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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
European Part-time Workers’ Health and Well-being in Times of Crisis. The Case of Female Part-timers
Full text link[EN] The economic crisis, which started in late 2007, had a major impact on countries’ labour markets, and
triggered a rise in the number of non-standard contracts. Most European Union (EU) countries
witnessed a significant increase in part-time jobs. This type of employment and its working conditions
may have a negative impact on the health and well-being of workers, especially women. The aims of
this paper are: 1) to determine whether there are differences in levels of part-time workers’ health and
well-being by gender for the EU as a whole as well as for each European country individually, and 2)
to ascertain which determinants impact female part-time workers’ health and well-being. A Synthetic
Health and Well-being Indicator (SHWI) was designed using the measure of P2 distance approach as a
methodological tool. In order to explore the determinants for female part-timers, linear regressions were
used adopting a multilevel analysis based on data from the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey.
The main results show that female part-time workers display lower levels of health and well-being than
their male counterparts in the EU. Factors such as the nature of the work, difficulty making ends meet,
perceived job insecurity, social support and work-life balance play an essential role in levels of female
part-timers´ health and well-being. We may conclude that, in addition to greater institutional support
for the inclusion of women in the labour market, changes in public policies designed to improve
working conditions (better schedules and a greater presence of non-manual skilled jobs) coupled with
changes in family policy, could play a key role in reducing gender differences.S
Análisis de los objetivos del mercado de trabajo y de capital humano y tecnológico de la estrategia de Lisboa por Comunidades Autónomas. Un indicador de cumplimiento
Full text link[ES] Basándonos en los objetivos planteados en la Estrategia de Lisboa, en el Consejo
Europeo de Primavera de marzo de 2005 y en el Programa Nacional de Reformas,
en relación con la productividad y el empleo, el propósito de esta comunicación es
diseñar un instrumento a nivel regional que nos permita evaluar el progreso en el cum-
plimiento de los objetivos de la Estrategia de Lisboa en materia de empleo, capital
humano e I+D en las distintas Comunidades Autónomas. Para ello, se parte de un
conjunto de indicadores estructurales, con el objetivo de estimar un indicador regional
de cumplimiento global por medio de la medida de distancia P2.S
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
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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