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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
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
Projecting an Atomic Legacy: the Manhattan Project National Historical Park and Conflicting Public Memories
No full text"When either Americans or Japanese talk about the bombings, they are thinking about the meaning of World War II, of subsequent wars, and of prospective conflicts" - Laura Hein and Mark Selden, 1997. In December 2014, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, then-President Obama authorized the creation of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP) to "improve public understanding of the Manhattan Project and the legacy of the Manhattan Project." The establishment of the MPNHP in November 2015 represented the culmination of a multi-year effort from the non-profit Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF), the National Park Service (NPS), and the Department of Energy (DOE), along with local interest groups such as the B-Reactor Museum Association (BRMA), to preserve and restore buildings associated with three major Manhattan Project sites. The national decision to preserve historical sites closely associated with the still-controversial American decision to drop atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 provoked a wide range of debate and discussion, both within the United States and in Japan. Debates over the American deployment of the atomic bomb during World War II often reflect divergent interpretations of World War II, of nuclear weapons, and of public memory. These interpretations range from the 1945 atomic bomb justifications set out by President Harry Truman and his advisors, to Japanese claims that the atomic bombing should be considered a "war crime" against Japan. Public memories of the atomic bombing naturally evolved very differently in the United States and in Japan. As the philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault argues, "historical memories are constantly refashioned to suit present purposes. Drawing from historian John Bodnar's definition of public memory as "the view of a past event that is widely shared by members of a community (local or national)," historian Michael Hogan notes that these "collective" memories are often strategically created by the government "to forge historical traditions that could serve their interests." By harnessing the "power of the group that holds [these memories]," the dominant power group is able to utilize these historical memories to override alternative memories and historical interpretations. Physical sites such as museums, public memorials, and national parks can provide a physical manifestation of dominant public memories, but conflict between the public memories presented through the physical site and alternative interpretations has provoked international public debate and controversy. This research will investigate three primary guiding questions: How is the public memory of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb interpreted at MPNHP? How has this interpretation diverged from other interpretations? How does the National Park Service and the Department of Energy plan address these alternative memories? Within this conceptual framework of public memorials and evolving public memory, analyzing the international debate over the Manhattan Project National Historical Park's creation provides a lens for interpreting the complexity of atomic public memories in both the United States and Japan
Book Review of Wilkinson, C., and Bruch, C., (Eds.). (2012). Transforming information literacy programs: Intersecting frontiers of self, library culture, and campus community.
No full textkoamabayili/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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