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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
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
The Evolution and Expansion of Muslim Communities in Metro Manila
Get PDFThis paper examines the evolution and transformation of mosque-centered Muslim communities in Metro Manila against the background of the changing politico-economic situation in the Philippines since the American colonial regime. It has long been recognized that the Muslim heartland in the Philippines lies in Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan. However, some of the Muslim population of these core regions have migrated to various destinations both inside and outside the country since the Second World War, and now a large number of Muslims are concentrated in Metro Manila. Currently there are more than 80 mosques in the capital and estimates of the Muslim population there range from 60, 000 to 120, 000. During the 1970s, the various Muslim ethnolinguistic groups in Manila mainly lived side by side in a few "primary communities" close to their places of work. Since the 1980s, however, some moved out of the primary communities and established "secondary communities" that tend to include fewer or even a single ethnolinguistic group among their residents. The secondary communities also include non-residential, "job-centered communities" whose members commute to them from surrounding primary or secondary residential communities. In the process of this transformation, the mosques have come to embody multiple meanings in the lives of Muslims in Manila. They symbolize strong religious, economic and cultural ties between the Manila Muslims and some Middle Eastern countries which have helped in the construction of some of the mosques; they safeguard the establishment and continuation of Muslim communities against municipal authorities who are sometimes eager to evict "Muslim squatters and slum dwellers"; they function as a litmus test for community leadership since those who are instrumental in the construction and/or management of mosques are highly regarded; they constitute an information and network hub of the community which helps community members survive everyday life in the Christian-dominated capital city; and, in a broader sense, they stand for the resurgence of Islamic influences in the Philippine capital which, they claim, was once controlled by Muslim rulers before the arrival of the Spanish
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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