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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
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
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
An analytical study of Das Jahr by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
No full textThesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2025In recent years, increasing scholarly interest in female composers has brought renewed attention to Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805–1847), often recognized primarily as the sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847). A highly gifted composer and pianist, she wrote over 400 works despite the societal limitations placed on women in her time. Although she was unable to pursue a professional musical career due to 19th-century patriarchal norms, she received an exceptional musical education alongside her brother and remained musically active, particularly through the Sonntagsmusiken ("Sunday Musicales")—a series of private concerts held at the Mendelssohn family home—where she presented and directed many of her compositions.One of her most significant works, Das Jahr ("The Year"), is a cycle of twelve character pieces—one for each month—plus Nachspiel ("postlude"), composed in 1841 and revised in 1842 as a Christmas gift for her husband, Wilhelm Hensel. Nearly 150 years later, the manuscript was rediscovered and published for the first time in 1989, followed by a facsimile of Hensel's final autograph version in 2000. Due to its relatively recent publication, Das Jahr has received limited analytical attention, leaving room for further exploration.
This study provides an analytical examination of Das Jahr, situating it within the broader context of Hensel's life and musical influences. The first chapter explores her artistic development, education, relationship with Felix, and exposure to various musical traditions, while also providing a chronological overview of her compositions to illustrate her evolving style and creative ambitions. The second chapter offers a detailed analysis of Das Jahr, focusing on its structural, harmonic, and programmatic elements. Furthermore, this study examines Das Jahr as a Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), a fusion of literature, music, and visual art incorporating poetic epigrams from German Romantic poets such as Goethe, Tieck, and Schiller, as well as vignettes painted by Wilhelm Hensel. Ultimately, this dissertation seeks to deepen our understanding of Das Jahr as one of Hensel's most significant works, highlight her distinctive compositional voice, and reassess her contributions to 19th-century piano literature
Neurons Behind Notes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration Bridging Psychology and Neuroscientific Insights for Music Learning, Performance, and Pedagogy
No full textThesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2024The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the literature in educational neuroscience as well as music cognition, exploring new insights in psychology and neuroscience concerning learning and brain plasticity in the last thirty years. This serves as an interdisciplinary study and manual for musicians, providing fundamental scientific concepts that potentially answer “why” and “how” music is perceived and performed. Analysis of these fundamental concepts provides a basis for greater understanding of performance and pedagogical approaches to learning and teaching music. This will include an overview of educational neuroscience and music cognition, the fundamentals of neuron structure and function in learning and memory, a large literature review of studies concerning musical training and its effects on plasticity, a proposal for preliminary experiments on hippocampal cell firing in relation to accuracy and memory, as well as important literature concerning long-term memory functions, motor skill acquisition, and creativity
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