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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
An analysis of the 1546 Venetian edition of Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum Libellus
No full textMaster of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2021.The subject for this thesis is an analysis of the 1546 Venetian edition of Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum Libellus. The Emblematum Libellus is an early example of a popular genre of published materials known as emblem books. Andrea Alciato (1492-1550), an Italian jurist and humanist working in Northern Italy and France, is widely considered the father of this genre as it was his set of epigrams, printed with accompanying illustrations, that were first published in 1531.
About forty editions of his emblem books were published during the author’s lifetime but this specific edition is interesting for several reasons. First, the emblems in this edition are new; the previous twenty-seven editions or printings were all based on a different set of epigrams, the now lost 1521 or 1522 set. Second, it is the only confirmed edition published in Italy during this Italian author’s lifetime. There are references to a possible Milan edition from 1521 or 1522, but no copy has ever been found nor evidence for its production. After this 1546 edition, Alciato’s emblem books were not printed in Italy again until a posthumous edition was published in Padua in 1621. The third reason is the collection of circumstances around its publication and source. The how and why behind this publication by Paolo Manuzio and how the publisher obtained the material is still quite mysterious. After this one Italian printing, Alciato resumed working almost exclusively with French printers until his death.
By analyzing the evidence in extant copies of the 1546 edition of the Emblematum Libellus and other editions of Alciato’s emblems published shortly before and after the 1546 Venetian edition, this work will be placed in the context of the author’s biography, the publisher’s biography, and the development of the new set of illustrated emblems. Close analysis of the image portion of the emblems in this volume as well as a brief analysis of the epigrams themselves provide additional evidence about the development of this work
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 Evolution of Database Lists: Promoting Content to Connect with Users
No full textConference presentation given by the authors at the ER&L Annual Library Conference 2024.Database lists sometimes lack a sense of purpose or meaning to our users. Best practices have changed since their introduction. Database content can now be incorporated into discovery layers and publication finders. Our committee’s findings show how to shape database lists in today’s environment by utilizing intentionality, browsing, and instruction
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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