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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
Experience of Menopausal Problems in North Karnataka: A Mixed Research
Get PDFThe study was conducted with an object of to study the menopausal problems experienced by middle aged women using a mixed methods approach. QUAN-qual mixed research method design was used with full informed consent from participants. In first phase of the study prevalence was conducted by door-to-door survey from 9512 middle aged women from Dharwad and Bagalkote districts of North Karnataka. In second phase quantitative study was conducted by using Menopause Rating Scale to assess the levels of menopausal problems experienced by 480 working and non-working women including rural and urban areas. In third phase qualitative study was conducted among 12 menopausal women were purposively selected for the study included three women who attended natural menopause and three women who underwent hysterectomy. The findings of the study reported that, the mean age at menopause was 46.21±1.92 years and age at which menopausal symptoms started was 36.43±2.75 years, 2/3rd of respondents experienced joint and muscular discomfort while nearly half (37-50%) of them had hot flushes along with these somatic problems 40-60 per cent of them suffered from irritability and mental exhaustion. Rural working and urban non-working women reported more menopausal problems. The study concludes that there is need for intervention programmes for menopausal women to cope better with menopausal changes
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
An Ethnographic Investigation of Medicinal Foods of Santal and the Role of Santal Women in Preserving Traditional Medical Knowledge System
Get PDFThe Santal traditional knowledge system is deeply rooted in their connection to nature, cultural heritage, and community values. This knowledge exists across all domains of scientific disciplines like environment and ecology, agriculture, medicine, ethnopharmacology, etc. The Santal traditional knowledge system significantly impacts the social and economic aspects of Santal society. The present study was conducted in the village Kathikund in the Dumka district of Jharkhand in May during summer. The researcher has tried to document a few medicinal plants commonly used as medicinal food by the Santal people. Traditional medicinal system offers extensive documentation of the connection between food and medicine. The researcher observed medicinal herbs by participating in the kitchen garden, indicating an in-depth understanding of medicinal herbs from the kitchen garden. Local healers from the village were contacted to assist in identifying commonly used medicinal plant species in Kathikund. The main goal was to identify the commonly cultivated medicinal plant species in kitchen gardens and assess their medicinal properties and applications. The research employed standard ethnobotanical methods, including participant observation, free listing, interviews, and plant identification exercises. Santal women possess excellent knowledge in food processing and preservation to achieve adequate food supply for the family members. Among Santal, drumstick leaves (moringa oleifera) are consumed in their daily dietary form of soup, leaf mixed with pulses(dal), rice porridge, or it is observed dried chutney. During summer, Moringa oleifera leaves are dried and packed in a glass jar to use in their daily diet. It is observed that the Santal women are responsible for preserving the leaves of drumsticks as a source of food security for the household. Santal tribal women are totally dependent on natural resources available in their vicinity, and they try to utilize indigenous methods to obtain food ingredients. The researcher also collected herbarium specimens for fifteen medicinal plants identified and submitted at the Dept of Botany SKM University (Dumka)
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
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