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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
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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Ethos at the Periphery: Speakerly and Writerly Persuasions in U.S. Minority Literatures Since 1945
Full text linkThis dissertation examines the complex models of rhetorical ethos that minority writers and their literary speakers have developed to persuade diverse audiences to join them in resisting structural oppressions and creating more reciprocal forms of affiliation in the post-1945 United States.While authoritarian politicians, from Adolf Hitler to Donald Trump, have aimed to consolidate mass audiences through the power of scapegoating and the deployment of “alternative facts,” writers such as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gordon Henry, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Sherman Alexie have worked to cultivate a different, more flexible and horizontal relationship between writer and reader, or speaker and listener, through distinctive techniques in their fiction. These writers (along with their narrators, poetic speakers, and dramatis personae) forge connections with audiences through verbal expressions that illuminate shared rituals, iconographies, spiritual beliefs, locations, and ethical values—expressions, I argue, that represent neither a return to reason and rationality nor an accentuation of affect and sentimentality. In this way, literary works like Ellison’s Invisible Man, Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie, Henry’s The Light People, Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, and Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian offer antiracist and queer revisions of Aristotle’s ancient theory of rhetorical ethos (persuasion through “character”), setting ethos as a vital alternative to logos (persuasion through reason) or pathos (persuasion through emotion).Each of my four chapters analyzes a particular element of ethos and its development in one or more works of U.S. minority literature. Chapter 1, “Ethos as Consubstantiality,” explores the close relationship between Ellison and the rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke, illuminating their mutual effort to figure out how humans could use language to keep their communities intact and to prevent a resurgence of the scapegoating, violence, and genocide that typified Nazism and fascism during World War II. I argue that their respective books Invisible Man (1952) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950)—which the two men wrote while in frequent conversation—together draw upon Aristotle’s rhetorical theory to conceptualize a new form of ethos for the mid–twentieth century. Calling it “consubstantiality,” an “accord of sensibilities,” Burke and Ellison believed that this new form of ethos—a rhetoric that emphasizes the symbolic and stylistic “oneness” of speaker and audience—would allow members of differently positioned groups to communicate effectively across their social divides. Chapter 2, “Ethos as Spi/rituality,” examines the central courtroom scenes of Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) and Henry’s The Light People (1994) to showcase the potentials of ethos for African American and Native American witnesses testifying in courts of law. Disapproving of both the purportedly logos-based realm of the law and the pathos-based realm of sentimental literature, Baldwin hoped that the space of the theater could create a sense of “ritual” and “spiritual communion” that led to social change. Similarly, Henry’s work critiques the normative rhetorics of U.S. settler-colonial law, satirizing the emotional appeals that attorneys use to win over judges and juries, and revealing what happens when legal “rules” and “rationality” are taken to such an extreme that they allow the bones and spirits of deceased Native Americans to be exhumed and repossessed by scientists and curators, who treat them as “objects” to adorn the walls of natural history museums.Chapter 3, “Ethos as Com-position,” probes the deep connections between “attitude” and “location”—connections that the term “ethos” encapsulates and that we can see quite clearly in English word pairs like habit/habitat, civil/civic, and propriety/property. In this vein, Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), along with a number of her other writings, conceives of ethos as a complex queer mode of “dwelling” that occurs through shifting artistic language, rather than in a stable geographic space. Straddling national borders and moving constantly from place to place, Anzaldúa’s narrators challenge the emphasis that feminist theories of “standpoint” and “postpositivist realism” put on “where one is speaking from,” by inviting readers to “be at home with them” not in a shared physical territory but, instead, on a shared book-page and in shared conversation. What creates, revivifies, and sustains community in Borderlands are the shared identifications that emerge through an ethos-based rhetoric of location, rather than (as some readers might expect) affinities based on a shared racial, gender, and/or sexual identity.Finally, Chapter 4, “Ethos as Ethics,” takes Alexie’s young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) as a case study for exploring the ethics of social communication, of literary narration, and of literary criticism. The Absolutely True Diary’s form and narration directly concern, and even emphasize, ethical questions: about the relationship between speech and disability, about adults’ power over young people, about toxic masculinities and internalized homophobias, about addictions, and about the differences in norms and expectations across locations. In doing so, the novel and its young indigenous narrator follow recent contributions to ethical literary criticism in consistently asking us to reflect on what our ethics are and should be, while also challenging us to move away from the fear of disability, of indigeneity, of queer discourse, and of youth that are still all too common in the postwar U.S.By bringing ethos to bear on postwar U.S. minority literatures, this dissertation works to mend longstanding divisions between “literature” and “composition” (and between literary theory and rhetorical theory), considering them as mutually constituting rather than disparate fields and practices. Moreover, it shows how minority speakers’ ethos-based appeals (not only in literature—but in law, politics, and many other realms as well) register an effective counter-response to the allure of “alternative facts” and similar rhetorical strategies that seek to reify disfranchisement and violence
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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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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