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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
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
Do Piketty de “O Capital no Século XXI” ao de “Capital e Ideologia”: em busca de uma proposta unificada de medidas de políticas públicas voltadas para a redução da desigualdade
Get PDFEste artigo procura comparar os dois grandes livros de Piketty (2014, 2020) sobre a questão da desigualdade, buscando captar mudanças no seu pensamento sobre o tema, especificamente no que se refere à proposição de políticas públicas. Embora ambas as obras sejam conhecidas pela proposta de forte aumento da progressividade na cobrança de três tipos de imposto (herança, renda e sobre o capital), não é difícil encontrar também claros elementos de ruptura, principal-mente quando o autor propõe a racionalização de vários tipos de gastos públicos que impactam a desigualdade (saúde, educação etc.), presentes no primeiro livro, o que desaparece completamente na obra posterior. Apesar das diferenças consta-tadas, este artigo busca contribuir para o debate propondo uma análise conjunta das propostas de Piketty, que concilie a busca da eficiência do gasto público pre-sente no primeiro livro com o escopo mais amplo de medidas do segundo (renda básica, imposto sobre carbono etc.), sempre a partir de uma visão geral do orça-mento público. A partir desse quadro geral de propostas, considera-se que o au-tor, além de referência obrigatória no debate teórico e analítico sobre desigualdade, possa também ser mais reconhecido pela contribuição na discussão sobre políti-cas públicas, inclusive ao incorporar contribuições relevantes de outros autores
Reduzir a desigualdade, mas até que ponto? Breves comentários a partir da "Vida Boa" de Aristóteles
Get PDFThe article aims to reflect on the current debate on inequality, seeking to explore ethical issues that are inherent to the topic, mainly the existence of a supposed ideal point for inequality to be reduced. The work is based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which, in Raworth’s (2019) proposal, would be the basis, together with the search for environmental sustainability, for reducing poverty and inequality. However, some more developed countries are already at a greater level of progress in terms of these indicators, and even so, in recent decades, there is strong evidence of an increase in inequality and a reduction in important indicators of the well-being of their population. The article then proposes that Aristotle can provide a new look at the growing inequality in today’s world, based on his vision of the “good life”. Seeking to discuss what would be “enough” for the good life proposed by the ancient philosopher today, based on the necessary “basic goods”, as defined by Skidelsky and Skidelsky (2017), we seek to show that such a vision, even though it still requires advancing in analytical terms (such as in the measurement of basic goods), presents clear implications for the current debate on inequality, as it reveals a morally ideal point to seek its reduction, and which can even inspire new discussions on public policy measures
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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