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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
Adolescent Identity Development and Leadership Development: A Collective Case Study Approach
Get PDFThis study examined the identity development of adolescents who attend a leadership development summer camp called BLAST. James Marcia's (1966) adolescent identity status paradigms can be a reflection in these experiences. The conceptual framework included these reflections along with theories and research findings about adolescent identity development. In both of these areas, I found lack of research.
Robert Stake's (2006) protocols and guidelines for collective case study research were the methods I relied on for this study. For this study, I proposed two research questions: (1) how do adolescent participants describe their personal leadership development experiences at BLAST and (2) how do participants perceive the BLAST experience impacted their identity development? To answer these questions, I conducted semi-structured interviews of the participants and analyzed camp documents. Relying on In Vivo, values, and process coding along with direct interpretation, I analyzed these data to answer the research questions to understand how the participants of this leadership development camp experience identity development.
From the analysis, some ideas were found. First, adolescents described their leadership development experience as a collaborative experience full of engaging and collaborative activities that improved their leadership abilities, namely communication skills. Secondly, the participants of this study acknowledged how they became more outgoing. Also, upon self-reflection of the overall experience, the participants all indicated some ideas that indicated positive identity development as defined by the theoretical framework.Chapter I: INTRODUCTION 2 -- Background 2 -- Statement of the Problem 5 -- Purpose of the Study 8 -- Research Questions 10 -- Significance of the Study 11 -- Assumptions and Delimitations 13 -- Definition of Terms 17 -- Summary 18 -- Chapter II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 19 -- Theoretical Framework 19 -- Adolescence and Identity Development 26 -- Adolescent Leadership Development 36 -- Summary 50 -- Chapter III: METHODOLOGY 52 -- Research Questions 52 -- Interview with a BLAST Participant Pilot Study 53 -- Research Design and Setting 54 -- Procedures 58 -- Methods of Analysis 69 -- Credibility and Validity 74 -- Summary 75 -- CHAPTER IV: SITE CONTEXT AND DESCRIPTION 76 -- Site Context 76 -- Camp Activities and Traditions 79 -- CHAPTER V: KATE 90 -- Profile of Participant 90 -- Summary of Participant Interviews 91 -- Profile of Group Leader 99 -- Summary of Family Group Leader Interview 100 -- Summary of Documents 104 -- Case Assertions 105 -- Conclusion 115 -- CHAPTER VI: LYNN 117 -- Profile of Participant 117 -- Summary of Participant Interviews 118 -- Summary of Family Group Leader Interview 128 -- Summary of Documents 130 -- Case Assertions 132 -- Conclusion 139 -- CHAPTER VII: NATE 141 -- Profile of Participant 141 -- Summary of Participant Interviews 143 -- Profile of Group Leader 156 -- Summary of Family Group Leader Interview 157 -- Summary of Documents 159 -- Case Assertions 162 -- Conclusion 171 -- CHAPTER VIII: CLARA 173 -- Profile of Participant 173 -- Summary of Participant Interviews 174 -- Profile of Family Group Leader 182 -- Summary of Family Group Leader Interview 183 -- Summary of Documents 186 -- Case Assertions 187 -- Conclusion 195 -- CHAPTER IX: CROSS CASE ASSERTIONS 197 -- Cross-Case Assertions 197 -- Quintain 214 -- CHAPTER X: DISCUSSION 218 -- Study Overview 218 -- Relationship Between the Findings and Research Questions 220 -- Connections Between BLAST and Leadership Development 231 -- Limitations 236 -- Recommendations 237 -- Implications for Future Research 241 -- Conclusion 243 -- REFERENCES 245 -- APPENDIX A: EMAIL INVITATION FOR POTENTIAL STUDY PARTICIPANTS 254 -- APPENDIX B: IRB PROTOCOL EXEMPTION REPORT 258 -- APPENDIX C: INTERVIEW GUIDE 1 260 -- APPENDIX D: INTERVIEW GUIDE 2 264 -- APPENDIX E: INTERVIEW GUIDE 3 267Hartsell, TaralynnFiester, HerbertDowney, StevenBochenko, Michael J.Ed.D.Education In Curriculum and Instructio
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
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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