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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
Ernest Hemingway’s—Robert Jordan
No full textBriefly comments on Hemingway’s stylistic synthesis of realism and modernism in For Whom the Bell Tolls
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
The Booker Prize and the legacy of empire
Get PDFThis thesis is about the Booker Prize—the London-based literary award given annually to
"the best novel written in English" chosen from writers from countries which are part of or
have been part of the British Commonwealth. The approach to the Prize is thematically but
not chronologically historical, spanning twenty-six years of award-winning novels from the
Prize's inauguration in 1969 to a cut-off point of 1995. The twenty-nine novels which have
won or shared the Prize in this period are examined within a theoretical framework intended
to map out the literary terrain which the novels inhabit. More specifically, the thesis is
arranged in chapters which explore individually themes that occur within the larger narrative
that is formed by this body of novels. The chapters, which are prefaced with thematic
introductions and framed by theoretical commentary, explore aspects of the cultures, social
trends, and movements that the novels invoke collectively, spanning the stages of British
Empire perceived by their authors over the last three decades. Individually and collectively
the novels provide a reflection, often in terms of more than a single static image, of British
imperial culture after empire, contesting, and reinterpreting perceptions of the historical
moment of the British Empire and its legacy in contemporary culture.
It is my thesis that the body of Booker Prize winning novels from 1969 to 1995 narrates
the ending of British Empire and the emergence of different cultural formations in its
aftermath. This idea is pursued in the seven chapters of the thesis which discretely explore
groups of novels which deal with aspects of the transition from empire to a post-imperial
culture-the stages from early imperial expansion, to colonisation, to retrenchment,
decolonisation and post-colonial pessimism, to the emergence of tribal nationalisms and post-imperial
nation-states in the aftermath of empire. Throughout this thesis the focus is
primarily literary and contingently cultural
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