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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
Mothering in the context of mental health problems : a feminist standpoint approach
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Deceptive promises: women\u27s understandings of technology in maternity care
No full textThe biomedical approach of obstetrics, relying on intensive use of technologies, has been championed as the most relevant approach to women\u27s needs in childbirth, and to problems faced by maternity services in Ireland, and internationally. Despite the attempts to humanise care and produce evidence to encourage the appropriate use of birth technologies, most changes within this existing paradigm have been superficial or unsuccessful. As a result the rates of technological intervention into birth process, such as caesarean section, induction of labour, fetal monitoring and epidural analgesia, and \u27active\u27 management of labour, have been increasing sharply. Surprisingly, women\u27s conceptualisations of technology, given such profound technologisation, have been relatively unexplored in the literature and their voices have been marginalised or disregarded in public debates and health policy. This study explores women\u27s conceptualisations of technology in a highly technologised context of maternity services in Ireland in order to reimagine our understanding of technology and its effects in maternity care. The study used feminist poststructuralism as its theoretical framework and employed Foucauldian discourse analysis as its methodological stance. Women\u27s understandings were generated using photo-elicitation interviews with photographs of hospital environments and of women being cared for within those environments. My analysis is based on twenty-one individual and three group interviews, with twenty-nine participants overall. Women from across social and cultural backgrounds who experienced different types of care within the Irish maternity services participated. The accounts of two men were also included. While feminist poststructuralism was used to theorise the ambivalence and conflicts in women\u27s understanding and emphasise their marginalised knowledges, discourse analysis allowed to capture the powerful discourses which shape women\u27s conceptualisations, and to grasp how they assemble their understanding of technology from available discursive resources. The findings of this study reveal the ambiguity and conflicts in women\u27s understanding of technology in maternity care, and the discrepancies between their voices and the discourse of technocratic biomedicine. The capabilities of technology used within the obstetric approach offer women a limited notion of care, yet such care is often considered clinically faultless. Instead, women insist on the humane rather than technological imperatives as essential in ensuring care which is genuinely enabling and facilitative of their needs. Women\u27s voices challenge the persuasive strategies of biomedicine and expose its promises as deceptive, giving only the appearance of comprehensive maternity care. Women\u27s voices suggest an urgent need to shift the model towards the midwifery approach to ensure appropriate use of technology in maternity care and appropriate maternity services
Meaning in Life for people who have experienced a First Episode Psychosis: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
No full textBackground: The concept of Meaning in Life (MIL) is understood to be central aspect of service user defined recovery in mental health. MIL takes on renewed importance in the context of widespread endorsement of the recovery approach in mental health; as service development and reform are required to prioritise service user defined recovery. Psychosis appears to impact the degree to which a person experiences MIL. However, there is little research available that helps us understand how MIL is experienced in recovery in psychosis or how meaning making in psychosis experiences influences a person\u27s perspective on MIL. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore how people who experienced a First Episode Psychosis (FEP) approximately 21 years ago find, develop, and maintain MIL and identify the key factors that influence MIL. Methodology: This qualitative study used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and adopted a multiperspectival design. Participants were recruited from a cohort of people diagnosed with a FEP between February 1995 and February 1999. The study was carried out within a public/private mental health service based in Dublin in Ireland. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 participants: 8 people In Remission and 8 people Not in Remission from psychosis, who were recruited using purposive sampling. Data were analysed according to IPA principles. Findings: Data were coded as relating to either Meaning making in psychosis experiences or Meaning in life in the context of mental health recovery. Meaning making in psychosis experiences formed the context and backdrop for participants finding, developing, and maintaining MIL in the recovery journey. Five themes were developed to encompass Meaning making in psychosis experiences. Firstly, psychosis experiences were found to erode MIL. This is reflected in the first three themes: Theme 1 Living with the impact of psychosis on the self and identity; Theme 2 Reconnecting with time to move forward in time; and Theme 3 Navigating agency and powerlessness in chaos. Psychosis experiences were understood to threaten or damage a person\u27s self, preferred identity, relationship with time, and control in their lives. Secondly, psychosis experiences were found to contribute to MIL by adding something that was not present in the person\u27s life prior to psychosis (Theme 4 Generating Meaning in Life in a vacuum). Psychosis experiences offered a path to: establishing connection and understanding; contributing something of value to society; realising potential; and exceptionality. Thirdly, psychosis experiences disrupted narrative coherence and blocked the ability to narrate parts of life (Theme 5 Trying to find a home for psychosis or not needing to). Five themes were developed to capture Meaning in life in the context of mental health recovery. Participants found, developed, and maintained MIL by being aware of their connectedness to their context. Experiencing MIL through connectedness to context occurred in five main ways represented by five themes. Theme 1 Being myself – de-othering and authenticity involved participants being cognisant that they resided in a self (their identity). They sought to enact their identity by pursuing congruence between their true self and their actions. Theme 2 Becoming significant where the self is witnessed involved participants acknowledging that the self existed in relation to the self and others. They aimed to belong amid their life witnesses (including the self) to experience significance. Theme 3 Generating meaning within and beyond systems involved participants realising that the self existed in relation to systems. They used systems to generate MIL but also attained MIL from transcending them. Theme 4 Shaping and being shaped by life involved participants appreciating how their environment shaped the self and the self shaped their environment. Finally, Theme 5 Integrating different perspectives of time involved participants developing an awareness of how the self was experienced across time. They had to acknowledge that temporality changes depending on life circumstances. Conclusion: The findings provide novel insight into the complexity of how MIL is experienced by people who have personally encountered psychosis. They also illuminate the influence of meaning making in psychosis experiences on MIL. The findings enhance the conceptual clarity of MIL in the context of mental health recovery in psychosis and contribute to meaning making and mental health recovery theory. In so doing, they also offer guidance for education, clinical practice, service provision, and future research and have practical relevance for therapeutic engagement, trauma informed care, and the recovery approach
Recovery from \u27mental illness\u27 as a re-enchantment with life : a narrative study
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