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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
Tripartite Poetics: A Reexamination of Plato's Aesthetics
Get PDFTraditional approaches taken in analyzing Plato's aesthetics tend to privilege either the critical dialogues (especially the critiques present throughout Republic), or the dialogues which present poetry in a more positive light. Placing emphasis on one of these approaches leads to the exclusion, in varying degrees, of the opposing position. However, if poetry is reevaluated and given a tripartite structure a reconciliation of these positions can be arrived at. Tripartition is not uncommon in Plato's corpus, and by investigating Plato’s sense of poetry as though it possessed three components— a material component, an intellectual component, and a truthful component— a better understanding of Plato's broader aesthetics becomes possible. Each part of poetry roughly corresponds to, and affects a capacity of the soul, with the appetitive and material, spirited and intellectual, and reason-able and truthful creating pairs. Examining the relationship between poetry and the soul reveals subtle nuances in poetry, and allows for poetry to ascend higher than the critiques suggest. Along with the tripartition, there needs to be a greater focus on, and understanding of the ‘divine inspirer’ in Plato’s philosophical works. By elucidating the figure of the ‘divine inspirer’ the truth component of both poetry and philosophy can be drawn into a closer relationship. The historiographical nature of poetry, when traced to a divine source, can be viewed as possessing truth, which validates poetry. So, by deconstructing poetry into three distinct components, and recognizing the role of the divine inspirer in Plato’s conception, a constructive understanding of poetry that legitimizes both the critical and positive discussions of poetry presented in across the dialogues can be constructed
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
Difference in political argumentation theory
Get PDFThe subject of this dissertation is the argumentative analysis of political discourse. My general purpose is to argue in favor of a series of concepts that I consider useful for conducting analyses of certain argumentative situations typical of the political domain. Specifically, as an alternative to dominant perspectives of political deliberation, I argue in favor of a series of rhetorical perspectives of political controversy, which I ultimately apply in the discussion of a case that took place in Colombia in 2020. That is, a controversy about how to define certain events of violence, whether as a massacre or as a collective homicide. I proceed here in a “deductive” manner. That is, I start from the general, which is the meta-theory of argumentation, towards the particular, which is the case analysis. In the first chapter I introduce perspectivism as a meta-theory that is helpful in mapping the different frameworks that contemporary argumentation theory offers to analyze political argumentation. In chapter two I use the (meta) framework of perspectivism to describe the common and dominant model in different perspectives on argumentation: political epistemology, civic and deliberative rhetoric, pragma-dialectics, political discourse analysis, and civic logic. Also, I explain the close relationship between what I call the “dominant model of political deliberation” and different notions of disagreement, which are taken as descriptions of the argumentative situation in the political domain. In the third chapter I discuss the rhetorical perspectives that I use as an alternative to the model of political deliberation. From their reflections, I elaborate on the ideas that I take as central to my understanding of political argumentation and its analysis, namely: the revitalization of the epideictic genre, the need to consider ethos and pathos as legitimate means of persuasion, attention to rhetorical relations and the particularity of political argument, and notions of difference such as controversy, polemics, and incompatibility. In chapter four I discuss in detail the main notions mentioned earlier that are useful for understanding argumentative situations in the political domain. Thus, I answer three main issues; what is (genuine) disagreement, what is deep disagreement, and what is controversy/polemics. In the fifth chapter I develop the analysis of the controversy over how to define events of violence in Colombia. In the conclusion I discuss the difficulties of using the model of political deliberation and notions of disagreement to deal with the case at hand
Scientific Explanation and the Philosophy of Persuasion: Understanding Rhetoric through Scientific Principles and Mechanisms
Get PDFThis thesis explores the issue of whether Aristotle's Rhetoric is consistent with the principles and tools of contemporary science. The approach is to review Aristotle's Rhetoric (along with several modernizing ideas) in light of explanatory mechanisms from psychology, biology, cognitive science and neuroscience. The thesis begins by reviewing Aristotle's Rhetoric and modern rhetorical contributions from Chaim Perelman and Christopher Tindale. A discussion of several psychological principles of reasoning and their relevance to philosophical rhetoric follows. Next, a computational cognitive science framework on emotions and cognition and its applicability to rhetoric is provided, followed by a discussion from principles of evolutionary biology on language evolution and morality and their relevance to rhetoric. The thesis concludes with a brief discussion of rhetorical ideas relative to the neuroanatomy of deductive and inductive reasoning and relative to a view of morality founded on brain neurochemistry
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