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Smoking and epidemics of respiratory infections
Full text linkSitas, F., Harris-Roxas, B., Bradshaw, D., & Lopez, A. D. (2020). S. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, online first (ID: BLT.20.273052)
“Rich people get lots of it. Poor people don’t get any of it!” Fifty years of tackling the Inverse Care Law [Invited Keynote]
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Some suggestions for improving wider understanding of the work of population health
Full text link1. Harris-Roxas B. Some suggestions for improving wider understanding of the work of population health in Sweet M, Ward M. Acting on the social determinants of health – for a fairer distribution of health, Croakey: Sydney, p 111-114, 2016. (Collection of Croakey.org articles to coincide with the 2016 Boyer Lectures
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Exploring Australian knowledge and practice for maternal postnatal transition of care between hospital and primary care: A scoping review
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Despite the significance of the perinatal period, postnatal care remains insufficient for optimising long-term health.
Background
The perinatal period is a vulnerable time in a woman’s life-course health trajectory. Supporting transitions from hospital to primary care is essential to promote health and guide evidence-based follow-up care.
Aim
The aims are to (i) explore existing knowledge and practice in Australia regarding maternal postnatal transitions of care between hospital and primary care and (ii) understand the enablers and barriers to implementing optimal postnatal discharge and handover of care from the maternity to primary health setting.
Methods
A scoping review was conducted according to PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus and The Cochrane Library were searched using MeSH terms, subject headings and keywords. Full-text articles in English were included from 1st January 2010–8 th June 2024.
Results
Eighteen studies were included, 14 focused on care in specific states and four Australia-wide. Maternal postnatal transition of care between hospital and primary care varied. Critical components of care that were valued by women and healthcare providers and promoted effective care transitions were grouped into four concepts: “Woman-centred discharge planning and process”, “Integrated care”, “Follow-up care” and “Continuity of care". Discharge communication across Australian health services is diverse. Women and healthcare providers require clear discharge communication that highlights complications, guides follow-up and promotes continuity.
Conclusion
Australian postnatal transition between hospital and primary care is inconsistent and ineffective. Lack of robust handover between services hinders evidence-based follow-up care after postnatal discharge from hospital, particularly following pregnancy complications.Full Tex
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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