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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
Ocena sposobu postrzegania przez interesariuszy skutków zmian klimatycznych dla produkcji rolnej (pszenicy) oraz stosowanych przez nich strategii adaptacyjnych: studium przypadku Kabulu, Afganistan
Get PDFClimate change has serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on the agricultural community in Afghanistan. A combination of many factors, including low socioeconomic situation, poor infrastructure, extreme poverty, rapid population growth, and low adaptive capacity, exerts the agricultural community at extreme vulnerability. Utilizing adaptation strategies by farmers and policymakers plays an important role in minimizing the impacts of climate change. It is important to know how stakeholders perceive the impact of climate change that influences their livelihoods, and the way they use adaptation strategies. This study assessed stakeholders’ perceptions of climate change and vulnerability based on information that was collected from literature and the stakeholders themselves through surveys and interviews. Therefore, the study is primarily focused on Stakeholders’ perception of climate change, effective variables, the impact of climate change on wheat production, and adaptation strategies. Findings revealed that stakeholders had concerns about the negative impact of climate change on crop production. Among the farmers, 90.4% and 72.8% believed that drought and temperature trends had already increased, and only 27.3 % of them thought that rainfall had decreased. The belief of a decrease in crop production due to climatic challenges was recorded by 90.9% and 80% of farmers and agricultural organization workers, respectively. Farmers reported a decrease in crop production of over 46%, and they utilized alternative and tolerant varieties as a means of adapting to the changes and of limiting crop reduction. Agricultural organization workers recommended some strategies including cultivation of adaptive seeds, crop rotation, water resource management, jungle protection, tree planting, increasing public awareness, agriculture machinery, and greenhouse creation, but 33.4 % of them did not provide any suggestions. Stakeholders’ perception and adaptation practices could be improved by the support of organized cooperatives, policy making, training programs, and development of relevant strategies.Zmiany klimatyczne wywierają znaczący wpływ na społeczność rolniczą w Afganistanie w wymiarze środowiskowym, gospodarczym i społecznym. Połączenie wielu czynników, takich jak niski status społeczno-ekonomiczny, słaba infrastruktura, skrajne ubóstwo, szybki wzrost populacji oraz ograniczona zdolność adaptacyjna, sprawia, że rolnicy należą do grup szczególnie narażonych na zagrożenia. Zastosowanie strategii adaptacyjnych zarówno przez samych rolników, jak i decydentów, odgrywa zatem kluczową rolę w ograniczaniu skutków zmian klimatycznych. Istotne znaczenie ma poznanie sposobu, w jaki interesariusze postrzegają zmiany klimatyczne oraz ich wpływ na źródła utrzymania, a także zrozumienie stosowanych przez nich strategii adaptacyjnych. Niniejsze badanie prezentuje stanowisko interesariuszy wobec zmian klimatycznych i związanych z nimi zagrożeń na podstawie danych z literatury przedmiotu oraz informacji pozyskanych bezpośrednio od respondentów za pomocą ankiet i wywiadów. Analiza koncentruje się na percepcji zmian klimatycznych, czynnikach warunkujących te procesy, ich wpływie na produkcję pszenicy oraz na stosowanych strategiach adaptacyjnych. Wyniki badań wskazują, że interesariusze wyrażają obawy związane z negatywnym oddziaływaniem zmian klimatycznych na produkcję roślinną. Wśród rolników 90,4% oraz 72,8% uznało, że nasiliły się odpowiednio zjawiska suszy i wzrostu temperatury, podczas gdy jedynie 27,3% respondentów było zdania, że zmniejszyła się ilość opadów. Przekonanie o spadku produkcji rolnej spowodowanym zmianami klimatycznymi wyraziło 90,9% rolników oraz 80% pracowników organizacji rolniczych. Według szacunków rolników produkcja roślinna zmniejszyła się o ponad 46%; w odpowiedzi na te straty stosowano alternatywne, bardziej odporne odmiany roślin. Pracownicy organizacji rolniczych rekomendowali szereg działań adaptacyjnych, takich jak uprawa roślin odpornych na zmiany klimatu, płodozmian, racjonalne gospodarowanie zasobami wodnymi, ochrona lasów, sadzenie drzew, podnoszenie świadomości społecznej, wykorzystanie maszyn rolniczych czy budowa szklarni. Jednocześnie, 33,4% z nich nie zaproponowało żadnych rozwiązań. Wnioski z badań wskazują, że postrzeganie zmian klimatycznych oraz praktyki adaptacyjne interesariuszy mogłyby zostać istotnie wzmocnione poprzez wsparcie spółdzielni, odpowiednie rozwiązania polityczne, programy szkoleniowe oraz opracowanie adekwatnych i spójnych strategii adaptacyjnych
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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