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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
Life of the Mined: Gender and Race in the Long Coal Century
No full textThis project examines how literary and cultural texts have mediated the global history of coal extraction through the intertwined lenses of gender and race. While much scholarship in energy humanities and environmental history focuses on material infrastructures and ecological consequences, this dissertation foregrounds literary analysis to trace how extractive capitalism becomes thinkable, desirable, and durable through narrative form, aesthetic conventions, and symbolic investments. Spanning the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, and focused primarily on the extraction zone known as “Appalachia,” this project conceptualizes “the long coal century” as a transnational and transhistorical period shaped by the cultural labor of mining fictions. Each chapter pairs literary and cinematic texts with theoretical insights from feminist, Black, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer and trans studies to uncover how extraction structures not only economies and ecologies, but also imaginaries of personhood, community, and survival. By reading literature as both a witness to and agent of extractive modernity, Life of the Mined argues for the centrality of narrative in shaping the historical and affective contours of energy regimes, and reimagines literary analysis as essential to understanding the uneven violences and speculative futures of the Anthropocene
Les Garçons Sauvage: An Inter(s)extual Ecology of the Wet and Wild
No full textBertrand Mandico’s Les garçons sauvages (France, 2017) does more than lambast plants as eco-horror hormone monsters (e.g., “They’re turning the frogs gay!”). Deploying a wildly citational praxis as both celebration and critique of queer avant-garde cinema, this film interrogates the use-value of trans/gender in catastrophe mitigation, posing questions environmental humanists and queer/trans scholars might read as: Can the Gynocene really save us from the Anthropocene? Will the white Human survive a gender apocalypse? Mandico’s inter(s)extual mise-en-scène cultivates a complex ecology of texts through formal and diegetic gestures while scrutinizing that textual network’s claims on images of ‘natural’ ecology, or trans and intersex bodies. This intertextual synthesis reveals certain cinematic conceptions of racialized gender as a particularly ecological idea that is already deeply citational, stemming from the queer avant-garde as well as other kinds of more or less established cinema, such as, for example, the Hollywood exploration film and Japanese nuclear horror. This thesis will walk readers through some of Mandico’s persistent citations and their place in an understanding of the queer avant-garde (predominantly in reference to movies by white gay men) as it relates to emerging conceptions of trans* cinema. My goal is to think about the ongoing productivity of citation, and anachronism, to queer and trans cinema and cinema scholars
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
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