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Analysis of Life Histories: A State Space Approach
Get PDFThe computer package LIFEHIST written by the author is meant for analyzing
life histories through a state space approach. Basic ideas on which the various
programs have been built are described in this paper in a nonmathematical
language. Users can use various programs for multistate analyses based on
Markov and semi-Markov frameworks and sequences of transitions implied in
life histories. The package is under constant revision, and programs for using a
few specific models the author thinks will be useful for analyzing longitudinal
data will be incorporated in the near future.</jats:p
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
Demographic Decisions and Demographic Well-Being
No full textIt may come as a surprise to many of you to see a title like this coming from me as my Presidential Address. To tell you the truth, I have been toying with many ideas until last week when I finally decided to deliver my address on this topic. My decision is certainly not a demographic decision, but it is a decision driven mostly by its aptness to honor the contributions made not only by our honoree, Doug Norris, but also by many of us during our lifetime. Although at first sight the topic doesn’t seem to be related to mathematical demography, all the ideas I am sharing with you today are coming from the rich research experience of demographers, in particular mathematical demographers. I decided to speak on this topic because of the recent events in demographic research circles in Canada. You may be aware of the contributions the demographers are making toward Canadian social policies through the workshops and conferences organized by Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) and Policy Research Initiative (PRI) during the past few months. We are happy to see this turn of events, especially among the government agencies to listen to what demographers have to say. At the same time I am a bit concerned too because of what we have learned from the history of our neighboring country south of the border. Let me say a few words about that history to inform those who are not aware of it and to remind those who already know it
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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