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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
Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Unterricht - Gelingensbedingungen für die Entwicklung von Nachhaltigkeitskompetenz
Full text link"Unsere größte Herausforderung im 21. Jahrhundert ist es, die einstweilen noch abstrakt erscheinende Idee einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung zur Realität für alle Menschen dieser Erde zu machen". Kofi Annan – ehemaliger UN-Generalsekretär (Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission e.V., 2006).
Diese (abstrakte) Idee der nachhaltigen Entwicklung (NE) erfährt aktuell, mit Blick auf die sich verschärfenden globalen Probleme und Krisen, neuen Rückenwind und eine breite Akzeptanz in der Gesellschaft. Bereits einige Jahrzehnte vorher führten globale Umweltprobleme zu zahlreichen Versuchen, Prinzipien der Nachhaltigkeit
festzuschreiben. Insbesondere ab den frühen 70er Jahren konnten für die Umweltpolitik wegweisende Entwicklungen beobachtet werden.
Die Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen über die Umwelt des Menschen in Stockholm (1972) und die Brundtland-Kommission und deren daraus resultierende Berichte (1987) beinhalten die ersten Versuche einer modernen Definition des Begriffs der NE. Trotz der zahlreichen Ansätze, die es heutzutage gibt, um Nachhaltigkeit und NE zu definieren, kann die definitorische Formulierung des Brundtland-Bericht, „Our Common Future“, als eine der universellsten und gebräuchlichsten genannt werden. Sie beschreibt die NE als eine „Entwicklung,die die Bedürfnisse der Gegenwart befriedigt, ohne zu gefährden, dass künftige Generationen ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse nicht befriedigen können (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987, S. 41). Doch inwieweit gelang es die Idee der NE vom Papier in die Praxis umzusetzen?
Bereits bei der 1992 stattfindenden UN Konferenz über Umwelt und Entwicklung hielt die damals zwölfjährige Severn Suzuki eine Rede (Cullis-Suzuki, 1992), die in weiten Zügen an die Botschaften der aktuell weitaus bekannteren Greta Thunberg erinnern. Welche Entwicklungsschritte konnten in der Zeit zwischen den beiden Appellen der „jungen Generation“ an die Entscheidungsträger:innen in dieser Welt gegangen werden und wo gibt es weiterhin noch großes Handlungspotential?
Um diese sehr globalen und dennoch bedeutsamen Fragen beantworten zu können, bedarf es der genaueren Analyse der jeweiligen nationalen und lokalen Umsetzungen der geforderten Maßnahmen.
Hierfür müssen die zu beurteilenden Analysebereiche auf ihre jeweiligen Teilbereiche heruntergebrochen werden, um Aussagen über die jeweilige Implementierung der Maßnahme treffen zu können.The recommended learning objectives in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) have, for the most part, not been operationalized until now. Furthermore, connections to results of empirical educational research are often lacking. However, this is necessary in order to evaluate the rovisions of fostering ESD. Taking concepts of empirical educational research into account, we suggest a framemodel
for the structuring of relevant competencies. This model distinguishes between a basic and an elaborated level of sustainability competencies. On each level, differentiations are made between cognitive, affective-motivational and behavioural aspects. In the context of German secondary school learning, the focus is on inter- and cross-disciplinary competencies and a basic level of more domain-specific competencies. In university contexts, a level of elaborated sustainability competencies including highly domain-specific as well as inter- and trans-disciplinary competencies are relevant. The proposed framemodel of competencies relevant in ESD will be helpful in the structuring of existing concepts and operationalizations,
to connect these competencies to other existing research, and to identify domains where operationalization is still lacking
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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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