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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
Glaucoma Care in Low-Resource Environments
No full textThis thesis explores the barriers to glaucoma care in low-resource environments within the context of a non-profit organization (Unite For Sight) and partner clinics working in two countries - Ghana and India. The Health Belief and Socio-Ecological Models form the theoretical background of glaucoma care delivery. A literature review looks at barriers to glaucoma care for programs and patients from structural, economic, psychological, and socio-cultural perspectives. Following the literature review, the quantitative and qualitative methods are explained - a de-identified patient dataset to evaluate glaucoma prevalence at outreaches in Ghana, and field work observations from Ghana and India (in the form of blog entries) that elucidate the barriers to glaucoma care. Prevalence of glaucoma is found to be very high at Unite For Sight partner clinic outreaches near Kumasi, Ghana in July 2013 - 28.17% of patients got the diagnosis. The analysis shows glaucoma has an early onset in Ghanaian clinic patients, is asymptomatic (23.60% of patients with normal vision have glaucoma), increases nonlinearly with age, has no relationship to sex, and differs significantly by outreach location, perhaps due to the age distributions at outreaches. The limitations of the data are explored.The qualitative data shows that barriers to glaucoma care occur at three levels - barriers to understanding prevalence, barriers to diagnosis, and barriers to treatment. Each of these occurs via either a structural/economic or psychological/socio-cultural mechanism, for both the program and the patient. Barriers include lack of research on glaucoma, program structure that does not fully address glaucoma, and complex patient barriers to successful glaucoma care
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