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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
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
Leporello, ossia Il dissoluto punito. Une relecture des personnages du Don Giovanni mozartien
No full textLeporello, ossia Il dissoluto punito. Une relecture des personnages du Don Giovanni mozartie
"Libropera - style sheets et scripting au service de l’accessibilité des 'textes’ de musique vocale." In (2010) M. Cavagna. Outils informatiques pour l’édition et le traitement des textes, des images, du langage.
No full text"Libropera - style sheets et scripting au service de l’accessibilité des 'textes’ de musique vocale." In (2010) M. Cavagna. Outils informatiques pour l’édition et le traitement des textes, des images, du langage
Surtitles: a New Text Between Libretto, Score, Translation and Performance
No full textSince 1980s opera companies regularly offer to their audience a translation of the sung text projected on a screen above the stage or on a small device for individual spectators (e.g. in the Milan Scala). In some opera houses is provided more than one translation (e.g. French and Dutch in Brussels) and usually also when sung in the nation's language. The surtitles add a new text to a genre that already consists in a series of simultaneous texts that call for various cognitive functions. Surtitles are usually based on the translation provided by a CD booklet, often reduced in length to adapt to the physical dimensions of the screen and the average reading rate of the audience. The audio-visual character of surtitles (as the concept is inspired by film rather than by opera theatre practice) determines a series of factors that influence the choices the surtitler has to make He is determined either by the libretto, the musical forms or the staging. The aim is to understand relatively quickly the essence of what is being sung in a particular moment, as a sort of "hearing aid" in function of the performance. Therefore, as a general rule there can be no contradiction between what is sung and the libretto (as it appears in the score) on one hand, on the other between the libretto and what happens on the stage. A philologist's research task could be to investigate to which point the surtitles are a libretto translation or a performance translation. Philology could also provide valuable insights and determine general rules on how to treat specific difficulties presented by opera singing, especially microstructural and macrostructural repetition of text in arias, and simultaneous production of text as in ensemble pieces and concertati, and finales. In recitative two rules are often enough to follow comfortably the continuous dramatic action (as in audio-visual media), while for the more closed musical forms it would be desirable to see the entire piece at a glance. As technology develops and more rules might become available, one could imagine having access to the entire aria text (or large parts of it), thus avoiding the danger of being distracted or confused by the changing surtitles and the various repetitions or pauses in the text, and giving spectators the choice when and what to read. Furthermore, this would allow to invest in the rendition or translation of the original poetic form, as philologists (and surtitlers) could heighten their efforts to bring to the light of the stage the art of libretto writing, that has been buried in darkness for decades. As a case study we will refer to the various approaches for performances of Così fan tutte at the Ghent Conservatory (Hogeschool Gent), the Vlaamse Opera (Antwerpen/Gent) and the Royal Opera La Monnaie (Brussels)
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