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Questionnaire, Herbert R. Mills, Roseate Spoonbill, March 18, 1939
No full textHerbert R. Mills\u27s answers to a survey on Roseate Spoonbills, their numbers, their habitats, and habits.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/rpa_records/1089/thumbnail.jp
Letter to Samuel Street from Rev. R. Mills
No full textLetter to Samuel Street from Rev. R. Mills dated at Brantford, 5 September
1842. The letter concerns purchasing a tract of land in Norwich on which to
build a Catholic Church and School. The letter is postmarked Brantford
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
Letter, Carl Buchheister to Mrs. H. R. Mills, National Audubon Society History, March 5, 1980
No full textA letter from Carl Buchheister to Mrs. H. R. Mills regarding research into the history of the National Audubon Society.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/audubon_coastal_islands_records/1073/thumbnail.jp
Sociological theory of the ruling elite of Ch. R. Mills: Actualization of socio-political views in modern reality
Get PDFThe article examines the sociological theory of the ruling elite created by the famous American sociologist Ch. R. Mills. Although the theory formulated by him in the last century was a rather important step forward for his time in the study of that social community, today the analysis of its basic provisions is not so often found in modern research. At the same time, many of its provisions are not only not outdated, but are also a refl ection of the modern portrait of the elite, and the socio-political processes taking place in society. In contrast to the established in sociology and political science consideration of the elite as a special social group, the works of Ch. R. Mills present a view of it as a kind of social institution. In this regard, a number of works consider the approach of Ch. R. Mills as institutional. The article defi nes the theory of the ruling elite of Ch. R. Mills as a special version of the socio-institutional approach, since Ch. R. Mills himself considers the elite as a group of individuals representing the leading institutions of society (primarily political, economic and military), making all decisions that entail the most important consequences. The undoubted advantages of Ch. R. Mills’ approach are his attempt to defi ne the boundaries of the elite group, to characterize the structure of the elite, the social strata and the groups that form it. The defi nitions of a politician and the analysis of two leading interlayers that make up the core of the ruling elite – professional politicians and political “outsiders” – have not lost their relevance. The article also considers the trend in the elite, which has not lost its relevance, associated with the gradual replacement of the category of professional politicians by administrators-bureaucrats, who come from corporate and ‘outsider’ groups, including representatives of the economic and military elite
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
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