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Introduction: Unpacking English for Research Publication Purposes [ERPP] and the intersecting roles of those who research, teach and edit it
Get PDFMargaret Cargill and Sally Burges
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
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
8. Scientists publishing research in English from Indonesia: Analysing outcomes of a training intervention to inform institutional action
Get PDFMargaret Cargill, Patrick O, Connor, Rika Raffiudin, Nampiah Sukarno, Berry Juliandi and Iman Rusman
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
Fostering a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Publication Skills Education (CIPSE) approach at a Chinese university
No full textA recommended approach for developing high quality discipline-specific writing skills in HDR students and earlycareer researchers involves effective collaboration between language professionals and discipline experts. Nevertheless, it is recognised that such collaborative partnerships have not become
commonplace, and that specialists in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) typically have a hard time persuading discipline experts to develop a sustainable interest in such a collaborative relationship. In this paper, we analyse and reflect upon an attempt to do so by one of us, Margaret, a veteran external EAP professional from Australia who has been committed to teaching international publication skills to Chinese scientists over the past 15 years. Her (largely unrealized) aim in a school of sciences at a prestigious Chinese university was to foster a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Publication Skills Education (CIPSE) (Cargill & O’Connor, 2010) approach. The dataset that forms the basis of our study comes from several sources: the PowerPoint slides used by Margaret in talking to supervisors in the school on two occasions, the audio-recording of the second meeting, which included views from two academics who could express themselves in English, group discussions of a class of research students attending a summer course taught by Margaret in the school, and interviews with Margaret conducted by Yongyan.
We argue that supervisors’ reluctance to commit themselves to collaborating in the nurture of their students’ English writing expertise has understandable and regrettable consequences. We further propose ways for local EAP teachers (an emerging population in the Chinese context) to adapt and develop the CIPSE approach in their own institutional contexts.
Reference:
Cargill, M., & O’Connor, P. (2010). Structuring interdisciplinary collaboration to develop research students’ skills for publishing research internationally: Lessons from implementation. In M. Davies, M. Devlin, & M. Tight (Eds.), Interdisciplinary higher education: Perspectives and practicalities (pp. 279-292). Emerald
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