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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
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
Emergency Within Emergency: The Impact of the Pandemic on Local Governance of Immigrant Health
No full textThe purpose of this research is to analyse the way local
governance has reacted to the COVID-19 Pandemic and
the resulting health emergency, with a particular focus on
migrant health protection in the Apulia region.
The WHO Europe affirms that the right to health is a
basic human right; this affirmation becomes even more
crucial in this period of COVID-19 Pandemic that has
created emergency within emergency, particularly for
those involved in the reception system of asylum seekers.
The Apulian context represents an exception in the
Italian national territory, so it deserves to be explored
more in-depth. Thanks to regional autonomy (determined
by the Italian Constitution) in offering health services, this
Region was able to extend the medical treatments and
services provided for Italians and regular migrants to
those irregular ones as well. Furthermore, the regional
administration is the main coordinator of a FAMI2 project
aimed at implementing the health of migrants which
involves various departments of the University of Bari,
public bodies, and non-profit organisations. Recently, the
activities and budget of this project have been revised
considering the health emergency that has arisen,
directing them towards anti-Covid measures in favour of
migrants, the ultimate beneficiaries of the project. In
addition to local governance, the impact of COVID-19
Pandemic was also felt in the management of reception
centres, which had to revise their ordinary management,
adopting immediate measures, including the translation of
anti-Covid precautionary measures in almost all the
languages of the guests present.
It worth mentioning, however, that regional autonomy
created some disruptions in the governance of health
access in particular for vulnerable groups, such as asylum
seekers and irregular migrants. Furthermore, the COVID-
19 Pandemic, which destabilised the NHS, has
strengthened the existing inequalities in terms of access to
public health care of these disadvantaged groups. Some measures have been adopted to address this inequality, but this research shows that there is still much to be done
Italian asylum reception system and health challenges: The Apulian case
No full textThis research investigates the health and migration nexus regarding service provision and migration governance, particularly asylum seekers’ health access. We decided to analyse the case of the Apulia Region, one of the main Mediterranean routes for asylum seekers heading for Europe and representing an exception in the Italian national territory, extending the medical treatments and services provided for Italians and regular migrants to those irregular ones. The analysis relies on the data collected within a research project that aims to create an integrated system of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of asylum seekers and holders of international protection on the regional territory. It is mixed-method research based on (1) quantitative data from an ad hoc field survey organised in the reception centres and drafted to retrieve information unavailable in other databases and distributed to, and (2) qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews with local policymakers, representatives of reception centres, and NGOs. Our results highlight that in the reception process, the medical service appears decisive, and the absence of constant control of health status can cause the worsening of not visible symptoms, creating further psycho-physical problems. Another essential aspect is the importance of the communication: the diffusion of the information and the role of competent intercultural mediators in the outpatient visits in the first-level reception centres, especially during the certification and treatment of violence, torture, or other severe forms of physical, psychological, or sexual violence. Some best practises are presented and some suggestions for further implementations of health services for asylum seekers and refugees are proposed
An Analysis of Migration and Health Nexus
No full textResearch to date has shown that with the development of universal human rights within modern states, the distribution of rights and responsibilities between citizens of a nation-state and non-citizens has aimed to be equitable. Yet, this shift has not led to a new era of effective universal human rights. In this sense, migration management is structured around categories that are based on intentions and arrival patterns in the destination, with each category determining who has access to which services and rights. Under this perspective, health moves from being a universal right to a citizenship-related right (Pace, 2011), subject to strict conditions and requirements to be met. Furthermore, immigrants are often depicted as potential welfare scroungers in exclusion discourses, particularly with regard to access to health services (Sollors et al., 2011). Scholars call this “a clash of national interests with global culture” based on universalistic rights (Morris, 2013, p. 76). In light of this theoretical framework and based on in-depth literature and policy analysis, this article addresses how the relationship between health and migration is conceptualised and reproduced at different levels. By examining the role of two key actors in health care provision and access, the general practitioner and the intercultural mediator, the study also analyses the barriers and obstacles to accessing health services according to the legal status and classification of migrant
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
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
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