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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
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
“Gatekeepers” and Gender Identification in Education Research: Ethical Responsibilities of Distinguishing Sex and Gender
No full textAs society evolves and increases to recognize the fluidity of identity in terms of
demographic classification, the domain of research will be faced with the crucial choice of how to capture an individual’s ever-changing identity through traditionally static, defined, and objective quantitative study. Surveys on both a national and international level have historically conflated gender identity with biological sex; most fail to consider and recognize identities outside of normative classifications. There are ethical implications how national education researchers choose to define identity, as such decisions shape not only the ways in which we think about students, but also the ways in which students think about themselves. This study assesses public and private education researchers’ (n=18) perceived responsibilities as “gatekeepers” in the survey design, data collection, and analysis processes, specifically in regard to the ethical implications that demographic questions might have on the populations their studies seek to describe
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
What Pete Buttigieg—and all White Americans—Need to Understand About Racism
Get PDFIt is essential that educators, particularly white educators, work to understand racial inequality within a prophetic framework, refuse to perpetuate inaccurate and racist images of black and brown youth, and actively deconstruct structural inequalities within the education system. Structural racism, especially that which has been institutionalized within and in perceptions about the education system, is an important issue for the field of education that was recently the central issue of the eye-catching hashtag, #PeteButtigiegisaLyingMF. This Voices opinion piece examines Michael Harriot’s initiation of a conversation about understandings of structural racism with 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, contextualizes this online moment through a theoretical perspective, and provides a call to action for white educators
Beyond Digital Disconnection and Screentime: Advancing the Study of Adolescent Digital Wellbeing Through Teen-Centric Methods
No full textWorking to fill existing gaps in the study of digital wellbeing and advance teen-centric methods mostly absent from prior research, this manuscript-style dissertation builds upon theoretical and conceptual foundations of adolescent development and digital wellbeing to showcase three methodological approaches that offer insight and advance this field of research. Overall, these manuscripts shed light on adolescent digital wellbeing, while demonstrating qualitative exportation via counterfactual scenarios (Chapter 1, N=35), longitudinal co-design of a digital wellbeing mobile application (Chapter 2, N=39), and demographic-sensitive validation of the Digital Flourishing Scale for Adolescents (DFS-A) (Chapter 3, N=960). In all, the strengths-based nature of these teen-centric methods should inspire future researchers to adopt similar framings of digital technology use and methodological approaches, while recognizing the far-reaching effects that near-constant digital technology use may have not only during adolescence, but also beyond for future cohorts of adolescents. Similarly, these insights mandate that partitioners take adolescent perspectives seriously and that policy makers work to regulate the design and study of adolescent digital wellbeing in a manner that is teen-centric and responsive to adolescent developmental concerns. Notably, this dissertation additionally showcases the importance of community-engaged scholarship via a 2.5-year partnership with a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization focused on improving digital wellbeing--#HalfTheStory—demonstrating the need for similar, reciprocal community-engaged research collaborations for rapidly evolving technological, political, and research-to-practice landscapes
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