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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
Daring to dream: a message of hope and togetherness
Get PDFThe stories of refugees are at the heart of We Dare to Dream, a documentary by Waad Al-Kateab, which follows the fortunes of athletes as they attempt to compete in the Olympic Games for the Refugee Olympic Team. This is the second film by Al-Kateab, after the multi-award winning For Sama, a deeply harrowing documentary that chronicled Al-Kateab's experiences through the horrors of life under siege in Aleppo, Syria, and her hopes after the birth of her daughter Sama. We Dare to Dream begins with Al-Kateab's own story of becoming a refugee and her emotional journey after she left war-torn Aleppo. Now based in London, Al-Kateab uses her camera to tell the stories of other refugees and campaigns to raise awareness of the global refugee crisis
The habits of an improver: thinking about learning for improvement in healthcare.
Get PDFThe Health Foundation is pleased to publish this contribution to current debate about how \ud
best to educate, train and develop the skills of health and care professionals to enable them to \ud
improve the quality of services. The past few years have seen increasing interest in improving \ud
quality as part of the professional role, which is a great step forward in itself. We are aware of\ud
the rise in formal and informal training opportunities that are now available, from modules in \ud
initial professional training, to Masters level degrees and short in-service courses. We want to \ud
ensure that our contribution best complements what is offered by universities, statutory training \ud
bodies and NHS organisations.\ud
While there are many courses that focus on particular approaches, competencies and skills, the \ud
unique contribution that Professor Bill Lucas brings to this arena is to suggest that we instead \ud
think about what attributes individuals need to foster if they are to be able to succeed with \ud
bringing about change and improvement in the quality of care and services. The current paper\ud
builds upon extensive work by Bill and others, in engineering and elsewhere, with the aim of \ud
ensuring that individuals are able to reflect upon, communicate and collaborate to shape further \ud
national and local activity.\ud
Continuous improvement is a key principle of the Foundation and is supported by the \ud
perspective outlined in this thought paper, namely, the importance of defining and consciously \ud
developing the habits that enable and facilitate improvement as a key professional skill. Such an\ud
understanding is crucial in the development and implementation of education and training to \ud
help individuals to become successful improvers in the complex world of health and social care.\ud
The key ideas in this paper will be taken forward with relevant partners to influence the future \ud
direction and approach to training in this important area. While recognising that individual \ud
aptitudes and habits of mind are critical, they need to be actively developed, supported and \ud
reinforced by the way in which improvement interventions are designed, planned, implemented \ud
and evaluated.\ud
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Professor Nick Barber\ud
Director of Research, the Health Foundatio
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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