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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
Indigenizing Grand Canyon
Full text linkThe magical place commonly called the “Grand Canyon” is Native space. Eleven tribes hold traditional connections to the canyon according to the National Park Service. This Article is about relationships between these tribes and the agency—past, present, and future. Grand Canyon National Park’s 2019 centennial afforded a valuable opportunity to reflect on these relationships and to envision what they might become. A reconception of the relationships has begun in recent decades that evidences a shift across the National Park System as a whole. This reconception should continue. Drawing on the tribal vision for Bears Ears National Monument, this Article advocates for Grand Canyon tribes and the Park Service to consider forming a Grand Canyon Commission for cooperative management of Grand Canyon National Park. Establishing this Commission would mark the vanguard of the relational reconception, and, in this precise sense, the Commission would lay a foundation for “indigenizing” Grand Canyon
The Colorado River Revisited
Full text linkFifty years ago former Stanford Law School Dean Charles Meyers published The Colorado River 19 STAN L REV 1 1966 arguably the most famous piece of legal scholarship ever written on this vital water source and the complex body of laws governing its flows \u27 colloquially the ÔÇ£Law of the RiverÔÇØ This piece and a companion The Colorado River The Treaty with Mexico 19 STAN L REV 367 1967 offered seminal accounts of the legal histories doctrinal features and unresolved perplexities of the Law of the River\u27s international and interstate allocation framework Five decades later between thirtyfive and forty million US residents rely on flows controlled by this framework and an historic drought and unprecedented water supply and demand imbalance face the Colorado River Basin It is a transformative time for the Law of the River and this Article revisits Meyers\u27s scholarship from this vantage point It begins by considering climate change and related dynamic changes in and around the basin over the past fifty years It then considers the evolution of the Law of the River\u27s allocation framework across this period \u27 particularly since the historic drought\u27s onset in 2000 Finally focusing on the concept of ÔÇ£adaptive framingÔÇØ the Article synthesizes common patterns in the allocation framework\u27s evolution and offers prescriptions and prognoses regarding the continuation of these patterns in the futur
Colorado River Water in Southern California: Evolution of the Allocation Framework, 1922-2015
No full textAn elaborate and nested legal framework with both interstate and intrastate components governs allocation of Colorado River water to and within Southern California This framework has evolved for nearly a century and this paper chronicles major milestones within this evolution The narrative is framed with the formation of the Colorado River Compact in 1922 as a front bookend and recent developments involving the Quantification Settlement Agreement Salton Sea restoration and the Interim Shortage Guidelines as back bookends Reflections on the iterative and provisional nature of the evolutionary process and Southern Californias relative degree of water security resulting from it appear in the conclusio
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The Colorado River Revisited
No full textFifty years ago, former Stanford Law School Dean Charles Meyers published The Colorado River, 19 STAN. L. REV. 1 (1966), arguably the most famous piece of legal scholarship ever written on this vital water source and the complex body of laws governing its flows-colloquially, the Law of the River. That piece and a companion, The Colorado River: The Treaty with Mexico, 19 STAN. L. REV. 367 (1967), offered seminal accounts of the legal histories, doctrinal features, and unresolved perplexities of the Law of the River\u27s international and interstate allocation framework. Five decades later, between thirty-five and forty million U.S. residents rely on flows controlled by this framework, and a historic drought and unprecedented water supply and demand imbalance face the Colorado River Basin. It is a transformative time for the Law of the River, and this Article
revisits Meyers\u27s scholarship from this vantage point. It begins by considering climate change and related dynamic changes in and around the basin over the past fifty years. It then considers the evolution of the Law of the River\u27s allocation framework across this period-particularly, since the historic drought\u27s onset in 2000. Finally, focusing on the concept of adaptive framing, the Article synthesizes common patterns in the allocation framework\u27s evolution, and offers prescriptions and prognoses regarding the continuation of these patterns in the future
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