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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
Robots in Nursing - False Rhetoric or Future Reality?: How might robots contribute to hospital nursing in the future? A qualitative study of the perspectives of roboticists and nurses
Get PDFIntroduction.
The challenge of the global nursing shortage coupled with a rising healthcare demand prompts consideration of technology as a potential solution. Technology in the form of robots is being developed for healthcare applications but the potential role in nursing has not been researched in the UK.
Methods
A three-phased qualitative study was undertaken: interviews with 5 robotic developers (Phase 1); nine focus groups /interviews with 25 hospital Registered Nurses (RN) in Phase 2, and 12 nurse leaders in four focus groups (Phase 3).
Data was analysed using framework analysis for Phase 1 and reflexive thematic analysis for Phase 2 and 3 data based on the Fundamentals of Care framework.
Results
Roboticist interviews confirmed that a taxonomy of potential robotic automation was a useful tool for discussing the role of robots. In Phase 2, RNs described activities that robots might undertake and commented on those which they should not. RNs more readily agreed that robots could assist with physical activities than relational activities. Six potential roles that robots might undertake in future nursing practice were identified from the data and which have been labelled as advanced machine, social companion, responsive runner, helpful co-worker, proxy nurse bot, and feared substitute. Three cross-cutting themes were identified:
• a fear of the future;
• a negotiated reality and
• a positive opportunity.
In phase 3, nurse leaders considered the RN results and four themes were identified from their discussions:
• First impressions of robot in nursing;
• The essence of nursing;
• We must do something and
• Reframing the future.
Conclusions
Robots will be a future reality in nursing, playing an assistive role. Nursing must become technically proficient and engage with the development and testing of robots. Nurse leaders must lead policy development and reframe the narrative from substitution to assistance. A number of navigational tools have been developed including a taxonomy of nursing automation and the six robotic roles which may be useful to inform future debate in nursing
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
Academic nurse educators’ experiences and perceptions of supporting adult nursing students in clinical placements in nursing homes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Get PDFBACKGROUND: The global population is ageing and requires the provision of skilled registered nurses to meet their needs. However, concerns exist that students do not view nursing homes favourably compared to hospital placements. The role of the nurse educator is an important one in reinforcing the importance of care that takes place in a nursing home
AIM: This thesis aims to explore nurse educators’ experiences and perceptions of supporting adult nursing students in nursing home placements.
METHODS: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was undertaken to develop divergent and convergent experiences of nurse educators supporting clinical placements in nursing homes. Semi-structured interviews with eight nurse educators were conducted online between December 2020 and March 2021 and transcribed verbatim. Smith et al's, (2022) six-step iterative process was followed alongside researcher reflexivity, to extract divergent and convergent superordinate and subordinate themes.
FINDINGS: The cross-group analysis elicited individual and shared experiences. Two superordinate themes and six subthemes emerged from the data. Participants highlighted how a curriculum focussed on hospital-based care can result in minority placement settings such as nursing homes becoming overlooked in nurse education. Nurse educators in this study suggest that student, faculty and nursing home nurses’ negative perceptions of the value of nursing home clinical placements make it more challenging to build trusting relationships and support nursing home staff to recognise the potential of their role and contribution to nurse education.
CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that nurse education is unwittingly contributing to a negative perception of nursing home placements that points towards an epistemic injustice towards nursing homes, the registered nurses who work in them and the skills gained and practised within them. This leaves students unprepared and unwilling to work in nursing homes and nursing home staff unable to feel confident in their part in supporting nursing students. There is an urgent need for nurse education to become more inclusive of clinical practice in nursing homes so that the differences can be properly understood and actions for change taken. The implementation of Care Home Education Facilitators (CHEF) would be a first step to achieving this goal. Additionally, nurse educators are challenged to ensure the nursing curriculum actively recognises stereotypical beliefs, increases the value of fundamental care throughout the nurse education programme and supports student nurses undertaking clinical placements in nursing homes
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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