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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
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
Sykdomsspesifikk livskvalitet hos pasienter med inflammatorisk tarmsykdom. En klinisk kvalitetsstudie om poliklinisk organisering av kontrolltilbud
Get PDFBakgrunn: Inflammatorisk tarmsykdom (IBD), henholdsvis morbus Crohn (CD) og Ulcerøs colitt (UC) er kroniske lidelser som kan ha en betydelig negativ innvirkning på en pasients sykdomsspesifikke livskvalitet (HRQoL). Den tradisjonelle måten å organisere behandling og oppfølging av denne pasientgruppen har vært konsultasjoner hos spesialist i medisinske poliklinikker, som jeg i oppgaven betegner som konvensjonell oppfølging. En alternativ organisering av tjenesten er i regi av et kompetanseteam som impliserer de faggrupper som er relevante i en slik oppfølging. En spesialsykepleier gjennomfører konsultasjonene og oppfølgingen i nært samarbeid med gastroenterolog, også kalt IBD - poliklinikk. Formålet med studien var å undersøke hvorvidt denne måten å organisere omsorgstilbudet på er faglig likeverdig ut fra pasientopplevd HRQoL, og ut fra variabler som valgt medikamentell behandling, hospitalisering og pasienttilfredshet.
Metode: Studien er en klinisk retroprospektiv tverrsnittsanalyse av pasienter med IBD som følges opp etter to forskjellige modeller ved to norske sykehus som er sammenlignbare ut fra størrelse og demografi. Omsorgen ved det ene er organisert etter en kompetanseteam modell med spesialisert sykepleier i den sentrale rollen (IBDP) og det andre med konvensjonell oppfølging (KO). Resultatene er basert på pasientrapporterte data ved gjennomsnittlig score fra den norske versjonen av spørreskjemaet Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (N-IBDQ) og et CRF (case report formular) for personopplysninger og spørsmål om tilfredshet (”Personopplysninger”).
Resultat: Ett hundre og trettini besvarelser var komplett for analyser; 70 deltagere fra IBDP - gruppen og 69 fra KO - gruppen. Det var ingen statistisk signifikant forskjell mellom populasjonene hverken i N-IBDQ totalscore eller innenfor hvert domene. Det var forskjell, dog ikke signifikant, mellom gruppene IBDP og KO ved bruk av 5 Aminosalicylates(5-ASA) hos UC pasienter. IBDP scoret imidlertid signifikant høyere på egenrapportert pasientfornøydhet på en 0-10 VAS scale, mean 8.57 (95% c.i. 8.15-8.99) vs 7.82 (95% c.i. 7.37-8.28) (p=0,017).
Konklusjon: Studien viser at en organisering av tilbudet til IBD pasienter gjennom en sykepleierdrevet poliklinikk i et kompetanseteam, er faglig likeverdig konvensjonell oppfølging. Pasientene ved denne modellen er mer tilfreds med tilbudet. Det er behov for flere evidensbaserte studier som viser nytteeffekten av en slik organisering
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
Health-related quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease: a comparison of patients receiving nurse-led versus conventional follow-up care
Get PDFBackground - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), consisting of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is a chronic disorder with a considerable negative impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). During the past decade, IBD nurse specialists have been increasingly involved in follow-up care of IBD outpatients, in a consultative and coordinating role, closely cooperating with gastroenterologists.
Whether patients’ HRQoL differs between nurses’ follow-up care (NF) and conventional follow-up care (CF) has not been widely researched and the aim of this study was to compare two different follow-up regimes with respect to patients’ HRQoL.
Methods - This cross-sectional, multicenter study involved seven centers; five organized as CF, two as NF.
Results - A total of 304 patients aged 18–80 years, 174 females and 130 males, were included, of whom 140 received care under the NF model and 164 under the CF model. Participants in the NF group had a statistically significant higher median total score on the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ) (p-value
Conclusions - Nurse-led models are not inferior to conventional models with regards to patient reported HRQoL except in the social domain where the model showed to be clinically significant better. Further studies are needed to advance efforts to implement these models and increase access to IBD care
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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