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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
Consciousness, memory and dreams in Kashyapa Samhita
No full textThe chapter focuses on the three aspects of the mind as revealed in Kashyapa Samhita, an ancient paediatric treatise. Kashyapa Samhita deals with Kumarabratya: care of the children, one of the eight branches of Ayurveda. While the treatise Kashyapa Samhita deals with various aspects of well-being, diseases and their treatments in children, this chapter focuses only on three aspects, mainly consciousness, memory and dreams. The focus thus is on evolution of the mind in general and consciousness in particular during the foetal development. Consciousness emerges in the third month of foetal development. Memory is seen as a repository of memory traces that spans generations especially of the healers. Memory is seen as a function that can be enhanced through treatments. In additions, dreams are given much importance as the function of the mind. Dreams may be premonitory and thus prognostic. Some dreams are considered auspicious. Detailed examination of the sources of dreams too is carried out. Some examples of dreams especially attributed to the supernatural forces will be given
Executive functions as a path to understanding nonhuman consciousness: Looking under the light
No full textConsciousness in humans is best understood by the expression of individual goals and intentions, as expressed through language. The lack of a common language between humans and nonhuman animals and the historical tradition of attributing a mind exclusively to humans have, however, traditionally hindered the search for animal consciousness. Although conscious in the ordinary sense of wakefulness and in their ability to respond appropriately to stimuli, concrete evidence for more complex states of phenomenal or access consciousness await discovery in animals. Human behavioural expressions such as planning, monitoring, regulation of emotions, inhibition of actions, attentional flexibility, working memory, error detection, decision making and resolution of conflict, often collectively referred to as executive functions, have been considered behavioural proxies of different facets of human consciousness. These processes, the development of which correlates to the emergence of consciousness in humans, enable individuals to execute voluntary actions, make choices among alternatives and respond appropriately to novel situations to achieve short- and long-term goals. Given the history of our vain search for consciousness as a singular phenomenon in animals, we should perhaps explore the structure and organization of basic executive functions as potential building blocks of consciousness in nonhuman species. It is likely that such processes in animals differ from those in humans only in degree and not in kind and that such a functional understanding of executive functions could better illuminate the development and evolution of the conscious human mind
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
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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