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Appendix 1. Authors and their papers: a guidance sheet for authors and writers
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Conclusion: the future of literary manuscripts — an international perspective
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Namibian literary archives: new beginnings and a possible African model
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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
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
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
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Francophone literary archives at risk
Full text linkAs the Senegalese author and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor wrote in 1989, the “irreparable losses” of literary heritage “have been instrumental in permanently distorting the contribution of our peoples to universal civilization”. This risk remains important, and has become even more urgent with renewed threats from climate change and new forms of warfare. Much more work needs to be done to protect literary archives at risk at both a national and an international level, as well as to concert the work that is currently being carried out by myriad organisations across a variety of regions. This chapter explores initiatives within French-speaking transnational structures and contexts to protect literary archives. As one of the large language areas whose literary production attracts the attention of international manuscript collectors, and with large and unique transnational structures organised according to the shared French language and culture, the French-speaking efforts to address these issues are far-reaching and distinctive. To further promote the drawing together and sharing of perspectives, the chapter sets out some of the singularities of the francophone experience, and highlights differences in approaches and methodologies in the French work to safeguard global literary heritage. It explores this work through two case studies: first that of a French literary manuscript research institute, and its team that works in collaboration with local scholars and custodians on preserving francophone manuscripts in the Global South, and second, the non-governmental approach of a much smaller French literary and publishing archive. It is structured around three key areas where the French experience has been distinctive. First, it looks at the research agenda in French-speaking academia, and how this has shaped priorities and responses to the problem of archives at risk; second, it examines the supra-national structure of La Francophonie and the challenges and opportunities this offers; and it concludes with recent efforts to move beyond the state-focused approach that has often characterised French-led rescue work through attempts to develop smaller, non-governmental solutions
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