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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
Fiction of the New statesman, 1913-1939
No full textThis thesis is the first systematic study of short stories published in the New Statesman [NS]
weekly magazine from its foundation in 1913 to 1939. The main question it seeks to address
is what type of fiction did a mainstream socialist publication like the NS publish then? By
chronologically charting dominant literary figures and themes, the thesis aims to discern
significant cultural tendencies and editorial principles of selection. Following Raymond
Williams' 'cultural materialism', fiction is read in its relation to social history, as a
'representation of history'.
Chapter 1 deals with the foundation of the journal and its first year of publication, mapping
out the contradictions between Fabian collectivist ideology and ethical socialism, urban
realism and literary Georgianism, country and city. A focus on urban problems of poverty
unemployment, philanthropy, and machinofacture is at the heart of the NS's literary concern,
in 1913. Chapter 2 focuses on stories published during World War I, and goes up to 1926. It
argues that the reality of the War was falsified as a time of rest and relaxation, in line with
the journal's political policy of supporting the war effort. The immediate post-war period is
read as a time of disappointment and intensified social conflict and struggle.
The General Strike of 1926 is a turning point in interwar history. It also ushers in a period of
unprecedented cultural activity in the NS. As Chapters 4 and 5 show, the post-Strike period is
characterised by the consolidation of the working-class fiction of socialist R. M. Fox; by the
rise of the countryside realism of H. E. Bates; and by the rise of the colonial fiction of E. R.
Morrough on Egypt (which is examined in the context of Leslie Mitchell's, E. M. Forster's,
and William Plomer's responses to empire). Significant contributions by women writers
(such as Faith Compton Mackenzie) about travel, duty, and oppression are also made in the
late 20s, early 30s. Chapter 6 is dedicated to the magnificent place that Russian fiction
occupies in the 30s through the work of Michael Zoshchenko. Though written during the free
and experimental 20s, his satiric fiction is published as a sample of Soviet literature of the
30s, thus consolidating the Stalinist line dictated by the political editor, Kingsley Martin, that
'self-criticism' is a central part of Soviet politics and society. Chapter 7 is a tribute to the
NS's contribution to reconstructing British realism away from both Victorian moralism and
European naturalism. The stories of Bates, V. S. Pritchett, and Peter Chamberlain are
dominant, conveying different ways of negotiating the pressures of documentary realism and
the political developments of the 30s. Also discussed is the unique modernist contribution of
neglected Stella Benson, which presents a strong challenge to the usual representationalism
of NS fiction.
The concluding chapter reads NS fiction in the whole period between 1913 and 1939 as the
cultural expression of the new petty bourgeoisie, especially its progressive, politically and
socially engaged side. With its focus on ordinariness and lived experience, and its formal
experimentation and innovation, NS fiction exemplifies artistic commitment par excellence, a
conscious cultural alignment with the actuality and potentiality of the new petty bourgeoisie.</p
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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