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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

    Vocabulary learning strategies of English for business students / Nalini Manoharan

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    The research focuses on English vocabulary learning strategies used by the first and second semester of the academic year 2017 business students from one of the well known private colleges in Subang Jaya. The main aims of this study are to identify a) the most and least preferred vocabulary learning strategies used by business students and compare the vocabulary items used by low, average and high proficiency business students; b) contributing factors for business students in choosing particular vocabulary learning strategies. As this is a mixed method study, multiple sources of data were collected via semi-structured interviews with five pupils and a 25-items questionnaire based on Schmitt’s Taxonomy (1997) which was adopted from Natpassorn Rian Kamal (2008) administered to sixty eight business students. The data collected from the questionnaire was analyzed on percentages, frequencies, and means. The interview data were obtained and summarized. The finding of the study revealed that the most preferred vocabulary learning strategies were metacognitive strategies and the least preferred vocabulary learning strategies were social (consolidation) strategies by business students. Business students used vocabulary items to learn new words based on their level of proficiency. The finding based on the interview revealed many contributing factors for business students to use vocabulary learning strategies such as; a) improve other study skills; b) help and guide to remember new words; c) practical and convenient to use; d) build confidence e) make learning English more fun; and f) improve both English language and mother tongue

    Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology

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    To unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe

    Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown

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    Notes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We 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

    sj-docx-6-pie-10.1177_09544089221107295 - Supplemental material for Unsteady thermally radiative Prandtl fluid flow past a magnetized inclined porous stretching device with double-diffusion, viscous dissipation, and Joule heating

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    Supplemental material, sj-docx-6-pie-10.1177_09544089221107295 for Unsteady thermally radiative Prandtl fluid flow past a magnetized inclined porous stretching device with double-diffusion, viscous dissipation, and Joule heating by Amar B. Patil, Nalini S. Patil, Vishwambhar S. Patil, Pooja P. Humane and Govind R Rajput in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering</p

    sj-docx-7-pie-10.1177_09544089221107295 - Supplemental material for Unsteady thermally radiative Prandtl fluid flow past a magnetized inclined porous stretching device with double-diffusion, viscous dissipation, and Joule heating

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    Supplemental material, sj-docx-7-pie-10.1177_09544089221107295 for Unsteady thermally radiative Prandtl fluid flow past a magnetized inclined porous stretching device with double-diffusion, viscous dissipation, and Joule heating by Amar B. Patil, Nalini S. Patil, Vishwambhar S. Patil, Pooja P. Humane and Govind R Rajput in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering</p
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