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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
The trade in rare books in Switzerland in the first half of the nineteenth century: Sir Thomas Phillipps's purchases and their dispersal
No full textThis thesis examines the changing values assigned to books and shows why some items are now considered as part of the world’s cultural heritage. Using a methodology based on the reading of archives, the use of dealers’ and library catalogues, and the books’ material analysis, my research provides an in-depth study of the trade in rare books in Switzerland in the first half of the nineteenth century. To explore this topic, largely neglected by modern scholarship, I investigate the purchases of 259 manuscripts and almost 600 printed books by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872) during his stay in Switzerland in 1822–23 and their dispersal after his death. My thesis argues that the Swiss book-trade was a sophisticated business in which professional and amateur dealers efficiently sold rare and new printed books, as well as medieval and modern manuscripts, in bookshops, auction rooms, private houses, and religious institutions. Besides, Phillipps’s motives for obtaining these items, as well as those of their subsequent owners clearly indicate that books were acquired and sold for a variety of reasons and highly viewed for their aesthetic, financial, historical, literary, political, religious, and scholarly quality.
After a first part focusing on Phillipps’s sojourn and his occupations (Chapter 1), I investigate the dispersal of rare books in Switzerland between 1700 and 1850 to show that he took part in a well organised business (Chapter 2). Then, I examine how Phillipps obtained books from professional booksellers, private and religious owners (Chapter 3), explain why he selected particular items and how he integrated them into his library (Chapter 4). The last part concentrates on the dispersal of the books in the twentieth century (Chapter 5). The conclusion gathers the main arguments, indicates new potential studies, and demonstrates that books as objects are relevant sources for bibliographical and historical research and provide valuable insights into a society’s attitude to its past, present, and future
A List of Manuscripts Offered for Sale by Jacques Rosenthal in Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta (Munich, 1925 and 1928)
Full text linkThe following appendix describes the 200 manuscripts Jacques Rosenthal offered for sale in his two-volume catalogue Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta (BMAM) published in 1925 and 1928. It presents data extracted from BMAM and archives I analysed in my publications investigating Rosenthal’s working methods and the criteria he used to assign a financial value to the manuscripts. Its aim is therefore not to provide detailed descriptions of the manuscripts but to gather information provided by BMAM, even though it has been since revised and could be completed by additional research, and archival sources. For my publications, see Angéline Rais, ‘Jacques Rosenthal’s Marketing Strategies: An Analysis of Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta (1925 and 1928)’ in The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890–1945, ed. by Laura Cleaver, Danielle Magnusson, Hannah Morcos, and Angéline Rais (York: ARC Humanities Press, forthcoming 2024); Angéline Rais, ‘Valuing Rare Books in 1920s Germany: Prices in Jacques Rosenthal’s Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta’, in The Economics of the Rare Book and Manuscript Trade, ca. 1890–1939, ed. by Federico Botana and Laura Cleaver (York: ARC Humanities Press, forthcoming 2024)
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
Dictionnaire typographique : historique et critique des livres rares, singuliers, estimés et recherchés en tous genres... par Osmont, J. B. L. (Jean Baptiste Louis)
No full textThis data set consists of 20 image files in TIFF format, and an XML file. These files were created as part of a Digital Editions course, run by the Taylor Institution Library, during Trinity Term 2018. The course required participants to create a digitised version of a printed text. This text is 18 pages from J. B. L. Osmont, Dictionnaire typographique: historique et critique des livres rares (Paris, Lacombe, 1768) (shelfmark: Taylor Institution Library, U.N.S.168.H.17. The images of the original text were created using a digital camera and then converted to TIFF format using GIMP Image Editor]. The XML file included here contains an encoded transcription of the original text, created and edited using Oxygen XML Editor, according to Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guideline
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