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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
Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom. Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner, eds. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 362. Index.
No full textDispelling 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
Behind the Scenes of Legal Interpretation: Interpretive Practices at the International Criminal Court
No full textLegal interpretation is pivotal to a substantial proportion of the day-to-day practices at the ICC. From legal staff working at the ICC’s Judicial Divisions to defense counsel, much of the daily work at the ICC consists of conducting legal research and assessing the applicability of legal provisions to the specific case at hand. Researching interpretive practices – and the interpretive communities in which these practices are enacted – is therefore key to opening up the ‘black box’ of the ICC. Despite their centrality, getting a glimpse behind the scenes of legal interpretation at international courts is notoriously difficult, not least because of the secrecy of judicial deliberations. Drawing on practice theory, this paper a) suggests using the parallel concepts of communities of practice and interpretive communities as a conceptual lens to research interpretive legal practices; and b) outlines a methodological toolbox for researching such practices empirically. To illustrate the types of insights that these different options offer, the chapter analyzes how judges and legal staff at the ICC’s Judicial Divisions refer to previous decisions of the ICTY and the ICTR in their interpretive practices. Drawing on interviews with ICC judges and legal officers and an analysis of practitioner’s handbooks, the chapter thereby explores how professional assumptions shared by international lawyers on, for example, the interpretive weight attributed to the jurisprudence of the ad hoc Tribunals are themselves subject to contestation
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