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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
A New "Look" at the Canon: De-familiarizing the Works of Thackeray, Dickens, Collins, and Gaskell through a Recovery of their Illustrations
Full text linkThis project examines the role of illustration in the serialized fiction of William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell during the period of 1847-1868, when illustrated fiction reached its height in Victorian England. Illustrations featured in much of 19th-century British fiction, but these images, at one time paramount in the reading and marketing of such literature, rarely receive close attention in literary criticism and the literature classroom. Not only does this absence of such a vital textual element compromise the experience of these works, but it prevents the modern reader from engaging with and understanding the complex relationship between reading and seeing. Interweaving literary theory regarding the physical and conceptual space of the book and literary analysis of the complex relationship between image and word, I situate a canonical text by each author in its historical period and the Victorian reading marketplace as I explore the influence of illustration on the reception of the written text for today's readers. Examining these illustrations demonstrates the complex illuminative effects of Thackeray's working as both author and illustrator in Vanity Fair; the reflection of Dickens's textual content and mixed narrative style in Our Mutual Friend; the translation of an English novel in an American journal and the presence of a visual meta-narrative in The Moonstone; and the visual manipulation, or revision, of key elements in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. In analyzing specific illustrations and the ways in which they mediate, revise, and alternately support or resist the text to moderate reader understanding and interpretation, I consider the variety and expression of authorial control and the act of interpretation as implicitly emphasized and challenged through the relationship between image and text in each work. In reclaiming these visual elements I assert the importance of interdisciplinarity in literary studies as well as the pedagogical significance of expanding traditional critical approaches to account for a variety of media
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
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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
sophisticated methods
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No full textNikki Giovani / Author / Nikki Giovani - black author and playwright / Volker Hall Room A / 16th Street 8th Avenue / Personality shot for 2 column or wider use / [Work order included
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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
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