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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
The New Wine: Spirit, Transformation, and Gender in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1960-1990
Get PDFThe Charismatic Catholic Renewal (CCR)—known in Mexico as the Renovación Cristiana en el Espíritu Santo—saw Roman Catholic believers experience ecstatic spiritual practices native to neo-Pentecostalism. At first highly ecumenical, CCR emerged from loosely organized prayer meetings in the late 1960s and early 1970s to become a coherent movement by around 1975. Like many developments after the Second Vatican Council, CCR represented an effort to revitalize the Church by re-centering and empowering the laity. Reflecting a broader reactionary shift in the 1980s, the Renewal gradually shed its potentially liberating elements. This transition was especially notable in the context of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands—the focus of this study—where paradoxes and disparities of the emerging global capitalist system were glaring. The several distinct nodes of the Renewal blended, competed, and coexisted in the region: the Benedictine community at Pecos, New Mexico; the Misioneros del Espíritu Santo in Mexico City and the resulting Sistema Integral de la Nueva Evangelización; the Open Arms Community of El Paso; and the cross-border ministry of Richard Thomas. The trajectories of these communities and the experiences of their believers provide insight into the Renewal’s contribution to society and the Church, as well as into the flaws and limitations of their deeply gendered belief systems and the institutional Church
Spirit, Transformation, and Gender in Borderlands: A Representative Case Study
Get PDFQuestions of “development,” trade, and gender in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands (and globally) have attracted considerable academic attention, and other scholars have examined religious changes, particularly the expansion of evangelical Protestantism, in Latin America. This feminist history represents a fresh attempt to blend these two inquiries, describing Protestant Pentecostal growth and Charismatic Catholic Renewal (CCR) in the central U.S.-Mexico Borderlands during the 1970s and 80s. This preliminary study places these spirit-filled movements in the context of gendered socioeconomic change and the declining influence of Vatican II. Interviews, church documents, and newspapers show that while Social Justice Catholicism (and even some Liberation Theology-inspired Comunidades Eclesiales de Base) survived in the region, a conservative shift increasingly marginalized the Catholic Left. Regional and international power brokers, including Roman Catholic leadership, favored (or, at least, salutarily neglected) CCR, which, like Pentecostalism, was more accommodating and often supportive of the industrialization agenda. These gendered constructions, combined with the palliative effect of ecstatic spiritual experiences, likely contributed to the expansion of the maquiladoras and the global neo-liberal order they represent. Noting the dearth of projects that blend feminist and neo-Marxist lenses in the study of liminal spaces, this essay sketches a case that speaks to the potential of that intervention
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
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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