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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
Racial Capitalism in Mexican Contemporary Plantations. State Formation, Labor Controls, and Agribusiness Violence in Sonora
No full textMemorias de racismo, explotación y resistencia. El corte de caña en el valle Autlán-El Grullo, México, 1968-2013
Get PDFThe 1960s marked the beginning of the sugarcane agroindustrial project in the Autlán-El Grullo valley, Jalisco, Mexico. In 1968, the first sugar cane was planted, the sugar mill began to be built, and agricultural workers were recruited outside the region. During the following decades, cane became the main crop and key commodity in the economy of the valley. Currently, the local elite remembers this shift to agro-industry as a great achievement of politicians and sugarcane organizations. In this official story of regional progress, cane cutters and their families only appear in temporary employment records, government statistics of beneficiaries and in anecdotes to speak of indigenous, migrant, poor and violent. The objective of the article is to evidence and question such dominant narrative through the historical accounts of cane workers. His memories are of labor exploitation, racism and spatial segregation; but also of daily resistances to face such structural and symbolic violence. The main argument is that the cane-sugar project is a process of domination and class conflict articulated with the racialization of the cutters and the devaluation of women's work. The document is the result of a regional historical ethnography with an anthropological political economy approach. The study was conducted between 2010 and 2013 with oral histories; interviews; analysis of press and official documents; and participant observation in plots, shelters, galleys, government offices, companies and sugarcane organizations.La década de 1960 marcó el comienzo del proyecto agroindustrial cañero en el valle Autlán-El Grullo, Jalisco, México. En 1968, se plantaron las primeras cañas, se comenzó a construir el ingenio azucarero y se reclutaron trabajadores agricolas fuera de la región. Durante las siguientes décadas, la caña se convirtió en el principal cultivo y mercancia clave en la economia del valle. Actualmente, la elite local recuerda este vuelco a la agroindustria como un gran logro de politicos y organizaciones cañeras. En esta historia oficial de progreso regional, los cortadores de caña y sus familias sólo figuran en registros de empleos temporales, estadisticas gubernamentales de beneficiarios y en anécdotas para hablar de indigenas, migrantes, pobres y violentos. El objetivo del articulo es evidenciar y cuestionar tal narrativa dominante mediante los relatos históricos de trabajadores y trabajadoras cañeras. Sus recuerdos son de explotación laboral, racismo y segregación espacial; pero también de resistencias cotidianas para hacer frente a tales violencias estructurales y simbólicas. El argumento principal es que el proyecto cañero-azucarero es un proceso de dominación y conflicto de clase articulado con la racialización de los cortadores y la desvaloración del trabajo de mujeres. El documento es resultado de una etnografia histórica regional con enfoque de economia politica antropológica. El estudio se realizó entre 2010 y 2013 con historias orales; entrevistas; análisis de prensa y documentos oficiales; y observación participante en parcelas, albergues, galeras, oficinas de gobierno, empresas y organizaciones cañeras
Memorias de racismo, explotación y resistencia. El corte de caña en el valle Autlán-El Grullo, México, 1968-2013
No full textThe 1960s marked the beginning of the sugarcane agroindustrial project in the Autlán-El Grullo valley, Jalisco, Mexico. In 1968, the first sugar cane was planted, the sugar mill began to be built, and agricultural workers were recruited outside the region. During the following decades, cane became the main crop and key commodity in the economy of the valley. Currently, the local elite remembers this shift to agro-industry as a great achievement of politicians and sugarcane organizations. In this official story of regional progress, cane cutters and their families only appear in temporary employment records, government statistics of beneficiaries and in anecdotes to speak of indigenous, migrant, poor and violent. The objective of the article is to evidence and question such dominant narrative through the historical accounts of cane workers. His memories are of labor exploitation, racism and spatial segregation; but also of daily resistances to face such structural and symbolic violence. The main argument is that the cane-sugar project is a process of domination and class conflict articulated with the racialization of the cutters and the devaluation of women's work. The document is the result of a regional historical ethnography