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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 Swamp and Desert Tropes in Post-Apocalyptic Australian Indigenous Fiction: The Swan Book (2013) by Alexis Wright and Terra Nullius (2018) by Claire Coleman
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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
Māori Cultural and Bodily Rebirth in Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors Trilogy
No full textInternational audienceThis article examines what happens in Alan Duff’s trilogy, Once Were Warriors (1990-2002), to the Western novelistic device of individualisation of characters that takes its roots in the European Renaissance. In Duff’s novels, the development of characters is reconfigured through their relation to others as they experience a form of cultural and bodily rebirth in their own community. The trilogy thus offers an alternative to traditional Western characterisation, by deploying other ways of constructing subjectivity
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
Indigeneity as prism and knowledge : contemporary literature, museology and visual arts in the Pacific region
No full textLe but de cette étude est de démontrer que dans le monde « globalisé » tel qu’il l’est aujourd’hui, le développement des savoirs et des écritures indigènes dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle a favorisé l’émergence d’une construction cognitive plus tant indigène qu’exogène non-ethnocentrée. Il convient davantage de rechercher une nouvelle approche fondée sur les études littéraires pour analyser ce corpus de récits d’exploration déjà largement étudié par les historiens. Cette nouvelle direction a pour but de faire émerger un prisme qui puisse faire dialoguer toutes ces disciplines et ces notions : il se trouve que c’est la textualité qui va permettre la mise en relation de ces thématiques de façon critique. En effet, dans les récits d’explorateurs, c’est le point de non-subjectivation et d’objectivation du monde qui a fait que l’Indigène y a été construit comme objet par cette textualité. Ainsi, faire le diagnostic de cet accès « marqué » à la subjectivation amène à en retracer la généalogie dans les œuvres littéraires et artistiques ‒ toutes en tant que « narratives » ‒ mais aussi les textes fondateurs afférents à ces contacts coloniaux. Le savoir sur l’Indigène construit à cette époque laisse entrevoir des savoir de l’Indigène, ou plutôt des savoirs créés à partir de la reconsidération de l’Indigénéité, non plus comme caractéristique intrinsèque de l’Indigène, mais comme lieu privilégié de la construction de sa subjectivité et de son identité. L’Indigénéité conçue désormais comme prisme et repensée par le biais de la textualité va servir à mettre en lumière les nouvelles relations qui se tissent au gré de mouvements culturels, qui sont eux-mêmes redéfinis selon leur endogénéité et exogénéité.The aim of this study is to demonstrate that in our current, globalised world, the development of indigenous knowledges and writings in the second half of the twentieth century prompted the emergence of a cognitive construction that was not so much indigenous as exogenous and non-ethnocentric. A new literary approach is therefore necessary to analyse this collection of exploration narratives, previously examined by historians. The goal of this new approach is to identify a prism or paradigm which will bring these disciplines and concepts into dialogue: it is textuality which will connect all of these themes, allowing for their critical analysis. In exploration narratives, it is the point of non-subjectification and objectification of the world which ensures that the Native is constructed as an object by this textuality. Thus, carrying out a diagnosis of this distinct access to subjectification impels one to retrace the genealogy of this phenomenon in literary and artistic works, which are analysed here as “narratives,” as are the founding texts related to these colonial contacts. The knowledge over the Native constructed at this time allows us to discern the knowledges of the Native, or rather the knowledges created through the reassessment of indigeneity, which is no longer seen as inherent characteristics of the Native, but rather as a privileged location for the construction of her/his subjectivity and identity. Indigeneity, henceforth understood as a prism, re-examined through textuality, will in turn bring to light the new relationships being woven as a result of cultural movements, which are themselves redefined according to their endo- or exogeneity
Mudrooroo (1938 – 2019)
No full textIn the first half of the 19th century, George Augustus Robinson’s journals, which he had written after being officially appointed Protector of the Aborigines, show the growing interest in Indigenous populations, from the very first voyages of discovery to the beginning of the 18th century. Informed by Victorian attitudes, these first accounts contributed to forging the stereotypes which have since been rewritten and subverted in novels written by white or Indigenous Australian writers alike. Wavering between the ‘noble savage’, who may benefit from education, and the ‘ignoble savage’, violent and dangerous, these stereotypes feed on accepted attitudes and fuel them with new anecdotes and experiences. The present article explores how Mudrooroo engages with the relation between fiction and History in his novels that are set at the time of the first contacts between settlers and Indigenous Australians, ‘Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World’ (1983) and the ‘Master of the Ghost Dreaming’ tetralogy (1991). Mudrooroo’s rewriting of historical events starts either a conversation or a confrontation with the depositories of the first historical accounts about those encounters – white European authors.(1)
1) This article is a translation and partial rewriting of ‘Des carnets de G. A. Robinson aux romans de Mudrooroo: la figure de l’indigène en marge de l’Histoire australienne’ published in E-rea in 2016
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