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sj-pdf-1-pmj-10.1177_02692163221135032 – Supplemental material for Support from healthcare professionals in empowering family carers to discuss advance care planning: A population-based survey
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pmj-10.1177_02692163221135032 for Support from healthcare professionals in empowering family carers to discuss advance care planning: A population-based survey by Vandenbogaerde Isabel, Cohen Joachim, Hudson Peter, Van Audehove Chantal, Deliens Luc and De Vleminck Aline in Palliative Medicine</p
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
Imaginative communication across the borders of death : end-of-life narratives in palliative and bereavement care
No full textBackground: In 2021, dying mother Lara Switten left a book with stories and pictures to her chil- dren. Lara’s so-called end-of-life (EOL) narrative, created with the support of biographer Ine Nijs, attests to a growing trend of storytelling practices in Western-European palliative EOL care that prompt us to rethink the modified ways in which thedyinganticipatedeath.Moreandmorepeople facing severe illness are supported by caregivers and external biographers (e.g., Amfora, Flanders; Passeurs de mots, France) to review their lives and to pass down these stories to loved ones. Research has emphasized the therapeutic benefits of narra- tive life-review for the dying, relatives, and caregiv- ers in EOL stages. Little is known about the implications of EOL narratives for the bereaved.
Methods: Previewing my literary-sociological study on EOL narratives as textual results of these cultural practices, I address this challenge from the perspec- tive of literary studies and assume an imaginary communicative loop, in which the dying and the bereaved are engaged as authors-narrators and read- ers-recipients. By comparing Lara’s EOL narrative with Ley’s fictional ‘For when I’m gone’ (2020), I argue that literary techniques, such as imaginative narration, structure the ways in which the dying want to be remembered and how they anticipate a future of which they will no longer be part. I hypoth- esize that the dying and the bereaved not only attrib- ute meaning to EOL narratives in terms of a continuation of parental and intimate roles in absen- tia. EOL narratives likewise elicit disrupting experi- ences and intergenerational incomprehension.
Conclusion: Insights into how literary tech- niques and narrative scripts modify the communi- cational character of EOL narratives will enhance our understanding of how these texts help the bereaved imagine the deceased and how their relationship could have looked like, and will lead to evidence-based guidance for those involved in narrative practices in EOL care
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
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