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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
Malattia e bisogno di relazioni significative: studio per l’ampliamento dell’IPQ-R in un gruppo di operatori sanitari della regione Campania
No full textPartendo dall’ipotesi che l’esperienza di malattia acuisca, sia nei pazienti che negli operatori che si trovano temporaneamente “dall’altra parte”, il bisogno di relazioni significative
e che questa dimensione – non completamente sovrapponibile al supporto sociale tradizionalmente inteso – sia una componente importante che merita di essere valutata quando si
esplora la rappresentazione di malattia, questo studio intende modificare l’Illness perception
questionnaire-revised (IPQ-R) di Moss-Morris e colleghi, nato sulla base del modello di senso comune e autoregolazione di Leventhal.
L’obiettivo è ampliare lo strumento per renderlo più esaustivo e valutarne le caratteristiche psicometriche attraverso analisi fattoriali esplorative e confermative.
Alla versione dell’IPQ-R validata in Italia da Giardini e colleghi, composta da 70 item
che indagano 3 aree della malattia (Identità, Opinioni e Cause), sono stati aggiunti 14 item relativi ad una dimensione definita Relazione significativa con l’altro. Lo strumento così ampliato è stato proposto a 269 operatori sanitari della regione Campania (134 medici, 135 infermieri). Dopo le analisi sono stati mantenuti 9 dei nuovi item, accorpatisi in un terzo fattore,
mentre 1 item si è accorpato al primo fattore. L’Analisi Fattoriale Confermativa ha mostrato valori di fit molto soddisfacenti.
I risultati mostrano come anche la rappresentazione di malattia degli operatori sanitari sia intrisa di elementi di senso comune oltre che di ovvi rimandi alle teorie scientifiche e contenga
significativi riferimenti al bisogno di relazioni significative con gli altri (esplorato dai nuovi item), colleghi compresi, dai quali ci si attende autenticità e profondità
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
Reconstrucción narrativa de una experiencia de hospitalización. Narrative Reconstruction of a Hospitalization Experience
Get PDFAl integrar la perspectiva más reciente de la Psicología de la salud con la Psicología cultural, este trabajo indaga, por medio de una entrevista narrativa, los relatos de N = 40 personas (11 M y 29 F, entre 20-60 años) que han vivido una hospitalización por causa de un accidente o una enfermedad. Se parte de la hipótesis de que el hospital es una institución y un lugar físico impregnado de significados culturales y de vivencias emocionales personales. El objetivo consistió en explorar las modalidades con las cuales las y los participantes reconstruyeron narrativamente su experiencia hospitalaria y cómo se valoraron a sí mismos y a los otros en términos de recursos y vínculos. El corpus de las 40 entrevistas fue sometido a un análisis estadístico lexical por medio del software ALCESTE (Reinert, 1993), con el resultado de tres clases de discurso: (1) Solicitud de apoyo social, (2) el hospital como lugar de miedo e incertidumbre y (3) el hospital narrado con terminología médica. El análisis factorial de las correspondencias extrajo dos factores: el primero denominado “gravedad de la hospitalización” (polaridad mayor/menor) y el segundo denominado “focus de la narración” (polaridad interno/externo).
Se concluye que el hospital, aunque se concibe como una institución que ayuda a sanar, interrumpe la rutina diaria, produce aislamiento y provoca miedo. Este tipo de estudio puede contribuir a poner de manifiesto aspectos psicológicos en el proceso salud-enfermedad que sirvan como puente de comunicación con el personal sanitario.
Bringing together the most recent perspectives of Health Psychology and Cultural Psychology, this study uses the narrative interview to investigate the stories of N = 40 subjects (11 M and 29 F, between 20-60 years) who had experienced a hospitalization as a consequence of an accident or illness. The hypothesis is that the hospital is an institution and a physical place impregnated with cultural meanings and personal emotional experiences. The aim was to explore the categories the participants used to reconstruct their hospital experience in their narrations, looking for textual indications of sense-making, of self-assessment and of appreciation for others in terms of resources and bonds. The corpus of the 40 texts was submitted to a statistical lexical analysis with ALCESTE software (Reinert, 1993), resulting in three classes of discourse: (1) The demand for social support, (2) the hospital as a place of fear, and (3) the hospital narrated in medical terms. A factorial analysis of correspondences extracted two factors: The first, denominated “severity of the hospitalization” (polarity major/minor), and the second denominated “focus of narration” (polarity internal/external). We conclude that the hospital, although conceived as an institution that helps to heal, interrupts the daily routine, produces isolation and causes fear. This type of study may contribute to highlight psychological aspects of the health-illness process, which may be useful to provide a bridge for communication with healthcare personnel
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
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
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
Laboratorio de epistemología y prácticas de la educación: la valencia del informal en el proceso formativo,
No full textEn el presente artículo se analizaron las aplicaciones metodológico-operativas de una lectura de la libertad entendida como un valor que es promovido o inhibido por el proceso educativo (Varela, 1997; Dennett, 2004; Strollo, 2004a; 2008). El objetivo de este trabajo – que es parte de un proyecto didáctico más amplio denominado Laboratorio de Epistemología y Prácticas de la Educación (Strollo, 2006a; 2007; 2008)- fue analizar la valencia de las experiencias personales consideradas formativas, escritas en un hipertexto, por alumnos de la Universidad “Federico II” de Nápoles. Fueron elegidos mediante un muestreo probabilístico 100 hipertextos y analizados mediante la estadística descriptiva (Silva, 1992) y el análisis del contenido (Berelson, 1952; Bardin, 1986; Gaitán & Piñuel, 1997). Se discute la importancia de la construcción de un hipertexto como recurso epistemológico y se resalta el valor de la integración de las experiencias personales en la propia trayectoria formativa1.
Palabras clave: hipertexto, neurofenomenología, educación informal, valencia emocional
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