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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
Contexts of Child Development: Culture, Policy and Intervention
No full text'Contexts of Child Development' is an inspiring and thought-provoking collection that aims to deepen our understanding of child development in order to positively influence the people, policies and practices that help shape children's lives. Drawing on a range of methodological, theoretical and practical perspectives, and on leading Australian and international research, the volume challenges us to consider issues as diverse as the continuing impact of past colonial policies and practices on Australian Aboriginal child development today; the ways in which a focus on 'learning through the arts' can be beneficial to other areas of development, including literacy; and the potentially disabling consequences of the socio-culturally biased construction of what constitutes a 'good childhood' which currently underpins policy in the UK. A key concern of the collection is to advance insights and understandings of child development in relation to questions of cultural diversity, social disadvantage and state-supported interventions. Hence, many of the contributions focus on the outcomes of child development in Australian Aboriginal communities, including Ernabella and Docker River in the Western Desert, Darnley Island in north-east Queensland, the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, Yakanarra in the Kimberley, and the Yorta Yorta in rural Victoria. While the editors consider that the contributions collectively 'point to complex patterns of intergenerational reproduction of disadvantage for which there is no single intervention p oint', they conclude that the challenge for educators, pol icy makers, governments an d communities alike is to find and follow the ways and means by which it is possible to support the outcomes of child development in order that the deleterious effects of multiple disadvantage might be undone. [ This volume redefines the intersection of history, science, culture, and evidence about child development to address the modern Australian Aboriginal circumstance. Essential reading for those in politics, policy and practice. Professor Fiona Stanley AC, University of Western Australia.] Contributors: Julie Andrews, Gordon Briscoe, Courtney Cazden, Frances Christie, Robin Dalby, Samantha Disbray, Ute Eickelkamp, Jacqueline Goodnow, Pauline Fietz, Michael Gooda, Judith A. Griffin, Colleen Hayward, Allison James, Ilan Katz, Jill Korbin, David Lawrence, John De Maio, Francis Mitrou, Barbara Piscitelli, Glenn Pearson, Gary Robinson, Dorothy Scott, Carrington Shepherd, Sven Silburn, Gillian Wigglesworth, Steve Zubrick.List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Foreword -- Introduction / Robinson, Eickelkamp, Goodnow, Katz. Contexts of Child Development: Culture, Policy and Intervention -- Section 1: Constructs of Aboriginal Wellbeing: Historical, cultural and social realities -- 1. Assimilation and Indifference: The paradoxical treatment of Indigenous children in Central Australia, 1914-1951 / Briscoe -- 2. Bringing up our Yorta Yorta Children / Andrews -- 3. Vulnerabilities, Families and Child Development: Crises affecting the young in a north Australian community / Robinson -- 4. Socialisation and the Shaping of Youth Identity at Docker River / Fietz -- 5. The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: Are there any policy implications? / Zubrick et al -- Section 2: Childhood, Community and State: The challenge of intervention -- 6. Research and Action:Challenges, moves forward and unfinished tasks / Goodnow -- 7. Early Intervention and 'Evidence-based' Policy / Katz -- 8. Day Care or Early Education? Perspectives on the institutional provision for young children in the UK / James -- 9. Early Childhood and Community: Capacity building in early childhood networks / Scott -- 10. Child Neglect and Abuse across Cultures / Korbin -- Section 3: Play, Symbols and Language: Development and learning in and out of school -- 11. Play, Imagination and Early Experience: Sand storytelling and continuity of being among Anangu Pitjantjatjara girls / Eickelkamp -- 12. Images of Childhood: By children, about culture and identity / Piscitelli -- 13. A Longitudinal Study of Language Acquisition in Australian Aboriginal Children in Three Communities / Disbray & Wigglesworth -- 14. Advanced Literacy Development for the Years of Adolescence / Christie -- 15. A Longitudinal Follow-up Study of the Alumnae of a Middle-School Science and Literacy Program: Achieving and sustaining / Cazden -- References -- IndexJira Ticket : CDU-3 : Collection Development Manager made the decision that for the books that have this message "
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