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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
Interview with Prof Joanna Zylinska on the the theme of 'Open in Action'. Open Access Week 2016
No full textFor Open Access week 2016, Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO) conducted a series of video Interview with academics on the the theme of 'Open in Action'
Lines on Music [podcast]: Ep. 4 - Street Music
No full textBusking... most musicians do it at some stage or other, for some it is even their primary income. From BB King, to Tracy Chapman, to Ed Sheerhan many household names in the world of popular music have cut their teeth busking. Playing on the street provides musicians with a unique performance environment, which requires particular strategies to draw and hold an audience... not everyone can do it.
In this episode, ‘Street Music’, we speak to Dr Elizabeth Bennett about her co-authored report ‘From Brass Bands to Buskers: Street Music in the UK’, where we dig down into the cultural history of street entertainment and busking. We also speak to Dr Diana Omigie and Heather Thueringer about their research paper ‘The Busking Experiment: A Field Study Measuring Behavioural Responses to Street Music Performances’ to find out what scientific methods and research approaches around behavioural analysis can tell us about what makes a successful busker.
The episode begins and ends with the music of Toulouse ensemble Les Flanfleurs Brass Band. You can find our more about the band at their website here http://www.lesfanflures.fr/welcome/fr
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Codifying Jazz Manouche: A Brief History and Definition of Jazz Manouche in Relation to the Belgian and Dutch Manouche community.
No full textThis paper aims to situate and define jazz manouche as a musical style and sub-genre within the broader history and practice of ‘jazz’ proper, to answer the broader question of ‘what is jazz manouche?’. Through discussion of the familial lineage of the Dutch and Belgian manouche musical community, this paper ultimately arrives in the hands of the multi-instrumentalist Tcha Limberger, and a case study featuring his trio, with special guest Moses Rosenberg, live at Foix, France in 2015.
Methodologically this paper draws on oral history to inform the historical element of this discussion. Drawing on themes of space (musical) and place (geographical), I plot a not well known family history of musicians in Belgium and the Netherlands, identifying key musicians and their role in the popularisation of what we refer to today as jazz manouche or ‘gypsy jazz’. In doing so, I consider how it is we understand this subgenre in relation to ‘jazz’. What does the term mean to those with whom it is culturally associated? How does this music link back to the guitarist, Django Reinhardt? And how does the emergence of what we can see today as a ‘gypsy jazz’ canon, after Reinhardt, (dis)associate itself with ‘jazz’ proper? Ultimately, this paper aims to highlight how jazz’s American origins would be translated, through this hypertextual & intermusical relationship into this European setting
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