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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
Assess the Opinions of Nurses in Hospitals in the Al-Diwaniah Governorate on the Most Common Drug Errors and the Factors that Lead to Them
Get PDFThis study aims to investigate nurses' perspectives on medication errors and the factors that lead to them. A total of 355 nurses from three general hospitals and a private facility in Aldiwaniah City participated in this descriptive cross-sectional research. We created a five-part self-administered questionnaire based on previously published research and gave it to the nurses throughout their shifts. We contacted 355 nurses, and 352 of them completed the questionnaire. The data analysis employed descriptive statistics. According to the study's results, giving medication at the wrong time was the most common type of medication mistake, scoring 2.5±1.02. Errors with a lower severity were less common. 64% of nurses did not report prescription mistakes, but 44.6 percent did so orally, and 56.8% did so in the form of an event report. The most frequent obstacle to reporting was a misunderstanding of what defines a drug error, indicating a substantial discrepancy between their perception and knowledge. Common medication errors (MEs) that nurses describe include administering medication to the incorrect patient at the wrong time, delivering IV medication at the incorrect speed, and forgetting to add a dosage. Both environmental factors (frequent visits) and personal factors (stress and fatigue) contribute to these errors. There is a statistically significant correlation between the incorrect time and characteristics such as ward, hospital type, age, gender, and educational attainment. There is a strong correlation between systemic problems and incorrect time errors
Assessment of Nurses’ Opinions on The Reporting Behavior of Medication Errors in Hospitals Al-Diwaniah Governorate
Get PDFBackground: Medication errors pose a substantial public health concern, leading to higher rates of death and illness, and adversely affecting the healthcare system through increased expenses. Medication errors can undermine the confidence of healthcare providers in their abilities and the healthcare system as a whole. International endeavors have been undertaken to deal with these concerns. Objective: This study investigates nurses' perspectives on reporting medication errors, including their attitudes toward reporting and the barriers they encounter in reporting. Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study that included a cohort of 355 nurses employed in three public hospitals as well as a private hospital within Aldiwaniah City. The nurses were solicited during their work shifts and requested to fill out a self-administered questionnaire comprising five sections, which was formulated based on preexisting literature. Of the 355 nurses who were approached, 352 of them completed the questionnaire. The process of data analysis entailed the utilization of descriptive statistics. Results: The study found that 64% of nurses don't report medication errors due to early intervention. 56.8% document incidents and verbally report errors, a high percentage compared to previous research. 44.6% verbally report personal errors, a concern for nurses. Barriers include a lack of understanding of medication errors' definition and the correct reporting time using incident reports. Many nurses feel shame, discomfort, and worry about patient safety. Conclusion and Recommendations: Most nurses do not report medication errors due to barriers such as inadequate understanding of the error definition, uncertainty about reporting timing, and fear of disciplinary consequences. The study found significant associations between uncertainty regarding medication errors, gender, training courses, ward knowledge, lack of knowledge about reporting timings, hospital type, working hours, and days per week, work shift fear, and fear of punishment or job loss. Consistent with previous studies, there was an association found between many nurse demographic attributes and the attitude of nurses towards reporting medication errors. To remove or reduce this safety issue, these nurses within an organization may require assistance in defining an ME, determining when they should report it, and how to report it to whom
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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