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2022: Standing Together for Choice
Full text linkAt MSI, everything we achieve - every client reached, every future supported - is achieved in partnership. So, in our 2022 Annual Review, Standing together for choice, we're proud to share eight inspiring stories from clients, providers and partners on the frontline of the fight for reproductive choice.These stories show what we can achieve in partnership. Together with governments, civil society, and grassroots organisations, our local teams supported 21.1 million people with their reproductive healthcare – more than ever before. We estimate that these services prevented 14.6 million unintended pregnancies, 7.2 million unsafe abortions and saved the lives of 42,600 women and girls
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Full text linkSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in climate policies and frameworks
Full text linkThe integration of SRHR—a cornerstone of women and girls’ empowerment—and human rights, has been recognised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), among others, as a fundamental pathway to climate resilient development and as an important multi-sectoral approach to climate adaptation and resilience building for individuals and communities. This document compiles several country experiences of integrating SRHR into climate policies and frameworks, thus responding to the urgent need to understand the experiences of countries that have made progress, ensure scaling up and accountability regarding these important commitments to improve the lives of women and girls in the face of climate change
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
A Successful Multi-Component Program for Expanding Vasectomy Services by MSI Reproductive Choices Bolivia [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Full text linkBackground Vasectomy use has historically been very low in Bolivia, constituting just 0.1% of the method mix in 2021. MSI Reproductive Choices Bolivia (MSI Bolivia), one of the major reproductive health organizations in the country, sought to increase the affordability, availability, and quality of vasectomy services in their nationwide clinics and mobile units by training in-house providers to replace contracting external providers with high fees. We describe the MSI Bolivia vasectomy program in 2021 and its results over the following two years. Methods The program included components of the Engender Health Supply-Enabling-Environment-Demand (SEED) Programing Model™ for evidence-based vasectomy programming. First, MSI Bolivia offered free vasectomies through a social media campaign during November 2021. Second, two international No-Scalpel Vasectomy (NSV) experts trained four MSI Bolivia physicians during a week-long teaching program in La Paz, Bolivia. Third, MSI Bolivia formed partnerships and held a dissemination event to publicize the campaign. MSI Bolivia continued conducting training and marketing campaigns in 2022 and 2023. Results During the 2021 six-week promotional campaign, 884 men signed up and over 600 were scheduled for the procedure. During the training week, the trainees performed 127 supervised vasectomies. Over the following weeks, the four trained physicians performed over 300 additional unsupervised vasectomies. Two of the newly trained physicians taught NSV to seven other colleagues in 2022 and 2023. MSI Bolivia reduced the fees for a vasectomy from Bs. 1500 (USD 215) to Bs. 850 (USD 122). The number of vasectomies performed by MSI Bolivia increased from 77 in 2019 to 643, 918, and 1,135 in 2021, 2022, and 2023, respectively. Conclusion By training their own physicians to perform NSV, reducing costs, and advertising through social media, MSI Bolivia was able to increase the availability, quality, and acceptability of vasectomy in Bolivia
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
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