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Voluntary Sector Organisations, Older People and Healthy Ageing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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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
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
Social Impact Bonds: Issues of Identity and Independence for the Voluntary Sector
Full text linkThis thesis explores Voluntary Sector (VS) engagement with Social Impact Bond (SIB) policy agenda in the UK. SIB’s typically involve three parties: an (social) investor, a public agency and voluntary sector deliverers; and often a fourth party specialist intermediary. SIBs aim to encourage a collaborative approach to public service delivery with these different stakeholders coming together to co-design services that achieve both social change and cashable savings to the state. England has been a pioneer of SIBs which were introduced by the 2010 UK Government during a time when VS organisations faced unprecedented and widespread cuts to their funding. At the beginning of this study, the SIB literature was still relatively limited and emerging, but has grown over recent years. Despite developments in the SIB academic literature, there is a clear gap around the involvement of the VS as SIB delivery partners- a gap which this thesis aims to address. Through the investigation of SIBs as a VS funding mechanism, this study sought to understand issues of identity, distinctiveness and independence for VS organisations in relation to the state and other actors. The thesis takes a novel approach to research methods, contributing to the knowledge of methodological strategies for the study of the VS. The research was conducted using a mixed-method research design combining frame analysis, Q method, focus groups and interviews. Through a new institutionalist approach, data were analysed at micro, meso and macro levels to explore the institutional logics at play in the framing of SIBs at multiple levels so as to understand VS responses, agency and decision-making in relation to SIBs. This thesis provides empirical contributions to knowledge around the VS’s relationship with the state, the evolution of the VS’s role in delivering state social outcomes and VS leaders’ attitudes to increasingly market-based state funding models. The thesis contributes to VS theory by finding that Salamon’s Voluntary Failure Theory (1987) is limited in its application on 21st century VS organisations which are delivering social outcomes on behalf of the state. It concludes that the market-based commissioning processes which give access to state funding in fact continue to embed traditional inequitable power relations between the state and VS organisations
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