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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
Using Culture to Cultivate Conversations: Lessons Learned from Whiteboard Ethnographic Research
Get PDFThis presentation will report on the outcomes of a longitudinal collaboration between the University of Richmond and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville libraries to create, scale, and sustain an ethnographic research project utilizing open-ended questions posted on whiteboards. Presenters will highlight methods of coding and communicating large amounts of data to disparate communities and share lessons learned regarding participatory assessment projects, space usage and the ways in which culture should inform the creation of strategic ethnographic projects
A Subtle Censorship: A Study of the Shelving Practices of Young Adult Materials in North Carolina Libraries
Get PDFThe proposed study describes an investigation into the extent of censorship by categorization of materials. The study will examine the placement of ten historically controversial young adult works in ten public library systems in North Carolina. This investigation was conducted to measure what percentage of libraries classified pre-designated young adult materials as adult material. Failure to place the more than 25% of the preselected young adult materials into the section classified as young adult within their library resulted in the library being designated as engaging in advertent or inadvertent censorship by placement
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
Gateway To The University Community: Building an In-Person Toolkit for Graduate Teaching Assistants
Get PDFLibrary instruction programs can provide excellent support for faculty courses and do a great job of supporting graduate students with their research and publishing process, but for many graduate students, researching is only part of their role - and likely the role they have the most support for. Large research intensive universities rely heavily on graduate teaching assistants to support or teach high-enrollment or introductory level courses to undergraduate students, but effective teaching requires training, practice, and a network of support. In addition to uneven access to preparation for their teaching roles, graduate students are often new to the university, and some are new to the country. Given these challenges, it is unsurprising that many graduate teaching assistants are unaware of the instructional support available to them from libraries and elsewhere on campus.
To address this need, the NC State University Libraries partnered with our digital education and learning technologies unit, the Graduate School, and other support units on campus. We hosted an open house event and a series of workshops to equip TAs with online resources, instructional technology tools, library instructional supports, and insights into student research challenges. This project has expanded Libraries’ support of graduate students far beyond their research: enhancing their pedagogy and helping to build a more cohesive network of support and a sense of community for this under-resourced and high-stress population. This pilot event and workshop series has been an incredible opportunity to increase the audience and awareness of library instructional services with students and campus partners. While the impact has yet to be measured, the potential is great.
This presentation will detail the process of creation for the Graduate Student event series, including planning for the kickoff event, budgetary and staffing needs as well as the process for planning for the year long training offered by the Toolkit. This presentation will also address the successes and challenges of this model of graduate student engagement, offer best practices and recommendations for creating an event at your college or university and how the libraries and their partners consciously tried to address gaps in the levels of student engagement and perceived needs. News and updates on future iterations of the GTA Toolkit will also be shared
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
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