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The naked researcher.
Get PDF The Siobhan Rankin Lecture is given each year at Congress in memory of a previous Chair of the Association. Individuals invited to give this lecture are experts within their chosen fields. In 2005 Professor Judith Tanner was asked to describe her work in encouraging perioperative practitioners to undertake research in clinical practice. This paper is based on Professor Tanner's presentation. </jats:p
Recruiting students to your theatres.
Get PDF This article is based on a paper presented at the National Association of Theatre Nurses Congress and Exhibition in October 2001. In it, Judith Tanner asks why it is so difficult to recruit students to theatres, identifies some reasons given by students for not going into theatres, as well as their reasons for going into theatres, and gives advice on how perioperative departments can become more student-friendly. </jats:p
First Assistant Activities
No full text In this article, Judith Tanner proposes that it is time to address the premise that first assistant activities constitute an extended role and to explore whether the tasks undertaken are extended skills requiring additional training and separate contracts. This article is particularly timely, as the two NATN documents Role of the Nurse as First Assistant (1993) and Nurse as Surgeon's Assistant (1994) are being reviewed and updated this year. </jats:p
Staff rostering in the operating department.
Get PDF The smooth running of the operating department is often facilitated by the goodwill of the staff who agree to stay behind when cases overrun, or work through lunch and coffee breaks. Many perioperative staff also cover on-calls and stand-bys, causing disruption to their social and family lives. These demands may make working in the operating department harder for some staff. With reference to current shortages of perioperative staff and staff retention, Judith Tanner and Gloria Bailey discuss some suggestions for being flexible with the off duty rota which may give staff more control and more choices over when they work. </jats:p
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
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