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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
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
Filosofia politica e geografia politica. Michael Walzer: un caso di terrapiattismo geopolitico?
No full textLeggendo Michael Walzer, a prima vista non appaiono nella sua opera un particolare interesse o una specifica predisposizione per la dimensione geografica – sia essa spaziale e/o territoriale – della politica. La sua opera principale reca il sottotitolo: un discorso morale con esemplificazioni storiche: esemplificazioni storiche, dunque, non geografiche; peraltro, nell’edizione originale nel testo la parola geography ricorre soltanto due volte, in contesti del tutto irrilevanti. Certo, esiste un libro di Walzer il cui titolo in italiano è Geografia della morale. Democrazia, tradizioni e universalismo ; peccato però che questo lavoro non abbia niente a che fare con la geografia; il suo titolo originale è Thick and Thin, “spesso e sottile”. A meno che non si intenda per geografia la mera enumerazione di località, la referenzialità di tipo posizionale, la mise en place che di per sé non è anche mise en scène. Se è di questo che ci si accontenta, allora da questo punto di vista l’opera di Walzer abbonda di riferimenti: Palestina, Vietnam, Baghdad, Europa, Medio Oriente, Kosovo, Giappone, Gaza, Egitto, America Latina, Pakistan, Tanzania, ecc.; un po’ poco, comunque, per parlare di geograficità in senso pieno
ECUMENICA, PIU-CHE-ECUMENICA O ECUMENALE? L’etica ambientale di Papa Francesco alla prova dei migranti ambientali
No full textA chi è rivolta l’etica ambientale elaborata da Papa Bergoglio? Potremmo definirla “ecumenica” ben sapendo che questo aggettivo ha un significato ben preciso, in quanto indica lo sforzo di ricomporre l’unità dei cristiani in una confessione comune della fede. In realtà l’ambizione della Laudato si’ è quella di parlare a tutte e tutti, e non soltanto a una platea ecumenica. Questo rende più-che-ecumenica la portata del suo messaggio. Ma l'etica ambientale è anche ecumenale, nel senso dato a questo termine da Augustin Berque: riconosce una decisiva saldatura ontologico-geografica che coinvolge contemporaneamente la Terra e l'umanità.To whom is the environmental ethic developed by Pope Bergoglio addressed? It is certainly “ecumenic” and this adjective indicates the effort to recompose the unity of Christians in a common confession of faith. In reality, the ambition of "Laudato si’" is to speak to everyone, not just to an christian audience. This makes the scope of its message more-than-ecumenical. But Bergoglio’s environmental ethic is also "ecumenal", in the sense given to this term by Augustin Berque: it recognizes a decisive ontological-geographical bond that simultaneously involves the Earth and humanity
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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