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The general challenges involved in health reporting among newspaper health reporters in Nigeria
No full textThe important nature of health in society often makes it a prime subject of coverage in
the media. Today, one of the major areas of coverage in journalism is health because
members of society now rely on the media as a major source of health information.
Considering the specialised and technical nature of health reporting, health reporters
encounter different challenges such as the nature of the health topic being covered,
the personality of the health reporters, the kind of relationships with the health and
science researchers and the environment within which health reporting is done.
In this study, the author investigates the challenges newspaper health reporters
encounter in Nigeria in the discharge of their professional duty. Through in-depth
interviews with 13 health reporters in Nigeria, the author discovered that: health
and science researchers often refused to talk to health reportersand that health
reporters do not have access to current health data and statisticsno provision for
on-the-job insurance coveragesinsecurity and poor conditions of service. The study,
however, concludes that these challenges, which majorly reflect the common features
of developing countries, can be mitigated if media organisations and the Nigerian
government play their roles, to facilitate the development of health reporting field
to the level found developed countries
An analysis of dominant health issues, voices and victims in health reportage in Nigerian national newspapers
Get PDFThis study examines three basic questions: (i) what health issues dominate Nigerian national newspapers? (ii) Who are the newsmakers in health news/reports in Nigerian national newspapers? (iii) Who are the victims in health news in Nigerian national newspapers? These research questions were empirically answered through the quantitative content analysis and inferential statistics adopted in this study. The author content-analysed health issues in Nigerian national newspapers from 2010-2013, focusing on 45 health issues within the purview of news, editorials, feature articles, opinion writing and letters to the editor. This study found that Nigerian national newspapers actually report health issues and the ten dominant ones include: health care delivery, health systems administration, HIV/AIDS, cancer, nutrition and balance diet, polio, maternal health, malaria, infant health and reproductive health. The health news-makers in Nigerian newspapers are health researchers through their various publications and ranked next to this group are the medical doctors. This study further found that children and women constitute the victims of health problems reported in Nigerian national newspapers. This study, therefore, concludes that given the enduring nature of newspapers, the archival quality and its comprehensive analysis, they will continue to remain a useful health resource in disseminating health information despite the explosive information and communication technologies
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
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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