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Concealed by the "Gift of Life" : The Complexities of Living with Dialysis and Kidney Transplantaiton in Stockholm and Riga
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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
The Body as Gift, Resource, and Commodity : Exchanging Organs, Tissues, and Cells in the 21st Century
No full textDeparting from three metaphors—the body as gift, resource, and commodity—the book explores the contemporary exchange of organs, tissues, and cells. Although the gift is the sanctioned metaphor for donating parts of the body, the underlying perspective from the side of states, authorities, and the medical establishment often seems to be that the body shall be understood as a resource. But medicine, as some of the contributors to this book show, is not sealed off from the market economy. Increasingly, therefore, body parts become commodities on legal as well as illegal markets. The chapters of the book are arranged in a way that presents, one after the other, the three metaphors of the body, starting with the body as gift, proceeding by way of the body as resource, and ending in the body as commodity. Although all three metaphors as ways of conceptualizing and making use of the human body can be found throughout human history, the present drive of commercialization will increasingly force us to identify and scrutinize the way these metaphors are used. Not only in addressing the fascinating question of what kind of an object (subject) the human body is, but also in trying to decipher what interests lurk behind the use of the metaphors in question when claiming that human bodies, organs, tissues, and cells are gifts, resources or commodities. The ambition of this volume is to address and remedy the need of a hermeneutics not only of depth, but also of suspicion, in the case of organ transplantation and other medical technologies involving the transfer of human tissues and cells
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
Att utforska praktisk kunskap : Undersökande, prövande och avtäckande metoder
No full textPraktisk kunskap är en oundgänglig, men ganska svårfångad, form av kunskap. För en forskare som vill utforska sin egen eller någon annans praktiska kunskap kan den upplevas som undflyende och svårartikulerad. Traditionella vetenskapliga metoder, skapade för att vara objektiva och repeterbara, faller ofta till föga. Så hur ska man göra? Hur kan praktisk kunskap utforskas vetenskapligt? Denna fråga försöker den här antologin svara på. Medverkande är forskare med anknytning till Centrum för praktisk kunskap vid Södertörns högskola. Utgångspunkten för texterna är en förståelse av metod som något som varken går att separera från forskningens sammanhang eller dess frågor och teorier. Detta innebär att forskaren ständigt måste ha ett aktivt och öppet förhållningssätt till den. Ambitionen med boken är att erbjuda en fördjupad reflektion kring ett antal såväl befintliga som möjliga metodologiska tillvägagångssätt för utforskandet av praktisk kunskap. Några av de tillvägagångssätt som diskuteras är intervjuer, deltagande observation, reflektion och gestaltade berättelser
Att utforska praktisk kunskap : Undersökande, prövande och avtäckande metoder
No full textPraktisk kunskap är en oundgänglig, men ganska svårfångad, form av kunskap. För en forskare som vill utforska sin egen eller någon annans praktiska kunskap kan den upplevas som undflyende och svårartikulerad. Traditionella vetenskapliga metoder, skapade för att vara objektiva och repeterbara, faller ofta till föga. Så hur ska man göra? Hur kan praktisk kunskap utforskas vetenskapligt? Denna fråga försöker den här antologin svara på. Medverkande är forskare med anknytning till Centrum för praktisk kunskap vid Södertörns högskola. Utgångspunkten för texterna är en förståelse av metod som något som varken går att separera från forskningens sammanhang eller dess frågor och teorier. Detta innebär att forskaren ständigt måste ha ett aktivt och öppet förhållningssätt till den. Ambitionen med boken är att erbjuda en fördjupad reflektion kring ett antal såväl befintliga som möjliga metodologiska tillvägagångssätt för utforskandet av praktisk kunskap. Några av de tillvägagångssätt som diskuteras är intervjuer, deltagande observation, reflektion och gestaltade berättelser
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