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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
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
FIG. 3 in Integrative taxonomic studies on Rinacapritermes Amina & Rajmohana, n. gen. (Blattodea: Isoptera: Termitidae) with two new species from India
No full textFIG. 3. — Digestive tube of Rinacapritermes silvius Amina & Rajmohana, n. gen., n. sp. worker: A, dorsal view; B, left lateral view; C, right lateral view; D, ventral view; E, worker's enteric valve armature. Scale bars: A-D, 0.5 mm; E, 20 μm.Published as part of Amina, Poovoli, Rajmohana, Keloth, Dinesh, K.P. & Asha, Gopalan, 2022, Integrative taxonomic studies on Rinacapritermes Amina & Rajmohana, n. gen. (Blattodea: Isoptera: Termitidae) with two new species from India, pp. 109-124 in Zoosystema 44 (3) on page 116, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a3, http://zenodo.org/record/608015
Identity and beyond : rethinking Africanity
No full textThis Discussion Paper presents the plenary presentations by the three main speakers during the Nordic Africa Days, with an introduction offering an overview and comment on the various approaches on Gender and Power in African Contexts, Africanity as an Open Question and Rethinking Power in Africa.CONTENTS -- Beyond Africanity? An Introduction/Henning Melber -- Challenging Subjects: Gender and Power in African Contexts/Amina Mama -- Africanity as an Open Question/Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Concluding Reflections on Beyond Identities: Rethinking Power in Africa/Francis B. Nyamnjo
Identity and beyond : rethinking Africanity
No full textThis Discussion Paper presents the plenary presentations by the three main speakers during the Nordic Africa Days, with an introduction offering an overview and comment on the various approaches on Gender and Power in African Contexts, Africanity as an Open Question and Rethinking Power in Africa.CONTENTS -- Beyond Africanity? An Introduction/Henning Melber -- Challenging Subjects: Gender and Power in African Contexts/Amina Mama -- Africanity as an Open Question/Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Concluding Reflections on Beyond Identities: Rethinking Power in Africa/Francis B. Nyamnjo
Tuttovo: the pack tells the bio sauce: four packaging projects to communicate the quality of the organic product / Tuttovo: il pack racconta la salsa bio: quattro progetti di imballaggio per comunicare la qualità del prodotto biologico
No full textBusinesses operating in the intricate market of organic produce find it difficult to stand out from their competitors and to effectively convey product quality and sustainability values to their own customers. This proves to be even harder when the communication message is almost completely conveyed by the packaging, which is perceived as accountable for reflecting the corporate identity into the specialised shops. This need is what prompted Tuttovo Srl, a Piedmont-based small-medium agrindustrial enterprise, to take part in the EDEN project in order to share thoughts with the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD) team over how to make one’s own products speak through the pack, as well as how to promote new consumption styles that can lead consumers to choose premium products, such as those from the company
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
Get PDFNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
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
Eco-Dialysis: a bottom-up design approach for preliminary analysis towards sustainability in medical packaging.
No full textThis research arose from the recognition of a problem that involves the fields of design and biomedicine: the medical wastes of one of the most expensive, life saving treatments all over the world: hemodialysis. The awareness of their environmental and economical impacts drove the researcher of the SS Nephrology of San Luigi University Hospital (Orbassano - Turin, Italy) to meet the Ecodesign team of Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy), to face a spontaneous and innovative research.
Chronic Haemodialysis implies “washing” blood via a biomedical device on the average three times per week: it is one of the most expensive medical treatments in terms of water and energy consumption and wastes production.
Dialysis exerts a high environmental impact, because of the need of a huge quantity of disposables, resulting in a great amount of waste products for each treatment.
The Ecodesign team has developed, since 2005, a new methodology to analyse the environmental sustainability of packaging and devices, based on the disassembly of the components, in order to identify the critical issues from both a quantitative and a qualitative point of view.
Nephrology and design researchers joined together to analyse all devices and packaging used in different haemodialysis treatments, so as to define criticalities and potentials for re-designing packaging and devices.
Starting from these results, we will look for a client to carry out the project and propose a new line of eco-packaging and devices that would meet environmental, economical and functional requirements of haemodialysis
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