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Stephanie Smith, 1970-1971 Zeta Tau Alpha Member
No full textStephanie Smith was a student at Jacksonville State University. In 1970-1971 she was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/39107/thumbnail.jp
Stephanie Smith, Jan 5, 1932 - March 21, 2018
No full textOn March 21, 2018 Stephanie Smith, a Palo Altan for 50 years, died peacefully in her sleep at the Terraces of Los Altos at age 86 after a brief viral illness
Stephanie Smith, January 5, 1932 - March 21, 2018.
No full textOn March 21, 2018 Stephanie Smith, a Palo Altan for 50 years, died peacefully in her sleep at the Terraces of Los Altos at age 86 after a brief viral illness
Interview with Stephanie Smith
Get PDFThis interview was conducted as part of the East Marshall Street Well Project. Ana Edwards, a public historian and teaching professor, interviewed Stephanie Smith, who serves on the Family Representative Council. In this interview, Ms. Smith discussed her deep roots in Richmond’s Black community and reflected on her extensive involvement in the project from its inception. She also discussed the project’s progress, her vision for its future, and the legacy of VCU.In this session, Ms. Smith sits with interviewer Ana Edwards to discuss her experience as a part of the Family Representative Council member. Emphasizing her strong ties to Richmond, she reflects on her upbringing in the mid 20th century (00:00:41), her experience as a patient in the healthcare system, and her experiences with racism and classism at school and in the broader community (00:14:39). Noting the complex history of the Well, she walks through the FRC’s research of the Well’s history and adjacent examples of memorializing uncovered remains (00:25:59). From this process of discovery, she revisits the recommendations made for future research with DNA taken from the people whose remains were uncovered and her vision for creating a memorial for the ancestors (00:38:52). Smith elaborates on her future expectations for the FRC as a group, the legacy of VCU and its responsibility, and the need for institutional policies to be implemented (00:46:07). The interview ends with Smith noting the status of the EMSW Project’s implemented recommendations and the plan for internment of the remains (01:14:40).https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/emsw_oralhistories/1007/thumbnail.jp
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
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