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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
Curiosité et vanité chez le sujet anthropologue de la première modernité (Robert Burton, Tomazo Garzoni)
No full textDans cet article, nous essayons de montrer que Robert Burton et Tomaso Garzoni ont écrit des textes encyclopédiques dans lesquels la vanité de la libido sciendi est mise en scène de diverses manières. Les structures cumulatives de l’Anatomy of Melancholy et d’Il Teatro de’ vari e diversi cervelli mondani tendent à décomposer le texte savant, qui devient confus et plein de contradictions. L’ironie et les anecdotes plaisantes déconstruisent le projet didactique des traités, tandis que l’analogie entre l’auteur et les hommes qu’il étudie révèle les limites de l’autorité du savant. La métaphore théâtrale, qui assimile l’auteur à un acteur ou le texte à un spectacle, suggère la vanité du savoir déployé par le traité. Toutefois, les textes ne démontrent pas l’illégitimité de la curiosité : ils suggèrent plutôt les limites de l’entreprise, dès lors que son objet est la nature humaine, dans sa variété et sa finitude.Robert Burton and Tomaso Garzoni wrote encyclopaedic texts in which the vanity of libido sciendi is staged in various ways. The cumulative structures of The Anatomy of Melancholy and Il Teatro de’ vari e diversi cervelli mondani tend to disintegrate the erudite text, which becomes confused and full of contradictions. Irony and pleasant anecdotes deconstruct the didactic aim of the treatises, while the analogy between the author and the men he studies reveals the limits of the scholar’s authority. The theatrical metaphor, which compares the author to an actor, or the text to a show, suggests the vanity of the knowledge displayed by the treatise. Nevertheless, the texts do not demonstrate the illegitimacy of curiosity: they rather suggest the limits of the work, when it considers human nature, its variety and its finitude
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
Critiques policières : l'interprétation du tableau au service de l'enquête criminelle chez Robertson Davies et Orhan Pamuk
No full textDirecteurs d'ouvrage : Correard (Nicolas), Ferré (Vincent), Teulade (Anne).International audienceUn homme remarquable de Robertson Davies et Mon nom est rouge d’Orhan Pamuk sont deux fictions qui empruntent au genre policier et dont la résolution passe par l’interprétation de tableaux. Cette étude montre que l’activité interprétative y sollicite des lectures divergentes et produit une déstabilisation du sens des images et des textes
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
Mettre en scène la pure vertu de saint Alexis : Nicolas Mary Desfontaines dans le contexte européen
No full textNous réfléchissons à la manière dont Desfontaines a élaboré une tragédie à partir de la légende de saint Alexis. Ce sujet où passions et actions font défaut semblait peu théâtral dans la France des années 1640 ; il se distingue même du reste du théâtre hagiographique français, où la confrontation du chrétien à l’empereur et le martyre final du héros permettent de créer aisément une dramaturgie conflictuelle. Nous comparons d’abord les choix de notre dramaturge à ceux des auteurs de pièces espagnole et italienne sur Alexis. Nous examinons ensuite comment la focalisation de Desfontaines sur Olympie lui permet de créer une dramaturgie pathétique, avant de voir comment la confrontation du saint à un pôle terrestre étoffé entraîne une dramatisation originale de la sainteté, où la tension entre transcendance et mondanité donne à lire un parcours purement spirituel. Cette voie, qui n’a été privilégiée ni par les dramaturges français de l’époque, ni par les adaptateurs étrangers de la légende, constitue une authentique innovation théâtrale.This essay reflects upon the way Desfontaines wrote a tragedy based on St Alexis’ legend. This subject, which lacks passions and actions, appeared as a poor theatrical matter in 1640’s France. It differs from the rest of French hagiographical drama, in which the confrontation between the Christian and the emperor on the one hand, the stress on the martyr of the hero on the other, enables the author to create a dramaturgy of conflict. We primarily compare Desfontaines’ choices to those made by Spanish and Italian authors of dramas about Alexis. Then we study how Desfontaines’ focusing upon Olympie produces a pathetic dramaturgy, and how the confrontation of the saint with a terrestrial world copiously represented shows an inventive dramatization of holiness, in which the opposition between transcendence and worldliness underlines a purely spiritual trajectory. This dramatization of holiness appears as a real theatrical innovation, as none of the French, Spanish or Italian adapters of Alexis’ legend chose it
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