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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
Therapeutic factors of outpatient group psychotherapy - The predictive validity of the Group Experience Questionnaire (GEQ)
No full textIt was the aim of the study to investigate different factors of group experience in relation to therapy effects and to prove the predictive validity of the Group Experience Questionnaire (GEQ); for this purpose for each scale of the GEQ the values of later "Responders" and "Non Responders" were compared. The sample consisted of 50 patients with psychosomatic diseases who where treated with outpatient integrated psychodynamic group therapy. We found that the GEQ is able to differentiate between successful and less successful patients. Especially the therapeutic factors "autonomy and optimism" as well as "well-being" are of high predictive value. Contrary to former investigations the therapeutic factor "cohesion" was less important, which could hint at the fact that a medium amount of cohesion might be sufficient for an effective process of treatment
Therapeutic factors of outpatient group psychotherapy - The predictive validity of the Group Experience Questionnaire (GEQ)
No full textIt was the aim of the study to investigate different factors of group experience in relation to therapy effects and to prove the predictive validity of the Group Experience Questionnaire (GEQ); for this purpose for each scale of the GEQ the values of later "Responders" and "Non Responders" were compared. The sample consisted of 50 patients with psychosomatic diseases who where treated with outpatient integrated psychodynamic group therapy. We found that the GEQ is able to differentiate between successful and less successful patients. Especially the therapeutic factors "autonomy and optimism" as well as "well-being" are of high predictive value. Contrary to former investigations the therapeutic factor "cohesion" was less important, which could hint at the fact that a medium amount of cohesion might be sufficient for an effective process of treatment
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
Häufigkeit und Behandlungsbedarf von Alkoholismus bei internistischen und chirurgischen Krankenhauspatienten
No full textArolt V, Driessen M, Schürmann A. Häufigkeit und Behandlungsbedarf von Alkoholismus bei internistischen und chirurgischen Krankenhauspatienten. Fortschritte der Neurologie · Psychiatrie. 1995;63(07):283-288.Problems resulting from alcoholism are among the most frequent reasons for referring general hospital inpatients to psychiatric consultation/liaison services. As surveys from internal medical departments have demonstrated, about 10-20% of the medical patients have an alcohol problem. In the present study, the current prevalence of alcohol-specific diagnoses in a sample of each 200 medical and surgical general hospital inpatients is ascertained, as well as the relevant treatment necessities. The patients were diagnosed by the German version of Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and a structured clinical interview. In 14.5 % of the patients a diagnosis of alcoholism was established; the prevalence rate in men was 25.4% compared to 4.4% in women. In 72.4 % of the alcohol cases the intervention of a psychiatric consultation/ liaison service was found necessary. The necessity for specific therapeutic interventions could be demonstrated, which should not be limited to the period of inpatient treatment but be continued after discharge from the hospital as well. The opportunity of secondary prevention of alcoholism in general hospitals should be used to a greater extent
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
Diagnostic work-up and treatment of acute psycho-organic syndrome
No full textThomas C, Driessen M, Arolt V. Diagnostik und Behandlung akuter psychoorganischer Syndrome. Nervenarzt. 2010;81(5):613-630.Psychiatric disorders due to a medical or neurological condition are the main differential diagnoses in newly admitted psychiatric patients, consultations and outpatient settings. Especially with the growing elderly population delirium occurs more frequently, often due to multiple causes. Although its prognosis is known to be unfavourable, delirium too often remains undiagnosed or untreated. Medications, neurological diseases, infections as well as metabolic and other medical conditions have to be ruled out in the differential diagnosis using the patient's history, physical examination, laboratory results and imaging procedures. First-time psychiatric symptoms of an unknown medical disease as well as co-occurring psychiatric symptoms in chronic diseases provoke a challenging diagnostic decision, as reactive psychiatric symptoms have to be distinguished which is not always possible. In psychiatric disorders confirmed to be due to a medical condition, therapeutic implications are primarily geared to the causes of the disease. Only in a second step psychiatric medication is warranted with antipsychotic, antidepressant or sedation-inducing properties depending on the patient's symptoms
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
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