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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
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The Canadian Department of Justice and the completion of confederation, 1867-78 /
No full text"Jonathan Swainger considers the growth and development of the ostensibly apolitical Department of Justice in the eleven years after the union of 1867. Drawing on legal records and other archival documents, he details the complex interactions between law and politics, exploring how expectations both inside and outside the legal system created an environment in which the department acted as an advisor to the government. He concludes by considering the post-1878 legacy of the department's approach to governance, wherein any problem, legal or otherwise, was made amenable to politicized solutions." "The Canadian Department of Justice and the Completion of Confederation will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Canadian legal and political history."--Jacke
A Bench in Disarray : The Quebec Judiciary and The Federal Department of Justice, 1867-1878
Get PDFThe poor state of the Quebec judiciary following Confederation was widely recognized although there was no consensus as to the nature of the problems or possible solutions. At issue was not only the quality of the administration of justice but also the philosophical assumptions underlaying George-Etienne Cartier's judicial decentralization act of 1857. Thus despite the efforts of reformers committed to the modernization of Quebec through a rational legal structure, the subsequent relationship between the judiciary and the Department of Justice suggests that intrigue, manipulation, obstruction, and opportunism did more to shape the quality of Quebec's bench prior to 1878.Après la Confédération, on reconnaissait bien l'état lacunaire de la magistrature québécoise, mais il n'y avait pas de consensus quant aux causes et aux solutions. Non seulement la qualité de l’administration de la justice, mais également les postulats philosophiques de la loi de décentralisation, adoptée en 1857 à l'instigation de George-Etienne Cartier, étaient en cause. Malgré les efforts des réformateurs, qui cherchaient à rationaliser l'administration de la justice, les rapports subséquents entre le judiciaire et le ministère de la Justice laissent entrevoir que les intrigues, les entraves et l’opportunisme influèrent davantage sur la qualité de la magistrature québécoise d'avant 1878
Carolyn Strange, The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History (Toronto: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press 2020)
No full textVariations 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
Christopher English, ed. Essays in The History of Canadian Law, Vol IX, Two Islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island.
No full text"A tortuous history": Federal-provincial relations and the future of Medicare.
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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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