by consumerism, mass culture, new media and instant entertainment. In this light, the author made a public call for ambitious fiction to rise to the challenges of the late twentieth century. Interestingly, Franzen equated such novels with the “tragic” mode: by “tragic” he meant “just about any fiction that raises more questions than it answers: anything in which conflict doesn’t resolve into cant.” Much of Franzen’s fiction participates in the same discourse that is developed in his essayistic production, especially his early work, which is infused with large-scale social and cultural critique. His second novel in particular, Strong Motion, having been completed in the early 1990s, at the height of his frustration with the coeval American novel, appears of particular interest. Strong Motion exposes what Franzen aptly calls “the dirt” behind the American “dream of Chosenness.” The novel decries the failure of a nation that, far from being a shining “City upon a Hill,” has fallen prey to an unstoppable process of cultural and moral entropy that coincided with the inception of a “predatory” capitalistic system of power, which has influenced gender and social roles, the notion of progress, and the general attitude to the natural world, with the environment in particular being brutally degraded to mere infrastructure. In so doing, the book stands as an example of the author’s “tragic” mode
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