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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
A criminal mind? A damaged brain? Narratives of criminality and culpability in the celebrated case of Aaron Hernandez
No full textThis article examines the media discourse surrounding the life and death of former National Football League player Aaron Hernandez, who died by suicide while incarcerated for first-degree murder. As a postmortem analysis found evidence of notable degenerative brain disease, differing explanations and speculations remain about the causes of his criminal behavior. This analysis illustrates how journalistic narratives attribute Hernandez's criminality to either the material composition of his damaged brain or how his tumultuous background affected psychological makeup, minimizing the structural and political economic conditions that enabled this particular case of celebrated criminality. Cultural criminological and socio-legal insights aid in elucidating how notions of racialized masculinity and neurocriminology come to constitutively inform framings of Hernandez's crimes, motivations, and actions while also directing critical attention away from the influence of relevant institutions, particularly sport, and instrumentalizing the role of violence. This article concludes with a reflection on the underpinning tensions revealed through depictions of Hernandez, his mind, and his brain, arguing that they surpass news and media stories and actually implicate debates about the growing influence of neuroscience in understandings of social problems, including crime.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication
of this article: Kathryn Henne received funding from the Australian Research Council (DE170100819) and the
Canada Research Chairs progra
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
Bonds away : baseball mythology and the 2007 home run chase
Full text linkIn 2007, Barry Bonds hit his 75 6th home run, breaking Hank Aaron's all-time record for
most home runs in a Major League career. While it would be expected that such an
accomplishment would induce unending praise and adulationfor the new record-holder,
Bonds did not receive the treatment typically reserved for a beloved baseball hero. The
purpose of this thesis is to assess media representations of the 2007 home run chase in
order to shed light upon the factors which led to the mixed representations which
accompanied BOlTds ' assault on Aaron's record. Drawingfrom Roland Barthes ' concept
of myth, this thesis proposes that Bonds was portrayed in predominantly negative ways
because he was seen as failing to embody the values of baseball's mythology.
Using a qualitative content analysis of three major American newspapers, this
thesis examines portrayals of Bonds and how he was shown both to represent and oppose
elements from baseball's mythology, such as youth, and a distant, agrarian past.
Recognizing the ways in which baseball is associated with American life, the media
representations of Bonds are also evaluated to discern whether he was portrayed as
personifYing a distinctly American set of values.
The results indicate that, in media coverage of the 2007 home run chase, Bonds
was depicted as a player of many contradictions. Most commonly, Bonds' athletic ability
and career achievements were contrasted with unflattering descriptions of his character,
including discussions of his alleged use of performance-enhancing substances. However,
some coverage portrayed Bonds as embodying baseball myth. The findings contribute to
an appreciation of the importance of historical context in examining media
representations. This understanding is enhanced by an analysis of a selection of articles
on Mark McGwire 's record-breaking season in 1998, and careful consideration of, and
comparison to, the context under which Bonds performed in 2007. Findings are also
shown to support the contemporary existence of a strong American baseball mythology.
That Bonds is both condemned for failing to uphold the mythology and praised for
personifYing it suggests that the values seen as inherent to baseball continue to act as an
American cultural benchmark
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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