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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
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
Rodriguez, Angel
No full textAngel Rodriguez (b. 1954) is a Puerto Rican musician, educator, historian, and grassroots cultural organizer. Born in Puerto Rico, he came to the Bronx twice: first at the age of 5, and then for good when he was 10 years old, along with his father, a Pentecostal minister, his mother, a day laborer, homemaker, and accomplished dancer, and several siblings. Angel always had a love for music, and he was especially inspired by the sound of traditional drums, which he first heard as a young boy. Initially Angel wanted to be a preacher like his father, but his father’s strict stance against certain types of music and dance gave him the impression that he would have to choose between a life devoted to God and a life devoted to music. Growing up on Simpson St. in the Bronx, Angel was surrounded by Latino people, culture, and music. While the community was friendly and close-knit, it was also quite dangerous—gangs frequently scuffled with the neighborhood’s limited police presence, and Angel recalls witnessing more than one shootout in the street. He was indirectly aware of the area’s pronounced heroin problem, since his father made sure that he was sheltered from street life. Angel had little trouble becoming fluent in English, as he had had some formal training in English in Puerto Rico.
Because he grew up among Puerto Rican transplants, Angel regarded African-American culture as “American” culture versus Latino culture. Inspired by both American and Latino music, he began venturing out into the city to get acquainted with street drumming culture. He would participate in rumbas in Crotona Park, Central Park, and Claremont Park. He was a natural, and he soon picked up a number of instruments and drumming styles, and made a number of friends besides. He gained respect from both white and black Latinos, as well as from some African-Americans who were involved in Latino street culture. Unfortunately, Angel’s domestic life was not as successful: his father and mother divorced, and his mother became addicted to alcohol and heroin. She began living with a man who was also a heroin addict, and two of Angel’s brothers became addicted and eventually lost their lives to drug-related violence. In addition, Angel was cutting class because of pervasive bullying, and many of his counselors told him he would never attend college. Because things seemed to be falling apart at home, Angel joined the military and went to Vietnam during the last few years of the occupation. Upon returning, he married and worked several odd jobs, including custodial work, hospital labor, and retail. He kept playing this entire time, making some money at gigs and rumbas throughout New York. Like many musicians of the era, however, he became addicted to cocaine and soon became homeless. Thanks to the kindness of a friend, he kicked his addiction and got back on his feet. Nevertheless, Rodriguez remembers the hard times in the Bronx—the dual chimeras of heroin and crack, white flight, and the decline of property values blighted the Bronx for several years. Many of his friends were not so lucky to escape. Rodriguez spends much of the interview relating anecdotes from his life as a performer, as well as how he was involved in community organizing work and in community activism. He continues to perform to this day, and makes his living as a consultant, musician, and educator
Rodriguez, Angel
No full textCentro Asturiano membership record of Angel Rodriguez; Socio Number: 27935.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/asturiano_membership/5010/thumbnail.jp
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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