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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
Les effets de la pratique professionnelle des travailleurs sociaux en groupes de médecine familiale sur leurs représentations de l'identité professionnelle
La directive gouvernementale menant à l’intégration de travailleuses sociales et de travailleurs sociaux (TS) des Services sociaux généraux en Groupe de médecine familiale (GMF) en 2016 nous amena à nous interroger sur les effets de ce nouveau milieu de pratique sur les représentations de leur identité professionnelle. L’identité professionnelle est un thème récurent du discours de praticiens du travail social québécois et de son instance régulatrice. Elle peut se conceptualiser comme un élément médiateur des savoirs aux pratiques professionnelles à visée émancipatrice. Nous avons cependant fait le constat que pour les TS en GMF participant à cette recherche, l’identité professionnelle est une notion floue, mal définie et peu signifiante quant à leur pratique professionnelle. C’est l’Office des professions du Québec qui assure ’application du Code des professions du Québec, il contribue à développer la confiance du public et des institutions envers le système professionnel. L’adoption du projet de loi 21 en 2009 modifia le Code et institua les professions du domaine de la santé mentale et des relations humaines par ses dispositions. Elles affirmèrent, entre autres, une réserve à l’emploi du titre professionnel des professions du Domaine et énoncèrent une exclusivité à l’exercice d’activités réservées et partagées à risque de préjudices auprès de personnes vulnérables. Nous constatons que le système professionnel québécois est, entre autres, un mécanisme de gestion de l’offre professionnelle, garantissant ainsi la pérennité des activités professionnelles et de ses instances régulatrices. La professionnalité dont se revendique le travail social québécois s’énonce d’une façon singulière, sur la base de valeurs fondatrices, de savoir-faire et savoir-être dit distinctifs. Bien que le système professionnel fasse l’objet de « modernisations » ponctuelles selon les contraintes socioéconomiques du moment, la position marginale du travail social à l’intérieur de ce système sied bien à l’intention d’une affirmation distinctive de sa pratique. Nous constatons que l’identité professionnelle en travail social résulte de l’adéquation de savoirs issus des connaissances et des pratiques de l’intervenant aux tâches exercées. Ces tâches se constituent alors en pratiques professionnelles, se traduisant par une cohérence du soi (sujet) au soi professionnel contextualisé par le métier (milieu, collaborations, autonomie, clientèle). Nous avons cependant mis en évidence un déficit d’une réflexion sur l’action des travailleurs sociaux à la faveur d’une réflexion en action, déficit que nous pouvons lier à l’orientation essentiellement pratique de la profession, d’injonctions intériorisées à l’efficience des activités et des services professionnels, à l’absence d’une formation continue disciplinaire. L’identité professionnelle des travailleurs sociaux en GMF est étroitement liée au statut d’employé de l’établissement d’origine, à l’exercice des tâches des Services sociaux généraux.
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MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : travail social, système professionnel, représentations professionnelles, identité professionnelle, groupe de médecine familial
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We 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
We 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.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
In 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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