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Medicine, management, and modernisation: a "danse macabre"?
Get PDFTo break their destructive antagonism over issues of health service modernisation, doctors and managers should engage more directly with nursing and allied health professionals when responding to reform initiatives
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
Contextualising the coordination of care in NHS trusts: an organisational perspective
Get PDFThis thesis has two principal aims. The first is to understand why change oriented towards improving the coordination of care for long term users of healthcare (and related) services is so difficult to achieve. The second is to identify possibilities for how these difficulties may be overcome. During the three-year period 2002-2004, two NHS Trusts instituted a particular means for coordinating care, integrated care pathways (ICRs), as 'the way that clinical work is done here'. These change efforts were instigated as part of a collaborative NHS modernisation project. Despite similarities between the Trusts and their change programmes, the organisational outcomes from the modernisation project differed. This thesis identifies factors that contributed to these differing outcomes. The research was framed within an organisational perspective drawing upon recent organisational theory and a relevant research approach; interpretative structuralism. This approach used a variety of research techniques (historical analysis, document review, surveys and interviewing) to examine the social contexts underpinning prevailing thinking within the NHS about how clinical work should be organised and managed. The results showed that many factors in the wider context of the NHS and the local clinical 'shop floor' operate to fragment thinking about how care should be organised. In one Trust several factors contributed to its greater success in implementing ICRs. These included (i) coherence and congruence amongst the senior management in conceptualising and pursuing more product oriented approaches to clinical management, (ii) clinically led services and devolution of authority, (ііі) a willingness of all staff (including senior management and clinicians) to be self critical and thoughtful in making suggestions for improving clinical performance, and (iv) an ability by senior management to interweave five key themes in clinical service provision throughout the organisation. These themes were patient experience, service redesign, financial balance, the inter-relationship between these three, and integrated governance of the resulting organisational processes and outcomes. The results also showed that local contextual factors such as the character of the local electorate and the style and expected longevity of the senior leadership can undermine success in achieving agreed goals for coordinating and managing care
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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