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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
RICERCA PSICOLOGICA, GENERE E GENITORIALITÀ NELLA STAMPA DIVULGATIVA
No full textNel corso degli ultimi decenni, con l’aumento della partecipazione femminile al mercato del lavoro, è aumentato il coinvolgimento dei padri nelle attività di cura dei figli. A questa maggiore partecipazione dei padri alla vita dei figli corrisponde la produzione di un’ampia letteratura scientifica sulla paternità che ha messo in evidenza la presenza di competenze simili nei padri e nelle madri, oltre ai numerosi benefici che il maggiore coinvolgimento dei padri comporta non solo per i figli, ma anche per i genitori e, in particolare, per le madri che lavorano (Marsiglio, Amato, Day, & Lamb, 2000). Il modello “naturale” dei ruoli genitoriali, che considerava i padri come “aiutanti” delle madri, oggi sta lasciando il posto al modello della cogenitorialità basato sull’equità nello svolgimento delle funzioni genitoriali. Secondo questo modello i genitori possono condividere impegni e responsabilità e i rispettivi ruoli sono meno vincolati al genere di appartenenza. La ricerca sulle rappresentazioni sociali della paternità, a sua volta, ha mostrato che anche le aspettative sociali verso i padri stanno cambiando e oggi agli uomini sono più spesso riconosciute le competenze un tempo attribuite esclusivamente alle donne (Eggebeen, Knoester, 2001). Tuttavia, sebbene le differenze tra le figure genitoriali stiano diminuendo, numerose ricerche hanno evidenziato che ancora oggi i padri dedicano meno tempo alla cura dei figli rispetto alle madri. In Italia, nello specifico, sembra che i ruoli genitoriali siano ancora fortemente ancorati ad una visione stereotipica e connotata dal genere di appartenenza; i padri italiani, infatti, dedicano al lavoro familiare il minor numero di ore rispetto agli altri padri europei (Romano, 2008). In particolare, sono le attività di routine, quelle essenziali per la cura del figlio, ad essere generalmente demandate alle madri, mentre i padri prediligono le attività “interattive” come il gioco (Rivellini, Di Giulio, 2006).
La contraddizione tra i risultati della ricerca scientifica e i comportamenti quotidianamente messi in atto dai padri si riscontra anche nei mass media che, se da un lato cominciano a mostrare l’immagine di un padre sempre più coinvolto nelle attività di cura dei figli, dall’altro mantengono una visione tradizionalista in cui il padre in alcuni casi è rappresentato come “aiutante” della madre, in altri è totalmente ignorato o addirittura ritratto in modo negativo (Sunderland, 2006).
Lo studio dei messaggi mediatici è di particolare interesse per la ricerca sulle differenze di genere e la genitorialità che, in quanto costrutti prodotti discorsivamente (Burr, 1998), sono continuamente coinvolti in processi di riproduzione o risignificazione anche nelle interazioni tra i mezzi di comunicazione di massa e le loro audience.
Il presente lavoro intende analizzare quanto le più recenti acquisizioni della ricerca psicologica sulla genitorialità trovino spazio nella stampa divulgativa. In particolare, saranno presentati i risultati di una ricerca condotta sui periodici italiani dedicati al tema della genitorialità volta a identificare, attraverso l’analisi del contenuto dei testi e delle immagini, i ruoli e le funzioni attribuiti al padre e alla madre.
I risultati delle analisi delle co-occorrenze, tematiche e comparative, prodotti con l’ausilio del software T-Lab 5.5, evidenziano che i periodici sono rivolti principalmente alla madre: è lei la figura più presente nelle immagini e alla quale sono indirizzati la maggior parte degli articoli. Mentre il ruolo materno è preso in considerazione in relazione a tutte le attività che la nascita di un figlio comporta, da quelle per il soddisfacimento dei bisogni primari a quelle di natura ludica e relazionale, il ruolo paterno è considerato soprattutto in riferimento a questa seconda tipologia di attività. Inoltre, i periodici sembrano attribuire al padre il ruolo di “aiutante”, la cui genitorialità è principalmente un “fatto sociale”, e alla madre quello di “gatekeeper” che vigila sui comportamenti del padre e che ha con un “legame naturale” con il bambino. Complessivamente, la stampa divulgativa analizzata sembra ancora fortemente ancorata ad una concezione della genitorialità che vede la madre come “genitore principale” e il padre come “aiutante part time”, lontana quindi dalle più recenti acquisizioni della ricerca psicologica
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
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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