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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
Contemporary Irish migration to Australia: pathways to permanence
Get PDFThis thesis investigates the experiences of contemporary Irish migrants in Australia by exploring
migration, settlement and return migration amongst the research project’s respondents. The recent
period is important because it encompassed both a technological revolution in the growth, availability
and affordability of travel and communications technology and because it saw an increase in the Irish
population in Australia, of 39 per cent, from 2006 to 2014. Since the mid-1990s there has been a
major shift in immigration policy whereby concentration on permanent migration, particularly the
family unit, has been replaced with a proliferation of visa classes that promote temporary entry in line
with global trends. Significant changes, such as the introduction of the 457 visa and the extension of
the Working Holiday Maker (WHM) visa, have meant that the temporary intake has become more
prominent. These changes also encouraged an investigation of the migration experiences of Irish
people to Australia as these visas, despite being elements of the temporary visa programme,
permitted a pathway to permanent residency in Australia.
This mixed methods study was conducted through two surveys (n=1,560) disseminated through social
media platforms and in-depth participant interviews (n=67). Findings were benchmarked against
secondary data from national data agencies and the Émigré study, University College Cork, Ireland.
The surveys allowed Irish people resident in Australia and those who had left to describe their visa use,
migration motivation and settlement experience.
Results found that the majority of immigrants entered Australia on a temporary, long-stay visa, and
most did not intend to settle permanently in Australia. This intention changed quite rapidly after
arrival and most WHMs transitioned to a 457 visa as the most typical ‘next step’ on the pathway to
permanent residency. New Irish arrivals tended to seek out Irish friendship groups or socialise with
other migrants and this was ascribed to three things: cultural comfort provided by other Irish people,
experiential similarities with other migrants and the perception that Australians had long-established
friendship groups which were difficult to penetrate. Contemporary Irish migrants were a ‘good fit’ for
Australia’s labour market and career progression was one of the most notable benefits of migration.
However, increased satisfaction with job, salary and career prospects post-migration did not prevent
some respondents choosing to leave Australia. The majority of those who departed returned to
Ireland, with departure usually family motivated: migrants either wanted to be nearer ageing parents
or wanted their children to experience a childhood similar to their own close to extended family
members. Analysis showed a high level of engagement during migration through mobile technology
with family, local community and with regional and national political, economic and social
developments in Ireland.
Methodologically, this study contributes to the emerging and growing field of research using and
investigating social media. Theoretically, this research demonstrates two migration theory threads at
play for the recent Irish immigrant cohort in Australia – one related to the process of migration which adheres closely, but not perfectly, to Neoclassical II economic theory and another, a cultural migration
process, related to transnationalism. This thesis expands our understanding of transnationalism
amongst the Irish in Australia where more recent migrants have enacted a strong trend towards
‘transnationalism from the ground up’ in their use of multi-level connections to Ireland locally,
regionally and nationally through electronic media and other online fora. Exploration of the empirical
data demonstrates a strong need to participate even virtually in life in Ireland and further, a keen
awareness of everyday happenings which was not available to migrants in pre-internet times. In this
context, transnationalism and transnational practice has the potential to become more prevalent for
first and deeper generations of the Irish diaspora.
Overall, since 2000, the contemporary Irish migrant experience in Australia has been a strongly
positive one. The significance of the findings lies predominantly in the visa used to enter Australia.
The rapid transition to a longer-term visa and ultimately to permanent residency suggests that visa
use was dictated by expediency rather than design. Even those who entered on a permanent visa did
not always intend to settle in Australia. Recent changes to Australia’s temporary visa programme,
namely the replacement of the 457 visa with the Temporary Skills Shortage (TSS) visa will likely lead to
different outcomes in the future.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 201
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
'Yet we are told that Australians do not sympathise with Ireland': a study of South Australian support for Irish Home Rule, 1883 to 1912.
Get PDFAlthough a small cohort, often deemed insignificant, the Irish in South Australia developed an extensive network of social, business and political connections with the wider colonial society which aided them in their support of the long constitutional struggle for self-government taking place in Ireland during the four decades from 1870. Through the lens of the colonial press and an investigation of the support given to Irish nationalists this study shows the extent to which that small cohort extended its influence to the wider South Australian community to the benefit of the Home Rule movement. This was no mean feat considering the established view of scholars that the group faced the ‘unquestionable primacy of Anglo-Scottish colonisation’. Looking at the visits of the envoys of the Irish Parliamentary Party which took place between 1883 and 1912, this study, through a consideration of fundraising, the reputation of the Irish in the colony, the colonial press’ treatment of Irish issues and a lack of Orange opposition to Home Rule, investigates the impact and reach of this small Irish community during the years of Ireland’s foremost constitutional political movement. In its conclusion the research shows that underlying the long assumed quiet assimilation of this ethnic group into the general ‘Britishness’ of the colony, the Irish, from the outset, were aware of and consistently maintained a separate cultural identity and, during the period under consideration, this was augmented by an increased politicisation amongst the group – a world development which affected the Irish at both the macro and micro level. This thesis further reveals that in South Australia the Irish Home Rule movement garnered strong support in a colony where the majority of the inhabitants were neither Irish nor Catholic and this was due to a number of factors. Amongst these were factors which contrast sharply with characteristics of the Irish and the Home Rule movement in other Australian colonies, particularly the size, unity and nature of South Australian Irish nationalists, the lack of a structured opposition to Home Rule, the colony’s natural affinity with the notion of self-government and the fraternal bonds which came about through the issue of land ownership and control. While fundraising was the prime object of a series of visits to Australia by Irish MPs between 1883 and 1912, acceptance of the Irish claim for Home Rule amongst Australians in general proved equally important. Despite the small community of Irish people residing in South Australia during the most active years of the movement the colony subscribed generously to the cause. While the loyalty and support of the Irish-born and perhaps even the next generation might be expected more surprising is the widespread involvement of the non-Irish and non-Catholic citizens of the colony.Thesis (M.Phil.) -- University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, 201
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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