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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

    Il corpo, la luce e l'insieme dei due. Una proposta esegetica di Plotino, enn. I 1 [53], 6, 14-7, 6

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    In enn. I 1 [53], 6, 14–7, 6, Plotinus describes the coming to be of the living being capable of feeling and experiencing passions, and identifies its constitution in the connection of three factors: (a) a transcendent soul; (b) „something like light” which proceeds from the transcendent soul; (c) a body. It is the συναμφότερον that feels – he states – „because such a soul [i.e. the transcendent soul], starting from such a body and from something like a light given by it, produces the nature of the living as something else [...]”. The nature of the body mentioned here, however, appears particularly problematic: is it a body which already possesses an elementary form of life received by the soul of the cosmos, as a widespread interpretation would have it, or is it made alive when the soul gives its light to it? Through an analysis of the passage in the light of the similar text of VI 4 [22], 15, 8–18, the second option is proposed here: before being illuminated by „something like light”, this body has only received the formal reasons that proceed from the soul of the cosmos and consequently has a morphological structure. Although it cannot be said to be lifeless like a piece of wood, which is „only body”, it is not endowed with multiple movements and does not perform vital functions. It has an „aptitude” to receive life and it is only when the soul gives its light to it that it becomes alive, fulfills the primary functions to keep itself alive, and experiences passions and basic sensations

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    El rescate de las prácticas de acción política, solidaria y ética en la tensión generada por un conjunto complejo de economías con frecuencia opuesta y unidas por un mismo proyecto : estudio del caso del M.T.L. Proyecto Monteagudo

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    La investigación aquí presentada tiene por objetivo reconstruir el entramado de actores sociales que participaron de la experiencia del Movimiento Territorial de Liberación (MTL) en el barrio de Parque de los Patricios, en el marco del Programa para la Autogestión de la Vivienda (PAV), ejecutado en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Se abordan las etapas de surgimiento, construcción, consolidación y uso (1995-2014), del complejo de viviendas sociales Monteagudo , identificando continuidades y rupturas con respecto al sistema económico operante, y sin limitar el análisis a los aspectos clásicos de gestión. De ese universo de actores intervinientes, se buscó reconstruir su entramado de intereses y su bagaje de acciones, con el fin de comprender cómo esas prácticas propias de los sistemas económicos formales y sustantivos , generaron tensiones y contradicciones en torno a la construcción de las viviendas sociales.El estudio se abordó desde la perspectiva ética de la reproducción de la vida (Dussel, 2015Hinkelammert y Mora Jiménez, 2009), y entendiendo a la vivienda social como bien de uso y productora de trabajo autogestivo (Polanyi, 1975Singer, 2007). Desde el punto de vista metodológico, se adoptó una estrategia cualitativa, triangulando datos provenientes de diversas fuentes de información, para así lograr un conocimiento en profundidad del objeto de estudio.Fil: Vega, Walter Denis. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Instituto del Conurbano. Argentina

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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