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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
Effectiveness of interventions to improve adherence in older adults with low health literacy: a systematic meta-review.
No full textUnderstanding the role of health literacy in self-management and health behaviors among older adults
Get PDFOlder adults with low health literacy can improve their health if they learn to self-manage their well-being and improve their physical activity and their dietary pattern. One of the major challenges in health care is the problem of low health literacy. Especially older adults often have low health literacy, which can harm their health. It is difficult to improve older adults’ health literacy itself. It is therefore important to gain insight into the underlying mechanisms: how does health literacy impact on the health of older adults. Such insight would allow for the development of measures to improve the health status of older adults with low health literacy. In his thesis, Bas Geboers shows how older adults’ level of health literacy is related with their cognitive functioning and their health behaviors, which in turn can lead to poorer health. The large-scale studies on which he reports were conducted among community-based older adults. Additionally, a literature review was performed. Older adults’ level of health literacy proved to be related with their level of physical activity and their fruit and vegetable consumption, and also with their abilities to self-manage their own health. No strong relation between health literacy and medication adherence was found. Social factors had little influence on the identified relations. Additionally, cognitive functioning seems to be an important predictor of health literacy at an older age. To add healthy years to their life, it is important older adults with low health literacy learn to self-manage their health on a longer term. Improving their physical activity and their dietary pattern are important goals. Further research should investigate how these goals can be achieved best
Effectiveness of interventions to improve adherence in older adults with low health literacy: a systematic meta-review.
No full textUnderstanding the role of health literacy in self-management and health behaviors among older adults
No full textOlder adults with low health literacy can improve their health if they learn to self-manage their well-being and improve their physical activity and their dietary pattern.One of the major challenges in health care is the problem of low health literacy. Especially older adults often have low health literacy, which can harm their health. It is difficult to improve older adults’ health literacy itself. It is therefore important to gain insight into the underlying mechanisms: how does health literacy impact on the health of older adults. Such insight would allow for the development of measures to improve the health status of older adults with low health literacy.In his thesis, Bas Geboers shows how older adults’ level of health literacy is related with their cognitive functioning and their health behaviors, which in turn can lead to poorer health. The large-scale studies on which he reports were conducted among community-based older adults. Additionally, a literature review was performed. Older adults’ level of health literacy proved to be related with their level of physical activity and their fruit and vegetable consumption, and also with their abilities to self-manage their own health. No strong relation between health literacy and medication adherence was found. Social factors had little influence on the identified relations. Additionally, cognitive functioning seems to be an important predictor of health literacy at an older age.To add healthy years to their life, it is important older adults with low health literacy learn to self-manage their health on a longer term. Improving their physical activity and their dietary pattern are important goals. Further research should investigate how these goals can be achieved best
Effectiveness of interventions to improve adherence in older adults with low health literacy: a systematic meta-review.
No full textVariations 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
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