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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
Lustgas, ungdomar och socialt arbete : En kvalitativ studie om frontlinjebyråkratens handlingsutrymme i arbetet med unga som använder lustgas i berusningssyfte
No full textUnder de senaste åren har ungdomars lustgasanvändning i berusningssyfte ökat, någonting som samhället har uppmärksammat. Samtidigt har socialarbetare behövt anpassa sig för att möta ungdomars behov då lustgas är ett relativt nytt fenomen. Således syftar studien till att undersöka hur socialarbetare, närmare bestämt frontlinjebyråkrater, inom olika verksamheter upplever sitt handlingsutrymme i arbetet med ungdomar som använder lustgas i berusningssyfte. För att besvara syftet har de teoretiska utgångspunkterna socialkonstruktivism, frontlinjebyråkrati och handlingsutrymme tillämpats. Vidare har studien utgått från kvalitativ metod där nio respondenter inom offentlig sektor intervjuats med följande yrken: psykiatrisjuksköterska, skolkurator, ungdomsbehandlare, fältassistent, uppsökande socialsekreterare och familjebehandlare. Respondenterna uppger att de har tillräcklig kunskap för att arbeta med ungdomars lustgasanvändning. Arbetet med lustgas skiljer sig inte från övrigt drogarbete, vilket kan bero på att socialarbetare arbetar med helheten och inte drogen i sig. Faktumet att det saknas riktlinjer för lustgas verkar lämna större utrymme till socialarbetarens omdöme. Att lustgas är lagligt är ingenting som begränsar socialarbetarens handlingsutrymme avsevärt, dock kan det möjliggöra ungdomars användning av gasen. Sammanfattningsvis kan det konstateras att socialarbetares handlingsutrymme i arbetet med lustgas är relativt stort och inte varierar märkvärt. Föreliggande studie kan vara till nytta för såväl yrkesverksamma socialarbetare som studenter och ungdomar på sikt.Recreational use of nitrous oxide among young people has increased in recent years, which society has acknowledged. Meanwhile, social workers have had to adapt to meet the needs of young people, since nitrous oxide is a relatively new phenomenon. The purpose of this study is to explore how social workers, or street-level bureaucrats, in different organizations experience their discretion in their work with young people who use nitrous oxide for recreational purposes. To answer the purpose, social constructionism, street-level bureaucracy and discretion have been used as the theoretical framework. Furthermore, the study was based on a qualitative research method where nine respondents, social workers, were interviewed. The respondents experience that their knowledge is enough to work with young people who use nitrous oxide. Their work with nitrous oxide does not differ from other drugs, which may be due to the fact that social workers have a holistic approach to substance abuse and do not focus on the drug itself. A lack of guidelines regarding nitrous oxide seems to leave more space for social workers to use their judgement. Nitrous oxide being legal does not significantly limit the discretion of social workers but can make the access easier for young people. In summary, the discretion of social workers in their work with nitrous oxide can be considered wide and does not differ remarkably. This study may benefit professional social workers, students and young people in the long term
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
Lustgas, ungdomar och socialt arbete : En kvalitativ studie om frontlinjebyråkratens handlingsutrymme i arbetet med unga som använder lustgas i berusningssyfte
No full textUnder de senaste åren har ungdomars lustgasanvändning i berusningssyfte ökat, någonting som samhället har uppmärksammat. Samtidigt har socialarbetare behövt anpassa sig för att möta ungdomars behov då lustgas är ett relativt nytt fenomen. Således syftar studien till att undersöka hur socialarbetare, närmare bestämt frontlinjebyråkrater, inom olika verksamheter upplever sitt handlingsutrymme i arbetet med ungdomar som använder lustgas i berusningssyfte. För att besvara syftet har de teoretiska utgångspunkterna socialkonstruktivism, frontlinjebyråkrati och handlingsutrymme tillämpats. Vidare har studien utgått från kvalitativ metod där nio respondenter inom offentlig sektor intervjuats med följande yrken: psykiatrisjuksköterska, skolkurator, ungdomsbehandlare, fältassistent, uppsökande socialsekreterare och familjebehandlare. Respondenterna uppger att de har tillräcklig kunskap för att arbeta med ungdomars lustgasanvändning. Arbetet med lustgas skiljer sig inte från övrigt drogarbete, vilket kan bero på att socialarbetare arbetar med helheten och inte drogen i sig. Faktumet att det saknas riktlinjer för lustgas verkar lämna större utrymme till socialarbetarens omdöme. Att lustgas är lagligt är ingenting som begränsar socialarbetarens handlingsutrymme avsevärt, dock kan det möjliggöra ungdomars användning av gasen. Sammanfattningsvis kan det konstateras att socialarbetares handlingsutrymme i arbetet med lustgas är relativt stort och inte varierar märkvärt. Föreliggande studie kan vara till nytta för såväl yrkesverksamma socialarbetare som studenter och ungdomar på sikt.Recreational use of nitrous oxide among young people has increased in recent years, which society has acknowledged. Meanwhile, social workers have had to adapt to meet the needs of young people, since nitrous oxide is a relatively new phenomenon. The purpose of this study is to explore how social workers, or street-level bureaucrats, in different organizations experience their discretion in their work with young people who use nitrous oxide for recreational purposes. To answer the purpose, social constructionism, street-level bureaucracy and discretion have been used as the theoretical framework. Furthermore, the study was based on a qualitative research method where nine respondents, social workers, were interviewed. The respondents experience that their knowledge is enough to work with young people who use nitrous oxide. Their work with nitrous oxide does not differ from other drugs, which may be due to the fact that social workers have a holistic approach to substance abuse and do not focus on the drug itself. A lack of guidelines regarding nitrous oxide seems to leave more space for social workers to use their judgement. Nitrous oxide being legal does not significantly limit the discretion of social workers but can make the access easier for young people. In summary, the discretion of social workers in their work with nitrous oxide can be considered wide and does not differ remarkably. This study may benefit professional social workers, students and young people in the long term
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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