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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
The completion of Edwin Drood: endings and authority in finished and unfinished narratives
Full text linkThrough an analysis of the reception of Charles Dickens’ unfinished The Mystery of
Edwin Drood this thesis establishes the centrality of the figure of the author as the
perceived sanction for the completed text. Through an initial analysis of completed
narrative, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories, it shows that the ending is of
particular importance as the point at which the reader can look back over the whole
and confirm or disconfirm the provisional interpretations which have been made
during the reading. It only makes sense to talk of unfinished texts or unfinished
narratives in the context of a creative authority, generally identified as the author. An
analysis of the reception of unfinished serial narratives of the late Victorian period,
specifically the unfinished works of William M. Thackeray and Robert Louis
Stevenson, confirms the centrality of the figure of the author in attempts to reconstruct
the missing ending.
The main body of the thesis provides a period-based analysis of Droodiana,
the completions of and speculations about Dickens’ unfinished novel. In the analysis
of the strategies employed to justify completions, and the responses to these, it
establishes not only that the attempts to take on the authorial authority are perceived
as sacrilegious, but that the perception of the completion-writers’ lack of the authority
to posit an ending affects whether completions are read as able to complete the story:
the willingness to submit to the ending (and revise provisional readings in light of it)
is dependent on the perception of the authorial authority of the writer. The analysis
shows that while the author-function develops over time, there is some continuity
from the late Victorian period towards the present. The analysis of Droodian speculations trace their origin and development through a series of periods, showing that the variety of plots proposed masks a common concern with arriving at Dickens’ intended plot: a desire to identify the creative intention with the plot that would
provide the most satisfying ending produces an increased variety over time
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
Reading in theory: towards a thematic stylistics in Joyce studies
Full text linkThis thesis presents an account of the relationship between literary Theory
and close reading in Joyce studies. Throughout, 'Theory' is understood not in a
general, conceptual sense, but as a word we use to refer to certain specified
intellectual developments in the literary academy that have taken place over roughly
the last half-century.
Working from the basis that little can be deduced regarding the contentious
relationship between Theory and close reading as long as the issue remains an
abstract one, the thesis works towards a description of that relationship based upon
scrutiny of key works in the field. To that end, it performs a series of case studies of
some of the more significant attempts to combine a deep Theoretical commitment
with rigorous textual analysis. The argument developed is that in a significant
number of cases a commitment to reading 'Theoretically' has led the critic into an
erroneous reading of the literary text under discussion. The possibility of such error
is defined with reference to a set of standards which, the author hopes, will be
accepted by most scholars working in the field.
Alongside this primary concern, the thesis sets out a technique of close
reading designed to minimise the chances of such errors occurring. This technique is
referred to as Thematic Stylistics. Requiring both broad and deep engagement with
literary texts, it aims to encourage both fidelity and sensitivity when put into practice,
and thereby to act as a balance to the suggested tendencies of Theoretical reading.
This technique is not left as a set of bare principles, but is exemplified in alternate
chapters with reference to errors discussed during the critique described above.
Together, the critique of Theory and the outline of Thematic Stylistics are taken to
provide a constructive suggestion for the future of the academy
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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