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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
Inculturación en las comunidades eclesiales de base
Get PDFLa concepción de las Comunidades Eclesiales de Base surge de las tendencias, ideas y hechos que la precedieron y que se traducen en la manera cómo se forman dentro de la perspectiva histórica de estos años, especialmente de Medellín, y como consecuencia de los 10 años anteriores a Puebla. De este contexto se partirá para comprender la comunidad eclesial de base concebida como grupo de base y que culminó, en el ámbito de la Iglesia, con los trazos sociológicos que Puebla entendió y denominó Comunidad Eclesial de Base (CEB). Es importante destacar la marcante concepción eclesial en esta acción vivida por el Pueblo de Dios
As Críticas de Larry Laudan ao Socioconstrutivismo | Larry Laudan’s critiques to social constructivism
No full textSocial constructivism can be taken as a broad sociological-philosophical conception of science which would be introduced as follows: i) an explanation of the success of successful scientific theories ought to be done through the use of epistemological criteria and social community happenings at the construction and acceptance of those theories; ii) the knowledge produced by successful scientific theories, to be effectively taken as a knowledge, ought to be a representation of reality. The social constructivist conception has always been strongly criticized by traditional philosophical conceptions of science because 1) an explanation of the success of successful scientific theories should be made only through the use of epistemological criteria, and 2) the knowledge produced by successful scientific theories indeed is a representation of reality. This paper deals with criticism (1), through an expanded analysis of the debate between a representative of social constructivism (David Bloor) and a critic (Larry Laudan), based on the hypothesis that, although Laudan has pointed out some important limits to the scope of the social constructivist conception, the argumentative core of his critique does not hold, except as a prescription about the tasks of a real philosopher of science.O socioconstrutivismo é uma ampla concepção sociológico-filosófica da ciência que pode ser assim apresentado: i) uma explicação do sucesso das teorias científicas bem sucedidas deve ser feita por meio do emprego de critérios epistemológicos e de ocorrências sociocomunitárias presentes na produção e aceitação dessas teorias; ii) o conhecimento produzido pelas teorias científicas bem sucedidas não é uma representação da realidade. A concepção socioconstrutivista sempre foi fortemente criticada pelas concepções filosóficas tradicional de ciência pois 1) uma explicação do sucesso das teorias científicas bem sucedidas deve ser feita por meio apenas do emprego de critérios epistemológicos, e 2) o conhecimento produzido pelas teorias científicas bem sucedidas, para ser considerado efetivamente um conhecimento, deve ser uma representação da realidade. Este artigo trata da crítica (1), por meio de uma análise ampliada do debate entre um representante do socioconstrutivismo (David Bloor) e um crítico (Larry Laudan) a partir da hipótese de que, embora Laudan tenha apontado alguns limites importantes do alcance da concepção socioconstrutivista, o núcleo argumentativo de sua crítica não se sustenta, exceto como uma prescrição sobre as tarefas às quais deve se deter um filósofo da ciência
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
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