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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
Household Composition and the Response of Child Labor Supply to Product Market Integration : Evidence from Vietnam
No full textMarket integration raises the relative
price of a community's export product. The author
examines how the response of child labor supply to an
increase in the relative price of a primary export product
varies with a child's household composition. The
specific context for his study is the liberalization of rice
markets in Vietnam in the 1990s. Between 1993 and 1998,
Vietnam lifted export restrictions on rice, allowing the
domestic price to rise toward international levels, and
eliminated internal restrictions on the flow of rice between
regions of Vietnam. So, the relative price of rice increased
overall in Vietnam, but the degree of price change varied
across communities with the lifting of restrictions on
internal flows. The author finds that the response of child
labor supply to rice price increases is increasing the
amount of time children work. Thus, household composition
attributes that are associated with higher levels of child
labor are also associated with larger declines in child
labor with rice price increases. The results are consistent
with girls particularly benefiting from product market
integration because they work more than boys do. The results
suggest that economic factors associated with economic
reform may attenuate differences in the activities of
siblings that are typically associated with cultural
traditions and norms
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
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
Labor Demand Study: Final Report
Get PDF[Excerpt] This report contains the findings from the Labor Demand (LD) Study of the carpet industry in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The Labor Demand Study focused on employment decisions in the production stage of the carpet sector, the stage where carpets were knotted, tufted, or hand- loomed. The decision to focus on the production stage was motivated by policy and public concern about this stage. The study focused on export-oriented hand-production and excluded machine-made carpets and floor coverings. Approximately 525 establishments that produced hand-made carpets were interviewed three times in India, Nepal, and Pakistan over a 15-month period (April 30, 2010 to July 19, 2011). Establishments included formal registered factories, informal factories, cottage sheds, and homes.
The purpose of collecting this panel survey was to document the volatility of carpet employment over time and to use the data to understand the underlying causes of child employment in the carpet sector. The total number of children under 18 employed in the hand-made carpet industry in India, Nepal, and Pakistan varied during the period of study from a low of 26,266 to a high of 34,216. Approximately three-fourths of those employed children were in Pakistan
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