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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
Embodied cognition and movement-driven practices
No full textIn this chapter we focus on embodied engagement in movement-driven practices. In these practices, athletes strive to enhance their performance, and must, in different conditions, “think on the fly” while performing. Sport is a prototypical example of such embodied engagement; however movement-driven practices extend beyond traditional sports. Throughout the chapter, we provide examples of these different practices, such as boxing, climbing, aikido, dance and esports. 1 These activities present a specific kind of window for investigating and understanding the substantial role of the body in cognition. We argue for using a strongly embodied cognitive approach to provide a new perspective on how bodily and worldly aspects of practitioners’ real-time engagement in an activity are part of such “thinking on the fly”. We first describe and discuss the concept of Strong Embodied Cognition (EC). From a Strong EC approach to skillful action, we focus on how it is that thinking (including planning, reflecting and creativity) takes place as a strongly embodied process in different kinds of activities. We then consider the role of embodiment for incorporation of skills and interactive sense-making of expert athletes, and end with a discussion of the role of embodiment in esports and how esports constructively challenge the Strong EC approach
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
Grounding: An abstract factive account
No full textRecent trends in metaphysical interests have shifted heavily toward the topic of metaphysical grounding. In this paper, I put forth an account of grounding called the Abstract Factive Approach. This approach differs from other factive accounts by understanding facts as abstracta rather than worldly entities. Following this, I give an indispensability argument for grounding explanations. After presenting this account and argument, I shift topics to metametaphysics to give a clearer picture of the import of grounding, launching investigation into explanation and realism to discover the epistemic goals of philosophy and metaphysics. I conclude that metaphysics has no inherent goal before going on to motivate a metaphilosophical position inspired by Winch (1990) which offers a reasonable interpretation of the metaphysician’s practice. From here, I explore the topic of realism from several angles, delicately charting a middle path between an austere metaphysical skepticism and a robust metaphysical realism. I argue to rethink global realism in terms of multiple localized theories of realism, constrained to the level of facts, motivating the view that realism about these local issues should be decided based on how it shapes our epistemic practices. Finally, I argue for a constructivist realist metaphysical approach, laying out the reasons to conclude that this metaphysical understanding makes the best sense of our epistemic situation
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