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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
Portés disparus: précarités humaines dans le roman d’enquête contemporain
No full textSouvent considéré comme relevant d’une littérature mineure, de genre ou de la paralittérature, le roman policier a pourtant trouvé une faveur certaine du côté de la littérature dite légitime, puisque, d’Alain Robbe-Grillet jusqu’à Patrick Modiano en passant par Michel Butor, Paul Auster ou encore Umberto Eco, nombreux sont les écrivains non policiers qui se sont directement inspirés de ses formes, de ses thèmes, de ses ambiances ou de ses personnages.
Si ces expérimentations traversent le second vingtième siècle, au moins, et s’étendent jusqu’au contemporain, elles n’ont pas toujours les mêmes enjeux ni les mêmes résonances symboliques. Par exemple, sous le régime autoréférentiel du Nouveau Roman, étaient principalement explorées des questions sémiotiques, d’engendrement du récit par lui-même ou d’incapacité des signes à dire le monde, avec un brin de soupçon dans l’air.
L’hypothèse ou le pari qui guide ce cahier est que, par-delà les spécificités propres à l’univers de chaque écrivain, les expérimentations faites sur le roman policier dans le contemporain se caractérisent par une certaine convergence d’intérêts formels et thématiques qu’on tentera de déterminer avec précision, et qui tournent autour de problématiques récurrentes: la difficile (sinon impossible) connaissance de l’autre, une pensée du temps sur le mode de la perte, une tentation (ou une nécessité?) de la disparition comme manière d’être (ou de n’être pas). Ultimement, il s’agira de voir si ces explorations qu’on fédèrera sous le nom de romans d’enquête n’en viendraient pas à témoigner de préoccupations proprement anthropologiques, cherchant à questionner les modèles dont nous disposons, à même notre culture, pour penser l’être humain, modèles dont apparaîtraient dès lors les insuffisances eu égard à la nature même de l’expérience humaine vécue au présent
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
Déjouer : imaginaires de la fiction romanesque dans Les failles de l’Amérique et L’acquittement
No full textCet article s’intéresse à deux romans (Les failles de l’Amérique de Bertrand Gervais et L’acquittement de Gaétan Soucy) qui cherchent à déjouer l’activité lecturale en mettant sur pied des univers fictionnels qui ne semblent se déployer que pour mieux se désagréger. Par l’analyse de ces étranges dispositifs, on veut montrer que ces pratiques littéraires, qui donnent de prime abord l’impression de refuser le jeu fictionnel, finissent en bout de ligne par le réaffirmer en proposant de la fiction romanesque une conception qui met l’accent sur un principe de prolifération des univers et des individus, hors de toute nécessité de cohérence. Ces romans font ainsi une règle normative du jeu fictionnel; cependant, ils posent le principe de prolifération comme règle constitutive. Si ces romans « déjouent », ce n’est donc pas sans enjeu.This article deals with two novels (Les failles de l’Amérique by Bertrand Gervais and L’acquittement by Gaétan Soucy) which seek to foil the reading activity by creating fictional universes which seem to unfold only to better disintegrate. By analysing these strange devices, the author wants to show that these literary practices, which first give the impression to refuse the fictional game, finally end up reaffirming it by proposing a conception of fiction based on a principle of proliferation of universes and individuals, outside of all necessity of coherence. These novels turn the fictional game into a normative rule, while making the principle of proliferation its constitutive rule. If these novels dis-play ( déjouent ), it is certainly not without stakes (enjeux)
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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