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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
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
Turnover of IPS employment specialists within the implementation of the evidence-based practice ‘Individual Placement and Support’
Get PDFI skrivende stund er lav sysselsetting av personer med psykiske lidelser et globalt problematisert fenomen. Individuell jobbstøtte (IPS) er en manualisert metode for arbeidsrehabilitering som i et solid antall randomiserte kontrollstudier fra ulike land viser seg effektiv for å støtte disse personene til å få og beholde arbeid. Likevel har implementeringen av evidensbasert praksis bydd på noen utfordringer. Turnover blant IPS-jobbspesialister har tidligere blitt problematisert som en av disse utfordringene, men per nå finnes det lite forskning på dette.
Turnover er sentralt som problemområde for implementeringen av enhver evidensbasert praksis ettersom det kan hindre effektiviteten av en intervensjon, kvaliteten på implementeringen og den følgende muligheten for opprettholdelse av tjenesten. I tilfellet IPS kan det forventes at turnover blant jobbspesialistene har en rekke negative effekter på tjenestemottakerne og organisasjonen. På tjenestemottakernivå kan turnover øke ventetiden for disse og bryte arbeidsalliansen med jobbspesialistene, som er essensiell for å oppnå og beholde arbeid. På organisasjonsnivå kan turnover hindre tjenesteytelse, øke kostnader og forårsake ytterligere turnover. På tross av høy turnoverrate på enkelte IPS-enheter og at robust teorigrunnlag viser at turnover er skadelig, finnes det ikke så vidt meg bekjent, studier som systematisk adresserer turnover blant IPS-jobbspesialister.
Denne avhandlingen utforsker turnover blant IPS-jobbspesialister i en naturalistisk implementeringskontekst av IPS i Nord-Norge.
Spesifikt var målene for avhandlingen:
1. Å estimere og forklare IPS-jobbspesialisters turnoverrate og prediktorer for turnover-intensjon (første artikkel)
2. Å utforske hvorvidt personlighetsprofilen til IPS-jobbspesialister er assosiert med jobbtilfredshet (andre artikkel)
3. Å utforske og forstå erfaringsfaktorer og prosesser som former IPS-jobbspesialistenes avgjørelser om å slutte i arbeidet
Som en del av mixed methods design benyttet studien en rekke validerte mål som ble oversatt til norsk, sammen med en semistrukturert intervjuguide, for å samle data fra et utvalg av IPS-jobbspesialister i Nord-Norge.
Den første artikkelen fant at 45% av IPS-jobbspesialister slutter i arbeidet. Deres turnover-intensjoner hadde robust assosiasjon med domenet Negativ emosjonalitet på Big-5, generell jobbtilfredshet, tilfredshet med nåværende jobb og veiledning, og meningsfylt arbeid. Artikkelen konkluderer med at arbeidsmiljøproblemer på tvers av organisasjoner som IPS-jobbspesialister erfarte kan være en årsak til deres negative arbeidserfaringer og assosierte høye turnoverrater.
Den andre artikkelen fant at Ekstroversjon, Negativ emosjonalitet og mannlig kjønn var longitudinelt assosiert med generell jobbtilfredshet hos IPS-jobbspesialister. Et annet funn viste at IPS-jobbspesialister på gruppenivå hadde en distinkt personlighetsprofil sammenlignet med generelle populasjonsdata. De skårte statistisk signifikant høyere på Ekstroversjon, Medmenneskelighet, Planmessighet og Åpenhet, men lavere på Negativ emosjonalitet. I lys av Big-5-teorien konkluderer artikkelen med at IPS-jobbspesialisters personlighetsprofil var passende for arbeidet. Funn relatert til personlighetsdomener som kan predikere generell jobbtilfredshet kan være nyttige for å forbedre rekruttering og seleksjon av kandidater til jobbspesialistrollen.
