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    Team Roles in Collaborative Research

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    The Research School?! network engages teachers, student-teachers, and teacher educators in a systematic effort to address educational challenges through collaborative research. Over the course of a school year, teams analyze practical issues, implement evidence-informed solutions, and evaluate their outcomes. In this symposium, we present from both a practice (part 1) and research perspective (part 2) how the Brussels CityScope Lyceum involves pupils and other stakeholders as partners in this school development process. The CityScope Lyceum's real-life story showcases how the school since 2021 has progressively expanded its research team to include a broader range of stakeholders, starting with pupils, followed by parents and experts. This participatory approach has not only led to new and interesting team dynamics, but, it has also fostered widely supported solutions to the educational challenges. A single case study conducted at CityScope Lyceum during the 2022-2023 school year investigates team dynamics within this extended collaborative research team. Concept map-mediated interviews were conducted with 13 members of the research team to gain insight into the role allocation and conceptualization of single actors within the team, and their perspectives on how these roles contributed to breakthroughs in the school development process. The findings reveal discrepancies in team members' role conceptions and highlight the need for clear communication to promote equality and positive dynamics. Some actors assign themselves roles that are not recognized by others, while others reject assigned roles. Recommendations include proactively aligning roles, promoting awareness of responsibilities and encouraging dialogue on shared responsibility to improve school development outcomes

    Team Roles in Collaborative Research

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    The Research School?! network engages teachers, student-teachers, and teacher educators in a systematic effort to address educational challenges through collaborative research. Over the course of a school year, teams analyze practical issues, implement evidence-informed solutions, and evaluate their outcomes. In this symposium, we present from both a practice (part 1) and research perspective (part 2) how the Brussels CityScope Lyceum involves pupils and other stakeholders as partners in this school development process. The CityScope Lyceum's real-life story showcases how the school since 2021 has progressively expanded its research team to include a broader range of stakeholders, starting with pupils, followed by parents and experts. This participatory approach has not only led to new and interesting team dynamics, but, it has also fostered widely supported solutions to the educational challenges. A single case study conducted at CityScope Lyceum during the 2022-2023 school year investigates team dynamics within this extended collaborative research team. Concept map-mediated interviews were conducted with 13 members of the research team to gain insight into the role allocation and conceptualization of single actors within the team, and their perspectives on how these roles contributed to breakthroughs in the school development process. The findings reveal discrepancies in team members' role conceptions and highlight the need for clear communication to promote equality and positive dynamics. Some actors assign themselves roles that are not recognized by others, while others reject assigned roles. Recommendations include proactively aligning roles, promoting awareness of responsibilities and encouraging dialogue on shared responsibility to improve school development outcomes

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    Negotiorum gestio in South African law : an historical and comparative analysis

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    The present treatise deals with the subject of negotiorum gestio, or unauthorised administration of the affairs of another, as it is developed and been applied in South African law. As appears from the tittle hereof, it is not merely a description of the relevant aspects of negotiorum gestio as applied in modern South African practice, but an historical and comparative analysis of an institution which has its origin in classical Roman Law and has experienced fruitful development over a period of approximately two thousand years. In this regard the historical method of research has been applied, commencing with the Roman origins, continuing with the medieval and later development and concluding with relevant law as applied in South Africa up to the present day

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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