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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
From communicating to distributing: Studying open government and open data in the Netherlands
Get PDFIn the last couple of decades, calls for governmental openness and transparency motivated the establishment of international and national initiatives all focused on the strengthening of the open and transparent character of governments. Open data policies are important elements of these initiatives and aim to make (governmental) data more accessible to the public via the publication of datasets on data portals and dashboards. The question asked in this thesis is how and in what way open data transform the relationships between governments and citizens? This is an important question to ask because, as Van Eechoud once argued, openness is not only a tool to be used by citizens to control their governments, but also one used by governments to control their citizens. Often, governmental open data are understood as acts of communication: governments communicate data to, for instance, citizens in the hope that citizens will transform the data into something valuable. Based on an empirical analysis of open data in the domains of water governance, and local government, Van Maanen argues that it is more helpful to see open data as acts of distribution. Understanding the production and publication of open data by governments as acts of distribution has several advantages. First and foremost, framing open government and open data in distributive terms helps thinking about the duties governments have to society that go beyond taking care of the quality of the messages, information, and data communicated to the public. How, for instance, should governments relate themselves to commercial actors that are sometimes more interested in the data than the average citizen? Second, a notion of distributive justice also forces one to reflect on who should receive something from which government and in what way. How to ensure, for instance, that the inhabitants of a municipality are also capable of making use of the data distributed to them? Third, notions of distributive justice also make one reconsider and reprioritize what kind of things should be distributed by governments. To what extent are data and information always the best goods to distribute when one wants to improve the democratic character of the government? Fourth, notions of distributive justice destabilize the (implicit) conflation of economic and political values present in open government and open data initiatives. A communication-transcending norm like distributive justice allows one to be critical of such limited or platform-like understandings of governmental duties. In sum, understanding open government and open data into distributive terms destabilizes the sender-recipient: government-citizen relationship presupposed in open government policy by explicating moral-political questions that go beyond the quality of the ‘bridges’ to be built by openness. This, in the end, results in a repolitization of the presuppositions and aims of open government policy, and especially of the idea that openness is a Swiss army knife to be of value for everything and everyone
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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