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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
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
Transition to school for children with autism spectrum disorders: Review of the literature, policy implications, and intervention efficacy
No full textThe transition to school is often an exciting, yet challenging, experience for children and their families (e.g., Rimm-Kaufman, Pianta, & Cox, 2000). The experience is often increasingly difficult for children with disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Rous, Teeters, Myers, & Stricklin, 2007). Children with ASDs’ social and communication deficits and restrictive, repetitive, patterns of behaviour (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) make the adjustment to school particularly challenging (e.g., Forest, Horner, Lewis-Palmer, & Todd, 2004). These challenges adjusting to school may be closely related to a lack of collaboration between home and school, a lack of perceived family support, or teachers with insufficient intervention training (Janus, Lefort, Cameron, & Kopechanski, 2007). In recent years, the short-term and long-term implications of successful early school transitions have been highlighted at an international level. Short-term benefits of successful transitions to school include increased academic achievement and social-emotional adjustment (Ahtola et al., 2011; Schulting, Malone, & Dodge, 2005), while long-term implications of high quality early school experiences include societal cost-benefits from increased taxable income (Schweinhart et al., 2005). Given the recent increase in prevalence in ASD (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014) and the global attention transition to school has recently been given, this research program will explore issues related to transition to school for children with ASDs and their families. To understand the transition to school, two theoretical models frame this program of study. Guralnick’s (2005) developmental systems model for early intervention proposes a developmental systems approach to early intervention. The comprehensive model describes salient elements in an early intervention system, which culminates with transition planning. Rimm-Kaufman and Pianta’s (2000) ecological and dynamic model of transition emphasizes a child’s individual skills, their environments, and the linkages between environments. Based on Guralnick and Rimm-Kaufman and Pianta’s models, this research program will investigate various aspects or components (i.e., review of the literature, transition policy, transition intervention) of the transition to school for children with autism spectrum disorders and their families. Study 1 reviewed and synthesized the current literature on transition to school and ASDs. Study 2 investigated and described transition to school policy for children with ASDs and their families in Canada via a transition to school survey completed by preschool service providers. Finally, Study 3 involved the implementation and evaluation of a transition to school intervention for children with ASDs preparing to make the transition to kindergarten. This research program is expected to increase our understanding of issues related to the transition to school for children with ASDs and their families and inform future policy on supporting successful school transitions for these children and their families.La transition vers l’école constitue souvent une expérience excitante, mais difficile pour les enfants et leurs familles (Rimm-Kaufman, Pianta & Cox, 2000). L'expérience est souvent de plus en plus difficile pour les enfants handicapés, tels que ceux ayant un trouble du spectre de l’autisme (TSA; Rous, Teeters, Myers et Stricklin, 2007). L’ajustement à l’école est particulièrement difficile pour ces enfants (Forest, Horner, Lewis-Palmer et Todd, 2004) en raison de leurs déficits persistants au niveau de la communication et de l’interaction sociale, et de leurs comportements, intérêts ou activités restreints ou répétitifs (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Ces difficultés d'adaptation à l'école peuvent être étroitement liées à un manque de collaboration entre la maison et l'école, à une perception de manque de soutien de la part de la famille ou à une formation insuffisante des enseignants (Janus, Lefort, Cameron et Kopechanski, 2007). Au cours des dernières années, les conséquences à court et à long terme de la réussite des transitions précoces ont été soulignées au niveau international. Les avantages à court terme d'une transition à l'école réussie comprennent une réussite scolaire accrue et un ajustement socio-affectif (Ahtola et al., 2011; Schulting, Malone & Dodge, 2005), tandis que les retombées à long terme d’expériences scolaires précoces de bonne qualité incluent des coûts-avantages sociétaux dus à l'augmentation du revenu imposable (Schweinhart et al., 2005). Compte tenu de la récente augmentation de la prévalence des TSA (Centres de contrôle et de prévention des maladies, 2014) et de l'attention portée récemment sur la transition à l'école, ce programme de recherche explorera les problèmes liés au passage à l'école des enfants atteints de TSA et de leurs familles. Pour comprendre le passage à l'école, deux modèles théoriques encadrent ce programme d'études. Le modèle de systèmes de développement pour une intervention précoce de Guralnick (2005) propose une approche développementale et systémique pour l’intervention précoce. Le modèle complet décrit les éléments essentiels d'un système d'intervention précoce, aboutissant à la planification de la transition. Le modèle de transition écologique et dynamique de Rimm-Kaufman et Pianta (2000) met l’accent sur les compétences individuelles des enfants, leurs environnements et les liens qui les unissent. Basé sur les modèles de Guralnick et Rimm-Kaufman et de Pianta, ce programme de recherche étudiera divers aspects ou composantes (revue de la littérature, politique de transition, intervention de transition) de la transition à l’école des enfants atteints de TSA et de leurs familles. La première étude a examiné et synthétisé la littérature actuelle sur la transition à l'école et les TSA. La deuxième étude a examiné et décrit la politique de transition à l'école pour les enfants atteints de TSA et leur famille au Canada au moyen d'une enquête sur la transition à l'école réalisée par des fournisseurs de services préscolaires. Enfin, la troisième étude a impliqué la mise en œuvre et l’évaluation d’une intervention de transition vers l’école pour les enfants atteints de TSA. Ce programme de recherche devrait nous permettre de mieux comprendre les problèmes liés à la transition vers l’école des enfants atteints de TSA et de leurs familles et d’informer les futures politiques sur la transition réussie de ces enfants et de leurs familles
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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