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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
Care of wild hedgehogs : from clinic to rehabilitation
No full textDen europeiska igelkotten (Erinaceus europaeus) är ”nära hotad” i Sverige sedan 2020 eftersom
de har minskat i antal. Urbaniseringen har ändrat igelkottens föredragna miljö vilket gör att skador
direkt relaterade till mänsklig aktivitet har ökat.
För att hjälpa skadade igelkottar behöver veterinärkliniker och rehabilitationscenter samarbeta.
Eftersom igelkottar är ett vilt djur finns det lagar och regler som måste tas i beaktning:
veterinärkliniker som inte har tillstånd för att rehabilitera vilda djur får endast ha dem under 48
timmar och måste därför anpassa sig och kommunicera med viltrehabiliterare för att säkerställa att
igelkottar får den vård och rehabilitering som de behöver. Även den etiska biten av att hantera
vilda djur behöver tas i beaktning. Att vårda ett vilt djur kommer att innebära stress för djuret i
fråga. Därför är det viktigt att djurhälsopersonal och viltrehabiliterare väger den stressen som vård
innebär för djuret mot hur stor chansen är för överlevnad.
Intervjuer genomfördes där en djursjukskötare, en veterinär specialiserad på exotiska djur och
en rehabiliterare som rehabiliterar främst igelkottar tillfrågades om kommunikationen mellan
rehabiliteringsanläggningar och veterinärkliniker, omhändertagandet av igelkotten,
rekommenderad kost samt de vanligaste orsakerna till skada. En litteraturstudie genomfördes för
att jämföra respondenternas svar med aktuell litteratur.
Litteraturen överensstämde mestadels med vad som gjordes praktiskt men några svar skilde sig
åt beroende på hur mycket erfarenhet respondenterna hade. Den av respondenterna med minst
praktisk erfarenhet av att hantera igelkottar använde sig av ”skottkärrepositionen”, vilket de två
mer erfarna respondenterna inte gjorde. De ansåg att ”skottkärrepositionen” var för stressande för
igelkottar och antingen sövde de igelkotten inför undersökning och behandling, eller lät igelkotten
acklimatisera sig i ett särskilt rum avsett för att kunna undersöka igelkotten visuellt. Däremot var
respondenterna överens om att igelkotten är ett vilt djur som lätt blir stressat och som kräver
varsam hantering. Litteraturen var inte samstämmig angående användandet av
”skottkärrepositionen”. Vidare forskning om igelkottars stress vid hantering och vård behövs för
att klargöra hur igelkottar bäst tas om hand såväl på klinik som hos viltrehabiliterare.The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) was declared near threatened in Sweden in 2020
as their numbers have progressively declined. Urbanization has changed the hedgehogs' habitat,
making them more prone to receiving wounds directly related to human activity.
In order to help wounded hedgehogs, veterinary clinics and rehabilitation centers must work
together. As hedgehogs are wild animals, there are certain laws that need taking into
consideration: veterinary clinics that are not registered rehabilitation rescues can only care for a
hedgehog for up to 48 hours and therefore must adapt and communicate with rehabilitation centers
in order to ensure that hedgehogs get the needed care and rehabilitation they need. The ethics of
handling wild animals must also be considered. To care for a wild animal will cause stress for the
animal in question. That is why it’s important for veterinary health care teams and wild life
rehabilitators to always measure the amount of stress caused in the animal that is being cared for
against the chance for successful treatment.
Interviews were conducted where a veterinary nurse, a veterinarian specialized in exotic
animals and a wild life rehabilitator rehabilitating almost exclusively hedgehogs were asked about
communication between rehabilitation facilities and veterinary clinics, clinical care of the
hedgehog, recommended food and the most commonly encountered conditions at their facilities. A
literature study was also conducted to compare the answers received by the professionals working
with hedgehogs with current literature on the similar themes that were taken up in the interviews.
The literature mostly coincided with what is done practically but a few answers differed
depending on the amount of experience with hedgehogs the practitioner had. The least experienced
of the interviewees used a technique called “wheel barrow position”, which the more experienced
interviewees did not. They considered “the wheelbarrow position” to be very stressful for
hedgehogs and instead they either heavily sedated or anesthetized the hedgehog before
examination or they put the hedgehog in a room where it could acclimatize and be examined
visually. What they agreed upon is that the hedgehog is a wild animal prone to stress that needs
careful handling. The literature was not conclusive regarding the use of “the wheelbarrow
position”. More studies should be conducted to ensure the best way to care for hedgehogs
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
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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