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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
Musical reuse in the Notre Dame repertory: historiography and new computational directions
Get PDFOf the many questions that we may wish to ask of the repertory of twelfth- and thirteenth-century music commonly known as Notre Dame polyphony, issues surrounding musical reuse and borrowing suffuse nearly every aspect. Questions of chronologies, locations, composers, purposes, processes, orality, performance, transmission, as well as all manner of other unknowns in the repertory, can be well argued and evidenced by the presence (or not) of musical reuse and borrowing. The freedom with which fragments, and sometimes even entire settings of music, circulated throughout thirteenth-century musical culture appears to defy our typical notions of chronology, composition, and even deterministic process.
Musicological scholarship from the 19th century to the present day places the clausula at the centre of this whirlwind of borrowings and musical–textual allusions, the enigmatic form by which the contemporary music theorist Anonymous IV contended that the modernisation of the repertory had taken place. Modern study has identified many so-called substitute clausulae in the fragments of polyphonic settings transmitted in certain fascicles of the central manuscript sources, and it is largely by these substitute clausulae that the later genre of the motet was created. However, relating substitute clausulae back to their source organa and forward to motet has proven difficult, due to the music of the Notre Dame repertory refusing to yield in all cases to the simple and causal chronology that this implies.
More recent work in particular is considering how musical reuse in the Notre Dame repertory may be conceived beyond the static and one-to-one substitutions of clausulae. These are often thought of as different phenomena: processes such as indirect concordances and melodic formulae are considered entirely separate from clausula substitution. At the same time, musical reuse has been treated with a particularly restrictive historical focus, and the clausula has been given centre stage as the main vehicle for musical reuse, catalogued and analysed as tightly interwoven with motet, and minimising other forms of musical reuse in the process. However, when we try to uncover what authors actually mean when they are discussing aspects of musical reuse such as the clausula, we find their definitions inexact and conflicting.
This dissertation therefore tackles the issue of musical reuse in the Notre Dame repertory afresh, placing the notation of the manuscript sources at the centre of the study and considering how the broader issue of reuse can be studied holistically in the twenty-first century, beyond limiting categorical descriptors and arbitrary criteria. By creating new methodological tools around the complex and ambiguous notation of thirteenth century polyphony, I investigate how new digital methods can be harnessed to extract patterns of musical reuse further than via simple verbatim substitution. The operation and interpretation of thirteenth century notation poses new and unique challenges for representation in the computer which have not yet been satisfactorily solved. I therefore develop novel encoding, optical music recognition, and analysis methodologies to approach these problems from new angles, centred around a specially created online database for the browsing, editing, and analysis of thirteenth-century polyphony.
Using the novel tools that I present as part of this study, I extract new and previously undetected patterns of musical reuse within the repertory that fall outside of our typical perceptions of independent reuse phenomena, pointing the way towards a wider and more nuanced concept of musical reuse as a dispersed network of common musical culture in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This is a concept that does not necessarily rely on causality or linear process, and hence may resolve the underlying issues (chronology, composition, and deterministic process) that musical reuse represents
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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