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An Overview of Issues, Challenges and Opportunities of Scholarly Publishing in Information Studies in Africa
No full textScholarly publishing has been extensively used by many generations of scholars for self promotion and publicity, networking, the creationand development of new knowledge, announcement of ownership of research output, justification for funding, and proof of the existence of a scholar or department/research unit, among other reasons. Although scholarly publishing is not a new concept, e-scholarly publishing is, and many scholars still struggle to embrace it for promoting the dissemination and visibility of their research output. The digitisation of research publications and electronic publishing has made scholarly communication exceedingly versatile, accessible, effective and efficient. But these positive traits have also been obscured by the challenges. This paper discusses various issues, opportunities and challenges of e-scholarly publications, focusing on open access, institutional repositories and self archiving, conferences, electronic journals, the Web and the relevant ethical issues, particularly from the perspective of African countries and scholars
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
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
Data, information and knowledge for development in Africa: Proceedings of 20th annual conference of the Department of Information Studies held on18-20 September 2019 at the University of Zululand, South Africa.
No full textProceedings of 20th Annual Information Studies Conference held on the
18th-20th September 2019 at the University of Zululand, South Africa.The purpose of the conference is to explore and share current research results and
experiences of data, information and knowledge in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(4IR). The conference is divided into twenty three sessions that focus on the
highlighted themes in the programme including: 157 papers consisting of 34 full
papers (FP), 123 research in progress (RIP) papers, 10 posters, and one panel
session. The conference is expecting 120 participants, largely postgraduate students
and faculty/academics, from countries such as: Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia,
Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Swaziland, Uganda, USA and Zimbabwe. In addition,
20 institutions, largely universities from Africa and particularly South Africa, are taking
part in the 2019 conference.
The conference theme, “Data, information and knowledge for development in
Africa”, is unique because of the importance of digitization in our daily life and the
value of e-things such e-learning, e-scholarship, e-science, e-resources, e-data, elibraries
and e-resources among others, and resonates well with the 4IR paradigm. It
is also unique because of the magnitude of the event that has attracted some of the
prominent information, knowledge and library and information science scholars from
Africa, and the USA. For example, the conference in our midst has attracted four
Keynote speakers and eight Guest Speakers from Africa and USA; consists of nine
plenary sessions and 14 parallel sessions; 81 participants from 20 universities/
Institutions and 11 countries
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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