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Charlotte Nordmann, Bourdieu et Rancière discutés
No full textQuet Mathieu. Charlotte Nordmann, Bourdieu et Rancière discutés. In: Communication et langages, n°152, 2007. Usages médiatiques du portrait. pp. 125-126
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
Sécurité pharmaceutique, technologie et marché en Afrique. La lutte contre les médicaments illicites au Kenya
No full textThe article deals with the issue of illicit medicines and with the ways in which the Kenya government fights against it. It pays particular attention to the recent redefinition of the problem and to the growing importance taken by technologies for the securitization of pharmaceutical markets. The hypothesis discussed is that the current conception and technical tooling of the fight against illicit medicines participates in a shift of debates regarding access to medicines in the global South. Increasingly, these debates will have to take into account the role of standards and technologies of control in the (il)legitimation of pharmaceutical flows. To this end, the analysis compares different technologies of security and shows their underlying conceptions of authenticity and of pharmaceutical legitimacy
The art of narrative in global controversies
No full textCet article étudie la dimension narrative des analyses de controverse. Ce faisant, il s’intéresse à la « mise en récit » du monde social opérée dans ces analyses. La globalisation croissante des controverses analysées par les STS (OGM, changement climatique, accès aux médicaments) et « l’extension du domaine de la controverse » qui en résulte confrontent les analystes à de nouveaux enjeux, ou exacerbent des enjeux préexistants : comment tenir compte des multiples espaces de déroulement des débats ? Comment intégrer les différents acteurs de la controverse ? Comment rendre compte de l’évolution argumentative et thématique permanente des conflits ? Comment faire justice à l’hétérogénéité temporelle de ces controverses ? La réponse à ces questions impose de prendre au sérieux l’intrication du méthodologique et du narratif dans la pratique contemporaine de l’analyse des controverses globales.This article investigates the narrative dimension in analyses of controversy, in other words, the way these analyses create a narrative of society. With the increasing globalisation of controversies analysed by the STS (e.g. GMOs, climate change or access to medication) and the “widening field of controversy” that results, analysts are having to deal with issues that are either new or intensifying: how, then, can we take all the multiple spheres where debates occur into consideration, and all of the different parties to a controversy? How should we handle the way arguments evolve and the recurrent themes of disputes? How can the sheer heterogeneity of debates over time be treated in all fairness? To answer these questions, serious attention needs to be given to the interweaving of methodology and narrative in contemporary analyses of global controversie
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