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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
Water power: controversies on development and modernity around the Arun-3 hydropower project in Nepal
Full text linkSince 25 years, the construction of the Arun-3 Hydropower project has been accompanied by controversies on local, national as well as transnational levels. By focusing on these discourses, this dissertation contributes towards recent debates on development and modernity. The social scientific literature on hydropower projects is predominantly occupied with “local” populations, their resistance and interaction with transnational civil society networks and institutions. Arun-3 gained prominence in these discussions when it was brought before the newly established Word Bank Inspection Panel by a group of activists from Kathmandu. Whereas the ensuing cancellation of the project was often quoted as an example of successful resistance, the people in the Arun valley were disappointed by the subsequent building freeze as they had hoped to profit from wage labour and the access road. After the end of the civil war and the simultaneous economic rise of the country’s neighbours China and India we can now witness an intensified interest in Nepal’s strategic water resources. In spring 2008 the government announced the resumption of Arun-3 through SJVN, a state-owned Indian energy corporation. The memorandum of understanding allocates nearly 80% of the produced electricity to SJVN and therefore adds another line of conflict to the multi-layered discussion. This multi-sited ethnography shows the decisive arguments and interests that emerge in the twisted tale of this unconstructed dam.
Der Bau des Arun-3 Staudamms wird seit 25 Jahren von Kontroversen auf lokaler, nationaler wie auch transnationaler Ebene begleitet. Die vorliegende Dissertation fokussiert auf diese Diskurse und leistet so einen Beitrag zu den aktuellen Debatten um Entwicklung und Moderne. Die sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur über Wasserkraftprojekte beschäftigt sich vornehmliche mit „lokalen“ Bevölkerungen, ihrem Widerstand und ihrer Interaktion mit transnationalen zivilgesellschaftlichen Netzwerken und Institutionen. Arun-3 erlangte Bekanntheit, als es 1994 von AktivistInnen aus Kathmandu vor das neu gegründete Inspection Panel der Weltbank gebracht wurde. Während die anschliessende Absage des Projekts als Beispiel für erfolgreichen Widerstand zitiert wurde, war der Grossteil der Einheimischen im Aruntal enttäuscht über den darauf folgenden Baustopp, hatten sie doch gehofft von Lohnarbeit und der Zufahrtsstrasse zu profitieren. Nach Ende des Bürgerkriegs und dem gleichzeitigen ökonomischen Aufschwung der Nachbarstaaten China und Indien kann man ein verstärktes geopolitisches Interesse an Nepals strategischen Wasserressourcen beobachten. Im Frühling 2008 verlautbarte die Regierung die Wiederaufnahme von Arun-3 durch SJVN, einen Energiekonzern in indischem Staatsbesitz. Die Absichtserklärung spricht SJVN fast 80% des produzierten Stroms zu und bringt so eine zusätzliche Konfliktlinie in die vielschichtige Diskussion ein. Diese multi-sited ethnography zeigt die bestimmenden Argumentationslinien und Interessen auf, die in der verworrenen Geschichte dieses nicht gebauten Staudamms hervortreten
Generating Power: debates on development around the Nepalese Arun-3 hydropower project
Full text linkContested since 1990, the Arun-3 dam in Nepal has so far generated more heat than hydropower involving a host of complex negotiations between its advocates and critics on the local, national and transnational levels. Cancelled after a complaint before the World Bank Inspection Panel in 1995, work is soon to be resumed. An Indian public sector company interested in exporting the electricity to India will finance it. This paper focuses on how local communities have experienced the decade-long uncertainties concerning the project and the approach road to be built. Their hopes of access to markets, electrification and a modern lifestyle will be explored in the context of an understanding of development as a desiring machine and governmentality studies. I will argue for a parallel application of the two approaches to conceptualize the entanglement of desires for development and a deep sense of local powerlessness vis-a-vis external actors.
Keywords: Nepal; hydropower; development; governmentality; desir
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
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
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