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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
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
‘What I’d really like to do is to bring them here and give them a piece of my mind’: Rethinking Expectations of ‘Solutions’ in Applied-Action Disaster Research
Full text linkWith its emphasis on working in partnership with multiple institutions and providing ‘solutions’ to problems, applied-action research is often framed in a language of ‘tangibility’ and ‘measurable outcomes’. However, within the context of disaster and humanitarian research, the emphasis on providing tangible solutions by working with multiple institutions is especially problematic. Drawing on experiences of over four years of anthropological ethnographic fieldwork examining responses to extreme weather in Scotland within a multiple agency applied-action research context, this paper presents a reflective exploration of how diverse expectations for possible solutions manifested in range of a practical and ethical dilemmas within the field. I reveal that although differing expectations and complex power-relations embedded within the research context initially restricted interactions with community members, the process of navigating perceived loyalties and managing diverse expectations revealed important insights about long-standing conflicts between community members and institutional powers and also resulted in creating new opportunities for interaction that contributed to a sense of justice amongst community members. From this, I argue the predominant focus on the ‘tangible ends and outcomes’ within applied-action research is especially problematic in the disaster and humanitarian context because, as this study shows, not only does this place an insurmountable burden on the researcher, but often the value of the research for those directly affected by disaster lies in allowing them to voice their concerns and to have their concerns listened t
Comparing International Models of Social Care: Considerations for Social Care Delivery, Sustainability and Funding in Scotland
Full text link'Don’t lose heart in dark times, we can’t keep going in the same direction forever': Culture and a Compound of Covid and Climate as Catalysts for Change in Responding to Extreme Weather in Scotland
Full text linkThis paper focuses on the importance of culture in influencing local responses to a new type of crisis during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in rural Scotland, and explores how culture, together with the lessons learnt from experiencing Covid in a context characterised by increasing intensity of climate-induced extreme weather, subsequently helped shape new and more effective collective responses to compounded storm-related emergencies. By examining the findings from online ethnographic interviews focusing on experiences of extreme weather undertaken during the first Covid wave, and a combination of online and face-to-face interviews that took place in the aftermath of a second wave, I explore the importance of the role of memory, history and sense of place for making sense of and responding to the new Covid crisis, and how these same aspects of culture were drawn upon to generate new forms of self-organisation and collective action for responding to extreme weather during the second Covid wave. In particular, I highlight how long-standing, culturally-specific ideas underpinning conceptualisations of a ‘local identity’ that were also perceived to have previously been ‘hijacked’ and appropriated by policy-makers to promote official de-centralised responses to extreme weather emergencies were reconsidered in the aftermath of the first Covid wave to promote greater social interconnectedness which, in-turn, helped overcome long-standing storm-response difficulties as well as new challenges facing community members during subsequent storms. I argue that this not only reveals the importance of culture for devising new ways of responding to risk within contexts of uncertainty and compounded crises but presents important insights for improving risk communication and helps further illuminate problems associated with the hegemonic uses of the concepts of resilience and vulnerability which continues to dominate official UK policy concerning climate-change and civil emergencies, as well as much of the wider risk and disaster research
Comparing International Models of Social Care: Considerations for Social Care Delivery, Sustainability and Funding in Scotland
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