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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
Holidays and Family Traditions: Mr. Richard Tarrence
No full text“Just the traditional holidays. I mean, we had little things we’d do in the traditional holidays. Like, you know, at New Years it was the family gathering and the black-eyed peas and stuff. And I didn’t become aware of Kwanzaa until many years later-just recently. And I don’t do it as a family celebration, but I do celebrate it with my church family. We have programs to celebrate Kwanzaa. But to answer your question: I had nothing specific other than just the traditional family gatherings that as a family we always held and to eat some traditional foods that we always ate.”https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/we-exist-exhibit-audio/1010/thumbnail.jp
Mr. Richard Terrence on Leisure (Interview Excerpt)
No full textInterviewer: Rachel Talbot-Ross
Interviewee: Mr. Richard Terrence
Interviewer: It sounds like you’re spent a great deal of your time in Gorham, but while you were living in Portland, was there anything particular about neighborhoods you were living in? Did you socialize with your neighbors?
Mr. Richard Terrence : “Yes. More so in Portland, than in either Gorham or South Portland, and that was because my children were growing up in Portland at that time. So their interactions usually bring interactions. Usually get involved. But I was very busy in Portland, too. I was trying to finish college up and also start my first full-time job with the government, with CETA, so I didn’t have a lot of time to interact. But one of the things that I do is I sing and I do theater. I did a lot of that. And so I did interact with the communities based on singing arrangements and doing theater.”
Interviewer: Was your wife working at this time as well?
Mr. Richard Terrence “She was working at Fairchild Semiconductor, and she’s been there like about 25 years. So the whole time I was going to school and the kids were growing up she’d work nights. I’d go to school in the days. That’s basically how we did.”
Interviewer: What’s one of your favorite performances? Do you remember? What sticks out?
Mr. Richard Terrence “A couple of them. I did Showboat. I did that twice: I did it back in the early 70s and then I just did it 3 years ago. I did it 3 years ago for the Lyric Theater. And I’m proud to say I’ve come a long way. I was given a professional contract this last time. Brunswick Music Theater signed me to a professional contract. As life would have it, you know, I had the choice of leaving my job or going to Broadway – a chance I’ve been waiting for all my life – and the timing wasn’t right.”
Interviewer: Tough decision.
Mr. Richard Terrence : “Tough decision. And I did The Wiz, which is one of my favorite shows. Did that twice. I’d say Showboat and The Wiz were my favorites.”
Interviewer: And they, that was touring just locally?
Mr. Richard Terrence “Lyric Theater I did Showboat and The Wiz. And then I did, I’ve done all three, the local theater: Lyric, Portland Players. And then we reprised The Wiz again at a small theater in Salmon Falls, Maine.”
Interviewer: Now The Wiz is a Black…
Mr. Richard Terrence “Yes, it’s a Black version that Dianna Ross and Michael Jackson did.”
Interviewer: So were there enough Black players?
Mr. Richard Terrence “It never was. They were never able to cast enough. And that was, that was the fun part of it: that interacting with the other actors. The white actors really tried hard to create those roles and it was great to be able to help them kinda reprise the roles.”
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Reverend Albert Jackson (born in Slabfork, Virginia; age 61; lived in Maine for 43 years) and Mrs. Clemmie Jackson (born March 1948 in Marengo County, Alabama; age 55; lived in Maine for 3.5 years)
Full Length Interview: Home is Where I Make It: Jackson, Rev. Albert and Clemmie Jacksonhttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/we4-leisureaudio/1001/thumbnail.jp
Parenting Behaviors and Attitudes: Mr. Richard Tarrence
No full text“There is no question that my upbringing and my background is a solid rock in my life. I mean, my mother’s words of wisdom, my father—very gentle people. Very loving and honest people, and they had a drive and a stick-to-it-iveness that I inherited obviously. I’ve never been one to waver a lot. You see that from my job histories; I stay on one job, pretty loyal to that. I just taught my kids to maintain a course, to not fight back in anger, but to fight back if threatened or injured or something like that. Try to teach them to think and not, you know, not to hate. You know, to understand where your challenges are coming from, to understand who you are as a human being. They are very aware of their blackness; they love who they are. They’ve been able to survive, and they’ve been able to survive through times when I was very hurt by it, but I couldn’t show them that side of it. You know, I could only show them the side that each day brings a new horizon; that they needed to continue and be who they are. I think that served me in good stead. I’ve always been able to do what I wanted to do and achieve what I wanted to achieve. There were moments I wanted to lash out and you know, just go off, and you can’t do that. I think trying to help instill that.”https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/we-exist-exhibit-audio/1009/thumbnail.jp
Mr. Richard Terrence on Leisure
Get PDFInterviewer: Rachel Talbot-Ross
Interviewee: Mr. Richard Terrence (age 57; born 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio; moved to Maine in October 1975)
“And, you know, raising my children is interesting in that as they grew older and as they noticed the very differences, they were starting to mix in very well. They were making friends, and, you know, they were involved in sporting activities and community.”https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/we4_leisurequotes/1005/thumbnail.jp
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