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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
Migration in Austria
Full text linkThe interdisciplinary volume offers methodologically innovative approaches to Austria's coping with issues of migration past and present. These essays show Austria's long history as a migration country. Austrians themselves have been on the move for the past 150 years to find new homes and build better lives. After the World War II the economy improved and prosperity set in, so Austrians tended to stay at home. Austria's growing prosperity made the country attractive to immigrants. After the war, tens of thousands of "ethnic Germans" expelled from Eastern Europe settled in Austria. Starting in the 1950s "victims of the Cold War" (Hungary, Czechs and Slovaks) began looking for political asylum in Austria. Since the 1960s Austria has been recruiting a growing number of "guest workers" from Turkey and Yugoslavia to make up the labor missing in the industrial and service economies. Recently, refugees from the arc of crisis from Afghanistan to Syria to Somalia have braved perilous journeys to build new lives in a more peaceful and prosperous Europe
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
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
Review: Hannes Heer, Walter Manoschek, Alexander Pollak & Ruth Wodak (2008). The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation
No full textDie beiden Wehrmachtsausstellungen (1995/2001) sowie die mit ihnen verbundenen Debatten stellen ein wichtiges Kapitel der deutschen und österreichischen Auseinandersetzung mit den NS-Verbrechen dar. Sie haben nicht nur die Nachkriegslegende von der "sauberen Wehrmacht" nachhaltig infrage gestellt, sondern auch das Bild vom Charakter des Völkermords und der an ihm beteiligten Täter verändert. Ruth WODAK und ihr interdisziplinäres Team beleuchten sowohl die Verbrechen der Wehrmacht selbst wie auch ihre nachfolgende Rezeption und Repräsentation. Der Band bietet einen exzellenten Überblick über diesen wichtigen Teil der Geschichte und Nachgeschichte des Holocaust und kann auch von seinem Zuschnitt und Aufbau her als vorbildhaft für vergleichbare Forschungen gelten.The two Wehrmacht exhibitions (1995/2001) and the debates around them represent an important chapter in the history of how Germany and Austria have dealt with the Nazi past. They strongly challenge the postwar myth of an "untainted Wehrmacht" just as they changed the public perception of the Nazi genocide and its perpetrators. Ruth WODAK and her interdisciplinary team shed light on the Wehrmacht crimes during WWII as well as their subsequent reception and representation. The volume gives an excellent overview of this important part of the history and aftermath of the Holocaust. Its specific layout and structure can also serve as a paradigm for comparable studies.Las dos exposiciones Wehrmacht (1995 y 2001) y los debates en torno a ellas representan un importante capítulo en la historia acerca de como Alemania y Austria han tratado con el pasado Nazi. Ellos desafían totalmente el mito de la posguerra de unas "virtuosas Fuerzas Armadas" así como cambiaron la percepción pública del genocidio Nazi y sus perpetradores. Ruth WODAK y su equipo interdisciplinario derrocharon luz sobre los crímenes de la Wehrmacht durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, así como también sobre su subsecuente recepción y representación. El volumen ofrece una excelente visión general de esta importante parte de la historia y consecuencias del Holocausto. Su diseño específico y estructura pueden servir también como un paradigma para comparables estudios
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