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Profile status
Unclaimed
8registered publications
12,203analyzed words
2011–2013represented publication period
4.5effective primary themes
9documented inbound sources/citations
1member publications represented
Interactive corpus map
Patterns in registered work
Explore how recurring themes and framings connect across this author’s registered publications. Each topic opens its Collective archive.
ThemeAcademic framingPolicy framingRecurring co-occurrenceConnection across framing typesBroader and narrower term
Drag a topic to rearrange the map. Drag empty space to move the constellation, use the mouse wheel or controls to zoom, and hover or focus a topic to emphasize its direct connections. Line strength reflects recurrence in this author’s registered corpus; it does not imply agreement or causation.
This analysis covers 8 registered publications dated 2011–2013. Full source text was available for 8 records, partial text for 0, and metadata only for 0.
The registered corpus is the unit of analysis. These statistics describe available texts and metadata; they are not claims about the author’s personality, intelligence, intentions, identity, or private beliefs.
8publications analyzed
778median words per publication
100.0%full-text coverage
0.0%archival-copy coverage
0co-authored publications
0possible duplicate groups
Registered output by year
PublicationsDocumented reception
10
2011
30
2012
49
2013
Registered publication output trends upward across the represented years. Linear model R²: 0.96.
Publication-length distribution
6409–1,128
01,128–1,847
11,847–2,565
02,565–3,284
03,284–4,003
04,003–4,722
04,722–5,440
15,440–6,159
Mean 1,525 words · median 778 · standard deviation 1,928.
Healthcare and medicine · Transgender identity and history · Culture, identity, and representation · Religion and morality
Potential change points compare rolling three-year thematic distributions with Jensen-Shannon divergence. They are model-derived boundaries, not authoritative divisions in the author’s intellectual biography.
Theme ecology
Breadth, concentration, and communities
92.8%normalized thematic breadth
4.5effective primary themes
0.250theme concentration (HHI)
100%mean primary-theme confidence
Primary-theme assignments are broadly distributed. The most recurrent primary themes are Healthcare and medicine, Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation.
Proximity reflects corpus-relative lexical similarity. Larger nodes have more documented inbound evidence; node color reflects the primary theme.
Publication; color identifies primary themeStronger lexical similarityLarger node: more documented reception
The semantic map uses TF-IDF vectors and cosine similarity within this registered corpus. Position is produced by a force layout from the strongest similarity edges; proximity is relative, not an absolute measure of meaning.
Administrative classification and identity documents
Clinical and medical analysis
2
1
Psychological analysis
2
1
Ethical analysis
1
0
Empirical and quantitative research
0
0
Legal analysis
0
0
Historical analysis
1
0
Interpretive analysis
0
0
Language and rhetorical form
Measurable textual characteristics
0.806moving-average lexical diversity
21.4mean sentence length
508.5mean paragraph length
12.3Flesch grade estimate
Rhetorical feature profile
Axes are normalized to display scales stated in the methods note; the chart is comparative within the profile, not a grading instrument.
Sentence-length distribution
1802–14
22614–25
8925–37
4537–49
1349–60
760–72
572–83
383–95
2.0questions per 1,000 words
9.3quoted passages per 1,000 words
2.0outbound links per 1,000 words
Distinctive terms relative to the Collective baseline
surgery19.9
transsexualism14.3
transsexual11.7
transsexuals11.4
medical10.0
female9.4
body8.7
born8.6
persons8.4
disease7.9
male7.7
change7.7
chromosomal7.7
thus7.4
anatomical7.2
brain7.1
hormonal7.0
treatment6.9
View rates and comparison values
Term
Author rate / 1,000
Collective rate / 1,000
Log-odds z
surgery
15.27
0.91
19.91
transsexualism
7.38
0.31
14.26
transsexual
10.91
2.20
11.67
transsexuals
7.05
0.90
11.42
medical
7.22
1.31
10.00
female
7.38
1.55
9.44
body
4.87
0.78
8.74
born
3.86
0.47
8.62
persons
3.36
0.35
8.43
disease
2.52
0.03
7.88
male
7.05
1.96
7.74
change
5.20
1.15
7.70
chromosomal
2.18
0.04
7.67
thus
2.69
0.30
7.43
anatomical
2.18
0.03
7.22
brain
2.01
0.15
7.14
hormonal
2.01
0.03
7.03
treatment
4.20
0.94
6.90
social
4.87
1.25
6.84
guardian
1.51
0.03
6.51
feminine
2.35
0.33
6.44
freaks
1.68
0.02
6.27
surgical
1.68
0.15
6.25
ethical
1.51
0.11
6.21
Lexical statistics are descriptive properties of the available texts. They do not diagnose writing quality, intelligence, personality, or intent. Distinctive terms are compared with a sampled Collective baseline using smoothed log-odds.
Source families are inferred from link domains and URL patterns. They describe the ecology of linked evidence and references, not the reliability or ideological position of an individual source.
Collaboration and relationships
Co-authorship and corpus similarity
Author relationship network
Co-authorship and corpus-based similarity are displayed as different relationship types.
Co-authorship, corpus similarity, citation relationships, and publication overlap are shown as distinct relationship types. A corpus relationship does not imply a personal, institutional, or political association.
Documented circulation and reception
How evidence of reuse is distributed across the corpus
9documented source records
4distinct referring domains
0scholarly citation records or provider total
0books or edited-volume references
12.5%publications with evidence
0.875reception concentration (Gini)
Evidence by channel
Source-publication references9
Public-web references0
Scholarly citing works0
Books and edited volumes0
Links inside the Collective0
Media and educational references0
Documented references over time
82013
12015
Reception concentration
The most-referenced 10% of publications account for approximately 100.0% of documented reception.
Reception measures documented circulation and reuse across the evidence sources available to the Collective. They do not establish quality, correctness, cultural worth, or the author’s social standing. Provider totals can overlap.
Comparative corpus context
Contrasts with other registered Collective publications
The comparison baseline contains 1,200 other registered publications. Differences are descriptive contrasts, not author rankings.
Comparisons use the rest of the registered Collective as the default baseline. Percentage-point differences and standardized effects describe corpus contrasts; they are not rankings or evaluations of authors.
Corpus coverage
Places, institutions, periods, and populations represented
Geographic coverage
United States4
United Kingdom2
Global or international2
Australia1
Europe1
Institutions named
Dana Robertson Media Liaison Officer Department1
Women’s Studies Hampshire College1
Johns Hopkins University1
Historical periods
1970s7
2010s6
1960s5
1980s3
1940s1
1990s1
Populations discussed
women6
children and adolescents6
families and parents4
patients and healthcare users3
transgender people2
students and educators1
racial and ethnic communities1
activists and organizers1
Coverage measures recurring places, institutions, historical periods, scopes, and population terms in the registered texts. It describes what is present in the corpus and does not judge omissions or infer the author’s identity or attitudes.
Guided reading paths
Different ways into the registered corpus
Representative workClosest to the semantic center of recurring work in the registered corpus.
These categories describe structural positions in the registered corpus. They do not establish scholarly quality, correctness, or cultural value.
Trust, correction, and reuse
Provenance, profile control, and research data
How to read this profile
Source-supplied
Provided by a member publication.
Author-verified
Confirmed by the profile owner.
Editor-verified
Reviewed by a Collective editor.
Computationally measured
Calculated directly from registered text or metadata.
Model-inferred
Produced by a versioned analytical model.
External index
Obtained from an external bibliographic or web index.
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