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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
Pursuit of happiness in the literary work of Ignas Scheynius
No full textStraipsnis aptaria bemaž penkių dešimtmečių (1915–1959) Igno Šeiniaus švediškąją kūrybą pasirinktuoju – laimės sampratos bei jos metamorfozės – aspektu. Stebima šio reiškinio genezė (filosofinės, etinės bei estetinės ištakos) rašytojo jaunystės akademiniuose tyrinėjimuose (traktate Įvadas į meno filosofiją, meno studijoje Lietuvių kultūra), tolesnis formavimasis dviejų kultūrų – lietuvių ir švedų – kontekstuose, meninė raiška kūrėjo literatūriniame palikime (eilėraščių rinktinėje Naktis ir Saulė, romanuose Stebuklo belaukiant, Siegfried Immerselbe, Nusileisk ant žemės, Kentauras žvengia, Aukso šuo). Analizuojant kūrinius pasirinktuoju teminiu aspektu, atkuriama rašytojo sąmonėje besiformuojanti keleriopa laimės sampratos esmė: filosofinė egzistencinė, asmeninė individualioji, bendrapilietinė (suponuota istorinės sąmonės), bendražmogiškoji. Teorinį filosofinio egzistencinio laimės aspekto pjūvį pateikia Šeiniaus Įvadas į meno filosofijų ir Lietuvių kultūrą, o meninės išraiškos pjūvį – eilėraščių rinktinė Naktis ir Saulė. Straipsnyje išsamiai aptariama kūriniuose atsiverianti rašytojo filosofinė nuostatų sistema ir jos meninė realizacija. Kitus laimės sąvokos aspektus – asmeninį, bendrapilietinį, bendražmogiškąjį – gvildena švediškoji Šeiniaus epika – romanai. Koks šių laimės aspektų santykis, kodėl vieni gausėja, o kiti mąžta priklausomai nuo kūriniuose iškylančių istorinių, socialinių, asmeninės patirties aplinkybių, aiškėja nagrinėjant konkrečius rašytojo kūrinius. Straipsnyje panaudota autentiška nepublikuota Stokholmo Valstybės archyvo medžiaga Reikšminiai žodžiai: Filosofinė suvoktis ir meninė raiška; I. Šeinius; Jos genezė ir semantinė morfologija; Laimės sąvoka; Literatūra; Švediškoji Igno Šeiniaus kūryba; Švedų literatūra; Žanrų tipologija; I. Scheynius; Its genesis and semantic morphology; Lithuanian literature; Means of expression; Philosophical conception and literary; Swedish literary work of Ignas Scheynius; Swedish literature; The concept of happiness; The typology of genresThe article analyses five decades (1915–1959) of the writer's work in Sweden, focusing on the concept of happiness and its metamorphosis. It presents the genesis (philosophical, ethical and esthetical fountainhead) of the idea starting with the early academic studies (the treatise "Introduction to the Philosophy of Art", the study "Lithuanian culture"), examining its further formation in the context of two cultures - Lithuanian and Swedish, and investigating the writer's literary expression in his later works (the collection of poems "Night and the Sun", novels "Waiting for the Miracle", "Siegfried Immerselbe", "Descend on the Earth", "The Centaur is Neighing", "Golden Dog"). The analysis of his writings reveals the formation of a multifaceted concept of happiness: philosophical-existential, personal-individual, civil (presupposed by historical consciousness), human. The theoretical framework for the philosophical-existential facet of happiness is proposed in Scheynius' "Introduction to the Philosophy of Art" and "Lithuanian Culture", while his literary means of expression are richly displayed in the collection of poems "Night and the Sun". The article discusses the philosophical system of the writer's attitudes and its realization in his writing. Other facets of the concept of happiness - personal, civil, human - are developed in his Swedish novels. The correlation between different aspects of happiness, the increase or decrease in emphasis on some of them, their relation to historical, social, personal circumstances, are unveiled by studying separate works. In the article authentic, never published material from Stockholm State Archive is use
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
Dimension of rational epic prose: the unity of novelistic and publicistic writing in Ignas Scheynius' works "The Red flood" and "The Red flood in force"
No full textLietuvių meninio žodžio atmintyje Igno Šeiniaus asmuo siejamas su impresionisto talentu. Švedų literatūroje Šeinius per porą dešimtmečių (1940-1959) išsitarnavo savito ir uolaus publicisto vardą. Straipsnyje keliamas klausimas, ar Šeiniaus švediškojoje prozoje esama publicistikos ir romano jungčių. Jei – taip, kokia jų kognityvinė prasmė ir meninė vertė? Šeiniaus kūrybos publicistinis matmuo yra patikimai prisišliejęs prie realiosios, informuojančios istorijos, o memuarinis – prie individualios meninės išmonės. Tačiau net ir diachroniškai kuriamas memuarinės prozos veiksmas, išlikdamas objektyviąja viso kūrinio ašimi, menine raiška yra margas, gausus subjektyvių emocijų, intriguojantis. Abiejų matmenų – faktografinio ir literatūrinio – išraiška dažnai persipina, „maitina" viena kitą. Meninės raiškos įvairovė Šeiniaus publicistikoje patvirtina grožinės literatūros kūrimo principus. Pasakotojo paveikslas atsiskleidžia jungiantis trejopam kontekstui: autobiografinės patirties, autentiškos erdvės bei laiko, impresionistinės raiškos. Subjektyvus istorinių įvykių, socialinių realijų ar intelektinių potyrių išgyvenimas visad išlieka labai stiprus, bet jo diachroninis intensyvumas keičiasi. Hierarchinėje faktografijos ir meninės išmonės proporcijoje „Raudonasis tvanas“ laikytinas savotiška įžanga į vėlesniąją, kur kas gilesnę ir įtaigesnę rašytojo grožinę epiką. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Archyvų medžiaga; Epika švedų kalba; Ignas Šeinius; Publicistika; Romanas; Žanrų sąveika; Žanrų sųveika; Archival materials; Archival matierials; Epic prose in the Swedish language; Ignas Šeinius; Interaction of genres; Novel; PublicisticsIgnas Scheynius is remembered in the history of the Lithuanian literary word as a talented impressionist. During a few decades (1940-1959) in Swedish literature Scheynius earned the name of an original and vehement publicist. In this article the question is being raised as to whether there is any connection between publicistic and novelistic works in Scheynius'prose, written in Swedish. That being the case, what is their cognitive meaning and artistic value? The publicistic dimension of Scheynius' work is reliably based on realistic, informative history, whereas the recollective dimension relies on individual, artistic verisimilitude. However, even if the action of the recollective prose is created diachronically and remains the objective axis of the whole work, artistically it is expressed in a multicoloured, gripping way, enriched with many subjective emotions. The expression of both dimensions – the factual and the literary – often intertwine with each other, "nurturing" each other. The variety of artistic expression in Scheynius publicistics is a confirmation of the fundamentals of imaginitive literature. The portrait of the narrator is revealed by joining together the triple context: that of autobiographical experience, authentic space and time, and impressionist expression. The subjective feeling of the historical events, social realities and intellectual experience is very strong, though it's diachronical intensiveness changes. According to the proportion of hierarchical factography and artistic verisimilitude "The Red Flood" is considered as the writer's introduction to a much deeper and more suggestive imaginative epic prose
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
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