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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
The Ecuador Peru Peace Process: A Study of Discursive Exclusion and Ideological Interference in Assessment Material and Academic Literature
No full textThe EPPP is an example of a contemporary international conflict transformation where mediators successfully de-escalated interstate violence. This paper examines functions and structures of the assessment discourse during the 1995-1998 multiparty mediator interventions.
Several sources attribute the outcome of the EPPP to impacts of mediator leveraging yet these assessments lack crucial data. The research explores mediator bridging and questions why this form of intervention is not addressed in Realist discourse. This work considers how bridging presents challenges for Realist assessment criteria. Tracing the patterned exclusion of data this research investigates power asymmetries and bias and the influence of ideology.
Mediator Intra-group conflict is examined through critical discourse analysis. This framework informs an inquiry into discursive structures and functions while exploring hegemony. The project considers subaltern data sets, obscured by Realists. The project examines positionality and questions Realist assumptions. Worldview challenges and threats are considered and EPPP texts are interpreted as collective representations of prejudice and avoidance. This approach examines structures of domination and the subordination of groups and data. The research considers systems and structures of language “in terms of binary oppositions that establish relationships of power through the privileging of one element in the binary.”
Discourse is examined as competition and power is traced through the circulation process. A genealogical approach to discourse analysis investigates “ruptures and breaks” interrogating the silent “marginalized voices and subjugated knowledge.” The research aims to map, and layer discourses within the EPPP multiparty mediator discourse sample
The Teleology of Provincial Offences: A Cause of Social Injustice for the Homeless
No full textProvincial regulatory laws are intended to govern public safety and welfare in Ontario and are considered minor offences. The monetary penalties imposed for contravening these laws are generally accepted as proportional to the offence. However, when monetary penalties are imposed on the homeless for activities and behaviours that are indicative of homelessness, the consequences are socially unjust. Without suitable alternatives to monetary fines, the homeless endure disproportional outcomes that cause further disadvantage, including recidivism and the perpetuation of homelessness
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
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Collective Memory and the Ontario Grade 10 History Curriculum
No full textCollective memory, though fluid and evolving, plays a key role in strengthening a community’s bonds and identity through a common past and values and shared commemorations. The tools and methods of reinforcing and transmitting a community’s collective memory are varied and some are more obvious than others. One under-examined avenue of transmission and commemoration is the formal education system, and official curriculums in particular, despite their explicit role of teaching in a group setting. To better grasp this relationship, the portrayals of four military conflicts, WWII, the Korean War, and the October and Oka Crises, and the course’s skills and goals were compared within three editions of the Ontario Grade 10 History curriculum and with public memory at the time each was issued. The connections revealed between curricular content and the wider public memory as well as changes to the community’s overall collective memory support the role of the history curriculum as a means of transmission and commemoration and as a record of the community’s collective memory at a specific point in time
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
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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