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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
Impact of Anglo-American new criticism on modern Arabic discourse : the case of Shi 'r (Poetry Magazine)
Full text linkNew Criticism has had a profound impact on Arabic critical thought since the early
1950s. The reasons behind this vary from one critic to another. Some have employed New
Criticism to analyse the poetic movement of Shi r al-taf īla, and its new poetic features that
required innovative critical tools. Other critics’ use of New Criticism was based on their
familiarity with English literary thought and schools of criticism.
While some Arab critics, such as Iḥsān Abbās, Izz al-Dīn Ismā īl and Ilyās Khūrī,
partially employed New Criticism, others, such as Rashād Rushdī and his students, confined
themselves exclusively to New Criticism, viewing it as the only appropriate approach to
literature. Members of Majallat Shi r employed many New Critical ideas, deeming them to be
the modern concept of poetry. Through an in-depth reading of the articles in Shi r, and a
comparative approach based on thorough study of New Critical writings, this thesis
demonstrates that the majority of the critical ideas and concepts which appeared in Shi r were
based on New Criticism. Additionally, the thesis illustrates that many of Shi r’s critics,
particularly Yūsuf al-Khāl who dominated the magazine, showed a great deal of fascination
with the New Critics, Eliot in particular.
The Shi r critics’ use of New Criticism appeared to be, particularly on the theoretical
level, an imitation to such an extent that one cannot find any new critical ideas in al-Khāl’s
works. Additionally, the New Critics’ concepts were predominantly theoretical and largely
unsupported by examples from Arabic poetry, with the exception of Jabrā’s and Khālida
Sa īd’s works. In this way, Shi r critics’ contention that modern Arabic literary thought
should be creative while seeking to evade the imitation of classical literary and critical
accounts was fallacious as they merely replaced one form of imitation with another.
Furthermore, Shi r critics called for many ideas without providing literary justifications or
examples. One instance pertains to their encouragement of the use of colloquial Arabic
instead of the standardised form. Furthermore, other critical problems, such as issues
involving poetic ambiguity and language, were tackled insufficiently. For these reasons, this thesis characterises the relationship of Shi r critics to the New
Critics as not only one of fascination and imitation, but also as a parental paradigm similar to
a father-child relationship. Initially, I sought to find in Shi r new critical concepts and
developments resulting from the use of New Criticism and simultaneously based on modern
Arabic literature. However, much to my dismay, I discovered that the magazine’s critical
project based itself, to a great extent, on the New Critical concepts without questioning or
challenging them. This behaviour appears analogous to children’s imitation of their parents as
an ideal form of behaviour
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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