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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
VIOLENCE IN THE FAMILY: CONSTRUCTING A 'SOCIAL PROBLEM' IN SINGAPORE
No full textBachelor'sBACHELOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (HONOURS
The marginalised mainstream : the culture of subcultural media 'journalists' in Singapore
No full textTechnological changes including the invention of the Internet and the subsequent transformation of passive media consumers into active content producers have rendered porous the boundaries of journalism. Yet studies on journalists in Singapore have been largely confined to professionals working in mainstream media organisations. Elsewhere, studies have been conducted on independent or alternative journalists who operate outside of mainstream media structures. However, most of them tend to be involved in radicalised political media, citizens media or community media. Little is known about the culture of the individuals working in subcultural media which is produced by members of a particular subculture and aimed at serving the needs of that subculture. Hence, this study seeks to contribute to the discussion on the culture of journalists in Singapore by focusing on writers and editors who not only work outside mainstream media, but are also involved in subcultural media.
A series of face-to-face interviews conducted with individuals involved in subcultural media projects has found their culture to resemble that of mainstream media. For instance, the informants’ story selection decisions are based on the mainstream journalistic values of localism and scoop. Like mainstream journalists, some informants tend to turn to elite, successful sources within their own subcultures. More importantly, the informants’ relationships with their contributors are rather hierarchical since they continue to make the key decisions in the subcultural editorial process. While their earlier socialisation in journalism school and commercial newsrooms might account for their mainstream culture, a less obvious reason lies in their marginalised status as writers and editors of subcultural media. Their locations outside of mainstream media structures mean that they face limited access to newsmakers, public relations representatives and advertisers, not to mention economic scarcity and a symbiotic albeit unequal relationship with mainstream media. Becoming professional and mainstream, both in the manner of conducting themselves as practitioners and improving their media projects, therefore represents the informants’ strategy of alleviating their marginalised status. Despite the challenges they faced, these subcultural media writers and editors intend to soldier on with their media projects and this could be partly explained by their possession of subcultural capital.Master of Mass Communicatio
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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