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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
Enhancing Academic Performance of Disabled Students through Multiple Intelligences Based Programmes
Get PDFThis study investigated the effectiveness of multiple intelligences based programme in enhancing academic performance of disabled learners 5th and 6th year elementary of Omoyeni special school, Orita Aperin, Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria. The study utilized pre-post quasi experimental design. A total of 120 disabled learners, 60 experimental 60 control group were the participants of the study. The experimental group consists of 15 visually impaired, 20 hearing impaired and 25 intellectually and developmentally disabled participants the age range of the participants was between 12 and 22 with average age of 17years. Multiple regression scale (MIS) was the instrument used for data collection. Three research hypotheses and a research question guided the study. Multiple regression analysis and ANCOVA were the statistical tools used to process the data collected. The results of the findings indicate that multiple intelligences based programme was effective with disabled learners in improving their academic performance. Findings from this study also indicated that treatment was most effective with the learners with visual impairment followed by learners with visual impairment and it was least effective with the intellectually and developmentally disabled. On the basis of these findings, it was observed that multiple intelligence based programme could assist in enhancing academic performance of the disabled learners. Keywords: Multiple intelligences, academic performance, disabled students
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
A Community - Based Modification Intervention To Reduce Anger Among Secondary School Students Living In The Five Local Government Areas Of Oyo State, Nigeria
No full textThis study investigates behaviour modification intervention programme in the reduction of anger among secondary school students from five local government areas of Oyo State. Intensity of Angry Feeling Scale (IAFS) developed by the researcher was the measuring instrument used to collect the data. The participants of the study comprised of 600 final year students randomly drawn from 10 secondary schools located in 5 Local Government Area of Oyo State. Two hypotheses were tested for significance at 0.05 alpha level using t-test statistical tool. Result clearly showed that gender difference was significant when compared anger reduction level of male and female subjects after the treatment. When compared treated and untreated group, it was discovered that youths differ significantly on their level of anger reduction. It can be deduced that behaviour modification Intervention was an effective mediator in the reduction of anger level in youths. The youths exposed to Community-based Behaviour Modification Intervention exhibited high level of reduction in their anger level than the control group.Behaviour Modification, Anger, Reduction
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
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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