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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Pedagogical practices and adult learners’ professional formations: a multiple-case study within a Malaysian university
No full text© 2010 Dr. Jamiah BabaWith the belief that the quality of the workforce can be improved by increasing the number of those with tertiary qualification in the workforce, higher education in Malaysia has been entrusted by the government to help develop the needed human capital. Among the many public universities, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) confronts greater challenges due to its special mission to overcome the shortage of Bumiputera [‘sons of the soil’] manpower at the professional level.
The thesis sought to examine professional formations as these are constructed through transitional experiences of adult learners moving between higher education and employment. It also investigates how pedagogical practices in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Malaysia impact upon these experiences. A multiple-case study utilised quantitative and qualitative methods in five different programmes. The findings were derived from questionnaires, interviews, and classroom observations, which involved ten lecturers, and five groups of learners. Five practising professionals were also interviewed to explore what they do at work, and their views of UiTM graduates.
The findings show that the learners’ professional identities were variably formed, with age, quality of experience, and qualification as important markers. The learners’ work experiences were helpful as these experiences helped connect theoretical knowledge to their everyday lives and professional practices. Depending on the engagement, their studies and work had reinforced their knowledge and had been beneficial in many aspects, in a symbiotic relationship which suggests the relevance of different ways of ‘knowing’. Another significant finding is that lengthy engagement with practice is required for professional learning and for becoming an expert, as lifelong experience plays an important role in doing work successfully. Through its findings, the thesis recommends changes in policy and practices so as to provide more relevant and responsive educational opportunities for adults in institutions of higher learning
Learning of English literature: ESL pre-service teachers’ perceptions and challenges / Jamiah Baba
Full text linkLearning of literature, particularly in the ESL context, has been subjected to controversy and consensus. Its proponents argue that literature learning can be beneficial for learners because it provides valuable authentic material and fosters language enrichment, cultural awareness, and personal involvement. Its opponents, however, believe that literature brings its own sets of challenges such as language difficulty and cultural disconnection. As the learning of literature has a direct impact on the learners, it is important to understand how learners view the subject and their experience in learning it. Such understanding can lead to better teaching and learning of literature in ESL classrooms. Hence, this paper attempts to discuss pre-service teachers’ perceptions of, and challenges in, learning literature in a public university in Malaysia. A questionnaire, consisting of multiple-choice items and open-ended questions, was distributed to respondents enrolled in a literature course at the university. Frequency count is used to calculate the response to each question in the single-option format while crosstabulations are used whenever the responses are to be compared with each other. In addition, the learners’ academic grades are analysed and cross-tabulated with the items in the questionnaire. The findings show that the learners have positive perceptions of literature and admitted to having enjoyed learning literature in the course due to several factors, including the role of the instructor. These findings have implications on how educators plan and teach literature courses, which will affect how ESL learners approach and learn literature
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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