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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
Now See Hear project interview with John Bevan Ford
No full textNow See Hear project - Art Language and translation. An interview with John Bevan Ford by Ian Wedde
Now See Hear project interview with Paratene Matchitt
No full textParatene Matchitt interview with Ian Wedde for the Now See Hear project. Topics discussed are his Waitangi banners and Maori art, note that there is an edited transcript of this interview in "Now See Hear!" Recorded in Wellington, January 1990
The Future is Curatorial! Reconceptualising Curation Through Material Culture
No full textObjects, though the material stuff of curating, occupy a peripheral role in
curatorial theory and practice. Art and museum curating both promote
relational and ideological positions that centre on certain people, excluding less
prominent participants and objects alike. Although all these groups have been
examined at length for their discursive qualities, their active processes are still
mostly unclear. Developments in material culture theory suggest the need for
re-evaluation of the relationship between objects, curators, and audiences, based
on these processes. This dissertation is an attempt to construct a concept of
curating that begins with objects, the circumstances in which they take part, and
the effects they have on the people around them.
This investigation into the operations of people and things approaches the
subject with an interdisciplinary eye, drawing upon art history, media studies,
material culture studies, sociology, anthropology, and other fields. They are
linked by a strongly qualitative methodology, which incorporates the
researcher's own subjective experiences with a conceptual framework derived
from Deleuze and Guattari and Bruno Latour. The use of a rhizomatic
perspective based on movement, emergence, and opportunity opens up a series
of alternative methodological and analytical approaches. With these tools, four
creative works are examined and discussed as singular objects and guides to
further generalisation.
The research suggests a degree of complexity and potential within objects that is
rarely considered. Peoples' interactions with objects mean they share in that
potential, opening up the static and structured roles previously addressed. A
series of curatorial practices are derived from these findings, expanding the
definition of 'curator' by allowing for the exercise of distinct curatorial
functions beyond the institution. This dissertation serves as a starting point for a
democratic reconceptualisation of curating, based on processes rather than end
points, involving the public as curatorial agents
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
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
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