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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
Deciding to stop work or deciding how work is done?
No full textStopping work when work becomes unsafe is universally considered to be a positive safety behaviour. Safety interventions aimed at building the capability to stop unsafe work have focussed on assertiveness training and creating authority to stop work policies. A recent focus group-based study found that these interventions do not necessarily capture the most common factors influencing stop work decisions, and found that stop-work decisions can be enacted in different forms. Inspired by this work, we used an ethnographic study in a water utility provider to understand how decisions to stop work were made, and how they were influenced by procedures. In this organisation, crews frequently made decisions to stop work, usually by handing over the job to another crew. The decisions were easy to make if they could be framed as finding the best way to complete the job. Operators did not view decisions framed this way as safety related decisions. Procedures could cause crews to consider stopping work, but were unlikely to actually lead to a decision to stop work. If a crew considered it impossible to comply with a procedure, the crew who would pick up the cancelled job would likely encounter the same situation. As such, stopping work for procedural requirements was not perceived as improving safety. These findings challenge the idea that stop-work decisions are best supported through procedures, assertiveness training, and authority to stop work policies. As an alternative, the results suggest that organisations can influence workers to stop work by providing alternative methods for them to complete a job which crews themselves can arrange.Full Tex
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
Hazard reporting: How can it improve safety?
No full textThe academic literature presents hazard reporting as an extension of incident reporting. Hazards are presented as more safety data to collect, data that allows for proactive actions, but feeds into a similar learning process. In this paper, we use ethnographic data to examine whether either view holds up both critically and empirically. Based on both literature and data, five possible functions for hazard reporting systems were identified; sharing experiences, organisational learning, extending organisational memory, performance monitoring, and coordinating remedial actions. The data was then explored to test whether the hazard reporting system was facilitating these functions in practice. It was found that in practice, hazard reporting mostly fulfilled the role of coordinating remedial action, and pertained less to any of the learning and memory-related functions. Hazard reporting was found to be unsuitable for performance monitoring. From these findings follow general takeaways - that hazard reporting is, in practice, different from incident reporting; the word hazard is a poor choice to structure learning effort around; trying to increase reporting can be counterproductive for learning efforts, and reporting is valued for its ability to reach out to others within an organisation.Full Tex
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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