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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
Everything changes : the liminalities of community based palliative care
No full textIntroduction:
The inspiration for this PhD research developed out of previous research about women with cancer enrolled in the hospice programme. However, not all patients diagnosed with a life threatening illness enrol in a hospice programme and this was something I intended to explore further. In particular, I wondered if the narratives of people who were not enrolled in the hospice programme might yield insights about existing barriers to access to services that would be useful for their caregivers.
The aim of the research was to
• gather the narratives of people dying in the community with respiratory disease, renal disease, cardiac disease, neurological disease and cancer;
• gather the narratives of people caring for them, both formal health professionals and informal carers;
• identify barriers to the provision of palliative care for specific populations;
• use a phenomenological approach to describe how people experienced their life world while receiving palliative care in the community.
As the research evolved, the focus changed to explore the experiences of people as they transitioned from person to patient as their disease progressed, using the anthropological concept of liminality as a way of explaining this.
Methodology:
A qualitative approach was considered to be the most appropriate as the research aimed to explore the ways in which people diagnosed with life limiting conditions managed their life world. This included their close and extended family, work, activities, spirituality, health and home.
Discussion:
Participants were initially enrolled through hospital based specialists from five specialties- Cancer, Neuroscience, Renal, Cardiac and Respiratory. Because of difficulties with recruitment, something not uncommon in palliative care research according to the literature, enrolment was expanded to general practitioners who identified suitable participants from their practices in the community.
Including patients from non-malignant life threatening conditions provided an opportunity to identify areas of need in these people and their families. Non-malignant disease makes similar demands on patients, families and general practitioners yet malignant disease is more likely to have the terminal phase identified so that people can access palliative care services. One of the surprising things in this study was the number. of caregivers, usually spouses, who also had life limiting conditions thus increasing the level of burden experienced not only by them, but also their families.
Conclusion:
The need for palliative care services for people with non-malignant conditions is well recognised in the literature. This research identified barriers and needs of individuals and their families with non-malignant conditions in comparison with those with malignant conditions. Understanding the burden families experience and how they rely on health professionals to assist them to cross the liminal space between person to patient will assist in developing collaborative ways of working to provide palliative care for these individuals and their families
Everything changes : the liminalities of community based palliative care
Full text linkIntroduction:
The inspiration for this PhD research developed out of previous research about women with cancer enrolled in the hospice programme. However, not all patients diagnosed with a life threatening illness enrol in a hospice programme and this was something I intended to explore further. In particular, I wondered if the narratives of people who were not enrolled in the hospice programme might yield insights about existing barriers to access to services that would be useful for their caregivers.
The aim of the research was to
• gather the narratives of people dying in the community with respiratory disease, renal disease, cardiac disease, neurological disease and cancer;
• gather the narratives of people caring for them, both formal health professionals and informal carers;
• identify barriers to the provision of palliative care for specific populations;
• use a phenomenological approach to describe how people experienced their life world while receiving palliative care in the community.
As the research evolved, the focus changed to explore the experiences of people as they transitioned from person to patient as their disease progressed, using the anthropological concept of liminality as a way of explaining this.
Methodology:
A qualitative approach was considered to be the most appropriate as the research aimed to explore the ways in which people diagnosed with life limiting conditions managed their life world. This included their close and extended family, work, activities, spirituality, health and home.
Discussion:
Participants were initially enrolled through hospital based specialists from five specialties- Cancer, Neuroscience, Renal, Cardiac and Respiratory. Because of difficulties with recruitment, something not uncommon in palliative care research according to the literature, enrolment was expanded to general practitioners who identified suitable participants from their practices in the community.
Including patients from non-malignant life threatening conditions provided an opportunity to identify areas of need in these people and their families. Non-malignant disease makes similar demands on patients, families and general practitioners yet malignant disease is more likely to have the terminal phase identified so that people can access palliative care services. One of the surprising things in this study was the number. of caregivers, usually spouses, who also had life limiting conditions thus increasing the level of burden experienced not only by them, but also their families.
Conclusion:
The need for palliative care services for people with non-malignant conditions is well recognised in the literature. This research identified barriers and needs of individuals and their families with non-malignant conditions in comparison with those with malignant conditions. Understanding the burden families experience and how they rely on health professionals to assist them to cross the liminal space between person to patient will assist in developing collaborative ways of working to provide palliative care for these individuals and their families
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
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