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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
The referral system for non-communicable diseases in Saudi Arabia: Identifying strategies for better healthcare coordination
No full textIntroduction The Saudi healthcare system was established in 1926, and consisted of three levels of service: (i) primary; (ii) secondary; and (iii) tertiary healthcare that are currently available through the Ministry of Health (MOH) network. The primary healthcare (PHC) system serves as a gatekeeper to secondary and tertiary healthcare. The referral system, or the process between primary and secondary care, is essential in the management of healthcare systems, as well as chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD). The World Health Organization (WHO) Global NCD Action Plan 2013-2020 was aimed to … strengthen and organise services … access and referral systems around close-to-user and people-centred networks of primary health care are fully integrated with the secondary and tertiary care level of the healthcare delivery system, including quality rehabilitation, comprehensive palliative care and specialised ambulatory and inpatient care facilities. In Saudi Arabia, the demand for secondary care in a hospital has been increasing through high referral rates and emergency department (ED) non-urgent case visits. In the recent National Transformation Program (NTP), Vision 2030, the reform and restructure of PHCs was a priority, that is, to ease access to healthcare, to reduce the inefficient use of healthcare services, and to improve the quality of PHCs. Some of the program’s objectives were to improve patient satisfaction of PHCs and to reduce the number of inappropriate referrals by PHCs. Therefore, three aims of this PhD research are: (i) to assess patient satisfaction, experience of PHCs and care coordination in Saudi Arabia; (ii) to evaluate the attitudes and decision-making of physicians in regard to referral system; and (iii) to identify conceivable interventions/systems of referral by targeting NCD in Saudi Arabia. Method A mixed method approach is used to answer three research questions: (i) How do patients rate the quality of care received in PHCs by measuring their satisfaction and experience?; (ii) How do physicians make decisions on referrals to secondary care?; and (iii) How do physicians evaluate the referral system? To answer the first research question, two phases were implemented, involving 157 patients recruited through the Sharik initiative from 10 regions of 13 regions of Saudi Arabia. Phase 1 applied a cross-sectional study by using a Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ-18) (Arabic) to measure the overall satisfaction of PHCs and to assess its correlation to sociodemographic characteristics of patients. Phase 2 involved a cross-sectional study by using the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Clinician & Group Survey (CG-CAHPS) (Arabic) to measure the overall experience ratings and assess its correlation to sociodemographic characteristics of patients. In the Research Question 2, a cross-sectional study, the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) tool was incorporated to explore and assess the attitudes and decisions made by physicians regarding referrals in PHCs. A sample of 68 physicians were recruited from 15 PHCs. To answer Research Question 3, 19 physicians were recruited from 15 PHCs for inclusion in a semi-structured interview using the Referral System Assessment and Monitoring (RSAM) tool to evaluate the referral system from their perspective and to synthesise their views on seven successful factors for integrated care from a total of 10 factors. Results Research Question 1: Phase 1 (Quantitative) PSQ-18 consisted of 18 items constituting seven domains: (i) general satisfaction; (ii) technical quality; (iii) financial aspects; (iv) interpersonal manner; (v) communication; (vi) time spent with the doctor; and (vii) accessibility and convenience. The relationship between sociodemographic factors (age, gender, income, education and marital status, health status and the type of PHCs) and seven domains of PSQ-18 and total satisfaction (from seven domains ranging from 18-90) were assessed in bivariate tests and multiple linear regressions. In the bivariate analysis, age, gender, education. marital status, and health status were associated with the some of the domains of satisfaction. Age was associated with financial aspects domain with a p value of p=0.040. Gender was associated with two domains interpersonal manner and communication with p value of p=0.024 and p=0.045 respectively. Education was associated two domains technical quality and financial aspects with p values of p=0.012 and p=0.003 respectively. Marital status was only associated with communication domain with a p value of p=0.012. The health status was associated with interpersonal manner with a p value of p=0.018. In the multiple linear regression, none of the sociodemographic factors predicted general satisfaction, time spent with doctor, and accessibility and convenience domains. However, education, marital status and health status predicted technical quality, interpersonal manners, communication and total satisfaction. Marital status was a strong predictor of technical quality, communication and total satisfaction. Research Question 1: Phase 2 (Quantitative) Using CG-CAHPS, the relationship between a patient’s sociodemographic factors (age, gender, income, education, marital status, health status and the type of PHCs), the quality of physician/patient communication, care coordination and overall ratings in PHCs were assessed. Sociodemographic factors were not associated with overall ratings except for the type of PHCs. Communication and care coordination items were associated with overall ratings. In the multiple linear regression, the model revealed that a total of 81% of the overall rating (satisfaction) could be attributed to the predictors included. The communication domain had the highest number of predictors on the overall ratings. The highest predictor of the overall rating was physicians answering their patients’ questions, followed by time spent with the physician, type of PHC, and the ability of the physician to listen carefully, to explain things clearly and to show respect. The weakest predictors were from the care coordination domain followed by the healthcare provider’s and physician’s knowledge of the patient’s medical history. Research Question 2: Phase 3 (Quantitative) A total of 68 physicians participated in this study from 15 PHCs from five health regions in Riyadh city. Approximately 39.7% of patients received two or more referrals in their visits. Over 51% of patients’ reasons for visiting PHCs were to obtain a referral. More than half of the physicians (55.9%) stated they referred patients who needed advice on diagnosis and treatment, followed by direct surgical management/treatment and a need for multidisciplinary care. Abdominal pain was the highest condition being referred to by physicians (5.8%). Around 32.2% of physicians considered the quality of feedback as ‘very important’ when selecting a clinic or hospital. One quarter of physicians (25%) viewed the technical capacity of the consultative centre to be ‘very important’. A small percentage (11.8%) of physicians viewed patient requests to present at a clinic as a ‘very important’ aspect while 44.1% of physicians viewed it as ‘somewhat important’. Research Question 3: Phase 4 (Qualitative) Nineteen physicians from 15 PHCs were interviewed in this study. In synthesising the interviews, seven of the 10 principles of successful integrated care were used because they are feasible in the current Saudi healthcare system for referrals: (i) comprehensive services across the care continuum; (ii) patient focus; (iii) geographic coverage and rostering; (iv) standardised care delivery through inter-professional teams; (v) performance management; (vi) information systems; and (vii) organisational culture and leadership. There were major problems with each aspect of the information system. Physicians reported that the feedback procedure was almost non-existent. Although referral protocols and guidelines existed, these were not available in all PHCs. The system relied on accurate knowledge about the referral network, but directories of hospitals in the network were not available in all PHCs. Some physicians were dissatisfied about their patients’ role in the referral letter that was generated only ‘Upon Patient’s Request’. Data of the referrals were collected and analysed in most PHCs. However, evaluation reports were not shared with PHCs. Conclusion Using the PSQ-18 questionnaire, the results confirmed that sociodemographic factors affect the satisfaction score of PHCs in the bivariate and multiple linear regression. However, sociodemographic factors do not play any role in the overall rating when using the patient experience (CG-CAHPS) questionnaire. Furthermore, physician/patient communication and the type of PHC is fundamental in predicting overall ratings of PHCs in the bivariate and multiple linear regression. With regard to physicians making decisions on referrals, the study showed different ‘medical’ and ‘non-medical’ reasons for referrals in PHCs. In addition, there were system-related reasons for referrals that could be emphasised, since the availability of such services in PHCs plays a major role in referrals. In evaluating the referral system, results suggested that improvement to the referral system is necessary, in particular, appointments to support efficient time management, provision of an up-to-date directory of hospitals, training for physicians from PHCs and an increased awareness of the significance of feedback from hospitals
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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