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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
Teachers‘ and parents‘ perceptions of parent volunteering in the context of charter school in the US public school setting
No full textUniversity of Minnesota. M.A. thesis. June 2011. Major: Educational policy and administration. Advisor: Professor Joan DeJaeghere. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 112 pages, appendices A-C.The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore and understand how teachers and parents perceive parent volunteering in the context of charter school in the US public school setting. The study strived to decipher the value of parent volunteering as parent involvement for the students‘ learning and social skills development in charter school setting and to elucidate the major factors that influence parent volunteering at school and how they affect the teachers‘ job performance. Eleven one-on-one, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with teachers and parents at one of the Twin Cities charter school to understand the role of parent volunteering in the education realm.
Epstein‘s theory of overlapping spheres of influence was used as a theoretical framework to understand and utilize the practices and activities that validate parental involvement at home, school and community. I examined the teachers' and parents‘ views on volunteering as one of the six types of parental involvement in Epstein‘s typology of parent involvement.
Keywords: parentMoroz, Larysa. (2011). Teachers‘ and parents‘ perceptions of parent volunteering in the context of charter school in the US public school setting. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/114166
Свобода/воля як гідність в українській класичній драматургії ХІХ століття
Get PDFThe paper deals with the approaches of Ukrainian playwrights to the defining values that underlie the Ukrainian national mentality: freedom, dignity, truth, honor, and faith.
Russian imperial authorities did not recognize the Ukrainians as a separate nation in the 19th century, and struggled against “separatism”, in particular by forbidding the production of plays in Ukrainian, the book printing, and even the importation of such books from abroad. Nevertheless the Ukrainian authors ignored those prohibitions and instructions/demands to show only peasants and their lives on the stage, and wrote works abundant in love for their native Ukraine and national self-respect, attention to the history of Ukrainians and their struggle for freedom and dignity. These works contributed to preserving the historical memory of the people and offered the specific Ukrainian perception of the world. The artists used every opportunity to play performances, which created positive heroic images of Cossacks-patriots, artistically interpreted complex problems in tragic historical situations.
Developing the traditions initiated by Taras Shevchenko, the authors contemplated the moral and political principles realized in the activities of the characters associated with Ukrainian history. (Some of them, such as Ivan Mazepa, Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi, are real historical figures; Gandzia and Sava Chalyi are semi-legendary persons; Tetiana Bondarivna is a heroine of the folk song.) These principles form the ideological and thematic essence of the two tragedies with the same title “Sava Chalyi” by M. Kostomarov and I. Tobilevych (I. Karpenko-Karyi), “Pereyaslav Night” by M. Kostomarov, “Bayda, Prince Vyshnevetskyi” by P. Kulish, and are also important in such works by I. Tobilevych as “Bondarivna”, “Gandzia”, “Mazepa”.
A detailed analysis of the tragedies “Sava Chalyi” by M. Kostomarov and I. Tobilevych reveals that the romantic work of the former writer shows the character as a victim of circumstances and intrigues. In the realistic work of the latter playwright, it has been proved by artistic means that reaching a compromise in relations with an insidious conqueror is impossible, since such attempts lead an honest, trusting person to treason, and hence to dishonor.У статті простежується утвердження у творах українських драматургів (написаних після відомого Емського царського указу 1876 р.) високих козацько-лицарських ідеалів свободи, гідності, правди, честі. Наголошується на головній особливості художніх образів українського козака-лицаря – спрямованості на захист свого поневоленого народу й України від численних загарбників
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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