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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
Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1
No full textIn recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical engagements by drag performers, makers, scholars and writers reflecting on work from the UK, USA, Israel, Germany and Australia. Moving beyond discussions of gender theory, the essays consider contemporary drag performance practices, connecting them to the histories, communities and politics that produced them. Chapters range across discussions of drag kings in the US, UK and drag and activism; the influence of RuPaul on the generation of new forms of work in New York; transfeminist critiques of drag; 'bio'/faux queens; engagements with race and ethnicity through drag performance; drag andragogy; audience concerns; drag intersections with animal personas, and how drag performance relates to personal narratives of history and identity. Collectively the contributions focus on drag as a mode of performance that is diverse and that uncorsets the easy thought that drag is simply a cross dressing man in a dress or a woman in a suit
Not a Cock in a Frock, But a Hole Story. Drag and the Mark of the 'Bioqueens'
No full textThis chapter engages with the phenomenon known colloquially as ‘bio-queens’. Bio-queens are biological female performers who make work as if a traditional drag queen. Thus the performers: females playing males playing females, makes for a complex interplay of gender, performance and the traditions of drag. By comparing drag king performances, the chapter unpicks how drag performance traditions are present in kings and queens. It then looks to how performance with bio-queens concurs, upsets and augments those drag traditions. There is a politics at play when a cis-gendered performer presents cross-cast in drag forms (in this case a female presenting as female) and this chapter engages with the presentation of bio-queens as a form of politics in the queer community – and notes that even the term bio-queen is subject to vigorous debate. By focussing on a specific performer, Holestar, this chapter engages primarily with her work, but also with her experience of misogyny in the community and the mark this has left on her. Through her experiences, the chapter plays on this idea of ‘mark/ing’ as a moment of noticing, of marking something out of place or out of rhythm that in some way allows an audience to see unexamined assumptions about drag performance (and perhaps its position in relation to gender equality). Marking also stands as a term for grading, for ranking the relative quality of something. This turn to the quality of the performance (given that Holestar sings and lots of queens do not) brings about an interesting discussion of the relationship of the quality of the work, the traditions into which it fits and the community in which it is practiced. The chapter closes by marking the importance of bio-queens in the scene, not only to further diversify the kinds of work present, but also as a litmus test of the grassroots politics of the community in which the work mostly plays. It makes the closing argument that bio-queens are in some ways continuing the political and cultural work of drag kings and drag queens in a way that kings or queens cannot. Holestar continues to do this work on stage and in interview in a fierce way (indeed berating academics for their inability to speak in a language that most performers understand). She does this, of course, whilst maintaining impeccable and unfeasibly large hair
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
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
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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