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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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 Fiction of Roddy Doyle
No full textRoddy Doyle is quite conceivably the most successful contemporary novelist of his generation. Recently Gerry Smyth, in a study on “the New Irish Fiction”’ that groans under its prodigious weight of colonial and de-colonial theorising, assigned Doyle the central role within the context of the fiction produced in Ireland during the last two decades. “Roddy Doyle”, Smyth remarks, is “one of the key modern Irish novelists” (p. 65). Perhaps that is correct. The question, though, is: key to what? “Doyle’s work is given a central place here”, Smyth suggests as if in answer to our question, “not on grounds of artistic value, commercial success or thematic typicality, although it could be argued that he rates highly on all three of these criteria” (p. 65). One must most energetically beg to differ with respect to the last part of this sentence.Roddy Doyle is quite conceivably the most successful contemporary novelist of his generation. Recently Gerry Smyth, in a study on “the New Irish Fiction”’ that groans under its prodigious weight of colonial and de-colonial theorising, assigned Doyle the central role within the context of the fiction produced in Ireland during the last two decades. “Roddy Doyle”, Smyth remarks, is “one of the key modern Irish novelists” (p. 65). Perhaps that is correct. The question, though, is: key to what? “Doyle’s work is given a central place here”, Smyth suggests as if in answer to our question, “not on grounds of artistic value, commercial success or thematic typicality, although it could be argued that he rates highly on all three of these criteria” (p. 65). One must most energetically beg to differ with respect to the last part of this sentence
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Intertwining temporalities: past and present in A Star Called Henry, de Roddy Doyle
No full textA Star Called Henry (1999), do escritor irlandês Roddy Doyle (1958-), é o primeiro livro da trilogia The Last Roundup, cujo protagonista é Henry Smart. Este nasce em Dublin no início do século XX e desempenha papel importante na luta pela independência da Irlanda. Juntamente com os Irish Volunteers, Smart combate no Levante de Páscoa de 1916, auxilia na escrita da declaração de independência do país e torna-se soldado do Irish Republican Army (IRA) durante a Guerra da Independência (1919-1921). Henry é um herói, mas não do tipo clássico: filho de um assassino de aluguel e de uma adolescente pobre, Smart é ladrão desde os primeiros anos de vida e, durante suas lutas pela Irlanda, afirma não estar interessado no ideal nacionalista, uma vez que luta por dinheiro, comida e reconhecimento. Vivendo às margens da sociedade, Henry Smart desconstrói uma aura romântica em torno do Levante, da Guerra da Independência e dos heróis nacionalistas. O ponto de partida desta pesquisa é o questionamento sobre o impulso do autor em escrever um romance histórico em tempos de prosperidade financeira, pois Doyle publica a obra durante o período conhecido como Tigre Celta (1994-2008). Também questionamos por que o autor decide representar Dublin e os heróis nacionais de modo contrastante com o simbolismo nacionalista. Entendemos que o contexto de publicação do romance influencia a produção artística e, dessa forma, ao escolher a temática histórica, Doyle constrói uma crítica ao nacionalismo do início do século XX e também à sociedade do Tigre Celta. O autor entrelaça temporalidades a fim de expor as lacunas e inconsistências do passado e também do presente.A Star Called Henry (1999), by the Irish writer Roddy Doyle (1958), is the first book of the trilogy The Last Roundup, whose protagonist is Henry Smart. He is born in Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century and he plays an important role in the fight for Irelands independence. Along with the Irish Volunteers, Smart fights in the 1916 Easter Rising, helps to write the proclamation of independence and becomes a soldier of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the War of Independence (1919-1921). Henry is a hero, but not the classic kind: the son of a hired killer and a poor teenager, Smart is a thief since his early years and, when he fights for Ireland, he is not interested in the nationalist ideal, since he fights for money, food and recognition. Living at the margins of society, Henry Smart deconstructs the romantic aura around the Rising, the War of Independence and the nationalist heroes. The starting point of this research is to investigate the authors impulse to write a historical novel in times of financial prosperity, since Doyle publishes the book during the Celtic Tiger era (1994-2008). We also aim to understand why the author decides to represent Dublin and the nationalist heroes in a way that contrasts with the nationalist symbolism. We understand that the context of publication influences the artistic production, and, therefore, when choosing the historical theme, Doyle criticizes both the early twentieth-century nationalism and the Celtic Tiger society. The author intertwines temporalities in order to expose the gaps and inconsistencies of the past and the present
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
R E - R E C O R D I N G (Pete Horobin's 'Digestive Biscuit Action', 1986)
No full textA dual monitor video work with live performance directly investigating Pete Horobin's 'Digestive Biscuit Action' (1986), where he video recorded himself in the DATA Attic at 37 Union Street, Dundee, between 12:30-2:22 pm on 29 March 1986 attempting to eat an entire pack of digestive biscuits, dedicating each one to a person who had corresponded with him so far that year. The work is a meditation on personal and cultural history and an observation of the economy and politics of everyday reality. In 'R E - R E C O R D I N G', Roddy Hunter replays this 1986 video footage on a vintage CRT monitor while recording himself on MiniDV, preparing and repeating the attempt between 4:00-5:52 pm on 4 April 2024 in Matthew Gallery, DJCAD.
The work was conceived and performed in the context of 'History/Reality', the first public engagement exhibition of the project 'Curating The Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study For Open-Source Approaches To Artists' Archives', curated by Judit Bodor at Matthew Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. The video output of the original and new footage will provide a basis for a new split-screen video work exhibited to be later archived on the digital attic archive open-source web platform currently being developed throughout the project. Documentation of the work was also published as the basis of the digital collage R E - R E C O R D I N G' (THE ATTIC ARCHIVE), 'Soanyway magazine', Volume 2, Issue 17, Autumn 2024
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
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