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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
Metacognitive reading strategy instruction: improving second language reading comprehension and reading motivation
Get PDFThe project aims to identify the effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on second language reading comprehension and reading motivation by a meta-analysis and a teaching intervention. There have been contradictory findings in the literature regarding the impacts of metacognitive reading strategy instruction. This raises questions about the general effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction and the conditions where the instruction works best. When it comes to the conditions in which metacognitive reading strategies are taught, there are numerous moderating variables such as teaching length, teaching resources, teaching models, text types and so on. Participants’ age is one of the most differing moderating variables with the widest range of possible options such as children, primary school, secondary school, high school students, undergraduate students, teenagers, adults. Examining the correlation between outcomes and participants’ age can have practical implications for second language teaching.
Therefore, a meta-analysis was conducted to establish up-to-date overall effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on second language reading comprehension and determine treatment patterns. Such a meta-analysis had not been conducted yet. In addition to a meta-analysis, a teaching intervention on effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on second language reading comprehension and motivation of Vietnamese 5th graders was carried out to address the lack of relevant research on Vietnamese young learners.
The results of 20 up-to-date empirical quantitative studies in the meta-analysis were transformed into effect sizes, then all the effect sizes were aggregated. The result of the meta-analysis is an effect size of 1.09, which shows the positive effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on second language reading comprehension of students from secondary school to university students. Moreover, the mean effect sizes of studies with the same options of participants’ age were compared and the result is that participants’ age does not influence effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on reading comprehension.
In the teaching intervention, 40 Vietnamese 5th graders in 2 elementary classes at an English centre in Vietnam were assigned to two groups. One teacher at the centre gave metacognitive reading strategy instruction to the experimental group and non- metacognitive instruction to the control group. Both groups completed the pre-tests, post- tests and inventories before and after the instruction. Focus group interviews with the participants before and after the teaching intervention were also conducted. The result of the quantitative data analysis from the tests and inventories with the use of SPSS and Excel is that metacognitive reading strategy instruction has significantly positive impacts on reading comprehension and metacognitive reading strategy use of the experimental group. The analysis of the interviews started with identifying what reading motivation categories were reported, using a thematic analysis framework. Next, conversation analysis was employed to understand how the reading motivation was reported. The thematic analysis showed a lack of intrinsic reading motivation in both groups and the conversation analysis helped discuss its reason which is the contexts of the interviews, course and exam. The interview results also contribute to the current literature on reading motivation by highlighting the unimportance of distinguishing among categories and sub-categories of reading motivation because of their causal relationships and unclear distinction.
Importantly, small but noticeable positive changes in second language reading motivation of the experimental group, namely reading motivation of competitiveness and challenges resulted in a big positive difference in second language reading comprehension of the Vietnamese primary school students, particularly the Vietnamese 5th graders, which indicates the power of motivation. This also reveals the strong power of metacognition because the changes in motivation result from the autonomy and independence gained from the use of metacognitive strategies to control one’s thinking such as planning, self-monitoring and self-evaluating. Thus, based on the previous theories and practical evidence of metacognition, the current project has successfully established the importance of metacognition and discussed the benefits of introducing metacognition to young learners. Metacognition should be used as a skill to ensure that our goals are achieved
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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