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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
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
The Necessity of Unsettling Encounters in Collaborative Research: Reflections of Two Researchers without Experiential Expertise
No full textBackground: Maintaining collaborative research relations is challenging, as shown by a range of personal accounts of researchers with experiential expertise, emerging from reflected lived experiences within medical or social care institutions. Objective: In contrast, there is a shortage of narratives of researchers without experiential expertise, rendering their specific perspectives largely unaccounted for – a gap that is addressed in this paper. Methods: The interpretative method of “interactive interviewing” is used to systematically reflect on how two researchers without experiential expertise perceived personal and emotional unsettlement in collaborative projects in the fields of Mental Health (MH) and Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD). Results: Four cases are presented to illustrate and advocate the value of unsettling encounters in collaborative research. Underlying is the ethical and methodological position that collaborative research is primarily characterized by its potential to unsettle the relations between the people and parties involved. This position derives from the critical autobiography of the disability studies scholar Kathryn Church, and contrasts to the widely held assumption that collaborative research is largely characterized by a set of distinct methods or techniques. Discussion: Some of the epistemic and methodological gains and challenges of approaching collaborative research as a means to facilitate and reflect on unsettling encounters are presented and discussed in relation to overarching theoretical and normative-ethical arguments. Community Contribution: This paper purposefully lacks any form of involvement, explicitly focussing on the perspectives and experiences of researchers without experiential expertise in the context of collaborative research relationships
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
Otherness as a Tension-Filled Relationship:The Potential of Experimental-Relational Spaces of Encounter
No full textSinds 2010 ben ik betrokken bij een mix van etnografisch, narratief en fenomenologisch onderzoek, voornamelijk gericht op complexe zorgpraktijken rondom mensen met een ernstige verstandelijke beperking. In deze samenwerkingsprojecten proberen we – in alle bescheidenheid – meer ruimte te creëren voor interpersoonlijke uitwisseling en verbondenheid, om zo de levenskwaliteit van alle betrokkenen te verhogen. We besteden altijd veel tijd op microniveau, omdat dit ons helpt een rijke, gelaagde kijk te krijgen op de geleefde ervaring en op wat er op het spel staat voor iedereen die betrokken is. Door dit te doen proberen we inzichten en lessen te destilleren voor de voortdurende dialoog tussen belanghebbenden uit beleid, praktijk en onderzoek – uitgaande van de leefwerelden van mensen die vaak het minst gehoord en erkend worden. De afgelopen 14 jaar hebben we verschillende ontwerpen en strategieën ontwikkeld en toegepast, die ik graag vat onder de noemer ‘experimenteel-relationele ontmoetingsruimte’ (Bos & Abma 2021).In deze tekst deel ik enkele van de belangrijkste lessen die ik onderweg heb geleerd. Eerst zal ik reflecteren op een paar opvallende voorbeelden uit mijn promotieonderzoek naar ontmoetingen tussen mensen met en mensen zonder ernstige verstandelijke beperking in omgekeerde-integratiesettingen. Ik doe dit voornamelijk om te illustreren hoe ik me bewust werd van de noodzaak van een meer ontvankelijke, responsieve, reflectieve en avontuurlijke benadering van interacties met mensen met een ernstige verstandelijke beperking, en waarom ik vastbesloten werd om daaraan bij te dragen in mijn onderzoek.Vervolgens zal ik uitleggen wat ik bedoel met ‘experimenteel-relationele ontmoetingsruimte’ en hoe de onderliggende waarden inspiratie kunnen bieden voor het dagelijks leven in zorg- en onderzoekspraktijken. Ten slotte zal ik kort enkele inzichten uit recente projecten delen om het veelbelovende potentieel van een expliciete betrokkenheid bij experimenteel-relationele ontmoetingsruimtes te illustreren
Vriendschappelijkheid als vruchtbare houding in langdurig onderzoek en zorg!?
No full textTwaalf jaar geleden ontmoette Gustaaf Bos een bijzondere, creatieve, ondernemende man van 75 jaar met een verstandelijke beperking. De vriendschap die tussen hen ontstond leverde een heleboel stof tot nadenken op over vriendschap
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