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Quantitative Knowledge Production on Muslims in Europe as a Practice of "Secular Suspicion"
No full textQuantitative Knowledge Production on Muslims in Europe as a Practice of "Secular Suspicion"
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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
Konkurrierende Raumproduktionen zwischen religiöser Praxis, kulturellem Erbe und touristischer Inwertsetzung
No full textDas „Freitagsleiden“ der katholischen Stigmatisierten Therese Neumann (1898-1962) zog seit den 1920er Jahren Besucherströme in ihren Wohnort Konnersreuth (Oberpfalz/Bayern). Ihr 2005 eröffneter Seligsprechungsprozess und ein Regionalentwicklungsprozess im Rahmen des EU-Förderprogramms LEADER befördern die Inszenierung der „Sakralen Landschaft“ Konnersreuths als Ensemble „authentischer“ historischer Orte des geistigen wie materiellen Erbes der Stigmatisierten, unter maßgeblicher Beteiligung der Zivilgesellschaft. In den Raumproduktionen treffen konträre Wertzuschreibungen dieses Erbes aufeinander: Sakralisierung, Heritageifizierung, Somatisierung. Profanierung und Resakralisierung. Als Sakralisierung beschreibe ich die religiöse Überhöhung Therese Neumanns zur „Sühneseele“, die eine rechtskatholische, antiliberale Politotheologie verkörpert. Heritageifizierung bezeichnet die Inwertsetzung des Kults als Kulturerbe und Touristenattraktion sowie die Aktivierung der Bevölkerung zur ehrenamtlichen Arbeit im Rahmen von LEADER; ein „postsäkulares“ Verständnis des Religiösen als Ausdruck kultureller Vielfalt und Ressource zivilgesellschaftlicher Selbstregierung ignoriert dabei Transzendenzbezüge. Drei eigensinnige Aneignungsweisen des Erbes Therese Neumanns durchkreuzen Sakralisierung und Heritageifizierung: Profanierung lehnt die öffentliche Inszenierung des Erbes ab und beharrt auf der lebensweltlichen Einbettung Therese Neumanns in lokale Machtverhältnisse und der Ambivalenz ihrer Heiligkeit. Somatisierung verknüpft im Rekurs auf leibliche Heilungserfahrung devotionale Konzeptionen von Agency mit EU-Imperativen ehrenamtlichen Engagements sowie touristische Erholungsangebote mit religiösen Heilsversprechen. Re-Sakralisierung schließlich benutzt eine „postsäkulare“ Inszenierung der Stigmatisierten als Kulturerbe, um Transzendenzbezüge zu betonen und ein politisch-religiöses Projekt der Rechristianisierung Europas zu verfolgen.The “Friday Suffering” of the Catholic stigmatic Therese Neumann (1898-1962) drew streams of visitors to her hometown of Konnersreuth (Upper Palatinate, Bavaria) since the 1920s. Her beatification process, initiated in 2005, and the regional development within the framework of the EU funding approach of LEADER are promoting the staging of Konnersreuth’s “Sacred Landscape” as an ensemble of “authentic” historical sites of the stigmatic’s spiritual and material heritage, with significant participation from civil society. In these productions of space, contradictory valorizations of this heritage are negotiated: sacralization, heritageification, somatization, profanation, and resacralization. I describe sacralization as the religious elevation of Therese Neumann to the status of a “victim soul”, which embodies a right-wing, anti-liberal Catholic political theology. Heritageification refers to the valorization of the cult as cultural heritage and tourist attraction as well as to the activation of citizens to voluntary work for “their” heritage within the framework of LEADER; in accordance with “post-secular” conceptions of religion as expression of cultural diversity and a resource for citizens’ self-government, religious references to transcendence, however, are ignored. Sacralization and heritageization are contested by three local valorizations of Therese Neumann’s heritage: Profanation rejects the public staging of the heritage and insists on the stigmatics embeddedness in local power relations and the ambivalence of her holiness. Somatization, by recourse to bodily healing experiences, links devotional conceptions of agency with EU imperatives for volunteer work, as well as touristic provisions of well-being with religious promises of salvation. Finally, re-sacralization uses a “post-secular” staging of the stigmatic to emphasize the transcendental aspects and political-theological implications of her material heritage in a project of re-Christianizing Europe
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