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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
ATTITUDES OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION TOWARDS THE EFFECTS OF MATERIALS USE ON LEARNING
No full textWOS: 000278585000007In line with the fast advance seen in technology, the use of technological resources in education has come to play an important role in terms of drawing students' attention to the subjects studied in the classroom so that success increases and the knowledge is better internalized. This study was carried out to determine the attitudes of the pre-service teachers from the department of elementary education towards the effects of use of teaching materials; overhead projector and projector; on learning. The study was carried out with 184 senior pre-service teachers, 32 of whom are from the department of science teaching, 70 are from the department of classroom teaching, 46 are from the department of pre-school teaching and 36 are from the department of social studies teaching. The data obtained from the questionnaire used in the study were analyzed through SPSS program package. Independent t-test was used to test whether there is a significant correlation between the pre-service teachers' responses and gender and their background. In addition, One-Way ANOVA was used to test whether there is a significant correlation between student teacher' responses and their departments and some differences are detected with regards to the effects of using overhead projector and projector on learning. According to the findings of the study, the students are found to believe that the use of overhead projector and projector brings some kind of change and variety to the teaching, saves teaching from being monotonous, and contribute to establishing lively, colorful and smooth setting for teaching and learning
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
INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE LEARNING STYLES OF PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS AND SOME VARIABLES
No full textWOS: 000298904800007The purpose of this descriptive study carried out through survey method is to elicit the learning styles of pre-service elementary school teachers and investigate the relationships between these learning styles and gender, grade level, age and learning type. The Kolb Learning Style Inventory was used to obtain data. The present study was carried out with 409 1st, 2nd 3rd, and 4th year students from the classroom teacher education department of the education faculty at Mugla University in the spring term of 2008-2009 academic year. The sampling of the study was randomly constructed. In the analysis of the data, some descriptive statistics; frequencies and percentages, and a non-parametric test, Chi-square, were used. As a result of the analyses, a significant relationship was found between the learning styles of the students and their grade levels; but no significant relationships were found for age, gender, and learning type
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
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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