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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
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
Palliative care and accompaniment formation and interrelation dynamic
No full textLe souci de l’autre souffrant à accompagner jusqu’à son dernier souffle, devient au gré des mutations sociales et parentales, autant, sinon plus, une préoccupation médicale et paramédicale qu’une préoccupation familiale et citoyenne. C’est principalement à l’hôpital que l’on meurt, même si c’est à la maison, entouré par les siens, qu’on le souhaiterait. Formés pour guérir, les soignants se sentent dépourvus pour cet accompagnement ultime. Pour faire face à cette nouvelle responsabilité, ont émergé des Diplômes Universitaire de Soins Palliatifs et d’Accompagnement . Ils visent une formation pluridisciplinaire des acteurs des diverses disciplines du champ de la santé. Cette formation constitue l’objet de recherche de cette thèse. Il est exploré à partir de l ‘expérience du diplôme de Tours, un des premiers créés, en plus dans une perspective partenariale. C’est cette dynamique relationnelle qui est particulièrement étudiée, à travers une enquête constituée de 80 professionnels étudiants de 4 promotions. L’analyse oblige à dépasser les dimensions professionnelles et scientifico-techniques habituelles de la formation. Ces dernières entrent en transactions inédites avec l’actualisation d’une dimension existentielle à vivre en situation critique, seul, en intimité à deux et à plusieurs. Les médecins relisent leur formation initiale techno scientifique et actent un processus d’auto-formation. Les infirmières, à l’apprentissage d’une approche globale de la personne malade, s’inscrivent dans la démarche organisationnelle d’une hétéro et éco-formation. Les aides-soignantes, par le partage de connaissances et de sens sur les acquisitions théoriques et leurs actes quotidiens, s’ouvrent à un processus de co-formation. Par ces dynamiques relationnelles denses à réfléchir, cette formation - aux frontières de la vie et de la mort- appelle à forger une forrmation humaine plus complète, une anthropo-formation cherchant à intégrer vie et mort à partir de multiples apports.The concern of others suffering to be accompanied up to the last breath becomes to the liking of social and parental mutations, more a medical and paramedical preoccupation rather than a family and good citizen one. In most cases the hospital is where they die, even if it is at the home, surrounded by loved ones that they would wish to be. Trained to care for, medical staff feels devoid for this ultimate accompaniment. To face up this new responsibility, new diplomas and courses appeared: Diplömes Universitaires of Palliative Care and Accompaniment. Theses programs aim at providing multidisciplinary training courses to health professionals. This thesis emphasizes the above mentioned topic which rests upon the findings of “experience of the certificate of Tours, France,” one of the pioneers and in addition to a partnership initiative. The interrelational dynamics are particularly studied, across an inquiry of 80 health care professionals students of 4 graduating promotions. The analysis goes beyond the usual professional and scientifico-technical dimensions of the training and generates a new process of transactions and interactions when facing having to face a critical situation, whether being alone or supported by others. The doctors revisit their initial technical and scientific based training and aim at a process of self directed one. The nurses, while approaching the patient from a general and global stand point, develop an organizational mind set of heterogeneous and eco-training. The nursing auxiliaries, by sharing knowledge, theoretical acquisitions and performing their daily tasks, enter in a process of co-training. Such intense relational dynamics reflections as listed above, all integrated within a learning program on borders of life and death, call for a more complete and diversified training of the medical staff , an anthropo-training including newer, more holistic data consideration.
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