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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
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
Exploring strategies and evaluating systems: insights to inform primary health care strengthening in India
Full text linkIntroduction: Through its three objectives, this dissertation aims to derive policy lessons for strengthening primary health care (PHC) in India. Objective one explores reform strategies undertaken by high performing PHC systems in select middle-income countries. Objective two determines effect of structural and clinical quality of care on public sector PHC facility bypassing in Bihar and reconciles system and community perceptions of quality of care. Objective three evaluates equality of quality-weighted utilization incidence and quality-weighted benefit incidence of PHC facility services in Bihar.
Methods: Objective one is a scoping literature review. Objectives two and three utilized secondary data from a facility and household survey in Bihar. In objective two, four multi-level logistic regression models were fitted to determine association between public sector PHC facility bypassing and facility level quality; the third objective used the benefits incidence analysis tool to estimate incidence of un-weighted and quality weighted utilization, out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) and benefits of PHC facility services by socioeconomic status.
Results: Despite variations in PHC reform strategies examined in objective one, few common characteristics existed, e.g., increased public financing for PHC, delivery of PHC services by multi-disciplinary teams, community empanelment and gatekeeping. In Bihar, compared to private, public sector PHC facilities had better average structural and clinical quality; neither was associated with bypassing. Greater drugs availability was associated with reduced bypassing. On average, utilization of public sector PHC facilities was similar across socioeconomic quintiles though wealthiest utilized care the most and paid highest OOPE on average. Median quality weights of PHC facilities were statistically significantly different across socioeconomic quintiles. Quality-weighted concentration indices for public sector PHC facility utilization, OOPE and total and net benefits were more pro-rich than the un-weighted, but not statistically significant.
Conclusion: Despite variations in PHC reform strategies across study countries, some common characteristics emerge, many of which also find mention in India’s current PHC reforms. Enhancing structural and clinical quality of public sector PHC facilities in Bihar is unlikely to reduce bypassing; though availability of drugs is imperative to increase utilization. There is a need to monitor equality of quality of care available to the community
Psychosocial disability activisms in India: knowledges and practices towards justice, from the margins
Full text linkThis thesis employs intersectionality and disability justice to inform a study of how activists with psychosocial disability in India understand and ‘do’ psychosocial disability. It responds to key critiques of existing literature: the absence of an intersectional lens in disability activism; the emphasis on a legalistic rights-based approach in disability; the dominance of the global North in framing the concept of ‘psychosocial disability’; the positioning of persons with psychosocial disability as objects rather than epistemic actors. My research draws on crip and critical disability theorisations as well as my own experiences as a Mad disabled researcher to analyse interviews with activists occupying multiply marginalised socio-political positions, including psychosocial disablement, in India. The analysis of 25 interview texts reveals that at the margins of the mainstream psychosocial disability activism, activists employ ‘psychosocial disability’ as a radical lens to explain, understand, and ultimately challenge oppressive structures such as casteism, fascism and militarisation, the criminal (in)justice system, and cisheteropatriarchy. They grapple with and attempt to resolve the tensions between abolition and reform in ways which bring together radical dreams and everyday practices of care and community-building while simultaneously navigating and negotiating with deeply broken medico-legal regimes. The demands of neoliberalism and fascism within movements present unique challenges for disabled and marginalised activists in India, and they undertake innovative ways to create spaces of liberation within and at the margins of a mainstream movement. The thesis contributes to disability studies and social movement literature by providing an example of what an intersectional liberatory practice can look like, the commitments that inform and animate it, as well as the struggles, challenges, and contradictions which shape it. This thesis invites activists and scholars embedded in movements of all kinds to bring a crip perspective on organising and resistance
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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