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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
The problem of complexity : re-thinking the role of critique
No full textThesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.Prof. F P Cilliers acted, until his death on 31 July 2011, as the original promotor of this dissertationENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation departs from the argument that an encounter with complexity exposes the
breakdown of traditional doctrines that have been taken for granted for too long (markedly
modernist reductionism). Contrary to reductionist strategies that rely on the methods of analysis
and isolation, the study of complex phenomena focuses on the dynamic relations and
organisation of systems and their environments. Although the proliferation of ideas concerning
the notion of complexity is abundant, there is no agreed upon definition that informs an
overarching ‘Theory of Complexity.’ This problem is addressed by following the historical
development in the field of systyms thinking. A distinction is made between ‘restricted’ and
‘general’ theories of complexity.
The study problematises the conceptual and empirical difficulties of studying complex
phenomena. The impossibility of being able to have complete knowledge of complex systems is
discussed in detail. It is argued that although the study of complexity serves as an alternative
approach to reductionist approaches, our knowledge of complexity in principle remains a
reduction thereof. This insight leads to the claim that the study of complex phenomena is at best
a post-reductionist effort, which is necessarily a critical position. It is argued that the
‘complexity approach’ coincides with other poststructural approaches in the field of philosophy
in general and with deconstruction in particular. However, situating the complexity approach within poststructuralism is not unproblematic,
seeing that poststructural forms of critique are marred by problems of legitimation. Allegiance
to postmetaphysical ideals implies that objective grounds for justifying or warranting the choice
of norms from where to launch critical inquiry are sacrificed. A deconstructive reading of the
Kantian concept of ‘critique’ reveals a double movement that is at work in the concept. This
double bind displaces the definition of critique to change to mean ‘critique as stricture.’ From
this perspective the logic of différance is at work in critical analysis and the limitations of our
meaning making strategies are exposed. It is suggested that ‘critique as stricture’ is a
poststructural form of critical inquiry that regains legitimacy by operating in the tension of the
force field created by antagonistic positions. A provisional grounding in the name of the limit
emerges. The kind of thinking that can be cognisant of this general movement of ‘critique as
stricture’ is found in the notion of ‘complex thinking.’ By drawing on Derrida’ and Morin’s
reappropriation of Bataille’s distinction between the restricted and general economy, it is
demonstrated how complex thinking is operating within the movement of the general economy. The study concludes with the argument that informed by ‘critique as stricture,’ the complexity
approach progresses to what Cilliers calls ‘critical complexity.’ This brand of complexity
distinguishes itself by a normative turn, which is distinguished by three imperatives: 1) the
Provisional Imperative, 2) the Critical Reflexive Imperative and 3) the World-disclosing
Imperative. All of these operate under the influence of the general economy, which allows
critical inquiry to be grounded and legitimised in the tension of thinking antagonistic positions
together without reducing them to one another.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie proefskrif word aangevoer dat die verskynsel van kompleksiteit die disintegrasie van
tradisionele leerstellings se aansprake, wat te lank as vanselfsprekend aanvaar was, ontbloot
(merkbaar reduksionistiese modernisme). In teenstelling met reduksionistiese strategieë wat
staat maak op metodes van analise en isolasie, fokus die studie van komplekse verskynsels op
die dinamiese verhoudings en organisasie van sisteme en hul omgewings. Alhoewel die studie
van kompleksiteit ’n byna alledaagse verskynsel geword het, bestaan daar geen bindende
definisie wat ’n enkele ‘Teorie van Kompleksiteit’ daarstel nie. Daar word spesifiek op hierdie
probleem gefokus in terme van hoe die wetenskaplike studie van kompleksiteit histories
ontwikkel het. Dit word aangevoer dat dit sinvoller is om eerder tussen ‘beperkte’ en
‘algemene’ teorieë van kompleksiteit te onderskei as om ’n oorkoepelende teorie te ontwikkel.
Heelwat probleme duik op in die poging om komplekse verskynsels konseptueel en empiries te
bestudeer. Alhoewel die studie van komplekse verskynsels ’n alternatiewe posisie tot
reduksionistiese benaderings daarstel, kan kennis van kompleksiteit in beginsel slegs ’n
reduksie daarvan wees. As gevolg hiervan word die studie van komplekse verskynsels ten beste
as ’n post-reduksionistiese poging beskryf wat noodwendig ’n kritiese posisie impliseer. Die
kompleksiteitsbenadering stem in die algemeen met post-strukturele filosofiese benaderings, en
spesifiek met dekonstruksie ooreen. Hierdie ooreenstemming is egter nie onproblematies nie, aangesien post-strukutrele kritiese
posisies deur probleme van legitimasie gekenmerk word. Lojaliteit aan post-metafisiese ideale
het tot gevolg dat daar geen objektiewe, grondige vertrekpunt bestaan vanwaar normatiewe
begrondings geregverdig kan word nie. ’n Dekonstruktiewe lees van Kant se idee van die begrip
‘kritiek’ openbaar dat daar ’n ‘double movement’ aan die werk is wat die konsep ‘kritiek’ kan
verruim ten einde dit te verander om ‘critique as stricture’ te beteken. Die werking van
différance is altyd betrokke tydens kritiese analise waardeur die beperkinge van ons singewende
strategieë blootgestel word. Hierdie her-definiëring van kritiek as ‘critique as stricture’ stel ons
in staat om nuwe lewe in die kritiese projek te blaas deurdat legitimiteit gevind word in die
spanning van die kragveld wat geskep word tussen antagonistiese posisies. ’n Voorlopige
grondslag word in die naam van die beperkings van ons denkstrategië gevestig.
‘Kompleksiteitsdenke’ (‘complex thinking’) stel ’n denkstrategie daar wat tred hou met die
dinamiese beweging wat in ‘critique as stricture’ teenwoordig is. ‘Kompleksiteitsdenke’ word
aan die hand van Derrida en Morin se interpretasie van Bataille se onderskeid tussen die beperkte en algemene ekonomie gedoen ten einde te demonstreer dat ‘kompleksiteitsdenke’
binne die beweging van die algemene ekonomie val.
Die studie word afgesluit met die argument dat, ingelig deur ‘critique as stricture’, die
kompleksiteitsbenadering tot die begrip ‘kritiese kompleksiteit’ ontwikkel soos voorgestel deur
Cilliers. Kritiese kompleksiteit word deur ’n normatiewe impuls gekenmerk wat in sigself weer
deur drie noodsaaklike eienskappe uitgeken kan word: 1) die Voorlopige Imperatief, 2) die
Kritiese Refleksiewe Imperatief en 3) die Wêreld-ontsluitende Imperatief. Al drie hierdie
imperatiewe staan onder die invloed van die algemene ekonomie wat ons toelaat om kritiese
analise te begrond in die spanning wat onstaan wanneer antagonistiese konsepte saam gedink
word sonder dat hulle tot mekaar gereduseer word.Doctora
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
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