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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
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Re-imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the worlds we want
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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
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Ordinary rebels, everyone: abolitionist activist scholars and resisting the mega prison
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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
Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services
No full textThe book presents an ethnographic exploration of contemporary neoliberal reforms of community mental health services. The introduction of market-based delivery and performance mechanisms has restructured this setting and produced a shift from predominantly relational to informational forms of practice, within an organisational culture of defensive risk management. The time and space within services to develop trusting supportive practitioner-user relationships has been significantly constrained. The implementation of these organisational reforms was also accompanied by punitive forms of managerial control. Overall, these developments have generated tensions and stress for practitioners and service users alike.
However, neoliberal reform processes are uneven and the sediments of earlier systems of mental health provision remain visible in the form of biomedical, custodial but also social-relational approaches. These diverse organisational features create a range of institutional tendencies (or situational logics).
While situational logics in neoliberal services that tended to reinforce restrictive biomedical and custodial practices were predominant, sometimes countervailing practices that challenged the constraints of these informational, medically reductive and coercive tendencies also emerged. Discontent with currently dominant logics generated resistance in the form of micro-level attempts by practitioners to maintain social-relational and community approaches. This also included the development of nascent alliances between practitioners and service-user survivor activists to contest these restrictions.
This book offers a case study both of the effects of neoliberal reform on mental health services, and of the way this restructured action environment shapes how practitioners, service users and carers understand and respond to lived experiences of mental distress
‘Diagnosis human’: Markets, targets and medicalisation in community mental health services
No full textJeremy Weinstein has argued that three processes: managerialism, marketisation and medicalisation are reshaping contemporary mental health practice. This chapter will seek to expand on their nature, dynamics and interaction within community mental health services in England. The discussion will begin with an overview of the form taken by managerialism and marketisation in mental health services. This is followed by an outline of the mechanisms through which front line practice is medicalised and its impact on social workers, other mental health practitioners and service users. The chapter will then go on to briefly examine risk, and conclude with consideration of the prospects for resistance to the neoliberal restructuring of the mental health field
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