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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Exploration sur l'existence et la nature de la bioéthique en Asie
Get PDFCette recherche constitue une incursion dans la bioéthique de l’Asie. Elle vise à vérifier s’il existe une approche de la bioéthique spécifique pour l’Asie et, s’il s’avère que tel est le cas, d’identifier les particularités les plus apparentes de la nature de cette ‘bioéthique asiatique’. La recherche a été réalisée à même des sources documentaires constituées d’un corpus d’articles publiés entre 2001 et 2005, dans les versions électroniques de revues scientifiques reconnues. La recherche conclut à l’existence d’une ‘bioéthique asiatique’ qui accorde à certaines valeurs humaines une prédominance spécifique, de même qu’un sens différent qui lui est propre. Le lien, entre la culture et les traditions morales locales d’une part, et l’ordre de prédominance et l’interprétation des valeurs éthiques d’autre part, doit être reconnu et pris en compte pour que la bioéthique soit pertinente et applicable aux personnes touchées par les enjeux évalués en Asie. La recherche identifie également quatre particularités de la ‘bioéthique asiatique’ qui constitue le début d’une tentative pour en cerner la nature : le rapport entre ‘soi’ et les autres, la compassion, l’harmonie, de même qu’une conception spirituelle du monde dont la base est l’interdépendance et l’interconnexion d’un ordre universel entrelacé et participatif.This research study represents an incursion into Asian bioethics. The goal is to verify whether a specific bioethics approach is attributed to Asia and, if so, to identify its most obvious distinctiveness. This research was based on a corpus of articles published between 2001 and 2005 in electronic versions from acknowledged scientific magazines. This research infers the existence of an Asian bioethics which allows for a specific predominance to certain human values as well as unique and distinct meaning. On one hand, the cultural and local moral traditions relationship and, on the other hand, the predominance and interpretation of ethical values, must be recognized and considered so bioethics become relevant and applicable to those affected by the assessed issues in Asia. This study also identifies four distinctiveness in ‘Asian bioethics’ which represent the beginning of an endeavor to define their nature: The correlation between ‘the self’ and the others, compassion, harmony and a spiritual idea of the world based upon interdependence and networking in an intertwined and participative universal order
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
Les silences éthiques de l’éthique de la recherche
No full textL’éthique de la recherche connaît, depuis quelques années, un essor considérable. Elle s’impose comme une forme de régulation sociale exigée par les autorités publiques. Quelle est cette forme de régulation ? Pour répondre à la question, l’auteur fait d’abord un historique du développement de l’éthique de la recherche, montrant l’évolution qui a été la sienne depuis la fin des années 1960. Dans un deuxième temps, il montre les limites du modèle canonique qui, tout en mettant en relief un certain nombre de valeurs, en passe d’autres sous silence. Enfin, dans un troisième temps, il propose de réexaminer le concept d’éthique de la recherche en vue de réintégrer un certain nombre de valeurs fondamentales maintenant négligées.The growth of research ethics has been, in the last years, significant. Research ethics may be identified with a type of social regulation imposed by public authorities. What type of regulation is it? To answer the question, the author first presents a history on how research ethics developed, highlighting its evolution since the sixties. He then shows the limits of the canonical model which passes over important values in silence. Finally, he proposes to re-examine the concept of research ethics in view of integrating some basic values which have been neglected
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