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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
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
Avaliação da qualidade do Transporte Colectivo Urbano na Cidade da Praia e a Satisfação dos Utentes
Get PDFA qualidade nas organizações de serviço tem-se tornado num tópico de muita importância,
sendo reconhecida como uma variável estratégica para aumentar a sua eficácia e eficiência,
ganhar vantagem competitiva e conduzir à satisfação dos seus clientes. Promover uma escala
apropriada, que reflicta convenientemente as percepções e as expectativas dos clientes, deve
ser uma preocupação tanto dos gestores de empresas como das agências governativas. O
presente estudo empírico desenvolve e analisa uma escala de medição da qualidade de serviço,
através da aplicação do modelo SERVQUAL, desenvolvido por Parasuraman et al. (1985,
1988, 1991), e adaptado para o serviço de transporte colectivo urbano de passageiros (TCUP).
O procedimento levado a efeito na presente investigação apresenta 4 fases e 9 etapas, com a
combinação do paradigma de Churchill (1979) e entrevistas focus group. A escala final
SERVQUAL adaptada, com 23 itens, e as dimensões obtidas indicam que a mesma é
altamente fiável (0,891) e válida, demonstrando assim que o procedimento seguido é aplicável
e que os seus itens foram desenhados de acordo com as condições do sector. A pesquisa
exploratória foi conduzida em Cabo Verde, na cidade da Praia, em Setembro de 2008, com
230 utentes regulares do serviço de TCUP. Os dados confirmam a existência de gaps,
encontrando-se a maioria dos inquiridos (67%) insatisfeita com esse serviço. A análise
factorial confirmou a existência de cinco dimensões, que determinam a qualidade de serviço
no TCUP, na Praia, pela seguinte ordem de importância: “aparência física dos
veículos/conforto”, “atenção personalizada/desempenho dos colaboradores”, “empatia”,
“conveniência do serviço”, e, por último, “equipamento tangível”
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Beauty pageants and female socialization in the "golden years"
No full textA presente dissertação pretende descobrir de que maneira os concursos de beleza contribuiram para a promoção de um modelo ideal de comportamento e aparência para as mulheres do período do século XX chamado de “os anos dourados”. Para atingir esse objetivo, tem como objeto de pesquisa o concurso de “Rainha do Milho”, realizado na cidade de Patos de Minas - Minas Gerais. O texto apresenta narrativas de entrevista de quatro senhoras testemunhas contemporâneas dos fatos e pesquisa bibliográfica que os contextualiza no tempo e lugar, além de refletir sobre a influência da família e da escola na infância dos sujeitos, sobre a importância dos cuidados com a beleza e do comportamento socialmente adequado e, finalmente, a representação do casamento e do concurso em questão. No fim, há a percepção de que a memória, carregada de saudosismo, é decorrente da profusão de simbologia que envolvia aqueles eventos. As práticas sociais e de beleza recompunham as identidades, o ideal de femininlidade valorizado fazia parte de um projeto ideológico que visava a manutenção das estruturas de poder e a reprodução da sociedade. Os discursos buscavam tipificar os papeis a serem desempenhados no cenário urbano e a coerção social pela força da rígida moral levava a maioria das mulheres a segui-los. Modelos de beleza e comportamento eram eleitos para que as moças se alinhassem àqueles discursos, que tendiam à manutenção da ordem social, garantida pela divisão da sociedade em classes e a divisão sexual do trabalho.This dissertation aims to uncover how beauty contests have contributed to the promotion of an ideal model of behavior and appearance to the women of the period called "the golden years" of the 20th century. To achieve this goal, the object chosen for research was the contest "Rainha do Milho", held in the city of Patos de Minas-MG. The text presents interview narratives of four ladies contemporary witnesses of the facts and bibliographical research that puts in time and place, as well as reflect on the influence of family and school in the childhood of those women, on the importance of beauty care and socially appropriate behaviour and, finally, about the representation of the marriage and the contests approached. In the end, there is the perception that memory, loaded with nostalgia, is due to the profusion of symbols involving those events. Social and beauty practices recovered the identities, the beauty and feminity ideal valued was part of an ideological project aimed to maintain the power structures and the reproduction of society. The speeches sought to typify the roles to be played in the urban life and the social coercion by force of rigid moral took most women to follow them. Beauty models and behavior were elected for the girls to be aligned to those speeches, and they tended to maintaining social order, guaranteed by the division of society into classes and the sexual division of labor
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