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    Mental health risks in cultural heritage first responders after disasters: A review and suggestions for future research

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    Background: Disasters are severely impactful events with the potential to provide injuries or death, destroy properties, and put in danger the mental health of people exposed to them. People who are particularly involved in disasters are first responders. In this work, we will focus on a specific type of first responder, i.e., cultural heritage clinicians who have the responsibility to preserve, protect, and recover cultural heritage from damage. Aims: This review aims to discuss the mental health risks for first responders after disasters, with a specific focus on cultural heritage first responders. Methods: Studies had to be: 1) in English; 2) on adults; 3) original studies or clinical trials; 4) related to the mental health of participants; 5) published in peer-reviewed journals. Exclusion criteria were: 1) being written in languages different from English; 2) being conducted on adolescents/children; 3) not being related to the mental health of participants; 4) being a book/report/summary; 5) not being a clinical trial; 6) not being peer-reviewed. The search was run throughout PsycInfo, PsycArticles, and Medline on the 1st of April 2022 on articles published between 2012 and 2022 by using these keywords: natural disasters or tsunamis or floods or drought or wildfire or earthquake or tornado or hurricane or snowstorm AND first responders or firefighters or paramedics or police or emergency services or emergency medical services AND mental health or mental illness or mental disorder or psychiatric illness. Results: First responders are at risk of depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances, alcohol/substance abuse, and suicide ideation. Currently, there are no studies on mental health risks for cultural heritage first responders. There are some training programs designed for first responders in emergencies. Recent results seem to confirm their usefulness for first responders, leading us to suggest their application also for cultural heritage first responders. Conclusion: Further studies should explore the psychological impact of cultural heritage first responders, as well as the effect that psychological training can have on them

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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
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