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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
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
My Body, Whose Choice? A Case for a Fundamental Right to Bodily Autonomy
No full textIn 2022, the US Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the fundamental right to abortion it had established nearly fifty years prior. The Court’s decision threw into uncertainty the future of not only reproductive rights in this country, but also many other individual rights. At the same time as the decision, the world was still reeling from a global pandemic, and the development of COVID-19 vaccines had spurred widespread controversy over the constitutionality of vaccine mandates. Both advocates for abortion access and opponents to vaccine mandates shared a common cry: “my body, my choice,” recognizing the implication of these issues on their bodily autonomy. However, a fundamental right to bodily autonomy has never been established. Instead, most individual rights—including, previously, the right to obtain an abortion—are protected under a fundamental right to privacy, a right that has received significant criticism for its multitude of meanings and overly broad scope. Situated within the many contours of the right to privacy, however, is a strong constitutional basis for establishing a fundamental right to bodily autonomy, which would better safeguard the individual rights privacy aims to protect. This note proposes that we can and should establish a fundamental right to bodily autonomy. It argues that such a right is soundly supported by the Constitution, would combat privacy’s weaknesses in safeguarding individual rights, and is capable of withstanding the strictest judicial scrutiny. Under a fundamental right to bodily autonomy, abortion bans could likely not withstand strict scrutiny, and vaccine mandates would similarly not survive except in pandemic circumstances. However, the recognition of such a right would serve to safeguard individual choices while continuing to allow government actions aimed at combating the true causes of these issues
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
My Body, Whose Choice? A Case for a Fundamental Right to Bodily Autonomy
Full text linkIn 2022, the US Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the fundamental right to abortion it had established nearly fifty years prior. The Court’s decision threw into uncertainty the future of not only reproductive rights in this country, but also many other individual rights. At the same time as the decision, the world was still reeling from a global pandemic, and the development of COVID-19 vaccines had spurred widespread controversy over the constitutionality of vaccine mandates. Both advocates for abortion access and opponents to vaccine mandates shared a common cry: “my body, my choice,” recognizing the implication of these issues on their bodily autonomy. However, a fundamental right to bodily autonomy has never been established. Instead, most individual rights—including, previously, the right to obtain an abortion—are protected under a fundamental right to privacy, a right that has received significant criticism for its multitude of meanings and overly broad scope. Situated within the many contours of the right to privacy, however, is a strong constitutional basis for establishing a fundamental right to bodily autonomy, which would better safeguard the individual rights privacy aims to protect. This note proposes that we can and should establish a fundamental right to bodily autonomy. It argues that such a right is soundly supported by the Constitution, would combat privacy’s weaknesses in safeguarding individual rights, and is capable of withstanding the strictest judicial scrutiny. Under a fundamental right to bodily autonomy, abortion bans could likely not withstand strict scrutiny, and vaccine mandates would similarly not survive except in pandemic circumstances. However, the recognition of such a right would serve to safeguard individual choices while continuing to allow government actions aimed at combating the true causes of these issues
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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