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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom and Japanese and Ming Relations
No full textThe Ryukyu kingdom was defeated in the invasion of 1609 by the Satsuma domain of the Shimazu clan, with the result that the kingdom came to be brought into the political orbit of Tokugawa Japan, while maintaining its tributary relationship with Ming China that had been in place since the latter half of the 14th century. As has been made clear in previous research, the chief goal of the invasion was not total political control of the Ryukyu by either the bakufu or Satsuma domain but to have the Ryukyu kingdom play the role of intermediary in trade negotiations between the bakufu and the Ming court. Behind this, development was a thriving civilian trade in Asian waters involving Japanese silver and Chinese raw silk thread. Thus after the invasion, the bakufu frequently commanded the Shimazu to have the Ryukyu kingdom serve as an intermediary in negotiations between Japan and the Ming, while around the same time demanding that the Korean government or Ming traders who had come to Japan serve as similar intermediaries, but these efforts did not prove fruitful. As a result, Ming China and Japan, who were ultimately unable to establish official diplomatic ties, formed an indirect relationship via Ryukyu kingdom, which had formal relations with both states (assuming the position of a subject of each). This situation continued after Ming was replaced by the Qing and was maintained until the middle of the 19th century. Therefore, the invasion of the Ryukyu kingdom can be said as an event that determined the relations among the three countries, Ryukyu, Japan and China, in the early modern period. In this article, I focus on such a historical significance of the invasion of the Ryukyu and organize and analyze historical sources from Ryukyu, Japan and China concerning the movements of each country with regard to an invasion. This attempt can be summed up in the following three points. First, I examine the reaction of the Ming to the invasion and also its influence on the Ming in detail, which has not been accorded sufficient attention. For example, it has not been recognized that a number of problems regarding the invasion were placed on the civil examinations. Second, I make a comprehensive explanation of the facts as seen in the actions of the Ryukyu kingdom as an intermediary in Japan-Ming trade (about which there is no scholarly consensus) based on a critical examination of the source materials. Third, I attempt to grasp the situation comprehensively in terms of East Asian international relations and in particular the relationship of the Ming and Japan without viewing the historical significance of the invasion of the Ryukyu kingdom in terms of resistance against baku-han regime nor as part of the "process of making the Ryukyu kingdom the puppet of Satsuma or the bakufu" or the "abandonment of subjectivity by the Ryukyu (in resisting Satsuma or the bakufu)." Consequently I have demonstrated that 1) for both Japan and the Ming the Ryukyu kingdom was an important strategic element in its relations with the other, and each state tried to pull the Ryukyu kingdom in its own direction while keeping a wary eye on its rival, and 2) the Ryukyu kingdom expressed its self consciousness as an subjective entity to both Japan and the Ming, and as a result of its active efforts to attain a place in the limited space between these two larger neighbors, the international position of early-modern Ryukyu could be established
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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