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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
Decolonizing Conservation: Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
Full text linkThis book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people’s lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and attempts to decolonize conservation practice. To do so, the authors examine conservation activities at Maori marae—meeting houses—located in the US, Germany, and England and contrasts them with changes in marae conservation in New Zealand. A key case study is the Hinemihi meeting house, transported to England in the 1890s where it was treated as a curiosity by visitors to Clandon Park for over a century, and more recently as a focal point of cultural activity for UK Maori communities. Recent efforts to include various Maori stakeholder communities in the care of this sacred structure is a key example of community based conservation that can be replicated in heritage practice around the world
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
Future of island heritage in the face of the climate crisis: the challenges and opportunities of heritage management in the South Pacific
Full text linkrightly dominate discourse across sectors, with the heritage discipline not only grappling with increasing impacts on heritage landscapes, but also how to best advocate for its integral role in mobilising effective climate mitigation and adaption strategies.
However, amongst this rise of interest, little recognition or resources have been focused in helping facilitate a voice of resilience, or platform of response for Māori and the wider Indigenous community in the South Pacific. This is despite Indigenous being used as the poster child for environmental impact and climate urgency, heralding a unique and often victimising narrative that focuses predominately on loss.
This thesis is therefore a direct response to this clear research gap, exploring the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous heritage landscapes with collaborative work undertaken alongside three coastal iwi across Aotearoa/New Zealand. Their associated heritage landscapes were analysed in detail, utilising a combination of literature reviews and fieldwork to develop the most appropriate and representative management strategies.
Critically, this research engages with Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies to ensure that Te Ao Māori worldviews, knowledge, practices, and values play a critical part in framing the research approach and outputs. Through the case studies it works through ideas of resilience, adaptation, and connection, specifically finding means to retain, re-establish and re-think heritage connection and management. The research also raises significant longstanding tension and lack of dialogue between heritage bodies, governmental bodies, and local communities, with a fundamental misrepresentation and mismanagement of local values and community aspirations. Much of this is also hindered through a complex history brought about by colonisation, with the climate crisis often seen as secondary in light of more pressing threats, yielding a critical look at the entangled complexity of climate responses and realities.
The outcome of the research highlights how current approaches to heritage management during the climate crisis need to consider more critically how inclusive sustainable heritage management strategies can and should be achieved. Specifically it suggests that the greatest opportunities for successful climate related heritage management can come from rich and coordinated collaborations with nature-based solutions and projects. It is also suggested that narratives of inevitable loss and extensive damage are more dangerous than motivating for Indigenous communities, who show a greater level of resilience and adaptation than currently presented in the global media. Instead, their heritage plays an important role in helping mobilise new, creative and collaborative means of rethinking and reimagining our future climate legacies and heritage management
Dispelling 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
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
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