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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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Transição agroecológica em Rondônia : a Associação dos Produtores Alternativos de Ouro Preto do Oeste
Get PDFA colonização da fronteira agrícola amazônica no estado de Rondônia foi acelerada nas décadas de 1960 e 1970. Este movimento favoreceu a consolidação da modernização da agricultura, processo pelo qual passava o sul e o sudeste do país. A agricultura praticada por milhares de migrantes, consistiu em derrubar e queimar a floresta que existia, deixando a região com um grande passivo ambiental em decorrência das práticas predatórias. Os movimentos sociais rurais juntamente com o apoio da igreja católica inseriram nas comunidades o debate da diversificação produtiva como alternativa ao sistema de monocultivos que se implantava na região. Com este cenário foi criada a Associação dos Produtores Alternativos em Ouro Preto do Oeste, que teve um trabalho diferenciado para a promoção da agricultura familiar e ecológica dentro do estado, vindo a encerrar as atividades em 2007. Utilizando-se do arcabouço teórico-metodológico da Perspectiva Orientada aos Atores este trabalho apresenta a problemática da agricultura na região amazônica numa perspectiva de construção da transição agroecológica para o estado de Rondônia. Procurou-se resgatar a dinâmica de colonização da região central do estado de Rondônia e o histórico de ação da APA, identificando as mudanças nas práticas e sistemas de produção dos modelos de agricultura, construindo uma análise para as políticas públicas de desenvolvimento rural socioambiental em voga. Para isso fez-se uso de técnicas de coletas de dados com entrevistas semi-estruturadas, da observação livre e do diário de campo. A análise dos dados coletados apontou para a consolidação de uma agricultura ecológica na região, sobretudo aquela encontrada no campesinato que tem por principal característica a resistência aos Impérios Alimentares. Conclui-se também que políticas públicas como o PAA, PRONAF, PAIS e PROAMBIENTE, agem de maneira diferenciada a partir da tomada de consciência e disputa pelo poder dos atores.The colonization of the agricultural frontier in the Amazonian state of Rondônia was accelerated in the years 1960s and 1970s. This movement encouraged the consolidation of the modernization of agriculture, a process observed in south and southeast of Brazil. The agriculture practiced by thousands of migrants, consisted of cutting down and burning the forest that existed, leaving the region with a large environmental passive as a result of predation practices. The rural social movements along with the support of the Catholic Church inserted in the communities debate diversification of production as an alternative to the system of monocultures, which was implanted in the region. Under this scenario was created the Association of Alternative Producers in Ouro Preto do Oeste, who had a unique work to promote family farming and ecological within the state, that has been shut down in 2007. Using the theoretical and methodological Actor Oriented Perspective this paper presents the problems of agriculture in the Amazon region with a view to building the agroecological transition to the state of Rondônia. We tried to rescue the dynamics of colonization of the central region of Rondônia State and the history of action of APA, identifing changes in agricultural practices and production systems in models of agriculture, building an analysis for public policy environmental development in vogue. For this was made use of techniques data collection with semi-structured interviews, free observation, and the field notes. The analysis of the collected data pointed to the consolidation of ecological agriculture in the region especially that found in the peasantry whose main characteristic is this resistance to empires Food. It also appears that public policies such as PAA, PRONAF, PAIS and PROAMBIENTE, act differently from the awareness and power struggles of the actors
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