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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
Urban Wildlife Ethics: What Should Urban Human-Animal Relationships Look Like?
Full text linkTwo distinctive trends within environmental ethics and animal ethics have backgrounded questions about urban animals. First, within environmental ethics, a focus on the wilderness has historically been foregrounded over human-influenced environments, and second, within animal ethics, urgency has been towards more direct harms and ethical prescriptions have traditionally been too universalist and abstracted from their contexts and networks of relationships. Because of this, urban wildlife has essentially become ���invizibilized.��� However, because urban wildlife ��� the kind I will be discussing, at least ��� is sentient and has the capacity to suffer, it is morally considerable. It matters. Since many human-animal interactions occur within the urban setting, more careful ethical analysis seems to be called for. In this thesis, I will be exploring a distinctively urban animal ethics. I will focus specifically on feral animals, pests, and relict wildlife populations. To inform my research, I will draw on existing literature that emphasizes more nuanced, contextual approaches to human-animal relationships. This will come from the recent work at the conjunction of ethics and political philosophy, emerging out of the work of Clare Palmer���s Animal Ethics in Context (2010) and Donaldson and Kymlicka���s Zoopolis (2011), which turns to political philosophy. These approaches will help me to develop a critique of existing human-urban wildlife relationships and ultimately an account of what ethical relations should look like
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
Nostalgic Neverland
Full text linkNostalgic Neverland is an original piece of writing that highlights the desire to stay a child forever. Along with the research part of the project is an original poem with a creative aspect to it. Simran Puri emphasizes on why Peter Pan inspires her and the poem is from the point of view of one who lives in Neverland and why they want to live there. Simran Puri wants her readers to resonate with her piece as most share the feeling of not wanting to grow up
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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