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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
Mainstream Traditional or Robotic Toys: Which of Them Better Supports Playfulness in Children with Disabilities?
No full textDispelling 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
Assistive technologies for elderly with intellectual disabilities. A preliminary systematic review for future research implementation
No full textBackground: The number of older persons, including those with disabilities, has increased substantially in most countries and it will accelerate in the next decades. Among this population, experts have established a conceptual and factual distinction between two different phenomena: disability with aging (elderly incurring into some kind of impairments) and aging with disability (elderly who incurred into impairments during the developmental age). In both cases, assistive technologies (AT) can play an important role in supporting and stimulating elderly with disabilities in order to improve their quality of life and to support them in cognitive and social skills maintenance. In particular, the present paper aims at mapping the state of the art in ATs developed in the last 5 years for older persons with intellectual disabilities (ID).
Method: Adopting PRISMA checklist, a systematic review was conducted in IEEE Digital Library, ACM Digital Library and Scopus databases using the following keywords: a. assistive technology OR assistive devices OR domotics; b. accessib*; c. disabil* older people OR disab* elderly; d. intellectual disability OR mental retardation; period: 2014 to 2019. Inclusion criteria were scientific papers, proceedings and book chapters addressing the topic of interest. Studies that did not include older adults/elderly with ID and researches that did not focus on the use of ATs and related devices (indoor/outdoor, embodied, etc.) for these target-users were excluded.
Key results: After an initial selection of 520 articles, 61 were subjected to in-depth analysis leading to the final selection of 45 papers. The selected contributions reflect a heterogeneous variety of ATs (prototypes, on-purpose/low cost/commercial devices, etc.) that can support the older persons with cognitive impairments: advanced sensors/networks (n.10); cognitive assistants (n.3); robots (n.3); wireless communication systems (n.14); wearable technologies (n.6). Moreover, some papers (n.5) collect or combine different kind of devices while a few (n.4) face the economic, ethical and legal issues connected to the use of ATs with older/disabled persons. In the majority of the studies, these ATs were developed for older persons who acquired some kind of cognitive impairments (e.g. dementia) in older age (n.18) or, according to their designers, could be used both for age-related cognitive disorders and for older persons with life-long ID (n.20). Only a few studies (n.7) focused on the use of ATs for persons aging with ID. Conclusion: The paper reports on the increasing number of ATs designed to assist elderly with cognitive disabilities to meet their needs. Simultaneously, it highlights that only few researches focus on AT devices for persons aging with ID. This confirms the lack of theoretical/concrete integration between aging and disability studies. These aspects, together with premature aging (generally associated with ID), result in limited understanding of how the experience of living with a long-term disability influences the experience of aging. Consequently, more attention to, and the development of ATs specifically designed for the aging population with ID is needed. New challenges for future researches will be addressed and further possible exploitation/application for supporting “successful aging with disabilities” will be drawn
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
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