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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
Welfare service satisfaction among a language minority
No full textThe aim of this study is to investigate the importance of language in welfare service provision for a language minority’s satisfaction with welfare service. The study makes use of a random survey experiment with a factorial design among a representative sample of the Swedish speaking Finns in Finland.
Previous scholarship has established that welfare service provision is prone to be of lower quality than welfare service in the majority language (Henriksson, 2011). Moreover, recent research has shown that a language minority can value welfare service in its own language for both rational and identity reasons (Himmelroos et al., 2021), meaning language can be the most important feature that may even trump service quality for the language minority population. However, the relative importance of language and other service features, such as availability and output quality, for the minority’s satisfaction with the welfare service has not been examined. By probing the direct and relative weigh of language, availability, and output quality on the minority’s evaluation of the welfare service, we gain information that can be of both theoretical and social interest. As a resourceful language minority (Liebkind et al., 2004), with official national language status and local-level autonomy (Myntti, 2009), the Swedish-speaking Finns can be considered a best case for analyzing the relative importance of language and other welfare service feature for service satisfaction
Conjoint analysis language status periodical
No full textThe aim of this study is to investigate the importance of periodical’s language status, monolingual or bilingual, for a language minority’s reading preferences. The study makes use of a random survey experiment with a conjoint design among a representative sample of the Swedish speaking Finns in Finland.
Previous scholarship on monolingual and bilingual language solutions addresses the management and promotion of language use within specific sociopolitical contexts. Monolingual policies often aim to unify linguistic practices within a nation or region. Bilingual policies, on the other hand, recognize and institutionalize two languages for official or educational purposes, promoting linguistic diversity and supporting the rights of language minorities. These policies can significantly affect language maintenance, revitalization, and the identity of speakers within multilingual societies. The cleavage between a monolingual minority language service or a bilingual minority and majority language service are historical and unresolved among language minority groups. The proponents of monolingual minority language solutions consider it to best preserve the minority’s language and culture and see bilingualism as a threat to the minority language. The proponents of bilingualism consider the coexistence of a majority and minority language as inevitable and hope to make the best of it for the minority language by embracing the coexistence. The tug-of-war between the two camps has mostly manifested in politics and language policies. To date, it is unclear which alternative the minority group prefersThe choice between a minority monolingual or minority/majority bilingual service by the language minority group is, however, not sufficiently understood. Moreover, although media consumption among a language minority has been analyzed with observational studies, randomized controlled survey experiments for testing causal relations on the subject are still scarce.
The objective of the study is to provide a reliable account of the relative importance of the language and other service features, such as the periodical’s focus, distribution and price, for the minority’s preferences of periodicals aimed at their group. In particular, we are interested in gauging the difference between a monolingual Swedish and bilingual Swedish-Finnish periodical. As a resourceful language minority (Liebkind et al., 2004), with official national language status and local-level autonomy (Myntti, 2009), the Swedish-speaking Finns can be considered a best case for analyzing the relative importance of language and other welfare service feature for service satisfaction
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
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