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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
Evaluation of the Patients Referred to Plastic Surgery Clinic from Dermatology Clinic in Çorum Province: A Two-Year Retrospective Research
No full textAmaç: Bu çalışmada dermatoloji kliniğine başvurup plastik cerrahi kliniğine konsülte edilen hastaların tanıları, lezyon lokalizasyonları ve bazı demografik özelliklere göre dağılımları incelendi ve bu özellikler arasındaki ilişkiler araştırıldı. Gereç ve Yöntem: Ocak 2015 ve Ocak 2017 tarihleri arasında Hitit Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dermatoloji Kliniğine başvuran ve Plastik Cerrahi Kliniği’ne konsülte edilen 2746 hastanın demografik özellikleri, lezyon lokalizasyonları ve tanılarına ait dermatoloji, plastik cerrahi ve patoloji kayıtları istatistiksel olarak geriye dönük analiz edildi. Bulgular: En sık görülen ilk üç lezyon sırasıyla melanositik nevüs (%29.5), kist (%9) ve tırnak batması (%7.6) idi. Erkeklerde en sık görülen ilk üç lezyon sırasıyla melanositik nevüs (%17.2), kist (%12.5) ve tırnak batması (%9.5) olarak kaydedildi. Tanı çeşitleri ve lokalizasyon ile cinsiyet arasında istatistikî olarak anlamlı ilişki vardı (sırasıyla p<0.001; <0.001). Göz kapağı bölgesi en yüksek yaş ortalamasına (49.34±17.96), kol bölgesi (33.70±17.30) ise en düşük yaş ortalamasına sahipti. Sonuç: Sağlık kurumlarımızın hastalık açısından toplumsal değişime uyumlu olarak etkinliğinin artırılması ve gerekli düzenlemeler ile koşullarının iyileştirilmesi sağlık problemlerinin dağılımını, görülme sıklıklarını ve nedenlerini araştıran yeni epidemiyolojik araştırmalar ile gerçekleşecektirObjective: In this study, the distributions of the patients who admitted to dermatology department and were referred to plastic surgery department according to the diagnosis, lesion localization and some demographic characteristics were investigated and the relations between these properties were assessed. Material and Method: The demographic characteristics, lesion localization and diagnosis of 2746 patients who admitted to Hitit University Faculty of Medicine, Dermatology Department and consulted to Plastic Surgery Deparment between January 2015 and January 2017 were retrospectively reviewed and their dermatology, surgery and pathology records were statistically analyzed. Results: The most common lesions were melanocytic nevi (29.5%), cyst (9%) and ingrown nail (7.6%). In males, melanocytic nevi (17.2%), cyst (12.5%) and ingrown nail (9.5%) were most common diagnoses. There was a statistically significant relationship between diagnosis types, localization and gender (p<0.001; <0.001, respectively). The eyelid region had the highest mean age (49.34±17.96) and the arm region (33.70±17.30) had the lowest mean age. Conclusion: Increasing the effectiveness of our healthcare institutions in terms of societal change and developing the necessary regulations and conditions will be achieved through new epidemiological studies investigating the distribution, frequency and causes of health problems
Investigation of the Relationship Between Anxiety Levels of Patients Before Plastic Surgery Operation and Worship Practices in Muslims
No full textThere is an increasing interest in the effects of preoperative anxiety on the course and outcomes of surgical treatments and also in the studies about the anxiety-decreasing interventions. The present study aims to identify the relationship between the preoperative anxiety level of the individuals prior to aesthetic surgery operations such as nose, ear, eyelid, and mammoplasty and religious rituals such as performing prayers, fasting, and going to pilgrimage. The frequency of performing the religious rituals was identified through a questionnaire. The questionnaire included questions about the religious rituals such as performing prayers, going to a pilgrimage, and fasting as well as questions about sociodemographic features such as gender, age, and education level of the patients. Preoperative anxiety level was measured using the Anxiety Specific to Surgery Questionnaire. The nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test was used for the scale score comparisons of the two independent groups. The scale score comparisons of more than two groups were performed using the Kruskal-Wallis test. The relationships between age and scale scores were analyzed using the Spearman's correlation coefficient. The study involved 117 patients who were planned to undergo an aesthetic surgery operation. The scale scores were significantly different according to the pilgrimage groups (p = 0.004). The scale scores were significantly different according to the level of fasting (p = 0.022). No significant differences were found between the scales scores of the groups who reported the frequency of performing prayer as never, sometimes or five times (p = 0.515). In conclusion, the present study found that Muslim people who performed religious rituals more often experienced less preoperative anxiety levels in plastic surgeries, which indicates that the belief level is an effective factor in preoperative anxiety levels. The findings of the present study indicate that patients' beliefs and worship practices should be taken into consideration by doctors, operating room personnel, and even all health workers in order to decrease the anxiety levels of patients who will undergo surgery
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
The Evolution of Breast Reduction Publications: A Bibliometric Analysis
No full textObjective: This study aims to make a bibliometric analysis of the studies on breast reduction (BR) between the years 1980 and 2016 and identify important studies through trend topics as well as active authors, countries, universities, scientific journals, and citation and co-citation analyses about BR. Background: Although BR looks like one of the cosmetic surgeries performed in order to restore the woman’s appearance, in fact it is a reconstructive surgery that eliminates back pain, stance disorder, headache, shoulder pain, back and cervical disk hernia, difficulty in breathing, hollowness caused by bra straps, hygiene problems under breasts (e.g., rash or fungal infections), and limitations in some daily activities. However, the related literature has little information about the publications on this issue. Methods: Bibliometric analysis was performed by downloading all the documents published between 1980 and 2016 from Thomson Reuters Web of Science (WoS; Thomson Reuters, New York, NY, USA), using the keywords including “breast reduction”, “gigantomastia”, “reduction mammaplasty”, and “reduction mammoplasty”. Results: There was a total of 1427 publications in the WoS database. Of these publications, 869 (60.90%) were research articles. The top three research areas of these publications were surgery with 1178 (82.55%) publications, oncology with 78 (5.47%) publications, and obstetrics gynecology with 67 (4.70%) publications. The top three countries that contributed to the literature most were the USA (515), England (147), and Turkey (83), respectively; the top university that contributed most was Harvard University, and the top two authors who contributed most were Drew PJ and Iwuagwu OC (13; 0.91%). The top-cited publication was “A Simplified Vertical Reduction Mammaplasty: Shortening the Learning Curve” written by Hall-Findlay, EJ in 1999. The journals with top numbers of publications were Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (483; 33.85%), Annals of Plastic Surgery (164; 11.50%) and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (147; 10.30%) respectively. Conclusion: Despite the fact that the BR literature is contributed by developed countries, developing countries, particularly Turkey and Brazil, also had significant contributions to the literature. Level of Evidence V: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these evidence-based medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature and International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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
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