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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
The Effect of Gender Role Attitudes and Gender Identity in Prosecutorial Decision-Making in a Case of Prostitution
No full textElectronic Thesis or DissertationProsecutors yield an extraordinary amount of leverage and discretion within the legal system, yet prosecutorial decision-making is a relatively underdeveloped area of research. Although researchers suggest attorneys utilize both legal and extralegal variables in their case decision-making, few have examined the potential impact of prosecutor individual differences. The extant literature typically samples mock legal actors and finds that participant beliefs, such as gender role attitudes, predict case decision-making and conceptualization. The present study investigates whether prosecutor gender role attitudes and defendant gender identity predict prosecutorial decision-making in a case of prostitution. Mock prosecutors (N = 169) completed a demographic questionnaire, a measure of gender role attitudes, and read a case file describing an individual's arrest on the charge of prostitution. Subsequently, participants indicated how to process the case, including which charge to levy, recommendations for pretrial release and sentencing, and whether and how to proceed with a plea bargain. The defendant's gender identity was manipulated to describe either a cisgender or transgender woman. Results indicate gender role attitudes—and to a lesser degree—defendant gender identity, are associated with certain case processing decisions. Researchers are currently replicating study procedures with a U.S. prosecutor sample
Impact of Offender Sex Across Legal Decision-Making Intercepts in Cases of Domestic Violence: a Meta-Analysis
No full textElectronic Thesis or DissertationDomestic violence (DV) – a public health crisis impacting the wellbeing of millions of individuals in the U.S. – is a developed area of research within the social sciences. Thus far, researchers have examined a variety of legal and extralegal factors involved in the sociolegal response to DV, including offender/victim sex. The outcomes of these studies have produced mixed results, and emerging scholarship often emphasizes the complexity involved within legal decision-making, such that extralegal factors impact some, but not all, decision-making points. Given the mixed results of the impact of offender sex in tandem with efforts highlighting the nuance within legal decision-making, the current research explored if and how offender sex is associated with legal decision-making across and within multiple intercepts (i.e., police, prosecutors, and adjudicators) via a systematic review and meta-analyses (k = 34). Meta-analyses revealed that police are no more likely to arrest males or females on average; however, a subgroup analysis of studies controlling for offender weapon use and victim injury demonstrated police are more likely to arrest males than females. On average, police are more likely to dually, rather than singly, arrest females than males. Regarding the second intercept, prosecutors are more likely to pursue cases with male rather than female offenders but no more likely to apply severe charges. Adjudicators are also more likely to convict and incarcerate males than females on average. Importantly, while these meta-analyses generally indicated that males, on average, are treated more punitively in DV cases, virtually all analyses indicated significant heterogeneity in effects, with most highlighting that females may be treated more punitively across comparable studies. We discuss the results in the context of extant literature and study limitations
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
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