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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
Book Review: Citizens on the margins: Review of ‘Where the Madness Lies’ by Kishalay Bhattacharjee
Full text linkKishalay Bhattacharjee’s book has to be read twice, first as an act of memory, second as a narrative of populist politics
Primary colours: Gandhi on the environmental movement
No full textA few weeks after the death of Petra Kelly, Gandhi and I were sitting at Wardha. It was early morning and Gandhi had his hot water, his reductionist answer to constipation, in front of him. I sat with my third glass of tea, content to watch the morning with the Mahatma. I was still intrigued by the gossip and rumours of the week, regarding the suicide of General Gerd Bastian and Petra. As the facts trickled in, one felt a sense of unease and dismay, especially as the sadness of suicide had given way to a murder mystery. Now, there was a different sense of ending. I felt Petra Kelly’s death seemed to mark the political end of the Green Movement. It would now become policy, banalised as a few laws which would be unravelled only through the cryptography of experts. One more sphere for corrupt inspectors. Deep in thought, I didn’t realise that Gandhi, who had started spinning, was watching me quietly. His face became interrogative, an iconic question without words, I asked unnecessarily, ‘Spinning already?’ He nodded and looked at me questioningly. ‘Spinning stories’, I said in reply, and he added, ‘Let us combine the two’. I hate handwork, whether knitting or gardening, but jumped readily and clumsily because I desperately needed to talk. A confused radical needs some handiwork and I needed to talk to Gandhi. About Petra, but Petra, only as an entry point into my own environmentalist world. e Indian Express of the day had an article by the politician Jaya Jaitley. Both Jaitley and her colleague George Fernandes had known Petra for years, swung in her halo, in fact swung her halo as a hula-hoop. Jaitley was now asking the German government t
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
Society: the future and all of us
Full text linkThe future is always an invitation to dream, to test, and to experiment with time. But yet all too often, the future becomes mere extrapolation of the present, a Rorschach of current anxieties and projections. The COGITO report represents one such narrowing of the mind. One must admit to its rigour, to its literacy in probing and burrowing through hundreds of sources, pursuing an ‘archive fever’ of reports. It represents also a constriction of the current categories of social science. What it presents is a bare frame and its sense of fifty years looks desperately skeletal. Instead of an invitation to the future, it appears as an encouragement to certain forms of markets and marketing
Anna Hazare and the battle against corruption
No full textIn this issue of Cultural Critique, “In The Conjuncture” brings to - gether G. Arunima, Partha Chatterjee, and Shiv Visvanathan to criti�cally assess the Anna Hazare movement in India. Anna Hazare’s fast against corruption and his demand for the institution of a Jan Lokpal, or ombudsman, galvanized many sections of the Indian population in 2011. In inviting prominent social scientists to write about this movement, we wished to consider its impassioned deployment of “corruption,” as well as what such a deployment might signal about democracy, agency, and the state of the political today. Aware that “corruption” is given a contingent necessity in the Hazare case, we envision this dialogue not as settling the matter of “corruption,” but as potentially stirring further engagements with this leitmotiv of con�temporary geopolitics. These commentaries were written between December 2011 and January 2012
Once there was a CSDS
No full textThe Centre for the Study of Developing Societies completed 50 years recently. Here one former member of the faculty recounts what made the CSDS special and why it changed later
Manipur may not recover from this indifference.
Full text linkViolence, silence, and stereotype blend together to create the symbolic hypocrisy of the BJP-led regime
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