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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
Spoken from the grave:The construction of social identities on the funerary monuments of metics in Classical Athens
Get PDFTalking about metics means echoing the Athenian master narrative on the free foreigners who were living in the Athenian polis. Metoikia was essentially an Athenian creation, solely formulated and articulated by the Athenian demos. However, the fact that the people who were labelled ‘metics’ were not actively participating in this master narrative on their status in Athenian society does not mean that they were completely silent or silenced on this matter. This chapter investigates the ways in which the people who were commonly and collectively labelled as metics by the Athenians constructed a wide range of social identities on the funerary monuments of their loved ones. It builds on a corpus of 125 (fragments of) funerary monuments and around 500 funerary inscriptions from the fifth and fourth centuries that can to some degree be associated with metics. Significantly, these funerary monuments never explicitly refer to the metic status of the deceased. But what, if not their metic status, were the important values and social relationships deemed worthy of public praise by these free foreigners living and dying in classical Athens
The local slave systems of Ancient Greece
Get PDFA key objective of this volume is to explore the history of groups that are either underrepresented in our ancient literary sources and/or overlooked in modern scholarship. These may include, for instance, women, metics and immigrants, lower-class labourers, and slaves. Slavery is the subject of this chapter; but when we talk about slavery in ancient Greece, the tendency to date has been to talk about slavery in Athens, a choice that may seem odd in a world of a thousand or so far from uniform poleis. That choice has been justified in part due to the distribution of evidence: Athens simply represents the focal point of the vast majority of our literary sources, whilst slavery in the vast majority of other poleis goes completely unattested (though it is prima facie likely to have played a significant role in economy and society).There is a second reason for the focus on Athens, however; and that is to do with taxonomy and scholarly tradition. For much of the twentieth century, labour systems described as systems of slavery in classical Greek sources have been categorised as something else by modern scholars. Most prominent among these labourers are the Helots of Lakonia and Messenia; analogous groups include the Penestai of Thessaly, the Killyrioi of Syracuse, the Klarotai of Crete, and the Mariandynoi of Herakleia Pontike. These have typically been counted not as slave populations but as systems of “serfdom,” “dependent peasantry,” or “unfree labour.”The present chapter has two aims. The first is to show that the classification of such systems as something other than slavery is unwarranted: it depends on overlooking more reliable early sources (which classify these populations as slaves, privately owned and subject to sale) in favour of less reliable late sources written long after these systems of slavery had ceased to exist (which classify them as something other than slaves). A source-critical method enjoins us to take seriously these early sources and re-admit such systems into our overall framework, seeing Greek slavery not just as Athenian slavery writ large, but as a patchwork of diverse epichoric slave systems whose distinctive features were adaptive responses to local historical developments. The second aim of this chapter is to illustrate the diversity of Greek slave systems, and thereby the experiences of those exploited in them, through a series of thumbnail sketches: Thessaly, Lokris, Herakleia Pontike, and Khios. Although such a survey is far from comprehensive, its range should indicate how the experience of work, supervision, and violence was extremely varied across the Greek world
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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