1,720,967 research outputs found
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
ARRA: Legal Barriers and Opportunities to Developing Business Partnerships Between Fisheries and Tourism
Get PDFSince our last report, after having completed a comprehensive needs assessment, we completed an in depth study of the legal framework related to fisheries and aquaculture tourism, including issues related to liability and insurance, vessel and personnel requirements, permitting and licensing, and business models and contracting. This initial research was conducted in partnership with Roger Williams School of Law and Rhode Island Sea Grant who advised law student Scott Gunst in this legal research. The project team then translated the 100 page legal memo into a series of 10 factsheets on the above topics (as well as three new ones on marketing, partnerships, and what makes a great tour,” all of which were identified in the needs assessment).
All of the project\u27s materials are available at the project webpage on the Maine Sea Grant website at: http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu/fisheries-tourism. This page includes the original legal research report, factsheets, workshop descriptions, reports, and video recordings, models of successful businesses, press generated by the project and more
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
Mapping Ocean Stories: Fisheries Oral Histories and Biographical Maps Preserve The Past and Inform The Future in Gulf of Maine Communities
No full textThe relationship between fishermen and the ocean has long shaped the architecture of life in rural coastal communities. This reality transcends most aspects of coastal society but is often misunderstood or underestimated, and has not been systematically documented. The result is that voices in small coastal and island communities are often overlooked in decision-making processes that affect them directly. This lack of documented traditional ecological knowledge is particularly impactful in the Gulf of Maine, one of the fastest warming bodies of water on the planet. Fishermen and the communities that support them are on the front lines of change in these ecologically challenging times. The changes observed daily by fishermen impact how they fish, where they fish, and even if they can continue fishing.
The “Mapping Ocean Stories” project combines oral history with biographical mapping to build individual accounts and a collective picture of how fishermen and community members live, work, and access the water. The use of nautical charts enables participants to connect their stories to places on the ocean and coast. The traditional ecological knowledge that is revealed in such interviews can be powerful and informative. Fish migration patterns, names of bottom habitat, fishing territories, and other spatially referenced stories, when documented and aggregated, can transform individual anecdotes into a body of knowledge that provides fine-grained insights into impacts of regulatory actions or environmental changes. In addition, collecting and sharing stories from fishing community members instills a strong sense of community, which also fosters resilience to change.
Project partners (Maine Sea Grant, College of the Atlantic, and Island Institute) have worked collaboratively with historical societies, municipal officials, residents, and students to identify interviewees, and capture their stories. This presentation will outline the Mapping Ocean Stories project to date, including both methodology and impacts
How Two French Islands Recovered, Post-Cod
No full textAn examination of how two French islands off the coast of Newfoundland, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, survived Canada\u27s 1992 cod moratorium. Overnight, residents of the Canadian coast and of this French archipelago found themselves without work. How each community responded to the economic crisis differed. The French government stepped in and provided administrative jobs with local government and federal subsidies for other industries. Some in the community worry about the sustainability of this model and struggle to fill jobs in the service sector
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
- …
