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Medical journals
Full text linkThis chapter explores the content of medical journal articles, and some of their uses for historians of psychiatry. Their many strengths and weaknesses are discussed. While medical journals contain huge amounts of varied information (research articles, correspondence, editorials, advertisements, and more) the processes through which the material has been selected, reviewed, and edited are extremely opaque and not readily accessible to historians. Medical journal articles provide an accessible initial entry-point for the naming of new syndromes, controversies over treatments, or discussions about legislation. Much of the material they contain is attributable and precisely dated. They nevertheless contain many traps and pitfalls for the unsuspecting researcher, as the rejections, the advertising copy, the conflict of peer review, and the vast number of editorial decisions are hidden from view. The tightly regulated structure of most research articles, which erases much uncertainty in favour of strong, distinct findings, is often frankly misleading. Whilst most journals are online, digitised, and keyword searchable, this is not the case for everything, so much caution is advised when generalising
Introduction
No full textThis chapter is a brief survey of the various transformations that have occurred over the past 200 (and mostly, past 100) years in the history of psychiatry and its source bases. The traditional asylum sources, and longstanding (but underused) legal records that relate to psychiatry's history are introduced. The huge proliferation in sources and source types is also sketched out – psychiatry reaches beyond medicine and the medical in ways that few other supposedly medical specialisms can match. Just as ‘psychiatry’ has been transformed, so has the discipline of history. From the Annales school of historians, to social, cultural, literary, and postmodern practitioners, the work of historians has transformed and enlarged the purview of history. Both these developments – in psychiatry and in history – bear directly onto the history of psychiatry, and the possible and available sources that might be used to buttress historical accounts of psychiatric practice. There follows a brief discussion of the chapters in turn, preceded by a reflection from the editors on the limitations of this collection, and the changing conditions of its production
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
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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