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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
#parallels: Web Weaving, Media Fandom, and the Role of Bookishness on Tumblr and Equinox; or, the Spirit of the Age
Full text link#parallels: Web Weaving, Media Fandom, and the Role of Bookishness on Tumblr investigates the literary meme format of “Parallel Posts” or “Web Weaving” on microblogging website Tumblr. Parallel Posts are transformative collages of quotes reflecting on the same theme and drawn from different sources. They emerged from Tumblr’s intersecting fandom, queer, and bookish communities in the late-2010s, rising with the fandom-cum-subculture Dark Academia.
Through analysis of the hashtag threads #parallels and #web weaving and case studies of five user accounts that make and share Parallel Posts, I argue that Parallel Posts are symptomatic of a literary culture of digital hyperconnectivity (Brubaker 2020) in which curation of media is a key technology of the self (Foucault 1988). I analyse Parallel Posts’ most recirculated authors and texts, with especial attention to the recurrent themes of queer desire, body horror, and religious devotion in the works of Anne Carson, Richard Siken, and Hozier, and in television programs Supernatural and Hannibal. Throughout, I evidence the active, dynamic role that literature plays in Tumblr users’ lives, mirroring historical commonplace books. As a result, I argue that Parallel Posts are a vital point of insight into literary reception in the digital age, and further suggest that such phenomena emphasise the necessity of interdisciplinarity – between fan, media, and literary studies – when studying the digital literary sphere (Murray 2018). I conclude by arguing that Parallel Posts are a climactic expression of Tumblr as a site of multimodal, personal, and fannish expression.
Equinox; or, the Spirit of the Age explores the dominant themes of Parallel Posts and the ongoing relevance of Romanticism and Gothicism to the digital literary sphere. Set in a state of environmental and political crisis, it follows the partnership between Emiko Richter, an activist and author struggling with life on- and off-line, and Charlotte Richards, an aimless ex-prodigy grasping for meaning in the sciences. It integrates experimental digital media-based writing with traditional prose, interweaving four levels of narrative: the news and media landscape, Emiko and Charlotte’s story, Emiko’s life online under the false identity “Shelley”, and her writing in that role. Self, space, time, and aesthetics collapse in Parallel Posts, and so too in the novel, which presents hyperconnectivity itself as the ground of Gothic claustrophobia
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
#web-weaving: Parallel posts, commonplace books, and networked technologies of the self on Tumblr
No full textThe literary meme format of "parallel posts" or "web weaving" on microblogging website Tumblr emerged from intersecting fandom and bookish communities in the late 2010s, rising with the fandom-cum-subculture Dark Academia. Parallel posts are an acute symptom of a digital literary culture defined by excess of content, filtered through Tumblr's aesthetic norms as a hub of transformative fandom. Parallel posts both represent and reject the norms of bookishness on other platforms, granting insight into the conflicting impulses of media engagement in the digital age, caught between consumption and rumination. Parallel posts are a resurgence of the commonplace book or quote-collection journal; both forms are technologies of the self, practices of self-transformation and self-expression. At a moment in which the relationship between literature and digital media is in flux, parallel posts and Dark Academia demonstrate the spread of literature into a wholly transtextual, transmedial frame, grounded in both personal expression and in fandom
"Mediatized fan play: Moods, modes and dark play in networked communities," by Line Nybro Petersen
No full textLine Nybro Petersen, Mediatized Fan Play: Moods, Modes and Dark Play in Networked Communities. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, e-book $51.74 AUD (162p), ISBN 9781138545861
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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