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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
Issues and place of the data sciences for reusing clinical big data : a case-based study
No full textLa dématérialisation des données de santé a permis depuis plusieurs années de constituer un véritable gisement de données provenant de tous les domaines de la santé. Ces données ont pour caractéristiques d’être très hétérogènes et d’être produites à différentes échelles et dans différents domaines. Leur réutilisation dans le cadre de la recherche clinique, de la santé publique ou encore de la prise en charge des patients implique de développer des approches adaptées reposant sur les méthodes issues de la science des données. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’évaluer au travers de trois cas d’usage, quels sont les enjeux actuels ainsi que la place des data sciences pour l’exploitation des données massives en santé. La démarche utilisée pour répondre à cet objectif consiste dans une première partie à exposer les caractéristiques des données massives en santé et les aspects techniques liés à leur réutilisation. La seconde partie expose les aspects organisationnels permettant l’exploitation et le partage des données massives en santé. La troisième partie décrit les grandes approches méthodologiques en science des données appliquées actuellement au domaine de la santé. Enfin, la quatrième partie illustre au travers de trois exemples l’apport de ces méthodes dans les champs suivant : la surveillance syndromique, la pharmacovigilance et la recherche clinique. Nous discutons enfin les limites et enjeux de la science des données dans le cadre de la réutilisation des données massives en santé.The dematerialization of health data, which started several years ago, now generates na huge amount of data produced by all actors of health. These data have the characteristics of being very heterogeneous and of being produced at different scales and in different domains. Their reuse in the context of clinical research, public health or patient care involves developing appropriate approaches based on methods from data science. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate, through three use cases, what are the current issues as well as the place of data sciences regarding the reuse of massive health data. To meet this objective, the first section exposes the characteristics of health big data and the technical aspects related to their reuse. The second section presents the organizational aspects for the exploitation and sharing of health big data. The third section describes the main methodological approaches in data sciences currently applied in the field of health. Finally, the fourth section illustrates, through three use cases, the contribution of these methods in the following fields: syndromic surveillance, pharmacovigilance and clinical research. Finally, we discuss the limits and challenges of data science in the context of health big data
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
Analysis and visualization of care trajectories by using hospital big data for pharmacovigilance
No full textLe phénomène de massification des données de santé constitue une opportunité de répondre aux questions des vigilances et de qualité des soins. Dans les travaux effectués au cours de cette thèse, nous présenterons des approches permettant d’exploiter la richesse et le volume des données intra hospitalières pour des cas d’usage de pharmacovigilance et de surveillance de bon usage du médicament. Cette approche reposera sur la modélisation de trajectoires de soins intra hospitalières adaptées aux besoins spécifiques de la pharmacovigilance. Il s’agira, à partir des données d’un entrepôt hospitalier de caractériser les événements d’intérêt et d’identifier un lien entre l’administration de ces produits de santé et l’apparition des effets indésirables, ou encore de rechercher les cas de mésusage du médicament. L’hypothèse posée dans cette thèse est qu’une approche visuelle interactive serait adaptée pour l’exploitation de ces données biomédicales hétérogènes et multi-domaines dans le champ de la pharmacovigilance. Nous avons développé deux prototypes permettant la visualisation et l’analyse des trajectoires de soins. Le premier prototype est un outil de visualisation du dossier patient sous forme de frise chronologique. La deuxième application est un outil de visualisation et fouille d’une cohorte de séquences d’événements. Ce dernier outil repose sur la mise en œuvre d’algorithme d’analyse de séquences (Smith-Waterman, Apriori, GSP) pour la recherche de similarité ou de motifs d’événements récurrents. Ces interfaces homme-machine ont fait l’objet d’études d’utilisabilité sur des cas d’usage tirées de la pratique réelle qui ont prouvé leur potentiel pour un usage en routine.The massification of health data is an opportunity to answer questions about vigilance and quality of care. The emergence of big data in health is an opportunity to answer questions about vigilance and quality of care. In this thesis work, we will present approaches to exploit the diversity and volume of intra-hospital data for pharmacovigilance use and monitoring the proper use of drugs. This approach will be based on the modelling of intra-hospital care trajectories adapted to the specific needs of pharmacovigilance. Using data from a hospital warehouse, it will be necessary to characterize events of interest and identify a link between the administration of these health products and the occurrence of adverse reactions, or to look for cases of misuse of the drug. The hypothesis put forward in this thesis is that an interactive visual approach would be suitable for the exploitation of these heterogeneous and multi-domain biomedical data in the field of pharmacovigilance. We have developed two prototypes allowing the visualization and analysis of care trajectories. The first prototype is a tool for visualizing the patient file in the form of a timeline. The second application is a tool for visualizing and searching a cohort of event sequences The latter tool is based on the implementation of sequence analysis algorithms (Smith-Waterman, Apriori, GSP) for the search for similarity or patterns of recurring events. These human-machine interfaces have been the subject of usability studies on use cases from actual practice that have proven their potential for routine use
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
Methods for semantic integration of multi-domain patient data in health data warehouse architectures : a use case oriented approach
No full textDans le domaine de l’imagerie médicale, les évolutions techniques (stockage de données, modalités d’imagerie, …) et méthodologiques (médecine personnalisée, évolution de l’imagerie diagnostique et interventionnelle, …) des dernières décennies ont fait apparaître des enjeux majeurs concernant l’usage de l’imagerie dans le soin et dans la recherche, notamment de l’utilisation secondaire de cette source de données. L’objectif de cette thèse a été de développer des méthodes afin de rendre intégrables et réutilisables ces données d’imagerie dans une solution d’entrepôt de données de santé et de mettre en œuvre cette intégration sémantique dans le cadre concret de la solution d’entrepôt développée dans notre laboratoire. Dans ce travail, nous avons étudié les outils et méthodes d’alignement de terminologie locales et de références pour permettre la réutilisation et le partage des données d’imagerie. Nous avons conçu une preuve de concept d’outil de classification des examens d’imagerie utilisant le raisonnement ontologique. Enfin, nous avons développé et déployé un prototype de module d’intégration sémantique des données d’imagerie permettant de gérer le trajet des données depuis le PACS jusqu’à l’entrepôt.In the field of medical imaging, technical (data storage, imaging modalities, etc.) and methodological (personalised medicine, evolution of diagnostic and interventional imaging, etc.) developments over the last few decades have raised major challenges concerning the use of imaging in care and research, particularly the secondary use of this data source. The objective of this work was to develop methods to integrate and reuse this imaging data in a clinical data warehouse solution and to implement this semantic integration in the framework of the warehouse solution developed in our laboratory. In this work, we studied tools and methods for local terminology alignment with reference terminology to enable the reuse and sharing of imaging data. We designed a proof of concept for an imaging classification tool using ontological reasoning. Finally, we developed and deployed a prototype module for semantic integration of imaging data to manage the data path from the PACS to the clinical data warehouse
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