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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
‘Where would you be in the picture’:using reader-response with children in the primary school
Get PDFWe Liked Reading with You as it Was Something We Chose to Do: Situating Reading Picturebooks in the Lives of Children: An Exploration of Children, Reading and Identity in a School Setting.
Get PDFThis thesis is concerned with minority children reading picturebooks. The research question privileges pupil voice on the question of the everyday experience of learning to read at school. It explores minority children’s interactions with the picturebook at school, from their own perspectives. The research also considers children’s identifications and disidentifications with themes and characters in multicultural picturebooks. The overarching theoretical approach focuses upon viewing reading as a social practice, and on foregrounding the materiality of the book as an object for study, as well as upon seeing children as social actors. The study is distinctive in its use of participative methods. The research design included a peer research element, where older children were trained to take on the role of interviewer. Fieldwork consisted of one year of qualitative research in a multicultural central London primary school. The main findings were unexpected; the children reflected in complex ways upon the organisation and hierarchies of reading they encountered at school, and reading was a practice highly fraught with emotion. Books were used as a site for resistance, and agency against adults, messages in the books themselves and what the children saw as desirable ‘not’ to be. Race and friendship are two key dimensions negotiated by the children in their discussions of multicultural book illustrations with their classmates. Many children in the research did not speak English at home, and narratives about faith, language, and migration were significant in the children’s constructions of their own subjectivities built from, and projected onto the books we read
We Liked Reading with You as it Was Something We Chose to Do: Situating Reading Picturebooks in the Lives of Children: An Exploration of Children, Reading and Identity in a School Setting.
No full textThis thesis is concerned with minority children reading picturebooks. The research question privileges pupil voice on the question of the everyday experience of learning to read at school. It explores minority children’s interactions with the picturebook at school, from their own perspectives. The research also considers children’s identifications and disidentifications with themes and characters in multicultural picturebooks. The overarching theoretical approach focuses upon viewing reading as a social practice, and on foregrounding the materiality of the book as an object for study, as well as upon seeing children as social actors. The study is distinctive in its use of participative methods. The research design included a peer research element, where older children were trained to take on the role of interviewer. Fieldwork consisted of one year of qualitative research in a multicultural central London primary school. The main findings were unexpected; the children reflected in complex ways upon the organisation and hierarchies of reading they encountered at school, and reading was a practice highly fraught with emotion. Books were used as a site for resistance, and agency against adults, messages in the books themselves and what the children saw as desirable ‘not’ to be. Race and friendship are two key dimensions negotiated by the children in their discussions of multicultural book illustrations with their classmates. Many children in the research did not speak English at home, and narratives about faith, language, and migration were significant in the children’s constructions of their own subjectivities built from, and projected onto the books we read
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
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