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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
Alternative Futures: India Unshackled Ashish Kothari y K . J. Joy (eds.)
No full textCrítica del libro: Iokiñe Rodriguez - Año: 2017 - Editorial: AuthorsUpFront Publishing Services Private Limited, Nueva Delhi - Idioma: Inglés - Páginas: 68
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
Restor(y)ing the Past to Envision an ‘Other’ Future:A Decolonial Environmental Restorative Justice Perspective
Get PDFIndigenous and local peoples that are subject to the continual threats of displacement, environmental degradation and violence in their territories are not only in need of more just legal frameworks or law enforcements to safeguard their cultural and physical survival, but also of processes that can help them re-build, reconnect and revitalise their own identities, knowledge and sense of self. Across the world, since the colonial times, modernity has had the perverse effect of erasing and making the world’s diverse cultures and knowledge systems invisible and devalued. To these cultures, justice will not be done until their right to exist as different is restored. Yet, all too often, Indigenous and local peoples themselves need to reconnect with who they are first in order for justice at this level to be restored. Based on a decolonial environmental conflict transformation and restorative justice approach, the chapter builds on Community Action Research in Venezuela and Bolivia that has been used to support Indigenous and local peoples restore their culture, environmental knowledge and dignities as peoples. Rodriguez argues that in addition to revitalising culture, such an approach to environmental justice can be an important catalyst for change at the structural and relation levels
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
‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall’:A Reflection on Engaged Just Transformations Research under Turkey’s Authoritarian Populist Regime
Get PDFSustainability transformations call for self-reflection and repositioning researchers’roles in knowledge co-production. While we were investigating the transformationsand resistance to fossil fuel rush in Yeni Foça, Turkey, between 2016 and 2019, ourlives as engaged and situated researchers, our institutions as leading public researchuniversities, and our country – where we conduct research, co-produce knowledgeand put it to use for environmental and social justice – transformed drastically. Wehave witnessed ‘the dark side of transformation’ that took its toll on the environ-mental justice movements we cooperate with, on the public universities we work inand the academics we ally with, and finally, on the political landscape of the countryin which we live, work and play (and which more and more frequently – unfortunately– we leave). In this chapter, we want to turn the tables and reflect on transformationsbased on our experiences and take-homes from Yeni Foça and Boğaziçi Universityin Turkey, both under intense attack from the authoritarian neoliberalism of theErdoğan regime. This reflection, hopefully, will provide some food for thought forother researchers in other places also struggling against the clenched fists of populist,conservative authoritarianism unleashed onto their socio-natures while they try toco-produce knowledge with EJ resistance movements
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
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