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Un ranking internazionale per le riviste di storia
No full textDopo questa introduzione di Ilaria Porciani e Stuart Woolf seguono una serie di interventi che mettono a fuoco modalità e procedure del ranking in Gran Bretagna, Francia, Germania
A room with no Jacob: An aesthetic of absence in Virginia Woolf ’s novels
No full textThis article explores Virginia Woolf ’s experiments with the narrative that added impersonality
to her texts. It focuses on an indefinite narrator’s entries, Woolf ’s making her main characters
absent from the plot, and focus shifts from the novels’ anthropomorphic characters. An aesthetics
of absence is seen as the key element of Woolf ’s individual style, which defines both
the structure and the focalization of her novels. The article analyzes the category of absence
in the early Woolf ’s novel The Voyage Out and the subsequent reimagining and deeper development
of this technique by the writer, which found expression in her later novels Jacob’s
Room, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. The examples from these works demonstrate how
the writer intentionally shifts the focus of the narration from the central characters, thereby
creating obstructions for herself as an author in order to discover a new way of telling a story.
Appealing to the category of absence is considered in the article as a strategy for finding new
ways of constructing narrative. The writer’s experiments with impersonalization show that the
absence of the main character does not make it impossible to further develop the narrative:
the text goes on even if its characters are silent, passive, absent. In addition, the article traces
the connection of the deliberate impersonalization of the text with the writer’s idea of a single
universal consciousness that does not disappear after a human’s death: so does the text continue
to develop after Woolf made its main characters absent
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
A Different Perspective on Woolf`s Mrs. Dalloway
No full textA twentieth century novel, Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf is a unique
masterpiece that depicts a single day of Clarissa Dalloway together with interrelated
major and minor characters using interwoven texture style and multi-personal stream
of consciousness technique in which we, as readers, get into a flux of ordinary
people`s ordinary lives through lens of different themes and symbols mainly; a
desired death led by suicidal thoughts which stems from the idea of inevitable,
circular time rather than linear, natural elements (trees-flowers, waves-water), and a
sense of pessimism overweighing optimism reflected throughout the novel. As the
novel influenced many people by its provocative inner voice of imposing committing
suicide as a relief from all burdens and a possible way of becoming immortal, in
other words, if facing the fear of death is inevitable why do we keep living? Woolf`s
contemporaneous Said Nursi, an eastern scholar, religious writer and famous for
his collection of Risale-i Nur (a collection of 14 main books and many booklets
interpreting around 300 verses of Quran) also inquires and presents solutions to
the above mentioned themes and symbols in Mrs. Dalloway that come to be either
obstacles leading us into deep pits of eternal pessimism or torches enlightening
the pathways that lead us to salvation, elevated hopes of optimism and eternal
happiness by achieving immortality. This article is aimed to be a first step for further
studies of presenting the two contemporary writers with their approaches and point
of views in terms of character analysis, psychological and social background, and
analysis of Said Nursi`s approaches and answers to the questions raised by Woolf`s
Mrs. Dalloway
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
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