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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
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Children’s Rights and Child Prostitution: Critical Reflections on Thailand in the 1990s and Beyond
No full textIn the 1990s saving children from prostitution became one of the most high profile causes for many NGOs and child rights movements, especially if it involved Western men travelling to poorer overseas countries and abusing children. The abuse that was uncovered was seen as self evident and Article 34 of the UNCRC used as a justification and as a moral imperative to end the problem and rescue the children caught in this form of ‘modern slavery’. However ethnographic work with children selling sex to foreign men suggested a more nuanced situation and children’s reactions were not always consistent or easy to predict and many were very clear that they did not want to be rescued. Based on fieldwork carried out in Thailand in the mid-1990s this chapter will analyse the gap between the rhetoric of universal children’s rights and the realities of children who sold sex and their explanations and justifications for what they did
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
Protection Versus Reintegration of Child Soldiers: Assistance Trade-Offs Within the Child Protection Regime
No full textPolicy responses to child soldiering focus on criminalising recruitment and preventing re-recruitment of children who have already fought in war. These dominant remedial measures are rooted in legal approaches that reflect securitised strategies; namely, symbolic prosecution of child recruitment as a war crime to deter future child recruitment. Yet, criminalisation has had minimal impact on conflict-affected children and has failed to prevent child soldiering. Moreover, criminalisation produces tradeoffs with assistance programmes for former child soldiers. Despite recognition that children should participate in decisions affecting their well-being, child reintegration efforts rarely consult children about key decisions, let alone conceptualise ways to encourage their active participation in decision-making. Meanwhile, programs designed to help children after war remain short term and ill-suited to children’s own post-war needs and aspirations. Designing more effective post-war reintegration assistance will likely require recognising child agency and breaking up the monopoly that criminalisation strategies currently possess
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
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