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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Tom Fleming Folder
No full text24 pages of family history documents containing and related to Thomas E. Fleming; Ellen Stenberg Fleming; Margie Bowen; - including: Index; Oral History; obi
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Staging the International Embrace: George Leslie Mackay Narratives on Taiwanese Stages
No full textJosh Stenberg considers three Taiwanese productions of the last ten years (puppetry, Western opera, xiqu), which have dramatized the life of nineteenth-century Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay. The article connects the way in which a Canadian white foreigner is represented on stage with Taiwan’s anxiety surrounding its lack of international recognition, arguing that Mackay has been enlisted in Taiwanese nation-building theatre as a wish-fulfilling stand-in for desirable foreigner behaviour. Since the legitimacy and characteristics of an autonomous Taiwanese consciousness (like Canadian identity) are disputed and evolving, this case serves to examine theatre as a medium during an embryonic stage in the production of nationhood: the Mackay productions are theatre for a nation that—depending substantially on foreign attitudes—may or may not yet be produced. Furthermore, attention to this Canadian character abroad broadens the discussion of Canadian intercultural theatre by drawing attention to how, since identities are dialogic, Canadians are not the only ones who get to decide who we are or what we mean.Dans cette contribution, Josh Stenberg examine trois productions taiwanaises des dix dernières années (théâtre de marionnettes, opéra occidental, xiqu) qui ont adapté pour la scène la vie de George Leslie Mackay, un missionnaire presbytérien du XIX e siècle. Dans son analyse, Stenberg établit un rapport entre la représentation dont fait l’objet sur scène un étranger canadien de race blanche et l’anxiété ressentie à Taïwan face au manque de reconnaissance de ce pays à l’échelle mondiale. Selon Stenberg, le théâtre taïwanais qui est au service de l’édification du pays se sert de Mackay pour représenter le comportement que l’on souhaite voir chez l’étranger. Puisque la légitimité et les caractéristiques d’une conscience taïwanaise autonome (comme l’identité canadienne) sont encore contestées et en pleine évolution, ce cas nous permet d’examiner le théâtre en tant que medium au cours du stade embryonnaire d’une nation en devenir, sachant que les pièces sur Mackay sont destinées à une nation qui—en grande partie selon les attitudes des étrangers—pourraient ne jamais voir le jour. Qui plus est, l’attention portée à ce personnage canadien à l’étranger sert à élargir la discussion sur le théâtre interculturel canadien en nous rappelant que puisque les identités sont dialogiques, les Canadiens ne sont pas les seuls à même de décider qui nous sommes et ce que nous signifions
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
Social reading for mental health
No full textLisbeth Stenberg, PhD, Reader, Comparative literature,
Department of literature, history of ideas and religion,
Uni versity of Gothenburg.Social reading is a praxis that has gained renewed interest
during the twenty-first century. In my research project »Social
reading — fiction and health« I strive to throw light on if and
how the use of group discussions of fiction can play a supportive
role in rehabilitation. In this chapter I discuss the results
of my exploratory empirical studies of five reading groups,
theorizing the processes of interpretation from a sociological
perspective.
My results indicate firstly, that group discussions about a
text inviting identification tend to result in a deeper understanding
of the characters and have the potential to empower
individuals. Secondly, texts likely to raise debate rather than
lead to role-taking open up for readers to try out new ways of
understanding or judging characters that they originally feel
unrelated to
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