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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
[[alternative]]A Study of Organizational Restructuring for Compulsory Education Advisory Group in Taipei County
No full text[[abstract]]The aim of this research is intended to find applicable strategies in organizational restructuring, by comparing with relevant issues in educational field and theoretical analysis. It is expected that the findings of this work can efficiently help to solve the problems that Compulsory Education Advisory Group faced in the past few years.
The study included document analysis and three questionnaires. The historical background and characteristics of the Compulsory Education Advisory Group, the current situations of Bureau of Education Compulsory Education Advisory Group and relevant concepts of organizational restructuring were discussed and revealed in this research. Delphi technique was adapted to survey from eighteen persons that included some educational experts, some government officers in Ministry Education, some members in Compulsory Education Advisory Group and the others. Three questionnaires were given to them during three months. All the information provided from the interviewees will be kept confidential and anonymity will be maintained.
The main conclusions drawn from the document analysis and the research results are presented as below:
1.The members in the Compulsory Education Advisory Group shall be selected in a public progress hosted by the Bureau of Education.
2.The members in the Compulsory Education Advisory Group shall have expertise and speciality in educational field, to build up a professional image.
3.How to find ways to inspire teachers to be willing to take part in the Compulsory Education Advisory Group, will be an important task.
4.The Compulsory Education Advisory Group should develop as a legal and long-term organization, but not a temporary group.
5.The professional abilities of school curriculum inspectors affect the quality of dealing with affairs in Compulsory Education Advisory Group. In order to improve the professional development of Compulsory Education Advisory Group, it is valuable to accept excellent principals in primary or junior high schools to be school curriculum inspectors.
6.The function of Compulsory Education Advisory Group shall have professional ability to improve curriculum and teaching development. This is intended to supplement the poor function of the inspector system in Ministry of Education.
7.If Bureau of Education and Compulsory Education Advisory Group can remain good partner relationship, that will benefit the function of education organization.
8.Considering the spirits of Grade 1-9 curriculum reform, The Compulsory Education Advisory Groups in different curriculum fields in primary and junior high levels should be integrated.
9.It is needed to organize professional workshop or conferences for the members in the Compulsory Education Advisory Group to enhance their professional abilities.
Some possible implications of the study provide suggestions for Ministry of Education and the Taipei Country Bureau of Education in the issue of organizational restructuring.
Recommendations for Ministry of Education
1.It is needed to reform the law in education, to establish the Compulsory Education Advisory Group to be a legal and long-term organization.
2.The funding in the plan of developing Grade 1-9 curriculum and teaching shall be generously increased.
Recommendations for the Taipei Country Bureau of Education
1.The members in the Compulsory Education Advisory Group shall be selected in a public progress hosted by the Bureau of Education. The required qualifications of those members need to be expressed clearly.
2.It is needed to give more benefits to teachers and inspire them to be willing to take part in the Compulsory Education Advisory Group.
3.The Compulsory Education Advisory Group shall be adapted into the organization of the Taipei Country Bureau of Education.
4.It is strongly recommended that current principals in primary or junior high schools perform as school curriculum inspectors, because they are able to take care and counsel affairs in Compulsory Education Advisory Group. This is intended to improve the professional ability in the position as school curriculum inspectors.
5.It is needed to ask all members in the Compulsory Education Advisory Group to discuss annual affairs, and this will help the functions of Compulsory Education Advisory Group in six different areas.
6.Avoiding the bureaucracy, the members of Compulsory Education Advisory Group build up positive and partner relationships with schools.
7.It is important to actively desire the counseling ways and methods of Compulsory Education Advisory Group to reach efficiency.
8.It is advantageous to have one to several long-term workers in Compulsory Education Advisory Group. This can benefit the stability of Compulsory Education Advisory Group.
9.The Compulsory Education Advisory Groups in different curriculum fields in primary and junior high levels should be integrated. This is intended to be consistent to the spirits of Grade 1-9 curriculum reform policy.
10.It is advantageous to have a professional development team and target to develop professional abilities of the members in the Compulsory Education Advisory Group.
11.The professional development plans for the Compulsory Education Advisory Group will focus on the areas of curriculum and teaching development, educational policy, theories and practices in action researches.
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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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