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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
Mīrhusayn Muʿammā’ī Nishābūrī’s Dastūr-i Muʿammā
No full textThere seems to be an enormous research gap in the study of literary wordpuzzles, which practically covers various areas of inquiry from literary history and investigation into their functions and applications to the revival of manuscript copies and explanation of the rules and procedures of puzzle making. Mīrhusayn Muʿammā’ī Nishābūrī (d. 904/1499), who followed ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī in composing wordpuzzles and was a prominent puzzle maker of the 9th/15th and 10th/16th centuries himself, wrote a treatise on the rules and procedures of puzzle making entitled Dastūr-i Muʿammā. The treatise, completed in 904/1499, contains 650 literary wordpuzzles composed by the author together with brief notes on puzzle making rules and procedures. More than one hundred manuscript copies of the treatise have been preserved at libraries across Iran and the world. The complexity of the puzzles distinguishes the treatise from other works of the same genre, prompting various literary scholars to write commentaries and provide explanatory notes on the puzzles from its completion in the 10th/16th century to the 12th/18th century. In order to fill part of the research gap and revive an important treatise on word puzzles, Dastūr-i Muʿammā was critically edited on the basis of MS 4495/1 preserved at the Central Library and Documentation Center of the University of Tehran as the base copy, adopting an eclectic method of emendation and providing a systematic method for the explanation and solution of the puzzles
The Oldest Persian Enigmatic Treatise
No full textRiddle as a figure of speech, which has been popular in Persian poetry for a long time, is divided into two types: nominal and historical riddles (Chronograph). In the 11th-9th lunar centuries, which was the peak period of the riddle writing, several treatises were written to explain the rules of riddles, as well as to record the best riddles. The lack of comprehensive research on enigmatic treatises has led to problems in identifying them, which has caused mistakes and errors in some reference sources. Such mistakes have found their way into other works and have eventually become so prevalent that they are considered scientific truth. This fundamental research, which was carried out using library sources and dealing with numerous manuscripts, revealed that Zabihullah Safa's view that (الاحیاء فی حل المعمّا) “al-Ehyāe Fī Hal al-Moamā” is the oldest Persian enigmatic treatise is not exact and there is no such treatise. The oldest treatise (مطلوب الاحباب) “Matlōb al-Ahbāb” is the work of Rafi Manouchehr, a merchant known as Badie Tabrizi. The author of the treatise "24 Asl" was also identified
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
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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