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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
An opportunity lost: the entrenchment of Sinhalese nationalism in post-war Sri Lanka
No full textThis research studies the trajectory of Sinhalese nationalism during the presidency
of Mahinda Rajapaksa from 2005 to 2015. The role of nationalism in the
protracted conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils is well understood, but the
defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009 has changed the
framework within which both Sinhalese and Tamil nationalism operated. With
speculations about the future of nationalism abound, this research set out to
address the question of how the end of the war has affected Sinhalese nationalism,
which remains closely linked to politics in the country. It employs a discourse
analytical framework to compare the construction of Sinhalese nationalism in
official documents produced by Rajapaksa and his government before and after
2009. A special focus of this research is how through their particular constructions
and representations of Sinhalese nationalism these discourses help to reproduce
power relations before and after the end of the war. It argues that, despite
Rajapaksa’s vociferous proclamations of a ‘new patriotism’ promising a united
nation without minorities, he and his government have used the momentum of the
defeat of the Tamil Tigers to entrench their position by continuing to mobilise an
exclusive nationalism and promoting the revival of a Sinhalese-dominated nation.
The analysis of history textbooks, presidential rhetoric and documentary films
provides a contemporary empirical account of the discursive construction of the
core dimensions of Sinhalese nationalist ideology. It explores how the end of the
war has affected the myth-symbol complex underlying national identity as well as
the motives and rationales of nationalist politics. The research identifies
continuities and changes in the content and use of these dimensions as a response
to the transition from war to peace. These shifts, however, do not signify a
challenge to the traditional hierarchical framework of Sinhalese nationalism.
Instead, post-war triumphalism has reinvigorated its ethnic core that places the
Sinhalese, their culture and religion, above other communities in Sri Lanka. The
military victory has reaffirmed the link between the Sinhalese nation, Buddhism
and the state that has traditionally been used to legitimise Sinhalese claims to a Sri
Lankan nationalism. Furthermore, developments, such as the victory itself and
growing international criticism, are incorporated within traditional nationalist
frames and, in turn, help to reinvigorate them.
Overall, this research demonstrates implicit and explicit discursive modes of
how the Rajapaksa regime continued to perpetuate an exclusive Sinhalese
nationalism, marginalising minority communities, their long-standing grievances
and the crucial issue of reconciliation after the end of the war in 2009
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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