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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
Remembering the teacher: An autobiographical reflective journey through the memories of a teacher and his former students
No full textThis study explores how interviewing and gathering feedback from former students can benefit in the professional development of a teacher. Although there is an extensive amount of literature concerning teacher reflection focusing on the perspective of the teacher, this study places importance on both the perspectives of the teacher and his former students. Building on the works of Dewey, Tyler and Aoki concerning educational experiences, Korthagen's approach to teacher reflection, Eakin and Graham's ideas concerning autobiography and Barone and Yoder and Strong-Wilson's views on learning from the stories of others, the author takes existing literature and builds on it, suggesting a unique approach to further his own development as a teacher. Using an autobiographical narrative approach, the author represents the memories of both the teacher and student(s) in a series of vignettes. The sample of students interviewed covers a spectrum of six years of experience that the teacher has been teaching. These vignettes highlight the memories of the teacher concerning his former students and the memories/feedback of the students concerning their former teacher and the time spent in his class. Furthermore, each vignette is written in the third person to create some distance between the author and the data gathered. The analysis consists of looking for common themes that arose while gathering the data among the nine former students interviewed, and aims to describe what the teacher learned during the research process to better himself for future experiences in his teaching. By conducting the research in this way, the teacher can dwell in a rich reflective practice that combines unique perspectives of firsthand accounts belonging to those who his teaching affected directly: himself and his students.Cette étude explore comment des entrevues avec d'anciens élèves de même que la collecte de leurs commentaires peuvent être bénéfiques au dévelopement professionnel d'un enseignant. Malgré le fait qu'il y ait une très grande quantité de litérature qui concerne ce sujet du point de vue de l'enseignant, cette étude met l'emphase autant sur le point de vue de l'enseignant que sur celui des anciens étudiants. S'appuyant sur les travaux de Dewey, Tyler et Aoki portant sur les expériences éducatives, sur l'approche de Korthagen face à la rélexion de l'enseignant, sur les idées de Eakin et Graham concernant l'autobiographie de même que sur les points de vue de Barone, Yoder et Strong-Wilson sur ce qu'on peut apprendre des histoires des autres, l'auteur prend la litéraure existante et propose une approche unique afin d'approfondir sa propre évolution en tant qu'enseignant. Utilisant une approche narrative autobiographique, l'auteur présente les souvenirs de l'enseignant et des élèves dans une série de vignettes. L'échantillon d'élèves interviewés couvre un spectre de six années d'expérience de l'enseignant dans son domaine. Ces vignettes mettent en lumière les souvenirs de l'enseignant face à ses anciens élèves de même que ceux que les étudiants ont par rapport à leur ancien enseignant et à leur temps passé en classe. De plus, chaque vignette est rédigée à la troisième personne de façon à créer une certaine distance entre l'auteur et les informations recueillies. L'analyse consiste à rechercher des thèmes communs qui sont ressortis durant la collecte de données effectuées avec les neuf anciens élèves interviewés et aussi à décrire ce que l'enseignant a appris durant le processus de recherche qui pourra par la suite l'aider à s'améliorer dans de futures expériences d'enseignement. En effectuant la recherche de cette façon, l'enseignant se retrouve dans une pratique réfléchie qui combine les perspectives uniques de ceux qui ont été directement touchés par son enseignement: lui-même et ses élèves
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
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
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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