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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Disagreement Without Referees: Ontological Incommensurability and the Limits of Moral Adjudication
No full textPersistent moral and political disagreements are often treated as failures of reasoning, evidence, or communication, with the expectation that sufficient deliberation should yield convergence. This paper argues that many such disagreements are not epistemic in character but ontological: they arise between incompatible background frameworks that determine what counts as real, meaningful, or normatively binding in the first place. Where such frameworks do not overlap, disagreement cannot be resolved by appeal to shared standards of rational adjudication because no such standards are jointly recognised.
Drawing on insights from work on incommensurability, language-games, and tradition-bound rationality, the paper distinguishes disagreements of opinion from disagreements of ontology and examines how the latter are routinely misdiagnosed within Enlightenment-inherited moral discourse. It argues that familiar accusations of “relativism” or “subjectivism” function less as substantive objections than as mechanisms of boundary maintenance within dominant normative frames. The paper also rejects the claim that the absence of stance-independent moral facts entails arbitrariness or moral paralysis. Evaluation persists under post-foundational conditions, but it does so without neutral referees, relocating moral conflict to political forms of persuasion, coalition-building, institutional contestation, and power.
The paper is diagnostic rather than prescriptive. It does not propose a new normative framework or method of moral adjudication, but aims to clarify why certain disagreements persist despite sustained argument and why attempts at mediation or rational convergence often misfire under conditions of ontological incommensurability
Quand le langage fonctionne sans trancher : Indétermination structurelle et termes normatifs en contexte pluraliste
Full text linkCet essai prolonge la Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH) au-delà du cadre de la langue anglaise afin d’en tester la portée structurelle. Il soutient que certaines formes d’échec communicationnel ne relèvent ni d’un manque de précision, ni d’un déficit cognitif, ni d’un problème de traduction, mais d’une contrainte inhérente au fonctionnement du langage lui-même.
En distinguant plusieurs zones d’usage linguistique — des invariants référentiels aux concepts contestables, fluides et finalement ineffables — l’essai montre que l’insuffisance apparaît de manière systématique dès lors que le langage est mobilisé pour stabiliser des abstractions normatives, ontologiques ou phénoménales (telles que la vérité, la justice ou la liberté). L’extension au français met en évidence que cette contrainte ne dépend pas des propriétés spécifiques d’une langue donnée, mais qu’elle réémerge malgré des traditions linguistiques et philosophiques distinctes.
L’objectif n’est ni de proposer une théorie alternative du sens, ni de défendre un relativisme linguistique, mais de décrire une limite structurelle à partir de laquelle l’effort communicationnel produit des rendements marginaux décroissants. Cette analyse a des implications directes pour la philosophie du langage, la théorie politique et l’épistémologie, en particulier là où des concepts linguistiquement instables sont néanmoins traités comme fondationnels
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