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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
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
Plants, Porcelain, People
No full textPlants, Porcelain, People was a collaboration between artist Katie Spragg, curator Caroline Fisher and Norwich International Youth Project; a group of young refugees and asylum seekers living in Norwich. Inspired by the medieval history of Hungate church, Norwich and global traditions of medicinal plants, this project brings together ideas around healing, care and community. The ceramic artworks produced by Katie in her studio and young people from Norwich International Youth Project, created during four workshops facilitated by Katie, respond both directly and indirectly to the church building and the plants growing in the churchyard; responding to the architecture of the space and the collaging of various elements, such as the glass in the stained glass windows or the layers of different communities using the space over time. Plants represent universal use and understanding across international borders as well as being symbols of hope, resilience and defiance, growing from cracks in walls or sprouting from buildings. Katie was largely influenced by Medieval Herbals; the compositions, stylised representations of plants and muted palettes of greens and reds; “I was interested in the way fact and fiction seemed blurred in these documents, but also that this didn’t matter, different types of knowledge merge in the meetings of plant and human worlds”. Each plant featured in the ceramic sculptures and tiles could be found growing in the churchyard when Katie visited in March this year, through her research she found that at some point in history all of the plants had some medicinal quality assigned to them, even if now they are known to be poisonous. The young people's and Katie's work sits side by side in the space. The exhibition took place as part of Norwich and Norfolk Festival
Making with: What I have learnt through making with clay, with people with dementia
No full textClay’s inherent material qualities have the potential to facilitate non-verbal communication and storytelling and enable people with dementia to access embodied knowing and memory. This paper reflects on my observations of a clay workshop for people with dementia as part of the ongoing Clay for Dementia programme at the Garden Museum, using embodied cognition theory as a framework to gain insight into what is happening when people with dementia make with clay. While there is a growing body of research into the benefits for people with dementia engaging in arts activities, clay is under researched in relation to cognitive, therapeutic and social benefits for people with dementia, this paper seeks to address this, using the holistic methodology of autoethnography and arts-based research; drawing upon my own embodied knowledge of working with clay. I hope to challenge the perceptions of people with dementia, sharing how I have observed a capacity to develop new skills and work imaginatively
Lambeth Wilds
No full textLambeth Wilds is large-scale, site-specific installation on permanent display at the Garden Museum, London. The project was funded by Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and the Charlotte Fraser Trust. It was conceived and produced through combining archival research in the museum collection with recollections, stories and other contributions by often-neglected groups, producing new insights for the museum, the public and the participants themselves; exploring how wild, opportunistic plants can be used as metaphors for overlooked communities. Collaborative clay workshops with Lambeth Young Carers, the Clay for Dementia group and visitors to the museum, formed a major part of the investigation. Making-together enabled the elicitation of tacit knowledge that participants might not have had the confidence or ability to make public on their own, and the creation of new knowledge through the materialisation of lived experiences of the groups involved. These insights informed the resulting installation; both the plants featured, which represent a participant’s story or plants documented in the museum collection, and the decision to give as much prominence to roots as the above-ground elements of plants. The public gained new insights into the experiences of these marginalised groups through the display of the artwork, alongside an accompanying exhibition of the Young Carers’ work and the participants’ collected stories. The creation of the installation resulted in invitations to present at the Crafts Council’s Craft and Social Practice Roundtable, the PTI’s Clay Creative Professional Development Day and Oxford University’s Creative Careers Night. Additionally Katie was shortlisted for the Whitegold International Ceramic Prize 2019 and invited to be the first Make artist-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. A new project based on the format of this investigation is being devised for St. Peter’s Church, Norwich
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
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