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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
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
Building materialism: Architecture, interior space and urbanism in East German literature, 1949–1973
No full textThe legacy of Brechtian materialism in the GDR was problematic when it came to architecture. Processes of design, planning and construction exposed fault lines in dialectical materialist thinking regarding the role of the state and possibilities for workers\u27 self-organization. Yet new buildings in the GDR were asked to bear heavy ideological and material burdens to which writers responded even as they were reacting to Brecht\u27s aesthetic theories and practices. Building Materialism: Architecture, Interior Space and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1949–1973 explores how Brigitte Reimann, Heiner Müller, Christa Wolf and Günter de Bruyn, in key texts, tapped into long-standing tropes of left-wing discomfort with modernist architecture as they represented critically the design, planning, construction and propagation of interior space and urban environments in the GDR. This dissertation argues that, even while expanding on this longer tradition, these authors, self-consciously or not, echoed diverse contemporary discourses internationally which were similarly critical of modernist design and construction practices at mid-century. This internationally relevant critique was an integral part of these writers\u27 turn to more experimental techniques in their texts. They represented the state\u27s apartment interiors and cities in ambiguous and enigmatic language as sites of contested, rather than fixed, meanings. This in turn combated banal metaphors in the mainstream press which saw architecture as a clear-cut symbol of socialist progress. In enacting this critique, these writers questioned both Socialist Realism\u27s assumption of an easy relationship between text and reality and, more significantly, the rationalist intellectual framework that underpinned the state\u27s commitment to scientific progress in the 1960s. The result was a wholesale remaking of Brechtian materialism in order to account for the radical reorganization of everyday life by technology in the post-War period
Building Socialism: Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973
No full textBuilding Socialism reveals how East German writers\u27 engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture to a mid-century modernist literature in dialogue with multiple literary and left-wing theoretical traditions and in tune with international assessments of modernist architecture and urban planning.
Design and construction were a central part of politics and everyday life in East Germany during this time as buildings old and new were asked to bear heavy ideological and social burdens. In their novels, stories, and plays, Heiner Müller, Christa Wolf, Günter Kunert, Volker Braun, Günter de Bruyn, and Brigitte Reimann responded to enormous new factory complexes, experimental new towns, the demolition of Berlin\u27s tenements, and the propagation of a pared-down modernist aesthetic in interior design. Writers\u27 representation of the design, construction, and use of architecture formed part of a turn to modernist literary devices, including montage, metaphor, and shifting narrative perspectives. East Germany\u27s literary architecture also represents a sophisticated theoretical reflection on the intractable problems of East Germany\u27s socialist modernity, including the alliance between state socialism and technological modernization, competing commitments to working-class self-organization and the power of specialist planners and designers, and the attempt to create an alternative to fascism.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1083/thumbnail.jp
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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