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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
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
Die epistemische Krise und der Aufstieg des Rechtsextremismus: Zur Konzeptualisierung von Gegenwissensordnungen in der digitalen Wissensgesellschaft
Get PDFYears of global crises since the turn of the millennium and recently the coronavirus pandemic have made the opening fault lines of rationality in digital knowledge society more visible. This paper draws from work on the digital transformation of knowledge societies. It considers how the conditions of this transformation have not only profoundly influenced the established knowledge order but also facilitated the emergence of counter-knowledge orders. Counter-knowledge orders dissolve knowledge contexts, reorganize hierarchies and claim roles in digitalized knowledge societies to create and maintain subversive alternatives freed of the established order’s rules and impositions. To exemplify the analytical power of counter-knowledge orders as a concept, this paper considers the far right as a counter-knowledge order. This approach is shown to help reconcile the apparent contradictions and inadequacies that are criticized in the dominant counterpublic framework for studying the far right from a knowledge centered perspective. For the far right, the allure of counter-knowledge orders lies in the simultaneous assumption of different social power positions that the established order grants and withholds. The paper concludes that the far-right struggle for hegemony can ultimately be understood as an attempt to (re-) gain control over the entire knowledge process. The anti-democratic, illiberal and exclusionary presuppositions of far-right ideology at the basis of all dimensions of the far-right counter-knowledge order are well-documented in the literature. From a social-epistemologist perspective, however, it is important to stress that counter-knowledge orders are not a‑priori assuming any illiberal ideology per se and may, in different contexts, even be seen as a necessity for a more just knowledge order. The simultaneous danger and necessity of counter-knowledge orders in liberal democracy merit further exploration in the future. Moreover, it is important to scrutinize the societal conditions that uniquely enable the far-right counter-knowledge order to capitalize on these dynamics.Die globalen Krisen seit der Jahrtausendwende, zuletzt die Coronapandemie und Kriege in Nahost sowie der Ukraine, haben Bruchlinien digitaler Wissensgesellschaften deutlicher sichtbar gemacht, die nicht nur entlang von Überzeugungen zum jeweiligen Gegenstand verlaufen, sondern die gesellschaftlichen Systeme und Ordnungen sowie die Mechanismen deren Etablierung selbst in Frage stellen. Dieser Text befasst sich damit, wie die digitale Transformation der Wissensgesellschaft und deren Bedingungen die Entstehung von Gegenwissensordnungen begünstigen. Gegenwissensordnungen nutzen die Bedingungen einer digitalisierten Wissensgesellschaft zur Auflösung von Wissenskontexten, zur Reorganisation von Hierarchien und zur Beanspruchung von Rollen innerhalb dieser Kontexte. Gegenwissensordnungen konstruieren so eine subversive Alternative, die nicht an die Regeln und Zumutungen der etablierten Ordnung gebunden ist. Zur Veranschaulichung des Konzepts der Gegenwissensordnungen, wird hier die extreme Rechte (far right) betrachtet und gezeigt, wie dieser Ansatz unter anderem hilft, scheinbare Widersprüche und Unzulänglichkeiten in der Analyse der Far Right in der politischen Kommunikationsforschung aufzulösen. Die Anziehungskraft einer Gegenwissensordnung für die extreme Rechte liegt in der Gleichzeitigkeit der Inanspruchnahme verschiedener Positionen sozialer Macht, die von der herrschenden Ordnung zugestanden und vorenthalten werden, d. h. in der Verknüpfung von Widerstand und Defensivität. Abschließend wird betont, wie wichtig es ist, die extreme Rechte als eine Gegenwissensordnung zu untersuchen, um ihre potenziellen Auswirkungen auf die liberale Demokratie zu verstehen. Die antidemokratischen, illiberalen und ausgrenzenden Voraussetzungen der rechtsextremen Ideologie, die allen Dimensionen der rechtsextremen Gegenwissensordnung zugrunde liegen, sind in der Literatur gut dokumentiert. Aus einer sozialepistemologischen Perspektive ist es jedoch wichtig zu betonen, dass Gegenwissensordnungen nicht von vornherein eine illiberale Ideologie voraussetzen und in verschiedenen Kontexten sogar als Notwendigkeit für eine gerechtere Wissensordnung angesehen werden können. Die gleichzeitige Gefahr und Notwendigkeit von Gegenwissensordnungen in der liberalen Demokratie verdienen es, in Zukunft weiter erforscht zu werden. Darüber hinaus ist es wichtig, die gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen zu untersuchen, die es der rechtsextremen Gegenwissensordnung ermöglichen, aus dieser Dynamik Kapital zu schlagen
Thinking different as an act of resistance: Reconceptualizing the German protests in the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergent counter-knowledge order
Get PDFMassive anti-government protests erupted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The crisis activated a potential for resistance that has been simmering under the impositions of late-modern knowledge society. Made salient by the pandemic conditions of sudden extreme reliance on scientific (non) knowledge, the corona protestors activated this potential for resistance and constructed their own counter-knowledge order bound by shared resentment of and distrust in the established order and facilitated by digital platforms. Utilising social network analysis and structural topic modeling for digital critical discourse analysis, in this paper I explore how the corona protest counter-knowledge order is constructed with a particular focus on its contexts, roles, and hierarchies. I find that far-right and conspiracy imaginations are used to level out hierarchies and detach epistemic roles from their contexts to reinstate a superior self into interpretative power. The counter-knowledge order’s inherent construction of unwarranted omnipotence points to a more fundamental resistance to the established normative orders of our society that should be addressed more effectively if we want to be prepared for future crises and not lose common ground for making sense of them
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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