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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
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
Cohort supervision as an approach at postgradute level : a conceptual framework for an open distance e-learing university
Full text linkThesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2020.ENGLISH SUMMARY : The production of postgraduate students is a national priority, since South Africa is in desperate need of a new generation of researchers to support national growth and development. Many under-prepared students entering higher education have poor writing skills and limited methodological content knowledge, specifically at postgraduate level. In an open distance e learning (ODeL) environment where temporal, geographic, and communication distances exist between students and supervisors, the traditional apprenticeship supervision approach largely fails to enable supervisors to provide sufficient support and guidance to postgraduate students. The study aimed to explore the conceptualisation of a cohort supervision framework as an alternative supervision approach that may improve supervision support.
Following a bricolage design, a thematic analysis identified key components to consider in the conceptualisation of a cohort supervision framework in an ODeL environment. Based on the thematically identified elements, semi-structured interviews explored additional dynamics to consider in the conceptualisation process.
The study is reported in four chapters. The first chapter provides a background to the study. The second chapter focuses on the use of a thematic analysis to propose a four-stage cohort supervision framework for an ODeL university. The third chapter presents information on additional dynamics to consider, based on input from key experts in the field, obtained through semi-structured interviews. The final chapter concludes the study with implications for future research.
Related to an ODeL supervision environment, the main findings indicate that a structured approach is required through the key stages of the research process. Students need support to complete their research proposals, write chapters and collect and analyse data, and complete the final research product using technological tools and online engagement to overcome the temporal and geographical separation between students and supervisors. The cohort, comprising of a number of supervisors and students who engage in an online context, provide collaboration through active communities of practice to support each other continuously. This includes providing critique and feedback on work in progress and encouraging dialogism on methodological compounds. Two aspects specific to the ODeL context make the application of the proposed four-stage cohort supervision framework unique in that it can offer emotional support to overcome feelings of isolation, often associated with distance education, and technology can be used to create the infrastructure for engagement, feedback, collaboration and sharing of resources. Commitment is expected from all members of the cohort to participate in these activities. As the focus of the research was only on creating a conceptual framework for an ODeL environment, more research is required to implement, assess and revise the framework, so that cohort supervision can be used effectively as an alternative supervision approach in distance education.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Die suksesvolle voltooiing van nagraadse kwalifikasies is ‘n nasionale prioriteit, aangesien Suid-Afrika ‘n nuwe generasie van navorsers benodig om nasionale groei en ontwikkeling te ondersteun. Vele onvoorbereide tersiëre studente het swak skryfvaardighede en beperkte metodologiese inhoudskennis, veral op nagraadse vlak. In ‘n elektroniese oop afstandsleeromgewing waar daar temporale, geografiese en kommunikasie afstande tussen studente en studieleiers bestaan, faal die tradisionele-vakleerlingskap-studieleiding-benadering om studieleiers te bemagtig om voldoende ondersteuning en leiding aan nagraadse studente te verskaf. Die navorsing het as doel gehad die verkenning van die konseptualisering van ‘n kohort studieleidingraamwerk as alternatiewe studieleiding-benadering, wat studieleidingondersteuning moontlik kan verbeter.
Met behulp van ‘n bricolage ontwerp het ‘n tematiese analise dit moontlik gemaak om belangrike komponente te indentifiseer, om te oorweeg in die konseptualisering van ‘n kohort studieleidingraamwerk vir ‘n elektroniese oop afstandsleer universiteit. Gebaseer op die tematies-geïdentifiseerde elemente is semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude ontleed om addisionele eienskappe / veranderlikes / invloede te oorweeg in die konseptualiseringsproses.
Die navorsingstudie word weergegee in vier hoofstukke. Die eerste hoofstuk verskaf ‘n agtergrond tot die studie. Die tweede hoofstuk fokus op die gebruik van ‘n tematiese analise om ‘n kohort studieleidingraamwerk wat uit vier stadiums bestaan, vir ‘n elektroniese oop afstandsleer-omgewing voor te stel. Die derde hoofstuk bevat inligting oor addisionele eienskappe / veranderlikes / invloede om in ag te neem, gebaseer op insae van kenners in die veld, verkry deur semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude. Die laaste hoofstuk sluit die studie af met gevolgtrekkings vir toekomstige navorsing.
In die konteks van oop afstandsleerstudieleiding dui die hoofbevindinge aan dat ‘n gestruktureerde benadering gevolg moet word gedurende die verskillende stadiums van die navorsingsproses. Studente behoort ondersteun te word om hulle navorsingsvoorstelle te voltooi, hoofstukke te skryf, data te versamel en te ontleed en die finale navorsingsproduk af te rond met die gebruik van tegnologiese instrumente en aanlynbetrokkenheid, om die temporale en geografiese verwydering tussen studente en studieleiers te oorkom. Die kohort, wat bestaan uit studente en studieleiers, behooort mekaar voortdurend te Stellenbosch University ondersteun deur samewerking en aktiewe praktykgemeenskappe. Dit sluit in om opbouende kritiek en terugvoer te gee gedurende die navorsingsproses, dialogisme oor metodologiese verbindings te bevorder en om emosionele ondersteuning aan te bied om ervarings van afsondering, wat dikwels met afstandsonderrig vereenselwig word, te verminder. Tegnologie kan gebruik word om die infrastruktuur te skep vir betrokkenheid, terugvoer, samewerking en die deel van hulpbronne. Oriënteringsessies, werkswinkels, seminare, terugvoer en sosiale interaksie, hetsy aanlyn, behoort gedagboek te word, en die verbintenis van elke lid van die kohort om deel te neem aan die aktiwiteite moet verkry word. Aangesien die fokus van die navorsing alleenlik was om ‘n konseptuele raamwerk te ontwerp vir ‘n elektroniese oop afstandsleer-omgewing, word verdere navorsing benodig om die raamwerk te implementeer, assesseer en aan te pas, sodat kohort studieleiding effektief toegepas kan word as ‘n alternatiewe studieleiding-benadering in afstandsonderrig.Master
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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