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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
Human ecological complexity; epistemological implications of social networking and emerging curriculum theories
No full text© Copyright 2011. The author, DONALD L. GILSTRAP, assigns to the University of Alberta and other educational and non-profit
institutions a non-exclusive license to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used
in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author also grants a non-exclusive license to the University of Alberta to
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other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors.This article explores the growing use of social networking among contemporary students and
researchers in education. It is argued that social networking systems exhibit many of the
characteristics of complex systems, such as self-organization and far-from-equilibrium conditions.
This article, therefore, contends that curriculum development in the near future will be deeply
impacted by social networks. Equally, curriculum scholars are in a unique position to integrate
chaos and complexity theories which help to recreate the ontological and epistemological
frameworks needed to respond to social networking phenomena
Quantitative research methods in chaos and complexity: from probability to post hoc regression analyses
No full text© Copyright 2013. The author, DONALD GILSTRAP, assigns to the University of Alberta and other educational and non-profit
institutions a non-exclusive license to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used
in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author also grant a non-exclusive license to the University of Alberta to
publish this document in full on the World Wide Web, and for the document to be published on mirrors on the World Wide Web. Any
other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors.In addition to qualitative methods presented in chaos and complexity theories in educational
research, this article addresses quantitative methods that may show potential for future research
studies. Although much in the social and behavioral sciences literature has focused on computer
simulations, this article explores current chaos and complexity methods that have the potential to
bridge the divide between qualitative and quantitative, as well as theoretical and applied, human
research studies. These methods include multiple linear regression, nonlinear regression,
stochastics, Monte Carlo methods, Markov Chains, and Lyapunov exponents. A postulate for post
hoc regression analysis is then presented as an example of an emergent, recursive, and iterative
quantitative method when dealing with interaction effects and collinearity among variables. This
postulate also highlights the power of both qualitative and quantitative chaos and complexity
theories in order to observe and describe both the micro and macro levels of systemic emergence
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
New rates of exchange: Technological integration and university libraries in Central and Eastern Europe
No full textPostprint.Over ver the course of the past ten years, Central- and Eastern-European
Countries have seen significant changes in virtually all sectors of society.
Higher education has been transformed, bringing western philosophies
to the discussion table and introducing technology into areas once devoid of this
medium. University libraries have also undergone fundamental philosophical and
organizational changes while integrating and utilizing technology to perform many
of the functions that were once labor intensive. In this paper, author provides
a brief analysis of the overall progress that has been made in 1990s in regard
to technological integration within C&EE university libraries and then present
possible scenarios and models for technology and information infrastructure
development for Central and East European universities moving into the 21 st century
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
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