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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
Promotora-Led Programs: How Do Program Planners Conceptualize the Role of Promotoras and Select and Train Promotoras to Deliver and Sustain Obesity-Related Health Programs Among Hispanic Women?
No full textObesity-related diseases disproportionately affect Hispanic women. Successful health programs that prevent or control obesity-related diseases have used promotoras de salud to teach and model lifestyle behaviors aimed at reducing obesity. This study explored planners\u27 conceptualizations of promotoras\u27 roles and how they selected and trained promotoras to deliver and sustain community health programs for Hispanic women. Twenty-four program planners of promotora-led obesity-related programs were interviewed and asked for their promotora training materials. Interviews were transcribed, organized using ATLAS.ti software, and analyzed. A content analysis of seven promotora training curricula from 12 planners was performed to examine materials for content and readability. Participants\u27 past experiences and history working with promotoras influenced their expectations and the ways they conceptualized promotora roles, selection processes, training and educational needs, and sustainability. Whether or not promotoras were community volunteers or paid staff influenced recruitment and selection methods, which also differed across organizational contexts and environments. Participants used various promotora training materials and curricula that included communication and program-specific skill-enhancing activities. Participants had different perspectives on how to sustain health programs and about whom and/or what should be sustained at program completion. An interesting finding was how some program planners challenged the notion of sustainability by reframing it as promoting individual promotora well-being and social mobility rather than maintaining their role in the program over time. Funding was the most frequently mentioned challenge to program and promotora sustainability. Practical implications for program planners include the need for program-specific promotora job descriptions, accompanied by the requisite training. Depending on the program\u27s environment and context, it is important that health program planners create position parameters in order to facilitate training and support sustainability. Authors suggest planners create and periodically assess promotora recruitment and selection protocols to assist with selecting promotoras de salud who best fit program and community-specific needs. The development and dissemination of a sustainability plan with details about who and what to sustain and methods to ensure the plan is being followed throughout the program may benefit organizations, program planners, community partners, researchers, and promotoras
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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Willingness to Receive HPV Vaccine from Community Pharmacists: Exploring the Perspectives of Rural Caregivers of HPV Vaccine Age Eligible Children
No full textA Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.This study explores the perspectives of caregivers of HPV vaccine age-eligible children living in rural Arizona – in terms of having their child vaccinated by a community retail pharmacist.This item is part of the College of Medicine - Phoenix Scholarly Projects 2019 collection. For more information, contact the Phoenix Biomedical Campus Library at [email protected]
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