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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 influence of the English proficiency of Dutch listeners on the evaluations of moderate Dutch-accented English speakers and Standard-accented British English speakers in an employment context
No full textDue to globalization, there are a lot of linguistically diverse employees present within international businesses. These employees speak with different non-native accent strengths which may lead to discriminatory evaluations. What remains underexplored, however, is how listeners’ proficiency levels influence the evaluations of non-native speakers. Therefore, the present study investigated the influence of the actual English proficiency of Dutch listeners on their evaluations about perceived comprehensibility, status, dynamism, solidarity, and hirability of moderate Dutch-accented English speakers and standard-accented British English speakers.
Dutch listeners (N = 125) with an intermediate and advanced level of English proficiency evaluated a speech fragment about a job applicant in a verbal-guise experiment.
The findings showed that the Dutch listeners evaluated the British English speaker more positively on perceived comprehensibility, status, dynamism, solidarity, and hirability. The level of English proficiency did not seem to affect the evaluations of the speakers
The effects of English proficiency of the listener on evaluations of moderately-accented Dutch and standard British English in an employment setting
No full textEnglish as a Lingua Franca in international business made it more common for employers to interview applicants with non-native English accents and a potentially important consideration that remains underexplored is how listeners’ English proficiency influences evaluations of non-native English speakers. Our study investigated the effects of listeners’ English proficiency on speaker evaluations by employing moderately-accented Dutch and native British English speech fragments concerning an international employment setting, evaluated by Dutch listeners with advanced and intermediate levels of English proficiency on perceived comprehensibility, status, dynamism, solidarity and hirability. The study showed that overall, moderately-accented Dutch was evaluated more negatively than standard British English, and listeners’ English proficiency did not influence the evaluations. The findings indicate that listeners’ English proficiency may have had no effect because the impact of listeners’ English proficiency does not apply to moderate accents or listeners with a language background that is closely related to English
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
Reducing the impact of accentedness in the workplace: the influence of a prejudice control text on the evaluation of job applicants.
No full textThe objective of this study was to investigate the evaluations of standard (American) and non-standard (Dutch) English speakers by non-native speakers. As there might be an unconscious prejudice towards the non-standard English speakers, resulting in possible negative evaluations, a prejudice control condition was implemented. In an experiment, 142 Human Resource students and/or working people listened to an audio fragment of an American-or Dutch-accented applicant speaking in English, applying for a retail management position. Half of the participants had a prejudice control text implemented in their introduction. Participants had to evaluate the accents based on understandability (intelligibility, comprehensibility), attitudinal evaluations (likeability, status, competence), and hireability. The findings demonstrated that the Dutch-accented applicant was more negatively evaluated than the American applicant and that the participants would rather hire the American applicant. However, the results did not indicate an effect of the prejudice control text on the negative evaluations of the non-standard English speaker. A possible explanation is that a written intervention might not have the same effect as when expressed orally
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