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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
CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA IN SCHOOL PUPILS IN NIGERIA
No full textABSTRACTObjective: To compare the prevalence of CSOM among two population of school children.Design: A survey-demographic data collection and otoscopy - was carried out amongthe two populations of school children.Setting: A rural government primary school and an urban private primary schoolParticipants: Six hundred and ninety nine school pupils in the rural school and twohundred and seventy pupils in the urban school.Results: Six percent (6%) of the pupils in the rural schools had CSOM as evidencedby persistent perforation of tympanic membrane of more than three months duration.No tympanic membrane perforations were observed in the children in the urban schoolat the time of this study. The difference in the prevalence of CSOM between the twopopulations is statistically significant (P<0.001).The difference in socio-economic status between the two populations is statisticallysignificant in relation to the prevalence of CSOM in the two populations. The poorerrural population had a significantly higher prevalence of CSOM (P<0.001).Conclusion: The two study populations are just 7km. apart geographically but thereis a world of difference in their socio-economic status, availability of social infrastructureand health facilities. This presumably had reflected in the marked difference in theprevalence of CSOM between the two study populations. A collective effort ofgovernment and well meaning indigenes of rural communities in Nigeria can helppromote the socio-economic status and enhance the availability of social infrastructureand health facilities of rural areas. This we hope will lead to a decline in the prevalenceof CSOM in the rural areas
BACTERIOLOGY OF CHRONIC SINUSITIS IN ILORIN, NIGERIA
No full textA prospective study of the bacteriology of 120 patients with chronic sinusitis and 55 control subjects seen between January 1995 and December 1998 in the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Diseases Clinic of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria was made. Whereas all cultures from the control group yielded only Staphylococcus (63.6% Coagulase positive and 36.4% Coagulase negative), cultures of patients with chronic sinusitis yielded Staphylococcus aureus (48.1%), Escherichia coli (20.4%), Klebsiella spp. (20.4%), Streptococci (7.4%) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (3.7%). The isolates were 100% sensitive to Ofloxacin, while penicillin was the least effective antimicrobial agent across board. It was concluded that because of the difficulty in differentiating pathogenic organisms from commensals, the result of nasal swabs should be interpreted with caution. However, non-otolaryngologists involved in the management of the vast majority of patients with chronic sinusitis should request a carefully obtained posterior nasal mucosal swab.
(Af J Clinical & Exp Microbiology: 2003 4(2): 91-97
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
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