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Emerging Work Wellbeing Challenges
No full textThis chapter discusses four major changes to our working lives widely as a result of the COVID pandemic. The pandemic has served as a significant catalyst for change, accelerating the adoption of remote work, digital transformation, flexible working arrangements, and a focus on better managing worker sickness absence and presenteeism. This chapter discusses how each of these changes sustains the health and wellbeing of workers, particularly in the current context where the retention of experienced knowledge workers is acute. This chapter looks forward to consider the longer-term implications of these changed work practices for the wellbeing of workers in coming years.Full Tex
Companion animal death and client bereavement: A qualitative investigation of veterinary nurses’ caregiving experiences
No full textVeterinary paraprofessionals are routinely confronted with companion animal death and client bereavement throughout their day-to-day work. However, research exploring the nature and psychological impact of these end-of-life encounters among veterinary paraprofessionals is scarce. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted an exploratory qualitative investigation involving semi-structured interviews with 26 veterinary nurses. Thematic analysis identified three major themes within the data: (1) Contextual nuances; (2) Relational dynamics; and (3) Cumulative impact. Findings revealed a number of previously unexplored situational and relational complexities influencing veterinary nurses’ appraisals of these responsibilities, and their associated psychological outcomes.No Full Tex
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
Designing Impactful Research
No full textThis chapter discusses the necessity of designing our research projects to have an impact for end users and describes the five key research design principles central to the applied scientific method which high-quality research is recommended to adopt. These five principles are (a) the inclusion of reliable and valid measures; (b) the inclusion of sufficient and generalisable research samples; (c) the inclusion of the evidence of theoretical sophistication; (d) the inclusion of research designs that promote causal generalisations; and (e) the inclusion of research implications for end users. The chapter argues that the inclusion of these five principles maximises the opportunities of research to achieve an external impact and that this should be one of the key aims of conducting research at all levels. This chapter also discusses the process of research evaluation and the importance of planning this evaluation process within the research design stage.No Full Tex
Introduction to Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology
No full textThis overview chapter summarises the aims and intentions of the book: namely, a one-stop shop informing applied researchers in psychology and related social science and business and management fields about 21 key topics to be considered when conducting research projects primarily for their theses, including information about new topics such as using artificial intelligence (AI) in research. The four sections of this book are summarised: Getting started, data collection, data analysis, and research dissemination. This chapter also briefly describes each of the 21 chapters in this book. Finally, I warmly thank the contributors from all over the world, and from multiple disciplines both within and external to applied psychology, who so generously submitted their pertinent expertise about conducting research.Full Tex
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
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