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Arelene Wilson Jackson
Full text linkIn this interview, Arlene Wilson Jackson is the guest. She is asked about how her family had arrived in Riverside County, particularly her great-grandparents moving to Perris. Wilson Jackson remembers cooking with her great-grandmother and has a recipe from her that she still uses to this day. She mentions having wonderful memories of her family, such as spending summers in Perris and just doing family activities. Apart from being in social organizations such as Veterans Without a Family, The Lions Club, and the Rotary Club, Wilson Jackson created her nonprofit, Restoring Hope Community Services, in Perris. This organization provides resources to people experiencing homelessness, such as housing, jobs, and meals. Wilson Jackson mentions that her faith and great-grandparents\u27 influence led to her decision to make this organization. She then speaks about her faith and memories of church, particularly her love of the CrossWord Christian Church and its pastor. There is also her work with Big Dee Texas Bar-B-Que and the restaurant\u27s collaboration with her nonprofit. Wilson Jackson then speaks of her stepfather and his dedication to civil rights and activism, such as taking the unequal pay of longshoremen and longshorewomen to court. The topic of the importance of working together despite ethnic backgrounds is something special to Wilson Jackson, which segues to her talking about racial inequalities in school and her heart for talking about what is important. She also speaks about memories of the Civil Rights Movement and speaking about calling local representatives about getting job positions. The interview ends with Wilson Jackson’s advice for future generations to be strong, stick to a common cause, and do what is right for the community
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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