with an anthropological political economy approach. The study was conducted between 2010 and 2013 with oral histories; interviews; analysis of press and official documents; and participant observation in plots, shelters, galleys, government offices, companies and sugarcane organizations.La década de 1960 marcó el comienzo del proyecto agroindustrial cañero en el valle Autlán-El Grullo, Jalisco, México. En 1968, se plantaron las primeras cañas, se comenzó a construir el ingenio azucarero y se reclutaron trabajadores agricolas fuera de la región. Durante las siguientes décadas, la caña se convirtió en el principal cultivo y mercancia clave en la economia del valle. Actualmente, la elite local recuerda este vuelco a la agroindustria como un gran logro de politicos y organizaciones cañeras. En esta historia oficial de progreso regional, los cortadores de caña y sus familias sólo figuran en registros de empleos temporales, estadisticas gubernamentales de beneficiarios y en anécdotas para hablar de indigenas, migrantes, pobres y violentos. El objetivo del articulo es evidenciar y cuestionar tal narrativa dominante mediante los relatos históricos de trabajadores y trabajadoras cañeras. Sus recuerdos son de explotación laboral, racismo y segregación espacial; pero también de resistencias cotidianas para hacer frente a tales violencias estructurales y simbólicas. El argumento principal es que el proyecto cañero-azucarero es un proceso de dominación y conflicto de clase articulado con la racialización de los cortadores y la desvaloración del trabajo de mujeres. El documento es resultado de una etnografia histórica regional con enfoque de economia politica antropológica. El estudio se realizó entre 2010 y 2013 con historias orales; entrevistas; análisis de prensa y documentos oficiales; y observación participante en parcelas, albergues, galeras, oficinas de gobierno, empresas y organizaciones cañeras
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Racial Capitalism in Mexican Contemporary Plantations. State Formation, Labor Controls, and Agribusiness Violence in Sonora
No full textIn the last three decades, the transnational agricultural corporations of northwestern Mexico have incorporated an idea of corporate social responsibility that is subsided by the Mexican state, legitimized by international organizations, and celebrated by regional elites. On the other hand, racialized migrant farmworkers face captivity, hostility, and exploitation in the agricultural fields. Building on anthropological political economy, Black radical traditions, and abolitionist geographies, I show an ethnographic view of this expansion of contemporary plantations and their state and state-like carceral humanitarianism, arguing how the anti-Indigenous and anti-migrant racism against farmworkers has been at the core of this violent and contested process. Between 2018 and 2023, I conducted “studying-up” activist ethnographic research – assembled with geographic and historical methods — in Hermosillo, Sonora, and the agroindustrial landscapes surrounding this city. My units of analysis were 1) agricultural fields where farmworkers temporarily labor and inhabit and 2) social programs implemented in agricultural fields by government institutions, civil society organizations, and agribusiness foundations. The results of this research are presented in three chapters.
“1. Agrarian Capitalist Concentration Camps” explains how hyper-surveillance and camouflaged hostility against migrant farmworkers are essential to the daily operation of these agricultural fields managed by transnational corporations. The first chapter also discusses the agricultural fields’ apparent state order and control, arguing how they are state and state-like landscapes. “2. Social Policies of Agrarian Carceral Geographies” points out how the Mexican state has sought to depoliticize labor conditions, subsidize confinement in agricultural fields, and support the recent agribusiness exportation projects. The second chapter also analyzes the recent implementation of Sonora’s agribusiness social responsibility model and its paternalistic, counterinsurgency, commodifying humanitarianism. “3. The Racial Violence of Agribusiness Fantasies” shows the material culture of daily racism to argue how racialization against farmworkers is a soft violence mutually constituted of the nativist-northern superiority regional ideology. The third chapter also presents the emergency rooms as deadly racism epicenters to point out the open violence that agribusiness has employed, externalized, and sought to normalize. In sum, the dissertation intervenes in discussions of racial capitalism, new plantations, and state formation by analyzing their quotidian and disguised violent intersections
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
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