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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
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Fidelity of implementation and training of the picture exchange communications system (PECS)
Full text linkAutism Spectrum Disorders, or ASD, is a disorder that affects about 1.4% of children in the United States. Individuals with ASD have difficulty with social cues, eye contact, communication, and engagement with others. The author reviewed literature from 2010-2015 to fill in the gaps left by previous meta-analyses and more specifically to examine the fidelity of implementation and the PECS training. Two methods were used to examine and analyze the selected studies in this quantitative synthesis. Those two methods included analysis of moderators using a linear regression and analysis of effect size using Cohen's d. When using the following search terms 496 articles were yielded initially. The terms were PECS, Picture Exchange Communication System, Autism, Training, Fidelity of Implementation, and Picture Exchange. When the author changed the term autism to ASD, 508 results were yielded; showing that the terms autism and ASD are used interchangeably. The total number of studies (k) selected for the analysis was 19. The author calculated the weighted average effect size for randomized experiment effects corrected for sample size as d= .339 (Small) for the single case study designs as d=.815 (Large). The results from the moderator analysis showed that having training in the PECS greatly increased its effectiveness, however, no results could be concluded about fidelity of implementation as the selected studies did not contain data about this moderator. These findings suggest that practitioners implementing the PECS should have training on the intervention. Additionally, researchers should include data on the fidelity of implementation of the PECS
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
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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DBT informed practices adapted for education cohesively integrated tools and practices for tier-2 and tier-3 of a PBIS framework
Full text linkThis article describes the Treatment Hierarchy Tool (THT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training (DBT-ST), and Behavior Chain Analysis (BCA) as cohesively integrated practices and tools that have the potential to serve students at the tier two and tier three levels of the positive behavior intervention support (PBIS) framework. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has been adapted and shown to be effective for children and adolescents exhibiting selfregulatory deficits. The article highlights why the current literature related to DBT for children and adolescents lends support to the potential efficacy of DBT informed practices adapted for an educational environment. This paper hypothesizes that DBT informed practices adapted for education are both viable, and emerging evidence-based methods for education professionals to serve the needs of students labeled with, or at risk of being identified as emotionally, and behaviorally disabled (EBD). After a brief description of DBT the author goes on to explain the rationale and the literature that lend support to the potential efficacy of DBT utilized in an educational environment. Implications and practical implementation methods are discussed. The article concludes with the call for more research on practices that holistically addresses the complex and dynamic needs' of students with EBD, while simultaneously serving special education teachers through programmatic integration of these practices
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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