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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
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
Book to the Basics: Systematically Teaching Children to Read
No full textAs rates of reading difficulties in middle-school children increase, so does the need for effective interventions. Direct Instruction is an evidence-based approach that uses Applied Behavioral Analysis principles to teach a variety of different topics. For our study, we used the Direct Instruction-based curriculum called ‘Teach Your Child to Read Well’, derived from the Maloney Method, in order to assess its effectiveness at improving the reading abilities of children who have fallen behind their respective grade level for literacy. This curriculum incorporates the basic rules, themes, and strategies of a particular area; systematically presents concepts and new material; clearly communicates goals and expectations; gradually introduces new skills; promotes mastery; and caters to the child’s specific needs and abilities. Participants included three grade-level students, all of whom were underperforming in comparison to their same- grade peers. We used a non-concurrent multiple baseline design where the children acted as their own control. The intervention occurred once a week, for twenty weeks, each for an hour at a time. The number of correct words read per minute was probed during each session. Results are anticipated to show a substantial increase in the number of proper words read per minute for each participant. These data would provide evidence to support the effectiveness of such an intervention and the potential need for more effective strategies to be embedded within our education system.
Department: Psychology
Faculty Mentors: Miranda Macauley and Dr. Russ Powel
Book to the Basics: Systematically Teaching Children to Read Well
No full textAs the rates of reading difficulties in school children increase, so does the need for effective interventions. Direct Instruction (DI) is an evidence-based approach that uses applied behaviour analysis principles to teach a variety of different educational topics. For our study, we used the Direct Instruction based curriculum called ‘Teach Your Child to Read Well’, derived from the Maloney Method, in order to assess its effectiveness in teaching reading. The current study included three participants, aged 5 through 7, all of which were considered to be underperforming compared to their same-grade peers. The DI program was implemented once a week, in a 1:1 session, for 12 weeks. Participants were also assessed every session on their sound and word fluency (correct responses per minute). Throughout the intervention, each participant\u27s scores showed a continuous increasing trend in fluent accurate responses, and all participants more than tripled their fluency scores for reading words in just 12 weeks when compared to their baseline scores. Results from this study show the successful effects for these three participants, suggesting the Maloney Method as an effective DI program for children falling behind in reading, and adds to the current literature supporting the use of DI programs in teaching academics.
Faculty Mentors: Miranda Macauley & Dr. Russ Powel
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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