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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
Mood effects on semantic processes: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence
No full textMood (i.e., our current background affective state) often unobtrusively yet pervasively affects how we think and behave. Typically, theoretical frameworks position it as an embodied source of information (i.e., a biomarker), activating thinking patterns that tune our attention, perception, motivation, and exploration tendencies in a context-dependent manner. Growing behavioural and electrophysiological research has been exploring the mood–language interactions, employing numerous semantics-oriented experimental paradigms (e.g., manipulating semantic associations, congruity, relatedness, etc.) along with mood elicitation techniques (e.g., affectively evocative film clips, music, pictures, etc.). Available behavioural and electrophysiological evidence has suggested that positive and negative moods differently regulate the dynamics of language comprehension, mostly due to the activation of mood-dependent cognitive strategies. Namely, a positive mood has been argued to activate global and heuristics-based processing and a negative mood – local and detail-oriented processing during language comprehension. Future research on mood–language interactions could benefit greatly from (i) a theoretical framework for mood effects on semantic memory, (ii) measuring mood changes multi-dimensionally, (iii) addressing discrepancies in empirical findings, (iv) a replication-oriented approach, and (v) research practices counteracting publication biases
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
How mood influences native and non-native language processing. Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence
Full text linkWydział AnglistykiŻycie nigdy nie jest doświadczeniem neutralnym (Izard 2007). Nastrój (tj. ogólny stan afektywny) dyskretnie, ale znacząco wpływa na nasze procesy poznawcze, w tym na rozumienie języka (zobacz przegląd badań Naranowicz 2022). Wiele badań naukowych wykazało, że pozytywny nastrój można powiązać z myśleniem asymilacyjnym i opartym na heurystyce, a nastrój negatywny z myśleniem akomodacyjnym i zorientowanym na szczegóły (zobacz przegląd badań Forgas 2017). Co uderzające, podczas gdy coraz większą uwagę w badaniach poświęca się mechanizmom poznawczym zaangażowanym w rozumienie języka ojczystego (L1), niewiele wiadomo o tym, czy i jak pozytywny i negatywny nastrój wpływają na rozumienie języka obcego (L2; Kissler i Bromberek-Dyzman 2021). Można jednak przewidzieć, że nastrój pozytywny i negatywny mogą w różny sposób oddziaływać na rozumienie L1 i L2, biorąc pod uwagę, że coraz więcej dowodów wskazuje na to, że osoby dwujęzyczne doświadczają zmniejszonej wrażliwości na treści emocjonalne w L2 (zobacz przegląd badań Jończyk 2016), a także zwiększonej aktywacji ukrytych mechanizmów regulacji emocji w L2 niż L1 (Morawetz et al. 2017).
Aby wypełnić tę lukę badawczą, niniejszy projekt doktorski miał na celu zbadanie, czy i jak pozytywny i negatywny nastrój wpływają na behawioralne i elektrofizjologiczne reakcje w L1 i L2, zwracając szczególną uwagę na mechanizmy poznawcze zaangażowane w rozumienie języka. Aby odpowiedzieć na to pytanie badawcze, przeprowadzono jeden eksperyment behawioralny (Artykuł naukowy 1, Naranowicz et al. 2022a) i dwa eksperymenty elektrofizjologiczne (Artykuł naukowy 2, Naranowicz et al. 2022b; Artykuł naukowy 3, Jankowiak et al. 2022), uzupełnione przez krytyczny przegląd literatury (Artykuł naukowy 4, Naranowicz 2022). We wszystkich trzech eksperymentach polsko-angielskie osoby dwujęzyczne były wprowadzane w pozytywny i negatywny nastrój za pomocą nienarracyjnych filmów animowanych i dokonywały oceny emocjonalności słów lub sensowności zdań w L1 i L2, podczas rejestracji ich reakcji elektrofizjologicznych i/lub behawioralnych.Life is never a neutral experience (Izard 2007). Mood (i.e. a background affective state) unobtrusively yet pervasively influences our cognitive processes, including those engaged in language comprehension (see Naranowicz 2022 for a review). Much research has demonstrated that a positive mood can be associated with heuristics-based and assimilative thinking whereas a negative mood with detail-oriented and accommodative thinking (see Forgas 2017 for a review). Strikingly, while growing research attention has been devoted to cognitive mechanisms engaged in the comprehension of the native language (L1), little is known about if and how positive and negative moods affect the comprehension of the non-native language (L2; Kissler and Bromberek-Dyzman 2021). It can be predicted that positive and negative moods may differently interact with L1 and L2 comprehension, given that accumulating evidence has pointed to bilingual speakers experiencing decreased sensitivity to emotional content in L2 (see Jończyk 2016 for a review) as well as increased activation of implicit emotion regulation mechanisms in L2 than L1 (Morawetz et al. 2017).
To address this research gap, the present PhD project aimed to investigate whether and how positive and negative moods affect behavioural and electrophysiological responses to L1 and L2, paying particular attention to cognitive mechanisms engaged in language comprehension. To addresses this research question, one behavioural (Research article 1, Naranowicz et al. 2022a) and two electrophysiological (Research article 2, Naranowicz et al. 2022b; Research article 3, Jankowiak et al. 2022) experiments were conducted, supplemented by a critical literature review (Research article 4, Naranowicz 2022). In all three experiments, Polish–English bilinguals were induced into a positive and negative mood with non-narrative animated films and made evaluative or meaningfulness judgements on L1 and L2 items while their electrophysiological and/or behavioural responses were being recorded.
All in all, the findings of the present PhD project offer novel insights into research on affect and bilingualism, demonstrating that whether a bilingual person is in a more positive or negative mood determines how well they comprehend their respective languages
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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