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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
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
Internet Pseudonyms vel Nicks: An Onomastic Characterization and Usage
No full textCelem artykułu było przede wszystkim wyjaśnienie kwestii teoretycznych związanych z charakterystyką onomastyczną nazw przypisanych indywidualnie użytkownikom interaktywnych usług w Internecie, określanych mianem pseudonimów internetowych czy też nicków. Chodziło o to, czy można te nazwy klasyfikować jako pseudonimy, czy też może należałoby uznać, że reprezentują one nową kategorię antroponimiczną. Autor rozważań stoi na stanowisku, że istnieją przesłanki do tego, by uznać, że nick jako typ nazwy osobowej stanowi odmianę pseudonimu, przy tym ma on pewne wyróżniające właściwości, które ujawniają się szczególnie mocno w związku z komunikacyjnym medium. Uwagi o charakterze teoretyczno-opisowym zostały w pracy uzupełnione o prezentację materiału w postaci nazw używanych na forum portalu film.web. Zamierzeniem autora było pokazanie zróżnicowania form pseudonimicznych w przestrzeni internetowej, jednak bez wchodzenia w szczegóły związane z indywidualną inspiracją nazewniczą, za to ze zwróceniem uwagi na różne przykłady licencji onimicznej, która w komunikacji za pośrednictwem komputera ma charakter wielowymiarowy, przyciąga np. uwagę ze względu na asocjacje w planie apelatywnym języka, nawiązaniami interonimicznymi, różnymi formami o charakterze neograficznym, dostarcza przykładów przekraczania ograniczeń i granic językowych (wykorzystanie w nazwach języka angielskiego).The major goal of the study has been to explain theoretical issues connected with the onomastic characterization of names used by internet users, i.e., the so called nicks. Can they be regarded as traditional pseudonyms, or do they constitute a unique anthroponymic category? The author suggests that nicks are a subcategory of pseudonyms, but they have certain properties that become especially salient in connection with the communicative medium.
Theoretical and descriptive considerations have been supplemented with nicks used on the film.web website. An attempt has been made to show the diversity of nicks but without unnecessary detail as regards the motivation for individual naming decisions. Instead, onus is put on various examples of onymic license, which has a multidimensional nature in computer-mediated communication. For example, it becomes noticeable through its associations on the appellative language plane, through interonymic relations, or through various neo-geographical forms. This license also underlies the processes of extending the boundaries of a particular language (e.g. English elements are used in Polish nicks)
Surnames and values from the perspective of universal perceptual-adaptive mechanisms
No full textTekst zawiera omówienie najważniejszych wątków problemowych występujących w recenzowanej książce oraz uwagi, jakie nasunęły się piszącemu po jej lekturze. Monografia autorstwa Izy Matusiak-Kempy jest rzetelnie wykonaną w perspektywie diachronicznej analizą aksjolingwistyczną ponad dwóch tysięcy odapelatywnych nazwisk Polaków, które mogą być odczytywane w kontekście procesów wartościowania. Analiza materiału prowadzi do wskazania sposobów konceptualizacji ludzkich właściwości fizycznych lub psychicznych, związanych z odpowiednimi wartościami, traktowanych jako pożądane lub niepożądane z perspektywy zdeterminowanych biologicznie i kulturowo potrzeb społecznych, które można łączyć z potoczną wiedzą o świecie, pragmatycznym i adaptacyjnym podejściem do rzeczywistości, wreszcie: z uniwersalnymi mechanizmami percepcyjnymi i nominacyjnymi. Wielką zaletą książki jest jej interdyscyplinarność, osadzenie rozważań nad antroponimią w procedurach badawczych, opartych na dialogu zorientowanego na system pojęciowy i język wartości opisu lingwistycznego z ustaleniami innych i dość odległych od tradycyjnie uprawianej onomastyki dyscyplin naukowych (socjobiologia, psychologia ewolucyjna, społeczna i kognitywna, antropologia itd.). Jest to bardzo dobry przykład zrealizowanej w praktyce postępowania badawczego na gruncie onomastyki (i szerzej lingwistyki) idei konsiliencji zgłaszanej przez Edwarda O. Wilsona, czyli jedności wiedzy opartej na integracji nauk humanistycznych, społecznych i biologicznych. Konkluzją omówienia jest pozytywna ocena publikacji.This review article surveys and comments on the key issues discussed in Iza Matusiak-Kempa’s monograph “Nomen omen. Studium antroponimiczno-aksjologiczne”. The monograph is a solid diachronic axiolinguistic analysis of over two thousand Polish surnames based on common nouns, considered in the axiological context. The analysis of the data leads one to identify how physical or psychological aspects of humans are conceptualized: these aspects are connected with values, which can be desirable or undesirable from the perspective of biologically and socially determined social needs. Those needs, in turn, may be linked with the colloquial knowledge of the world, pragmatic and adaptive approach to reality, and with the universal mechanisms of perception and nomination. A big advantage of the book is its interdisciplinary character. The author locates her reflection on antroponymy in research procedures based on a dialogue between linguistic description (with its focus on the conceptual system and the language of values) and other disciplines, normally rather distant from traditional onomastics (sociobiology; evolutionary, social, and cognitive psychology; anthropology, etc.). This is a very good example of how Edward O. Wilson’s idea of consilience can be realized in onomastic, or generally in linguistic research: solutions are sought through an integration of the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences. This review article ends with a positive evaluation of the monograph
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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