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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
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
Climate Change, Urban Responses and Sociospatial Transformations: The Example of Quebec City
Full text linkThe growing involvement of cities in the fight against climate change is probably one of the most significant features of today’s environmental governance. Beyond contributing to mitigation and adaptation efforts, urban climate action also helps in understanding how urban societies and spaces are being transformed in a context of global environmental change. This paper looks in particular at these sociospatial transformations, by presenting an empirical research on Quebec City’s climate policy. Since 2004, Quebec City has implemented various mitigation initiatives, but without being able to reduce its emissions. In fact, its policy approach has been mainly symbolic and has not encouraged the institutionalization of the climate issue in planning and governance practices. The case of Québec City shows that climate change is contributing to the renewal of environmental policies, but it also highlights the difficulty of decarbonizing urban socio-technical systems that have mainly developed around automobility.L’implication grandissante des villes dans la lutte aux changements climatiques est probablement une descaractéristiques les plus signifi catives de la gouvernance environnementale actuelle. Au-delà de contribuer aux efforts d’atténuation et d’adaptation, l’action climatique urbaine permet aussi de comprendre comment les sociétés et les espaces urbains se transforment dans un contexte de changements environnementaux globaux. Cette contribution se penche notamment sur ces transformations sociospatiales, en présentant une recherche empirique sur la ville de Québec. Depuis 2004, Québec s’est doté de diverses initiatives en matière d’atténuation, sans toutefois être en mesure de réduire ses émissions. La démarche de l’administration municipale a été surtout symbolique, et n’a pas favorisé l’institutionnalisation de l’enjeu climatique dans la gouvernance et la planifi cation. Le cas de Québec montre que les changements climatiques contribuent au renouvellement de l’action environnementale, mais souligne aussi la difficulté à décarboniser des systèmes sociotechniques urbains qui se sont développés essentiellement autour de l’automobilité
L'action publique urbaine et les enjeux des changements climatiques : l'exemple de Québec et Gênes
No full textLes changements climatiques représentent l’exemple paradigmatique des effets secondaires de la modernisation sur les sociétés contemporaines. Au-delà d’entrainer des conséquences écologiques graves, les changements climatiques comportent également toute une panoplie d’enjeux sociopolitiques dont la nature et la portée méritent une attention particulière. Si de nombreuses études de sociologie se sont déjà penchées sur ce sujet, l’action urbaine pour le climat a été plutôt négligée. Cela est curieux si l’on tient compte du fait que nous vivons dans une société globale urbanisée, et que les initiatives climatiques le plus innovantes et prometteuses sont actuellement réalisées par les villes. Cette thèse de doctorat se propose ainsi d’emprunter cette piste de recherche, en se penchant notamment sur l’action climatique urbaine dans les villes de Québec (Canada) et de Gênes (Italie). À l’aide d’une approche socioconstructiviste, et à la lumière de la thèse de la modernisation écologique, l’objectif est de comprendre et expliquer la manière dont les enjeux climatiques font l’objet des discours et des actions des acteurs urbains, et dans quelle mesure ces enjeux influent sur les choix de gouvernance et de planification. Nous montrerons que la question climatique est de plus en plus considérée par les villes, et que cela semble être associé à des changements plus larges dans la manière de concevoir le développement urbain et de pratiquer l’action publique. D’une part, il est possible d’observer une certaine homogénéité dans les politiques urbaines pour le climat, même si les acteurs impliqués, les instruments de planification ou les actions réalisées peuvent diverger fortement d’un contexte à l’autre. D’autre part, les résultats suggèrent d’interpréter certaines formes d’action climatique urbaine en termes de modernisation écologique, en raison notamment du fait que celles-ci sont conçues dans un esprit qui attribue un rôle central, bien que renouvelé, aux institutions de la modernité. En se penchant sur le phénomène croissant de l’engagement des villes dans la lutte contre les changements climatiques, cette thèse de doctorat contribue à élargir la connaissance sociologique sur les diverses manières dont les sociétés et les institutions contemporaines se transforment afin de faire face aux défis environnementaux.Climate change is the paradigmatic example of modernisation’s side effects on contemporary societies. In addition to cause severe ecological impacts, climate change also entails a range of socio-political challenges whose nature and scope deserve special attention. While many sociological studies have already addressed these issues, urban climate governance has been quite neglected. This is rather curious if one considers that we now live in an urbanized global society, and that most significant and promising climate initiatives are being carried out by cities. This doctoral thesis thus explores this line of research. Adopting a constructivist approach, and in the light of ecological modernisation theory, it focuses on climate governance in Quebec City, Canada, and Genoa, Italy. The aim is to understand the way climate change becomes the subject of discourses and actions at the urban level, and to what extent it influences choices affecting urban development trajectories. Results show that both Quebec City and Genoa have undertaken efforts to deal with climate change, even if involved actors, modes of governance, planning instruments and implemented actions can differ substantially from one context to another. On the one hand, our results show that the fight against climate change is increasingly taken into consideration by cities, and that this seems to be associated with broader changes in how urban development is planned and how public action is practiced. On the other hand, our results suggest interpreting some forms of climate action in terms of ecological modernization; this, insofar as they are designed in a spirit that assigns a central role, although renewed, to modernity’s institutions. In addressing the growing phenomenon of cities involvement in climate action, this doctoral thesis helps to expand sociological knowledge about how and why contemporary societies and institutions transform in order to address environmental challenges
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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