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An Nasc (Volume 2, Issue 2), Fall 1989
No full textThe Newsletter of the D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, N.S.Articles to note:
Titley, Alan. Disporting oneself on the treetops: Dineen, other deviants and dictionaries. An Nasc 2, no, 2 (1989): 9-12.
Punch, Terrence M. Irish surnames. An Nasc 2, no, 2 (1989): 23-26
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
Parabolas: Stories and Fables
No full textHere is a book I presume I had not learned of because it is marketed in the UK and perhaps not in the USA. The author presents an engaging sense of the stories he has gathered here, all originally written in Irish and culled from three previous collections. While some of them follow the well-rutted path of the traditional short story, there are others that are tales, or yarns, or fables, or plots, or just fictions, because a story is a truly raggy thing (13). I find the first story offering a clue to all the others: The Storyteller (17). Here we read of a Jesus-like figure who told stories on street corners or in the fields or in the back rooms of pubs. He becomes a cult figure but then passes out of fashion as he had passed into fashion. While in fashion, he challenges people to invite to their parties the poor, the hoboes, the junkies, the scumbags on the streets, goddam filthy immigrants…. Do it this way 'cause they can never invite you back. Later his stories engender stories, commentaries, exegeses, and epicycles on their cycles. The stories in this little volume have some of the shock value of scripture stories. One that is close to traditional fable form has the maggot closing a debate with the far-flying bird by saying that he will have seen the ground and I will have left my mark upon it (30). One subset that catches my attention includes these titles: A Yarn of Fifty Words Only (57); Story in One Hundred Words (119); and Tale in Twenty-Five Words (130). A fine anticlerical piece is The Bishop Who Stuck His Finger in the Dyke (58). For me, As It is in Heaven (69) is not only surprising but also inappropriate. Falling Out of Love (115) is no fable, but it gets the experience just right. What a refreshing little book!Signed by Alan TitleyAlan Title
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
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