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Indigenous Rarámuris as University Students: Challenges for Information Literacy
Get PDFOur article describes the experience developing programs for Mexican indigenous students to support their admission and retention as university students. We present an analysis of national perspectives, focusing specifically on the efforts made by The Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH), Mexico, with indigenous Rarámuris local project through the Support Program for Indigenous Students (PAEI). In addition to providing benefits related to economics, sport activities, and physical, nutritional and psychological health, PAEI employees concrete actions linked to information literacy, such as academic support, extracurricular advising, tutoring, use of information technology, study techniques, and reading, writing, and learning models. Statistics presented not only document the progress achieved through PAEI, they identify the challenges to be faced
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
Gestión del conocimiento (Presentación de Curso).
No full textPublicación de video de presentación de curso: Gestión del conocimiento, por el Dr. Javier Tarango de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, para la Maestría en Gestión de la Información en Entornos Digitales del departamento de Humanidades del Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Administración. Enero 2023
Definición de estándares en competencias informacionales en comunicación científica y su aplicación en docentes universitarios mexicanos
Get PDFThe present research exposes a set of standards composed of different dimensions and performance indicators to evaluate the competence in scientific communication in Mexican university professors. The study consisted of different complementary and subsequent phases: (i) documentary research on normative and theoretical elements that support the initial identification of performance indicators for scientific communication evaluation; (ii) validation of information by 32 expert researchers in science; (iii) validation of information by 62 experts in information literacy (IL); and (iv) derivation of a set of standards, which were tested by 28 university professors in the area of chemical sciences with scientific potential. The results of the research defined a set of standards made up of eight dimensions and 34 performance indicators, to later test their functionality by diagnosing individual and collective levels of competence in scientific communication, favoring the identification of strengths and weaknesses, thereby enabling the design of improvement proposals through planned processes of change and benefiting the development of skills towards scientific production and communication.La presente investigación expone un conjunto de estándares compuestos de distintas dimensiones e indicadores de rendimiento para evaluar la competencia en la comunicación científica en profesores universitarios mexicanos. El estudio se integró por distintas fases complementarias y subsecuentes: (i) investigación documental sobre elementos normativos y teóricos que sustentan la identificación inicial de indicadores de rendimiento de evaluación comunicación científica; (ii) validación de información por 32 investigadores expertos en ciencias; (iii) validación de información por 62 expertos en alfabetización informacional (ALFIN); y (iv) derivación de un conjunto de estándares, mismos que fueron probados en 28 profesores universitarios del área de las ciencias químicas con potencialidad científica. Los resultados de la investigación definieron un conjunto de estándares integrados por ocho dimensiones y 34 indicadores de rendimiento, para posteriormente probar su funcionalidad diagnosticando niveles individuales y colectivos de competencia en comunicación científica, favoreciendo la identificación de fortalezas y debilidades, con lo cual se posibilita el diseño de propuestas de mejora a través de procesos planeados de cambio y beneficiando el desarrollo de habilidades hacia la producción y comunicación científica
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
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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