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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
An insidious process: A study of the institutional context of (criminal) subversive behaviour in football
No full textIn het onderzoeksrapport 'Een sluipend proces' staat beschrijft het ethische klimaat waarin (criminele) ondermijning in het voetbal kan ontstaan. Tegenstand bieden aan ondermijning is niet eenvoudig, juist omdat ondermijning een geleidelijk proces is. Ineens blijkt een vereniging soms door stapsgewijze inmenging in de problemen te komen. Schaamte over genomen besluiten en soms de vrees voor een faillissement of bezoek van de belastingdienst kunnen de problemen dan verergeren. Toch kunnen clubs, KNVB en gemeenten wel degelijk iets doen en de weerbaarheid van verenigingen tegen ondermijning vergroten, aldus de onderzoekers. Kwetsbare instituties: ondermijning van sportverenigingen Het onderzoeksproject Een sluipend proces is onderdeel van ‘Institutions as bad barrels: criminal undermining of sport clubs’, een onderzoeksprogramma van het focusgebied Sport & Society van de Universiteit Utrecht, gericht op kwetsbaarheid van sportverenigingen voor criminele inmenging en ondermijning. Dat betreft niet alleen matchfixing en witwasprakijken in de internationale, professionele sport. Er zijn ook groeiende zorgen dat er sprake is van criminele inmenging en ondermijning op lokaal sportverenigingsniveau. Vanuit wetenschappelijk perspectief is hieraan nog weinig aandacht gegeven. Voor zover daar al sprake van is, gaat het vooral om inventariserende studies, met weinig aandacht voor de sportverenigingen als instituties. ‘Institutions as bad barrels’ wil, met andere woorden, meer aandacht besteden aan de ‘bad barrels’ (verenigingen die onder criminele invloed zijn komen te staan) dan aan de ‘bad apples’ (criminelen) die erin vallen
Van onderop organiseren: Interorganisationele samenwerking in een krachtwijk
No full textMost children grow up in an environment surrounded by different institutions, such as family, school, friends and community organizations, which are more or less connected. The local neighbourhood football club (VV Hoograven) in this research initiated a partnership with other local community organizations (elementary schools, social work, youth work, mosque, etc.). Together the volunteers and professionals (football coaches, youth- and community workers) of these organizations strongly believe in the added value of collaborating across institutional and organizational boundaries and aim to connect the different worlds in which children grow up. ‘If we don’t keep an eye on the youth, they will slip away from us’, is an often used statement by the participants in Hoograven. This reflects their idea for a more integrated approach towards youth development. The participants believe that enhancing partnership between local community organizations working with vulnerable youth will stimulate their development with possible spill-over effects on the whole community. The partnership in this research takes place in a krachtwijk, which according to central and local government reports show that social and economical problems (poverty, unemployment, antisocial behaviour of youth, crime etc.) of the inhabitants are relatively higher compared to inhabitants in other areas of the city (VROM, 2007; Gemeente Utrecht 2008; Nicis, 2008). This research aims to provide insights into the characteristics of interorganizational collaboration between professionals and volunteers of a neighborhood football club, elementary schools, youth- and community work and a local mosque. From a scientific point of view this research adds to our understanding on the processes and contents of bottom-up organizing and interorganizational collaboration. From a policy and practical point of view the findings of this research could be used for more successful community (sport-based) social policy interventions by (local) governments. A single case study research design is used to get an in-depth understanding on the processes and contents of interorganizational collaboration. An insider’s perspective is taken to describe the beliefs, perceptions and attitudes of practitioners on partnership working. A remarkable characteristic of interorganizational collaboration is the role of certain key figures (in Dutch: trekkers) and their personal view and commitment to partnership working for youth development. The partnership also featured an open attitude towards newcomers with new ideas on problem definitions and solutions. The partnership working in this case study lead to breaking institutional and organizational barriers. Their believe in the added value of partnership working for the children created a strong bond between the participants. However, the research also shows that working across organizational boundaries can lead to a mixture of organizational difficulties such as unifying a strong diversity of stakeholders and the constant call for visionary leadership. Boundaries arose such as missing links, meaning groups like parents or organizations such as schools and the mosque not participating fully and therefore being missed as an important partner in the network model. Finally, even though the partnership started in a bottom-up matter, it showed that support of managers, directors, and local government (top-down) is an important condition for a sustainable project
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
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
AbNormAll Bodies. Gender, dis/ability and health in sport, physical education and beyond
No full textThe overall theme guiding this dissertation concerns the ways in which body norms are constructed, reproduced, negotiated and resisted in different contexts. The central research questions are: 1) How do Dutch youth and adults discursively construct (their) bodies and health; 2) How are these constructions informed by discourses about gender and dis/ability; and 3) How do discourses about gender, dis/ability and health intersect to produce specific subjectivities and a hierarchy of bodies? To unpack these issues surrounding normative embodiment I draw on the work of Foucault and feminist poststructuralist approaches. In the majority of this dissertation I focus on sport and physical education as sites where body norms are constructed, negotiated and challenged. In the empirical chapters I tease out the constructions and experiences of three different groups: physical educators (chapter 2), able-bodied youth (chapter 3) and disabled youth (chapter 5). In chapter 4 I widen my scope to explore how body norms are constructed in similar ways beyond physical education and sport and what can be learned about intersections of different embodied social markers (e.g. gender, dis/ability, race/ethnicity, sexuality and age) that can result in exclusionary practices. In chapter 6 I pose similar questions about normative embodiment to the ones I investigate in the other chapters, but instead of focusing on sport and PE, I explore my own experiences related to the context in which I am professionally embedded: my university department. The results of this research indicate that participants in the various studies emphasized discourses about health and appearance. The participants constructed a normative body that was white, male, abled, heterosexual, middle class and slender. The non-normative Other bodies that the participants constructed – a constellation of female, non-white, disabled, fat, homosexual and lower class bodies – functioned as important cues that they used to position themselves in normative ways. The marginalization and exclusion of these non-normative Others was apparent but often implicit. I argue that the disciplining practices that emerge from those dominant constructions of body norms are based on several sources which form part of an ‘assemblage’. Furthermore, I describe how disciplinary practices seems to shift along two axes. The first axis ‘visible-invisible’ suggests that disciplinary practices vary according to the visibility of an embodied marker that is deemed salient in the construction of normative embodiment. The second axis ‘changeable-fixed’ suggests that disciplinary practices depend on the degree to which people perceive the embodied marker under scrutiny to be changeable. Additionally, the data show that resistance to dominant body and health norms emerged mostly through interaction with peers and from marginal subject positions. Empathic understanding and critical reflexivity appear to be necessary skills that enable people to resist dominant discourses. I argue that more attention should be paid to the development of these skills in order to expose and decrease social inequalities. The use of creative research methods such as those that utilize stories, poetry, photo material and visual images could help achieve this goal. Furthermore, critical media literacy could be incorporated in schools to offer students and teachers the opportunity to analyze and challenge dominant body norms related to gender, dis/ability, body size etcetera. This may help disrupt dominant discourses about the body in order to move towards a truly ‘healthy’ environment in which bodies of all sizes, shapes, genders, colours, and abilities can be celebrated
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