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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
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
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
Verb Use in Chinese Children: Extensibility of Instrument
No full text本研究旨在探討工具的特指性是否影響動詞延伸。Seston et al. (2009)曾指出，對使用英語的孩童而言，工具特指性較高的動詞較工具特指性較低的動詞易於延伸。其解釋為工具特指性較高的動詞具象化程度(imageability)也較高，根據具象化假說(imageability hypothesis; Ma et al., 2009)，具象化程度較高的詞較易被習得。具象化程度是否增進動詞學習或阻礙動詞延伸尚無定論，Golinkoff et al. (1995) 的研究認為當孩童無法確認何者為一動詞之必要語意元素時，孩童依賴動詞事件的整體外型(shape)作動詞延伸的依據。本研究要檢驗的是，工具的特指性是否影響中文孩童的動詞延伸，且當孩童面對創新工具延伸作業時，是否也依賴動詞事件的整體外型(shape)作延伸依據；另外，本研究也探討對於新工具額外的熟悉度是否促進動詞延伸
本研究操弄的自變項為工具特指性及對工具的熟悉程度。工具特指性在此定義為母語者允許一個動詞可使用的平均工具數量。在本研究中，六個動詞被選為實驗用詞，且依照其工具特指性高低程度分為特指(Specified)與開放(Open)兩組。實驗組別分為熟悉組與不熟悉組兩組。實驗分為三階段，第一階段所有受試者會聽到關於實驗故事的背景以及故事中會出現的玩偶的介紹，但只有熟悉組的受試者會聽到對於延伸新工具的額外介紹；第二階段所有受試者會接受兩題的基本訓練，做為正式實驗的熱身練習；第三階段為正式實驗階段，所有受試者會聽到十二則故事，聽完每一個故事後，受試者會被要求先以口頭改述剛剛故事裡所描述的動作，然後再實際以實驗者提供的道具做出該動作。本研究受試者為四十八位以中文為母語的兒童，包含二十四位年齡約五歲的兒童，及另外二十四位年齡約七歲的兒童。
本實驗結果顯示: (1) 對使用中文的兒童而言，尤其是五歲以下的兒童，工具特指性較高的動詞比工具特指性較低的動詞更難延伸: (2) 工具在動詞中的延伸性不受預先聽到該工具的名稱及功能的熟悉化作業影響。This study aims to investigate the role of instrument specificity played in Mandarin-speaking children’s verb extension process. Seston et al. (2009) suggested that verbs with a more “specified” instrument were easier to be extended by English-speaking children than verbs with more open instruments. Seston’s explanation of their result is that specified instrument verbs are higher in imageability than open instrument verbs, and according to imageability hypothesis (Ma et al., 2009), verbs with higher imageability tends to be acquired earlier. It remains unclear whether imageability accounts for easier of word learning or word extension. Golinkoff et al.’s (1995) study stated that children use the overall shape of an event to extend a verb when they fail to recognize which semantic elements conflated in the verb. This study aims to explore whether the specificity of instrument affect Mandarin-speaking children’s extension of verbs and to see if children do rely on shape when facing novel instrument extension. In addition, it was also examined whether an additional familiarization of the novel instrument facilitates verb extension.
This study manipulated instrument specificity and familiarity of instrument as independent variables. Instrument specificity is defined as the number of instrument that adult native speakers can identify within an experimental task setting. Six target verbs were chosen and grouped into two groups of verbs (Specified and Open) by their instrument specificity rated by native adult speakers. The experimental conditions include Familiar Condition and Unfamiliar Condition. The main experiment for testing instrument specificity can be divided into three phases: (1) the introductory, (2) the baseline training, and (3) the test phase. In the first phase, all participants received introduction to the background knowledge of the upcoming stories and to the puppets appeared in the stories. Only the participants in Familiar Condition received an additional familiarization to the novel instruments. In the second phase, two trails of baseline training were conducted as warm-ups to the test trials. Then came the third phase in which children heard twelve stories and were asked to first paraphrase and then act out the action described in the story. Children’s production and comprehension were examined. Twenty-four 5-year-old and twenty-four 7-year-old Mandarin-speaking children participated in this study.
Results indicate that: (1) For Mandarin-speaking children, verbs with more specified instrument are harder to extend than verbs with various possible instruments, especially for children under age five. (2) The extensibility of novel instruments is not affected by a prior familiarization to their names and functions
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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