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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
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
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 perceptions of women's health with breast cancer
No full textRésumé : Cette étude a pour but de proposer une modélisation théorique du processus de transition des perceptions de l’état de santé de femmes diagnostiquées d’un cancer du sein selon une perspective infirmière. Les objectifs sont d’explorer les perceptions de l’état de santé en phase pré et post transitoire, définir le processus de devenir malade d’un cancer du sein et modéliser la transition des perceptions de l’état de santé. Un devis qualitatif de théorisation ancrée a été utilisé. Trente-deux femmes ont participé à une entrevue semi-dirigée soit 30 femmes à différents moments dans la trajectoire de la maladie, une femme en santé porteuse du gène Breast Cancer 1 BRCA1 et Breast Cancer 2 (BRCA2) et une femme en santé sans historique de cancer du sein dans sa famille. Le recrutement s’est déroulé dans trois milieux de la région Mauricie Centre-du-Québec: un centre hospitalier tertiaire, un centre hospitalier secondaire et une université. L’analyse des données a été réalisée simultanément avec la collecte selon les trois niveaux de codage (ouvert, axial et sélectif) de Strauss et Corbin (1998).
Les résultats découlant de cette recherche sont une modélisation du processus de transition des perceptions de l’état de santé de femmes atteintes d’un cancer du sein. Il ressort de cette modélisation trois grandes catégories a) les perceptions de la santé et de la maladie avant la transition, b) la transition et c) les perceptions de la santé et de la maladie après la transition. La première catégorie, soit avant la transition, se divise selon les concepts d’invulnérabilité, d’opposition à la maladie, de mort, de peur et de doute si hérédité. La transition des perceptions de l’état de santé s’échelonne sur une période de deux ans, soit un an entre le moment de l’annonce du diagnostic et la fin des traitements et une autre année jusqu’à l’atteinte d’un état de santé-modifié, pendant laquelle les participants traversent quatre étapes itératives (réagir émotionnellement, faire face à la situation, développer une nouvelle conception de la vie et réagir aux représentations du cancer) qui peuvent être simultanées à travers desquelles elles ne se sentent pas malades d’un cancer du sein. Puis, les perceptions de la santé et de la maladie après la transition changent pour devenir un état de santé caractérisé par la perception plus holistique et précieuse de la santé. Le cancer est désormais une épreuve surmontable dont personne n’est à l’abri. Cette étude met en évidence l’apprentissage de vivre avec une épée de Damoclès au-dessus de la tête une fois la transition terminée. La poursuite d’une analyse de concept comparative entre la transition, la trajectoire de la maladie, le deuil et l’adaptation est une piste de développement à poursuivre en recherche. Du côté clinique, la présente étude offre une modélisation qui est utile aux infirmières, afin de mieux comprendre les phases transitoires et ainsi adapter les soins, donner de l’information, des ressources et, surtout, normaliser les perceptions selon les étapes de la transition. Il est important de former les infirmières sur l’exploration des perceptions de l’état de santé des femmes atteintes d’un cancer du sein.Abstract : This study aims to propose a theoretical model of the transition process perceptions of health status of women diagnosed with breast cancer in a nursing perspective. Although the experience of living with a diagnosis of breast cancer has been an increasing number of studies over the past two decades, it still raises many conceptual questions. Thus, the transition between being healthy, being diagnosed with breast cancer overnight without experiencing systemic symptoms and being healthy again was the subject of this thesis. Considering the current state of the literature and the purpose of research, the author has used a Grounded Theory methodology (Strauss & Corbin, 1998) to guide this study because it emphasizes the study processes and social interactions. Thus, to reach diversity of women, the author uses three settings: a tertiary hospital, a secondary hospital and a university. Collection and data analysis were carried out from 32 semi-structured interviews with women at different times in the course of chronic disease (n = 30), healthy women carrying the BRCA1 gene and a woman without health history of breast cancer in her family.
From the conceptualization emerged three broad categories or concepts defined by their attributes and articulated in an explanatory model. These categories are: a) perceptions of health and disease before the transition, b) transition and c) perceptions of health and illness after the transition. The first category of perceptions of health and disease before the transition is divided according to the concepts of invulnerability, opposite to the disease perceptions of health and death, fear and doubt if heredity. The transition begins at the moment of the diagnosis and lasts up to one year following the end of treatments. React emotionally to deal with the situation, develop a new conception of life and respond to representations of cancer are circular stages of transition process. The central category of the transition is defined by not feeling sick. The personal, interpersonal and social factors influence these perceptions. Then, once the chemotherapy and radiotherapy are completed, women are in a state of health change. The changing perceptions of health and illness after the transition begins is characterized by perception of health that are more holistic and valuable. Cancer is now a surmountable event that nobody is immune. The salient point emerging from this research is to learn to live with a sword of Damocles over the head when the participants find themselves in a state of health changed
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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