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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
Psychologically informed environments: A systematic review of qualitative studies of staff experiences and recalled early adversity and post traumatic stress disorder in a youth homeless population
Get PDFThis thesis is made up of two papers: a systematic review and an empirical study. The systematic review aimed to synthesise the evidence regarding staff experiences of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs), which is an initiative that aims to transform services for homeless people and enable service providers to engage them in a more psychologically informed way.
It is well documented that people who are homeless often have comorbid mental health difficulties, a higher rate of engagement with the criminal justice system and can display behaviours considered challenging, such as emotional dysregulation or the use of illicit substances. It is also recognised that working with this client group can have an emotional toll on staff members who are often exposed to stories of trauma and are expected to manage high risk behaviours. PIEs were introduced in 2012 as a more informal way of working with homeless people with the aim of improving the engagement of this hard-to-reach group, but there exists no current review of its effectiveness. This systematic review aimed to synthesise research regarding staff experiences of working in a PIE. Searches were conducted using the databases Scopus, Psycinfo, Web of Science and Medline, alongside additional searches of reference lists, Google Scholar and citation searches. Articles were screened and assessed for quality by the first author.
Nine papers were included in the review, consisting of both published research and service reports, which ranged in quality. As such little evidence exists on this topic, all papers were included in order to be as thorough as possible. Thematic synthesis allowed for new interpretations to be drawn from the collation of the data. Seven analytical themes were developed, and the findings were generally positive, though the barriers and challenges to implementing a PIE were identified as a key theme. The review synthesises the current evidence base for the use of PIEs, but the service user voice was noticeably absent from the analysis, as is a common shortcoming in research with the homeless population. More robust studies are needed in order to draw more conclusions regarding the effectiveness of PIEs.
The empirical paper is a quantitative study that aimed to explore the relationships between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and PTSD symptoms in a young homeless sample. This study used archival data and built upon research already resulting from the same dataset, which had noted high rates of loneliness and low rates of self-mastery among those in this sample who also scored highly on a measure of PTSD symptoms. A moderation analysis was conducted to explore whether these two variables were acting as a moderator on the relationship between ACEs and PTSD symptoms.
Statistical analyses showed that experiencing multiple types of adverse childhood adversity was a predictor of higher scores on the PTSD symptom measure, with each additional type of adversity showing a dose-response effect. An odds ratio analysis demonstrated that the experience of sexual abuse particularly increased the risk of meeting the clinical cut off score on the PTSD symptom measure. A hierarchical regression, where adversities were entered as sexual abuse, childhood maltreatment or household dysfunction, showed that sexual abuse had the greatest predictive effect, followed by household dysfunction, of scores on the PTSD symptom measure. Several categories of childhood adversities were correlated with self-mastery and PTSD symptoms. Of a larger dataset, only 84 participants had completed the PTSD symptom measure, which meant that the moderation analysis was underpowered, perhaps explaining why no significant effects were detected.
This study adds to the understanding of the effects of ACEs on young homeless people, especially in terms of identifying which types of abuse make young people particularly vulnerable to post-traumatic symptoms. This could be beneficial to third sector support services working with this population, in informing how they screen for different types of abuse and thus tailor psychological interventions
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
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