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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
"It's Easier to Imagine the Characters and Understand the Text if I Listen to It": : The Affordances of the Full-cast Audiobook Compared to the Use of Other Reading Modes for Immersion in Upper Secondary Education.
No full textStudents’ decreasing interest in literature is a factor that has stimulated research initiatives to explore ways of streamlining reading. Although reading while listening is a well-researched territory, it appears limited to the single-narrator audiobook and efferent modes of reading. Therefore, this study focuses on the educational use of the full-cast audiobook and the immersive potential of aesthetic reading. Inspired by previous research in the field of audiobooks and reading while listening, we conducted a classroom study exposing four upper secondary school classes to four different reading modes: listening to a full-cast audiobook, listening to a single-narrator audiobook, reading the print text while listening and reading the print text only. This investigation was based on the following research questions: What are the main differences between reading only, listening only, reading while listening to single-narrator audiobooks, and reading while listening to full-cast audiobooks in terms of student preferences for classroom reading?; Does the simultaneous reading of the print text add to the immersive experience?; And Can listening to full-cast audiobooks contribute to more immersive reading experiences than listening to single-narrator audiobooks in upper secondary EFL classrooms? The results indicate that the informants favoured reading while listening over single-mode reading. However, we found no significant differences in immersion between the single-narrator and full-cast audiobook. The results of this study intend to contribute to the equal and equitable education that is the Swedish curricula’s aim.
"Får man lyssna på musik?" : En undersökning om bakgrundsljudets påverkan på läsförståelse.
No full textResearch suggests that students’ declining interest in literature is contributing to a broader decline in reading proficiency. While many students do not oppose reading itself, they often prefer to combine it with listening to music. To address this issue, the present study explores whether reading comprehension can be influenced by different auditory environments. A total of 105 upper secondary students, aged 17–18, participated in a classroom experiment in which they read three excerpts from The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini under three distinct sound conditions: ocean sounds, self-selected music, and silence. After each reading, participants answered ten related reading comprehension questions. The results indicate that while a minority of students may benefit from music or ambient sounds, reading performance was generally strongest in silent conditions
"It's Easier to Imagine the Characters and Understand the Text if I Listen to It": : The Affordances of the Full-cast Audiobook Compared to the Use of Other Reading Modes for Immersion in Upper Secondary Education.
No full textStudents’ decreasing interest in literature is a factor that has stimulated research initiatives to explore ways of streamlining reading. Although reading while listening is a well-researched territory, it appears limited to the single-narrator audiobook and efferent modes of reading. Therefore, this study focuses on the educational use of the full-cast audiobook and the immersive potential of aesthetic reading. Inspired by previous research in the field of audiobooks and reading while listening, we conducted a classroom study exposing four upper secondary school classes to four different reading modes: listening to a full-cast audiobook, listening to a single-narrator audiobook, reading the print text while listening and reading the print text only. This investigation was based on the following research questions: What are the main differences between reading only, listening only, reading while listening to single-narrator audiobooks, and reading while listening to full-cast audiobooks in terms of student preferences for classroom reading?; Does the simultaneous reading of the print text add to the immersive experience?; And Can listening to full-cast audiobooks contribute to more immersive reading experiences than listening to single-narrator audiobooks in upper secondary EFL classrooms? The results indicate that the informants favoured reading while listening over single-mode reading. However, we found no significant differences in immersion between the single-narrator and full-cast audiobook. The results of this study intend to contribute to the equal and equitable education that is the Swedish curricula’s aim.
"Får man lyssna på musik?" : En undersökning om bakgrundsljudets påverkan på läsförståelse.
No full textResearch suggests that students’ declining interest in literature is contributing to a broader decline in reading proficiency. While many students do not oppose reading itself, they often prefer to combine it with listening to music. To address this issue, the present study explores whether reading comprehension can be influenced by different auditory environments. A total of 105 upper secondary students, aged 17–18, participated in a classroom experiment in which they read three excerpts from The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini under three distinct sound conditions: ocean sounds, self-selected music, and silence. After each reading, participants answered ten related reading comprehension questions. The results indicate that while a minority of students may benefit from music or ambient sounds, reading performance was generally strongest in silent conditions
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
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