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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Teaching Comptencies Amang In-Service Teachers of Social Studies at the Preparatory Stage in Qatar As Reflected by the Evaluation of Their Teaching Pesformance
No full textإن زيادة الاهتمام بعملية التقويم المستمر لأداء المعلم في أثناء الخدمة، أصبح يشكل الخطوة الأساسية في طريق رسم المعالم الأساسية لمدرسة المستقبل، وإصدار الحكم على كفاءة النظام التعليمي، ولوضع تصورات ورؤى مستقبلية دقيقة لمهمة التجديد النوعي لهذا النظام. وهو ما حاول البحث الحالي القيام به في تقويم الأداء التدريسي لعينة من معلمي المواد الاجتماعية، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة وللتحقق من صحة فرضياتها، قاسم الباحثان بالاطلاع على نتائج عديد من الدراسات والبحوث العربية والأجنبية والاستفادة منها في استخلاص بعض الكفايات والمهارات التدريسية التي احتوت عليها بنود بطاقة تقويم الأداء الصفي لمعلمي المواد الاجتماعية. وقام الباحثان ببناء بطاقة لتقويم الأداء لمعلمي المواد الاجتماعية للمرحلة الإعدادية بدولة قطر، وقد بلغ مجموع الكفايات التي اشتملت عليها البطاقة 33 كفاية وزعت على محاور أربعة هي: التخطيط للدرس، تنفيذ خطة الدرس، الإدارة الصحية، شخصية المعلم.
وقد طبقت الأداة على أفراد العينة البالغ عددها الإجمالي (121) معلما ومعلمة، ومن ثم جدولة نتائج المعالجات الإحصائية للبيانات المفرغة من بطاقات تقويم الأداء الصفي بهدف تفسيرها واختبار الفرضيات المطروحة في البحث. وقد أظهرت النتائج وجود فروق دالة إحصائياً لصالح المعلمين المؤهلين تربوية عند مستوى دلالة 0.01 في جميع محاور البطاقة الأربعة مما يؤدي إلى رفض الفرضية الصفرية التي تشير إلى عدم وجود فروق دالة.
وقد أسفرت النتائج عن وجود فروق دالة إحصائيا بين متوسطات محاور بطاقة التقويم جميعها لصالح المعلمات، وعدم وجود فروق دالة إحصائيا بين متوسطات محاور بطاقة التقويم جميعها تبعاً لمستويات الخبرة في التدريس، وفي ضوء النتائج قدم البحث عددا من التوصيات والمقترحات الإجرائية التي يمكن الأخذ بها والإفادة منها.The increasing concern with the on going evaluation of the in-service teacher's performance undoubtedly helps in outlining the future of the educational system through presenting various views for renewing this system. The current study tries to evaluate the performance of a sample of in-service social studies teachers. In order to achieve the hypotheses of the study and achieve its goals, the researchers reviewed relevent literature and identifed the basic teaching competences and skills.
The researchers designed a checklist for evaluating the performance of the sample in the light of 33 comptences and skills identified earlier distributed among four categories: lesson planning, lesson implementation, classroom management, teacher's personality traits. The sample consisted of 121 male and female teachers. The Statistical analysis known as t-Test was used to compare the means of scores obtained in each of the four categories. Resutis showed that there are statistically significant differences between the means of scores in all the categories in favour of the teachers graduating from the Faculty of Education at 0.01 level. Results also showed that there are statistically significant differences between means of scores in all the categories in favour of female teachers and no significant differences between means of scores in all the categories as for levels of experience. The study suggested some recommendations and topics for further research
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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