1,720,979 research outputs found
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
Western Literature and the Works by Seiki Kuroda
Get PDFIt is widely admitted that Seiki KURODA (1866– 1924) played a great role in the history of Japanese oil painting by introducing lucid pallet influenced by French Impressionism. In addition to the painting style, KURODA constantly claimed the importance of the first inspiration from nature. But it is also true that KURODA deeply owed his career as an oil painter to western academism. He believed in the value of the “composition” paintings which convey some thoughts or stories. Noting KURODA'S words saying that the first inspiration or impression from nature was strongly influenced by literature, the author listed up the books that appear in KURODA's diary and demonstrate the relation between his paintings and western literature. In KURODA'S works, there are some groups that share same kind of motifs with Western literature. Among them, the author takes the sitter Maria BUULLAULT, pastures, and agricultral labour as examples. KURODA'S motivation representing Maria in the painting would be explained in the context of his devotion to De LAMARTINE'S (1790-1869) “Graziella,” a tragedy of international love between young characters. KURODA was also intersted in the pastoral life depicted in poems by De LAMARTINE, Andre CHENIER (1762-94), and Roman poet Publius VERGILIUS (70-19 B.C.), which suggest the sources of his pastoral landscape painitngs. It also explains KURODA's interest in the agricultural labour in his later works. Based on this explanation, the author interprets these works of agricultural scenes as the studies or works related to “compositions” representing scenes in Aarcadia in the Western literature, although they have been chategolized as genre paintings.journal articl
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
Explanation of the Plates: Studies for “The End of the Day” by Kuroda Seiki
Get PDFKURODA Seiki (1866-1924), one of the most influencial oil painter in late 19th and early 20th century Japan, exhibited The End of the Day in the eighth Bunten (the annual exhibition of fine arts organized by the Ministry of Education) in 1914. Though the completed work was lost in a fire, two studies in oil survive in the collection of Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. Based on research on these studies and materials such as the painter's diary, the author demonstrates that The End of the Day is best understood in terms of what Kuroda called kōsōga - his term for idealistic painting, which he esteemed as the finest painting in the western.
The End of the Day was the first of several to be Kuroda's works depicting the agricultural scenes exhibited at Bunten. These works have been considered by earlier critics to be faithful observations from nature, and little thought has been given to the painter's intent.
But the studies and diary make it clear that The End of the Day was the result of several days of experimenting in both pencil and oil. Moreover, soft pastel colours used in the studies reveal that Kuroda's aim was not make an objective record of nature, but to visually express a certain ideal - in this case, a farm worker surrounded by bountiful nature, at the peacefully quiet time of dusk.
Kuroda lamented that few of his paintings could be considered kōsōga; against that ideal standard, he considered most of his work to be unfinished or a preparatory stage for a grand kōsōga masterpiece.
The author referes to the mural painting in Tokyo Station (burnt down) which Kuroda decided the plan and design in 1913, as the work motivated the painter for the works such as The End of the Day.journal articl
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
- …
