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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
Understanding distribution in homelessness policy : a normative exploration of the differential treatment of homeless households in England, Scotland and Wales.
Full text linkThe social problem of homelessness evokes strong ethical responses but the role of values in this
area has been relatively underexplored. This thesis responds to calls for more normatively engaged
work in homelessness and housing studies by using concepts from distributive justice to explore the
different entitlements of three sub-groups of homeless households (families with children, young
people, and single people) under contemporary homelessness policy in England, Scotland and
Wales. This work aims to improve conceptual clarity regarding normative principles relevant to
homelessness policy, generate empirical evidence of how these principles apply to and interact
within contemporary policy, and develop an evaluative framework through which normative
elements of homelessness policy can be critically assessed.
Underpinned by the critical realist position that ‘invisible’ social phenomena such as normative
perspectives can have a causal impact on empirically identifiable social realities, the thesis draws
upon scholarship from within moral and political philosophy to identify normative grounds for
affording different levels of support or entitlements to different types of homeless household. Six
principles in particular emerge as relevant to different positions in homelessness policy: need,
desert, vulnerability, utility, rights, and equality.
The relationship between these principles and contemporary homelessness policy in England,
Scotland and Wales is explored through primary empirical work, including analysis of key policy
documents and in-depth interviews with thirty-eight key informants. This evidence shows how these
plural values are balanced differently across the three nations, with an emphasis on responding to
acute need in England, a rights-based approach in Scotland, and a distinct split between these
‘selective’ and ‘universal’ positions in Wales. The combination of national homelessness systems and
UK-wide welfare policy produces three distinct household groups: families with children, whose
vulnerability and ‘blamelessness’ underpins strong protections; young people, conceptualised as
vulnerable but offered only ‘patchy’ support; and single adults, historically deprioritised but gaining
increasing policy attention motivated by principles of equality and concern about acute need.
The thesis develops three tools for evaluating the defensibility of these relationships in normative
terms: assessments of internal consistency, theoretical coherence, and reasonableness in the
context of pluralism. Viewing homelessness policy through these different lenses demonstrates how
a normative perspective can uncover sites of conflict, reveal policy areas ripe for change, and
indicate directions of travel that could resolve tensions between principles and practice. In
particular, the thesis highlights a shifting and perhaps diminishing role for the principle of desert in
relation to homelessness and incremental moves towards ‘universalist’ policy in this area.
The work contributes to a growing body of scholarship applying normative ideas to homelessness. It
offers novel strategies for understanding and engaging with normative issues in homelessness policy
and demonstrates how this kind of normative work can aid in mapping the policy landscape, offering
conceptual clarity that supports identification of themes and distinctions between positions. This
forms a strong position from which to evaluate different policy approaches, comparing them against
criteria such as established moral positions or consistency with the policy’s stated aims, and enables
practitioners and policymakers to take account of the moral and social context when determining
future directions.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems
Full text linkVariations 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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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