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Introduction I: A Festschrift for William Atkinson
Full text linkIn ‘Introduction I. A Festschrift for William Atkinson’, Ann L. Mackenzie begins by explaining why William Atkinson had not previously received a Festschrift—neither upon his retirement in 1972 nor even following his death in 1992. She goes on to provide compelling reasons for rectifying this omission, and for doing so in the form of a Special Double Issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. She refers in particular to Atkinson’s pioneering role in establishing Portuguese Studies and Latin American Studies as major fields of learning in UK universities. She also points to the principal part he played in 1953 to ensure the continuation of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies after the death of E. Allison Peers, its founder-editor. Mackenzie is also informative about the contents of the Festschrift and its contributors, some of whom were once students of Atkinson in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Glasgow University. Other contributors either graduated later from that same Department at Glasgow or used to be members of its staff. Mackenzie goes on to discuss the topics, authors, periods and countries dealt with in the contributed articles, all of which, in some significant respect or degree, reflect Atkinson’s own publications on the literatures, cultures and histories of Spain, Portugual and Latin America
Janes, Percy. Interview with author Percy Janes about his book, House of Hate.
No full textJanes, Percy. William Atkinson interviews author, Percy Janes, about his book, House of Hate. House of Hate was Janes' first novel; strong public reaction to the autobiographical novel; William Atkinson describes the plot and messaging of the book; Janes speaks to the need to address the experiences of his life; the structure of the book as an arch; the reaction of his siblings in Cornerbrook; the wider reference to Newfoundland family life at the time it was written; the right to draw upon life experiences and questions of fair representation; feedback from Robert Colbourne, Fiddlehead Magazine; feedback from Margaret Lawrence and Farley Mowat; inspiration from other writers including Thomas Wolfe, DH Lawrence and Tolstoy; the traditional family system; the ideal life of a writer; Canadian literature and its position in the world; ongoing project, No Cage for Conquerors
Janes, Percy. Interview with author Percy Janes about his book, House of Hate.
No full textJanes, Percy. William Atkinson interviews author, Percy Janes, about his book, House of Hate. House of Hate was Janes' first novel; strong public reaction to the autobiographical novel; William Atkinson describes the plot and messaging of the book; Janes speaks to the need to address the experiences of his life; the structure of the book as an arch; the reaction of his siblings in Cornerbrook; the wider reference to Newfoundland family life at the time it was written; the right to draw upon life experiences and questions of fair representation; feedback from Robert Colbourne, Fiddlehead Magazine; feedback from Margaret Lawrence and Farley Mowat; inspiration from other writers including Thomas Wolfe, DH Lawrence and Tolstoy; the traditional family system; the ideal life of a writer; Canadian literature and its position in the world; ongoing project, No Cage for Conquerors
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
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