Word Embeddings

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I chose to look at the topic of word embeddings, as it was and still is a popular method for semantic analysis of texts. As output, word embeddings return words in a corpus that are used in similar/interchangeable contexts. Last time, I was looking at documents within the field of Slavic languages & literatures; however, […]

“Medievalism”

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After the difficulty I had with the Web of Science for the Citation Analysis Exercise, I was pleased that the first topic of interest I chose for the Network Analysis Exercise, “medievalism,” generated 482 results from the Web of Science. For this blog post, I will discuss two of the networks I created in VOSviewer […]

“Medievalism”

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After the difficulty I had with the Web of Science for the Citation Analysis Exercise, I was pleased that the first topic of interest I chose for the Network Analysis Exercise, “medievalism,” generated 482 results from the Web of Science. For this blog post, I will discuss two of the networks I created in VOSviewer […]

Academic Journals’ Word Networks

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Hello All, I originally struggled to get Web of Science to give me articles related to my interests. Entering terms like “Brazilian history” produced over 5,500 hits with articles concerning topics like the prevalence of the syphilis virus in female prisons, or the spatial niche modelling of five endemic cacti from the Brazilian Caatinga. Instead […]

Information Literacy in VosViewer

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For this exercise I chose the topic “information literacy” which had over 3,000 hits in Web of Science. I was expecting there to be quite a few hits for this, so was pleased by the number. Looking through the list, the results were varied in terms of related topics and disciplines. Importing things into VosViewer […]

Information Literacy in VosViewer

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For this exercise I chose the topic “information literacy” which had over 3,000 hits in Web of Science. I was expecting there to be quite a few hits for this, so was pleased by the number. Looking through the list, the results were varied in terms of related topics and disciplines. Importing things into VosViewer […]

Citations and Its Limitations

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Reflection of Citation Exercise. I did the citation exercise for two authors, Kenneth Frampton and Keith Eggener. While the former is a well-known name in the academic conversation of modern architectural history, the latter is equally renowned yet many of his work are published only in architectural magazines. Following are my reports on both authors: […]

Quantifying Worth

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Wood, J. W., Milner, G. R., Harpending, H. C., Weiss, K. M., Cohen, M. N., Eisenberg, L. E., … & Katzenberg, M. A. (1992). The osteological paradox: problems of inferring prehistoric health from skeletal samples [and comments and reply]. Current anthropology, 33(4), 343-370. 1a. Total number of citations? 8,226 (Excluding self-citations) 1b. What can you learn about […]

Useful? Not really

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Rice, Louise. “Urban VIII, the Archangel Michael, and a Forgotten Project for the Apse Altar of St Peter’s.” The Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1072 (1992): 428-34. Accessed February 10, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/885200 Step 1) What is the total number of citations? 6 What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since […]