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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Class Aa
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "CLASS AA golf champions from Bartlesville are (from left) Skip Graham, Bobby Osborne, Danny Holt and Mike Wilkie.
Personality & Health: An Eight-wave Longitudinal Study of the Association between Neuroticism and Exercise Behaviour
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Although research reveals that Neuroticism correlates negatively with self-reported exercise behaviour, longitudinal analyses that focus on within-person change to identify the temporal ordering of variables is lacking. To help separate between-person stability from within-person change, we used eight annual waves of panel data from a nationwide random sample of adults (N = 65,826; 63% female, average age = 43.78) to estimate a random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) that examines the associations between the HEXACO model of personality and exercise behaviour. Results reveal a bi-directional relationship between Neuroticism and Exercise Behaviour and a positive relationship between Exercise Behaviour and Narcissism (but not vice versa). This current study expands upon existing literature by providing a comprehensive examination of the temporal order of the association between personality and health behaviours across a large nationwide random sample of adults in New Zealand
The Minority Report: Examining the Unique Effect of Group-Specific Identity Content In Predicting Collective Action For Marginalised Groups
No full textSocio-structural inequality and discrimination have significant and pervasive negative impacts on societally marginalised groups and the people who identify with them. Despite this, collective action to redress status-based iniquities is a rare occurrence. Past research has uncovered several reliable predictors of collective action that motivate or inhibit social action for change. However, these established predictors are very general. Collective action research rarely incorporates unique identity content, specific to the marginalised group in question. Due to this oversight, nuances in the way marginalised individuals respond to disadvantage are overlooked. Thus, the present thesis used three different data-sets to examine the unique effect of group-specific identity content on collective action for three separate marginalised groups.
Study 1 established support for the status-legitimacy hypothesis (i.e., that disadvantaged groups may legitimise the status quo more so than advantaged groups, often to their own detriment) using a large sample of ethnic majority and ethnic minority participants. Results showed that system justification attenuated the relationship between group-based deprivation and collective action for ethnic minorities, but not for the ethnic majority. Study 2 included only Māori (an ethnic minority) participants from the same data-set, and expanded on this finding using the same model. A measure of the historical and cultural significance of Māori ethnic identity was also included. Results showed that system justification had no impact on collective action for Māori who highly valued their ethnic identity. Study 3 examined the relationships between ambivalent sexism and collective action for women, moderated by self-objectification. This study demonstrated that both hostile and benevolent sexism predict gender-based collective action for women, but only when participants had low levels of self-objectification. Finally, Study 4 used the minority stress model and examined the moderating effect of internalised homophobia on the relationship between discrimination
and collective action in a large sample of LGBTQIA+ participants. Results showed that discrimination only predicted collective action when participants also had low levels of internalised homophobia.
Taken together, the collective findings of these studies highlight, and provide some of the first empirical support for, the importance of group-specific identity content in predicting collective action for marginalised individuals
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