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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
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
Health inequalities and stroke rapid literature review raw data
No full textHealth inequalities are unfair differences in health between different groups in society. We conducted a commissioned rapid review of the research literature of health inequalities and stroke as a first step to finding out what research exists on health inequalities across the stroke pathway, and we collated these studies.
We systematically searched five electronic databases for peer reviewed journal articles in September 2022, restricted to studies from 2009 onwards. We included any studies that were about stroke survivors, their carers, or stroke clinicians that reported data on any aspect of health inequalities. We screened studies based on the country the research was from and agreed with Stroke Association to prioritise studies from the UK, expanding to Anglosphere countries, Western Europe and Japan (as a G7 country) where UK data were sparse on the topic area. USA studies were excluded due to major differences to UK healthcare. We categorised studies by four non-mutually exclusive focal lenses of health inequalities: 1. socioeconomic status (SES)/deprivation, 2. protected characteristics, 3. vulnerable groups (inclusion health groups such as migrants, asylum seekers, Gypsy, Roma and traveller communities, rough sleepers and unhoused people, sex workers, people in prison) and 4. geography (urban/rural/coastal communities), and by study topic e.g. thrombectomy, access to services, carers and by stages of the UK stroke care pathway.
We conducted parallel Patient Carer and Public Involvement and Engagement (PCPIE) work including visiting six stroke groups across Greater Manchester (November and December 2022) to introduce the topic of health inequalities, discuss stroke survivor and carer priorities and build relationships. A panel of nine stroke survivors and carers met with us at the University/online (January 2023) to consider the findings from our review and contribute to the key messages and recommendations for the next steps for research.
We identified 6179 studies from the database searches, and included 70 following screening by title, abstract, and full text. Forty-eight studies were from the UK. Most of the 70 studies, addressed inequalities from the lens of SES/deprivation or ethnicity. Despite a comprehensive search we did not identify any studies of stroke and under-served communities: migrants, asylum seekers, Gypsy, Roma and traveller communities, LGBTQ+ communities, neurodiverse communities, people with learning disabilities, sex workers, people in prison or other socially excluded groups. We identified five studies about urban/rural differences in geography but none relevant to coastal communities. We identified three studies about inequalities outside of the pre-specified lenses.
Most studies (58) took a quantitative approach and almost one third (19/70) were epidemiological, about stroke incidence, prevalence or risk. We did not identify studies about inequalities in emotional or psychological support after stroke or return to work, which were priority areas for the stroke survivors we consulted with, and only found two studies reporting their own Patient Carer and Public Involvement and Engagement (PCPIE).
Now that these 70 studies have been found and catalogued, critical appraisal of the quality of these studies is essential to know whether their findings can be implemented into practice or used to inform future research. Gaps in the data on inequalities and stroke could be reduced by partnership working with populations who are often not included in research. We strongly recommend all future studies are equipped to enable effective Patient, Carer and Public Involvement, which is rarely included in the research to date. Time, trust and collaboration are needed for researchers and healthcare providers to build meaningful relationships with community organisations that can facilitate engagement with under-served groups and tackle health inequalities. Community organisations will need resources, including long-term funding, and need to believe there is a genuine wish to change the model of co-working from a short-term, professional-led, approach to one that builds trust, ensures respect for values and leads to positive change for their communities
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
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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