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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
Oral narrative intervention with children who are at risk of, or who have communication impairment
No full textThesis by publication."Macquarie University Special Education Centre, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University" -- title page.Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The effects of oral narrative intervention on the narratives of children who are at risk of, or who have communication impairment : a systematic literature review -- Chapter 3. The effects of an oral narrative intervention on the personal narratives of children with a diagnosis of ASD and limited intellectual ability : an intervention study -- Chapter 4. Conclusion.This thesis by publication consists of two papers. The first paper is a systematic review of single case research that investigated oral narrative intervention with children who have communication impairment or who are at risk of communication impairment. Eight papers, published between 2000 and 2014 met criteria for inclusion in the review. Overall the literature supports the use of explicit oral narrative intervention to develop the macrostructure of oral narrative. It also supports the use of macrostructure icons, pictures, modelling and requiring the participants to tell a complete narrative as part of the intervention. Intervention has been conducted with participants who are at risk of or who have a diagnosed communication impairment, but the level of impairment was generally limited. Only one study has been conducted with participants who have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and no studies have been completed with participants who have limited intellectual ability. The use of macrostructure icons is promising in developing oral narratives but there is a need for research with greater degrees of language and intellectual disability or limited intellectual ability.The second paper is a pilot study that investigated the effect of explicit oral narrative intervention on the macrostructure of oral personal narratives in three school age children who have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and limited intellectual ability. In the intervention study, the effects of the intervention on the personal oral narratives of the participants were examined using multiple baseline with probes across participants design. Intervention effects were measured using probes under a photo only condition and under an icons and photo condition. Maintenance and generalisation data across setting and people were collected. The preliminary results of this pilot study indicate that explicit oral narrative intervention including macrostructure icons may be effective with children who have a comorbid diagnosis of ASD and limited intellectual ability.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (viii, 105 pages
Dispelling 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
Oral narrative intervention with children with autism spectrum disorder and language disorder
No full textThesis by publication.Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The effects of oral narrative intervention on the narratives of children with language disorder: A systematic literature review -- Chapter 3. The effects of an oral narrative intervention on the personal narratives of children with ASD and severe language disorder -- Chapter 4. The effects of an oral narrative intervention on the fictional narrative retells of children with ASD and severe language impairment: A pilot study -- Chapter 5. The effects of an oral narrative intervention on the original fictional narratives of children with ASD and language disorder -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- Appendices.Narratives are temporally sequenced accounts of events and have a broad importance to social, academic and language development. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) characteristically have difficulties with social communication and have been found to produce narratives that are less structurally complex than typically developing peers. Five papers are included in this thesis by publication. In the first paper a systematic literature review is presented examining research into the effects of narrative intervention on the oral narratives of children with communication disorders. Overall the literature supports the use of narrative intervention to develop narrative macrostructure in children with oral communication disorders. Only four studies included participants with a diagnosis of ASD. Existing research supports the use of macrostructure icons, participants telling entire narratives and clinician modelling within intervention. In the remaining four papers intervention studies are described that address the development of oral narrative macrostructure. In the first intervention study, a multiple baseline with probe design was used to examine the effects of intervention on the personal narratives of four children with ASD and severe language disorder. The same design was used to examine the effects of intervention on the fictional narrative retells on four children with ASD and severe language disorder. The third intervention study was a pilot AB study with one participant with ASD and language disorder that examined an original fictional narrative intervention. Following on from this pilot study, a multiple baseline with probe design was employed in the final intervention study to examine an original fictional narrative intervention with four children with ASD and language disorder. All studies included maintenance and generalisation probes. Overall, the narrative interventions appeared to be effective in improving the macrostructure for most participants, but individual responses were variable and modifications to the intervention procedures were necessary for some participants. There was evidence of maintenance for most participants and some evidence of generalisation to other people and settings.This thesis adds to the limited research into narrative intervention with children with ASD and significant language disorder. The studies presented provide evidence that intervention can be effective across a range of narrative types but individual responses to intervention may be idiosyncratic and some children may require individualised adjustments. The thesis also provides the first study of narrative retell intervention with this population.1 online resource (x, 225 pages
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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