Den tredje, kvalitative artikkelen, viste at for de IPS-jobbspesialistene som sluttet i arbeidet, var det en ubalanse mellom faktorer som “tappet” og “næret” deres ønske om å bli i jobben. De tappende faktorene var relatert til arbeidsmiljøproblemer som oppstod tidlig i implementeringsprosessen. Artikkelen konkluderer med at å adressere arbeidsmiljøproblemer effektivt kan skape lavere turnoverrate blant jobbspesialister i fremtiden.
Oppsummert skaper funnene i avhandlingen en grunnleggende forståelse av turnoverprosessen hos IPS-jobbspesialister i en ekte implementeringskontekst. Denne kunnskapen kan hjelpe IPS-ledere å adressere arbeidsmiljøproblemer, med mål om å redusere turnoverrater i IPS-tjenester og forhindre turnover fra å gjøre skade på disse i fremtiden.At present, low employment rates of people who suffer from mental health problems are a globally problematized phenomenon. Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a manualized vocational rehabilitation method, which is shown to be effective by a solid number of randomized-controlled studies in different countries in supporting people with mental health problems to gain and retain employment. However, the implementation of evidence-based practices comes with challenges. Turnover of IPS employment specialists has been previously problematized to be one such challenge, though as of now it has been scarcely researched.
Turnover is a subject of concern for the implementation of any evidence-based practice as it has been shown to hinder the effectiveness of an intervention, quality of the implementation and following possibility of sustainment. In an IPS context, it can be expected that turnover of IPS employment specialists has a number of negative effects on service users and the organization in question. On the service user level, turnover can increase time on a waiting list and disrupt working alliance with IPS employment specialists, vital for achieving and maintaining employment. At the organizational level, turnover can hamper service provision, increase service costs and further induce turnover rates. Nevertheless, despite reported high turnover rates in some IPS sites and the theoretical merit of turnover being detrimental, to my knowledge, there have been no studies systematically addressing turnover of IPS employment specialists.
The present dissertation explores turnover of IPS employment specialists in the context of the naturalistic implementation of IPS in northern Norway.
Specifically, the objectives were:
1. To estimate and explain IPS employment specialists’ turnover rates and the predictors of turnover intention (1st article)
2. To explore whether the personality profile of IPS employment specialists is associated with job satisfaction (2nd article)
3. To explore and understand experiential factors and processes that shape IPS employment specialists’ decisions to quit the role (3rd article)
As a part of the mixed-methods design, the study utilized a number validated scales, which were translated into Norwegian along with a semi-structured interview guide to collect data from a sample of IPS employment specialists in northern Norway.
The first article found that 45% of IPS employment specialists quit their jobs. Their turnover intentions were robustly associated with the Negative emotionality Big-5 personality domain, general job satisfaction, satisfaction with current work and supervision, and work meaningfulness. The study concludes that the cross-organizational work environment problems experienced by IPS employment specialists might be a reason for their negative job experiences and associated high turnover rates.
The second article found that Extraversion, Negative emotionality and male gender were longitudinally associated with general job satisfaction of IPS employment specialists. It was also found that as a group, the IPS employment specialists had a distinct personality profile when compared to the reference general population data. They were statistically significantly higher on Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Open-mindedness, while lower on Negative emotionality. In light of the Big-5 personality theory, the study concludes that IPS employment specialists’ personality profile was a good fit for the job. Findings related to the personality domains-predictors of general job satisfaction can be helpful in improving the recruitment and selection of candidates for the IPS employment specialist role.
The third qualitative article revealed for those IPS employment specialists who had quit the role there was an imbalance in factors that ‘drained’ and ‘nourished’ their wish to stay in the role. The draining factors were related to work environment problems, which originated during the early implementation period. The study concludes that by addressing the work environment problems, future turnover rate of IPS employment specialists might be effectively decreased.
In summary, the findings of the dissertation set a baseline understanding of the process of IPS employment specialists’ turnover in the real world implementation context. This acquired knowledge can be helpful for IPS leaders in addressing work environment problems with the goal of reducing turnover rates in IPS services and for preventing turnover from becoming detrimental in future.Doktorgradsavhandlin
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.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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