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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
"How does it feel to be a problem?": (local) knowledge, human interests, and the ethics of opacity
Get PDF“How Does It Feel to be a Problem?”: (Local) Knowledge, Human Interests, and The Ethics of Opacit
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
“The Specter of Democracy” : King, Tocqueville, and the Im/Possibility of Democracy in America
No full textThis essay develops the concept of the specter of democracy in thinking through the (un)conscious fantasies and desires for national and theoretical wholeness that are, nevertheless, interrupted by the very im/possibility of democracy in America. Using Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in conversation with Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America , I initiate a specific trajectory in disaggregating dominant tropes and themes in the discourse on democracy in America. In so doing, I recover a dreamscape as a critical site for analyzing the theoretical limits of the explanatory and normative frameworks of the American democratic project, thus revealing the not-so-clean divides between the ideal and the reality of democracy in America.Cet article a pour objet le spectre de la démocratie, une élaboration conceptuelle étudiée ici en résonance avec l’idée de complétude, nationale et théorique, et des fantasmes et désirs (inconscients sous-jacents, auquels contreviennent cependant l ’im/possibilité même de démocratie en Amérique. Placés en regard, le discours de Martin Luther King, Jr., «I Have a Dream », et La démocratie en Amérique de Tocqueville sont la base d’un examen critique spécifique qui désagrège progressivement les principaux tropes et thèmes du discours sur la démocratie en Amérique. Ce faisant, c’est toute une fantasmatique qui est soumise à l’analyse, un nouvel espace critique qui expose les limites théoriques du projet démocratique américain, et du cadre normatif sur lequel il s'appuie. Dès lors, distinguer à propos de la démocratie en Amérique ce qui procède de l’idéalité ou de la réalité se révèle plus complexe qu’il n’y paraît.Walker Corey D. B. “The Specter of Democracy” : King, Tocqueville, and the Im/Possibility of Democracy in America. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°40, juin 2006. L'objet identité. Épistémologie et transversalité. pp. 193-210
"The freemasonry of the race": The cultural politics of ritual, race, and place in postemancipation Virginia
Get PDFAfrican American cultural and social history has neglected to interrogate fully a crucial facet of African American political, economic, and social life: African American Freemasonry. "The Freemasonry of the Race": The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia seeks to remedy this neglect. This project broadly situates African American Freemasonry in the complex and evolving relations of power, peoples, and polities of the Atlantic world. The study develops an interpretative framework that not only recognizes the organizational and institutional aspects of African American Freemasonry, but also interprets it as a discursive space in and through which articulations of race, class, gender, and place are theorized and performed.;"The Freemasonry of the Race" presents a critical cartography of African American Freemasons' responses to the social and political exigencies of the postemancipation period. The study connects the developments of African American Freemasonry in the Atlantic world with the every day culture of African American Freemasonry in Charlottesville, Virginia from the conclusion of the Civil War until the turn of the century. Utilizing African American Freemasonry as a critical optic, the major question this study attempts to respond to is: How can we historicize and (re)present African American Freemasonry in order to rethink the cultural and political space of the postemancipation period in the United States?;Borrowing and blending a number of methodologies from social history, literary theory, and cultural studies, "The Freemasonry of the Race": The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia presents a set of analytic essays on African American Freemasonry, each intimately concerned with deciphering some of the principles that organized and (re)constructed various regimes of power and normality along the fault lines of race, sex, gender, class, and place. By thinking and working through African American Freemasonry in such a manner, this project seeks to open up new interdisciplinary horizons in African American cultural and social history.American StudiesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.
A noble fight African American freemasonry and the struggle for democracy in America
No full text"A Noble Fight examines the metaphors and meanings behind the African American appropriation of the culture, ritual, and institution of freemasonry in navigating the contested terrain of American democracy. Combining cultural and political theory with extensive archival research--including the discovery of a rare collection of nineteenth-century records of an African American Freemason Lodge--Corey D. B. Walker provides an innovative perspective on American politics and society during the long transition from slavery to freedom." -- Book jacket
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