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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
Les Maisons d’enfants sous tutelle du Secours National-Entr’Aide d’Hiver du Maréchal, entre prescrit idéologique et créativité pédagogique
No full text« Lorsque nos jeunes gens, lorsque nos jeunes filles entreront dans la vie, nous ne les abuserons pas de grands mots et d’espérances illusoires ; nous leur apprendrons à ouvrir les yeux tout grands sur la réalité . » : discours éminemment maréchaliste qui relève d’une instrumentalisation de la jeunesse en ces temps troublés que fut l’Occupation ; instrumentalisme avéré de la politique assistancielle menée par le Secours National/Entr’Aide d’Hiver du Maréchal en faveur de la protection de l’enfance. Mais est-ce seulement cela ? …/…L’ouverture de Maisons d’enfants est incontestablement un des volets du traitement d’une situation souvent dramatique, obéissant principalement à une injonction des plus pragmatique. En effet, les enfants (essentiellement ceux des villes) sont lourdement précarisés, souvent sous-alimentés en très mauvaise santé physique et psychologique. Ainsi, ces Maisons vont prioritairement participer à la reconstruction sanitaire d’une partie de la population la plus fragilisée du pays. Elles seront même désignées comme centres de suralimentation.…/…Dire qu’accueillir, soigner et encadrer des enfants d’une façon bienveillante et éclairée, dans le contexte que nous connaissons, peut être perçu comme un véritable non-sens. Et l’idée même d’envisager que des objectifs de protection ou de reconstruction éducative aient pu exister sous l’Occupation a toutes les raisons de nous questionner quand on sait ce que dont le gouvernement de Vichy a été capable : traque des « indésirables », persécutions diverses, attentisme ou, au contraire, collaboration active, etc. Pourtant, les Maisons d’enfants, dans certaines conditions et au nom d’une volonté affichée ou clandestine de ses acteurs, ont tenté ou même réussi à renverser l’équation de la répression sous toutes ses formes. Quant à innover, pédagogiquement parlant, sous Vichy, cela paraît tout autant invraisemblable. De plus, penser également que l’enfant puisse être un sujet de préoccupation réel de l’Etat vichyste semble, en effet, inacceptable. Pourtant, certains adultes, décideurs ou non, objets ou non de persécutions, n’ont pas ménagé leurs efforts pour briser une logique d’un déterminisme désolant. Ne pas l’accepter serait tout simplement nier le rôle et le travail de certains acteurs de cette histoire. Aussi imparfaites que puissent être nos investigations, nous pouvons dire que les Maisons ont pu être, autant que possible, une réponse aux saccages de la guerre sur les enfants, une façon de leur dissimuler la détresse des adultes, de ralentir ainsi le phénomène de leur maturation excessive et rapide en raison de toutes les privations matérielles et affectives dont ils furent les victimes. Les Maisons, pour les enfants, furent une inéluctable cohabitation avec l’angoisse d’un lendemain qui ne chantait pas. Pourtant, certaines, envers et contre tout, ont rempli des missions que l’on peut qualifier de salvatrices.Ce travail de recherches rend compte d’un camaïeu comportemental de tous ceux qui, en dépit de difficultés quasi insurmontables, ont FAIT, souvent en sourdine, l’Histoire. …sans oublier les enfants !« When our young men et woman will become adults, we shall not deceive them with highwords and illusory hopes, we will teach them to open their eyes wide to reality » …/…Sentence quoted from one of Marechal PETAIN’ speeches which points out - without ambiguity - an instrumentalization of the youth in those troubled times of German Occupation in France, not to mention that the assistance policy carried out by the "Secours National/Entr'Aide d'Hiver du Maréchal" in favour of child protection had also been - with evidence - totally instrumentalized. But is it only that ? …/…The opening of Children Houses is, without any doubt, one the ways of dealing with a too often dramatic situation, mainly in response to a most pragmatic need. Indeed, the children ( essentially those living in cities) are in great precarity, often underfed and in a very poor physical and psychological condition.Thus, these Houses will contribute, as a priority, to the health-care reconstruction of the country’most vulnerable population.These will even be designated as overfeeding centers.Hosting, taking care of, and supervising these children in a loving and respectful way, in the context that we all know, can be seen as a nonsense.Indeed, the very idea of considering that a strategy to protect children and rebuild an educational system, had been implemented in France during the German occupation, has every reason to question us all... when we know what the Vichy Goverment had been capable of… , tracking down « undesirables » various persecutions, wait-and-see attitudes or, on the contrary, active collaboration, etc…However, these Children Homes, under certain circumstances and in the name of a openly assumed or hidden will from its actors, have tried or even succeeded in reversing the equation of repression in all its aspects.As for innovating , pedagogically speaking, under the Vichy Government, that seems totally unconceivable.Moreover, it is difficult to imagine that the children could have been a matter of real concern to the Vichy government.However, some adults, decision-makers or not, victims or not of persecution, have spared no efforts to break the logic of a distressing determinism.Not to consider this, would simply be to deny the role and work of some of these actors regarding this part of the French History.…/…As imperfect as our investigations may be, we can say that the Children's Houses may have been, as far as possible, a response to the devastation of the war against children, setting a distance from adults in distress, thus slowing down the process of a early and forced maturation, due to all physical an emotional deprivation of which they were victims.Not to forget also, that these Houses, were also a place where the children had to face their own anguish not knowing what tomorrow would bring.However, some of them , have fulfilled missions that can be described as life-saving.This research work reports back on the behaviour of all these actors, despite the tremendous difficulties they had to face, but who HAVE MADE History, often silently….without forgetting the children
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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