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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Preparation, rehearsal, performance and reflection : a conductor's autoethnographical study of the process of interpretation
No full textIn this study the author investigates his interpretive practice as a conductor, revealing how interpretive operations occur not as discrete and isolated activities, but rather an intertwined cyclic process. The study was based on an experiment of the author conducting five scores on two different occasions separated in time by between one day and several months. The study design included extensive content analysis of over 30 hours of video in which more than 12,000 codes were applied and collated. The study design also included traditional texted research, autoethnographic writing (a 25,000-word practice journal), semi-structured interviews, the use of Sonic Visualiser, and the documentation of a range of score study methods which the author describes as ‘listening in silence’. Although there are numerous studies that compare different performances of the same piece, and consider the extent to which differences are intentional and/or creative, none has been undertaken by a conductor in the role of artist-researcher. The study develops what the author calls the ‘ethos of multiple interpretability’, suggesting that a conductor can be ‘animated by’ the belief that there is no single correct way to perform a work specified by a score
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Conducting Performances as Events
No full textDerrida (2007, 441) described that ‘an event implies surprise, exposure, the unanticipatable.’ In performance a conductor operates within a complex adaptive system: musicians are constantly adapting to each other resulting in complex feedback loops. Because of these feedback loops the aggregate behaviour of the ensemble can be dramatically influenced by single agents. All complex adaptive systems demonstrate emergence; in a musical sense Cook (2012, 457) describes that ‘the act of real-time performance generates meanings, whether interpretive, acoustic, or interpersonal, that are emergent in the sense that they could not have been predicted by any of the performers, or on the basis of the various inputs to the performance event.’ It is the unpredictability of the ‘combinatorial emergence’ inherent in performance which satisfies Derrida’s description of an event. How does the combinatorial emergence of the performance event influence the interpretive practices of a conductor?In this paper the author answers this question from an autoethnographical perspective, revealing how embracing the performance event as an element of the interpretive process can lead to a multiplist rather than singularist view of interpretation. The original study was based on an experiment of the author conducting five scores on two different occasions separated in time by between one day and several months. The study design included extensive content analysis of over 30 hours of video in which more than 12,000 codes were applied and collated. The study design also included traditional texted research, auto-ethnographic writing (a 25,000-word practice journal), semi-structured interviews, the use of Sonic Visualiser, and the documentation of a range of score study methods which the author describes as ‘listening in silence’. Although there are numerous studies that compare different performances of the same piece (Clarke, 2012), and consider the extent to which differences are intentional and/or creative, none has been undertaken by a conductor in the role of artist-researcher. The study developed what the author calls the ‘ethos of multiple interpretability’, suggesting that when a conductor embraces the score and performance event as being of equal importance they can be ‘animated by’ the belief that there is no single correct way to perform a work specified by a score. The significance of the study resonates with the now widespread reappraisal of the conductor as a co-creator with the orchestra, and with a number of existing studies that have investigated distributed creativity in group music making. <br/
Through an Ocean of Storms
No full textOriginally composed as a soundtrack for a short film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 12 mission, this 5.1 surround sound composition is made entirely from audio recordings of the NASA Apollo 12 mission and extended trumpet (performed by Dr Bede Williams, St Andrew’s University). The work is loosely structured around the narrative of the mission using live radio communications as dialogue, with which the music provides an affective and evocative sonic score exploring explores the extension of human potential via technology, seeking to evoke the wonder, awe and challenge of human endeavour and exploration. Combining techniques from electroacoustic music and film sound design, this practice research output is an applied exploration of the synthesis of these disparate fields of practice and was developed as a practice research component of the AHRC Leadership Fellowship “Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound Image Media”
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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