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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
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
The investigation and representation of multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England and Wales
No full textThis thesis explores the challenges of investigating multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE). There is a lack of overall knowledge of who the offenders are within this form of sexual offending against children. This research addresses this gap by examining the problematic conceptualising of CSE offending as a form of organised crime, and provides new data on both the prevalence and characteristics of the offenders. It adopts a mixed methods approach and uses both traumagenic and organised crime theories to provide insights into the detecting of the offending groups from a policing perspective. Quantitative data, gathered via Freedom of Information (FOI) requests sent to all English and Welsh police forces, studies the prevalence of multi-perpetrator CSE across England and Wales, in addition to highlighting the limitations of using the data. Qualitative data, collated from interviews with 25 serving, or recently-retired, Senior Investigating Officers representing 17 police forces, emphasises the overwhelming nature of the investigations with several constraining factors identified as hindering the investigations. Some of these are workplace stressors such as a lack of training and skilled officers, whilst other factors highlight the complexities of these investigations, such as the extensive number of offenders, some of whom are never identified, coupled with supporting vulnerable victim-survivors for lengthy periods of time. All of which equates totraumatic investigations for the victim-survivors and indeed the police officers themselves. These investigations do not often result in traditionally successful outcomes and evidence is also provided of the re-traumatisation of the victim-survivors during the criminal justiceprocess, if the cases reach that stage. This thesis closes with 11 different recommendations under the NCA’s Serious and Organised Crime Strategy’s 4 Ps framework: Pursue, Prevent, Protect and Prepare
Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies'
No full textThis book addresses the nature of intimacy and relationships in a time of what Eva Illouz characterizes as ‘cold intimacies’. The contributors to this collection highlight the ambivalence and tensions contained in ‘intimacy’ by uncovering a nuanced and complex dynamic, in which interpersonal relations and the public sphere are mutually constituted. A range of topics are explored, including the new conditions of ‘choice’, the abundance of partners, class and emotional competence, rational decision-making and the specific forms of ‘love pain’ which can emerge from cooled intimacy. The chapters also shed light on the limits of this theoretical contribution, highlighting the importance of parenting, violence, poverty, and other material constraints that continue to limit and frame individuals’ romantic choices. Overall this volume presents an interpretation of intimacy that is not just ‘cold’ but includes practices, desires and feelings that are safe and dangerous, that bring solace or erupt in violence, that lead to salvation or condemnation, and where virtual encounters and increased internal and crossborder mobility have altered the relationship between intimacy and (physical/emotional) distance.Romantic Relationships in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’ will be of interest to scholars and students across a range of disciplines, including sociology, social work, social policy and demography, as well as practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in couple relationships
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
The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts
Get PDFIllouz’ Why Love Hurts (2012) claims that love has undergone a great transformation in modernity. The choice of romantic partners occurs through individual decisions disembedded from shared moral frameworks and normative communities. Romantic love becomes a source of the self as one’s beloved affirms our individuality. Yet our choices bring with them the burden of foreclosed possibilities and doubts around ‘the right choice’. Modern romance potentially installs a consumerist ethic of reversibility to our romantic choices. This new form of romantic suffering accounts for not only why ‘love hurts’ but potentially the decline in marriage rates in modern societies. Here we explore the logic and limits to Illouz’s thesis. Despite the decline in the marriage rate, ‘the wedding’ remains the sacred centre of modern romance. Through a focus upon ‘wedding gifts’, we find in both cultural imaginaries and social practices the negotiation of, and limits to, the transformation of love. Our argument inverts Illouz’s logic of choice: the wedding is defined by the annulment of choice, a decision to commit in spite of choice. Through an examination of wedding gifts we demonstrate how the vocabulary of motives which pervades romantic relationships may well be premised upon individual desire and emotional reasoning, but this has not meant the wholesale takeover by either a consumerist ethics of reversibility or a removal of moral obligations to others
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