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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
After Ebola in Sierra Leone: the politics of neglect and the social life of projectified post-epidemic recovery
Get PDFThis thesis provides a medical anthropological account of the Sierra Leonean
post-Ebola recovery initiative, how it was implemented by a District Health
Management Team (DHMT), and how the social life it produced was resisted
and manipulated at the district and community levels. To make sense of the
recovery priorities, this thesis unpacks the broader structures that underpin
global health programming in an attempt to strengthen ‘weak’ health systems.
The case of the post-Ebola recovery in Sierra Leone is an exemplary case of
how intrinsic the politics of neglect are within global health governance. It will
become clear that the politics of neglect were also evident during the post-Ebola recovery period. This thesis draws on fourteen months of research, which
was divided into two distinct phases: district level and community level. At the
district level, I spent eight months in Bo town with the district health
management team; at the community level, I spent five months in a hard-to-reach chiefdom in Bo North.
In this thesis, I unpack the post-Ebola health system recovery efforts by
exploring how the projectification of the different recovery programmes
produced a social life with wide reaching, often unintended, consequences. The
recovery initiatives’ emphasis on global health security ignored a more holistic
approach to health system strengthening; the focus on global health norms in
terms of strict project timelines led to months of drug stock-outs throughout
the country; and the focus on human resources for health so as to increase a
mixed skilled health workforce led to the temporary weakening of the health
system as thousands of volunteer community nurses were withdrawn from
their health facilities, which in turn led to gross understaffing, especially in rural
health facilities. Finally, the focus on institutional deliveries led to the
criminalisation of the traditional birth attendants, which in turn contributed to
the almost temporal collapse of the rural primary health system. Thus, the
projectification of the recovery priorities, much like any other development
programme, had the politics of neglect at its core as social and relational
aspects were disregarded in favour of narrow, disease specific aspects. This
thesis, then, attends to new health system strengthening rhetoric, which was
stressed to a large extent in the aftermath of the Ebola outbreak. This rhetoric
was nothing more than a reformulation of the old vertical and disease-focused
global health paradigm
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
Chronicity of disruptive project rhythms: The projectification of the ‘post-Ebola' health system rebuilding in Sierra Leone
No full textGlobal health development projects are inherently governed by bounded, temporal and linear time frames: the initiation, implementation and ending of time-limited interventions. This projectification of global health programmes has wide-reaching consequences as global health projects, often unsustainable and produces both new life possibilities and uncertain futures. This article highlights the temporal effects of the global health agenda on the primary health system rebuilding efforts in Sierra Leone. Attention is paid to how the projectification of public health programmes affected the primary healthcare management in a district in the southern region of Sierra Leone. Throughout this article, I develop the theoretical concept of chronicity of disruptive project rhythms where local public healthcare actors encounter project disruptions on a continuum of chronic lack. I base this concept on Manderson and Smith-Morris’s definition of chronicity of illness experience, which is marked by punctuated episodes of acute sickness, where chronic patients are temporally transmuted into acute patients, while at the same time continuing to suffer from their ongoing chronic ailments. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic research, I show how a district health management team (DHMT) contested the bounded time frames of public health funding; how waiting time for funding impacted the operation of the DHMT and, by extension, the district health system as a whole and how DHMT employees and other actors within the health system employed time-tricking strategies to resist this project time.</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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