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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
Thinking with Kaipara: A critical analysis of knowledge production in an ecosystem-based management settler colonial context
No full textEcosystem-based management is a management approach developed to address the unwarranted degradation crisis facing ecosystems such as coasts, harbours and estuaries. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) remains primarily situated within Western-Eurocentric ontologies and epistemologies, employing language, understandings, and tools of science to define ecosystem challenges and (technical) solutions. Practitioners and many Governments hold it up as an inclusive, holistic and localised (place) approach to managing ecosystems rather than a single species. However, through a critical lens EBM upholds Eurocentric notions of nature where nature is reduced to a resource to dominate, control and ascribe dollar value. The present research believes EBM is worthy but what is lacking, particularly in settler-colonial nations such as Aotearoa, Australia, Canada and the United States, is that knowledge production should have more than a singular (objective) dimension, but rather a multi-dimensional conception of the metaphysical, spiritual and relations with nonhuman nature. I used a critical Indigenous and ecofeminist analytical framework to explore this gap in knowledge informing EBM.
This research pushes EBM attributes of inclusivity and (w)holism further to include the intangible (nonhuman) matter that matters to the lives of Indigenous peoples and cultures, women and those being 'Other' and different. With EBM at risk of perpetuating the marginalisation of Indigenous peoples and those socially different in gender, ethnicity, class and sex in the equal access to resources and participation in management, this research aims to provide a timely and novel approach to the discourse. I argue and suggest ways that critical analysis of the role of knowledge and power at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and nature across space and time helps to problematise ecosystem challenges and use. To understand strategies and restoration practices to be employed. In doing so, social heterogeneous dynamics are (or should be) an integral part of EBM. To privilege the relational and metaphysical aspects of Indigenous cultures, my methodological strategy required alternative modes and practices so that such aspects could be performed, storied, and written about. Developed in collaboration, the 'Thinking with Kaipara' methodological strategy contributes to this call to explore problems and solutions differently through the agency of place and the nonhuman, supported by the intersections of gender, ethnicity and time. The approach illuminates the richness and multiplicities of difference. Nuanced human-nonhuman (co)stories of nature, spirituality, ecosystem degradation, and ourselves (as individuals, members of families, communities, and ecosystems) were shared and laid bare. Through using this intersectional lens, I examined sediment(ation) pollution. Findings revealed how pollution manifests differently across intimate (body, local) scales thereby demonstrating the far-reaching effects of settler-colonialism violence. A relational vision of sediment(ation) is presented based on the geo-creative narratives of four Māori women, who offered their lived experiences and realities of intimate sediment(ation) pollution geographies using methods familiar to and chosen by them. The richness of these narratives enables nuanced and political stories of sediment(ation) to be recalled in relational and affective terms. Such knowledge is absent from dominant accounts of sediment(ation) pollution in ecosystem-based management discourse and practice.
The implications of this knowledge impoverishment, based on my research, is that marginalisation of social difference remains. Moreover, normative colonising behaviours and norms of nature-culture relations continue. Thinking with a relational ontology embraces multiple dimensions — affect, spirituality, wairua, ethics, justice — freeing EBM from the power and knowledge production structures of settler-colonialism
Youth Living in Auckland: Climate change mitigation efforts and the factors affecting their actions
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Climate change is an undeniable threat to the global population. Different measures for adaptation and mitigation against climate change impacts are taken worldwide and to varying extents. While climate change mitigation is perhaps most high-profile at a governmental (policymaking) level, individual responsibility for change within their sphere of influence needs more consideration given the impact of collective action and cumulative effects. Further, young individuals’ (ages 16 – 24 years old) climate change perspectives and mitigation actions deserve more attention in aspects of intergenerational climate justice and the fact that governance choices made now will have repercussions for future lives and livelihoods. This thesis examines the approaches of youth in Auckland, New Zealand, towards mitigating climate change impacts at a personal/household level. This study engaged young participants (ages 16-24) to diarise their different consumption patterns over two weeks - behaviours like food consumption, energy use, transportation and water use - and calculate their carbon footprints as a heuristic, reflexive exercise. Through focus groups, the research reveals the strategies used by Auckland youth to reduce their GHG emissions and their priority of what actions need to be taken and by whom. Additionally, this thesis sheds light on the motivations and also the barriers youth face in their pursuit of climate action and considers how any barriers can be overcome by structural changes by the government and corporations. This thesis argues that climate change mitigation action holds great importance at an individual level (especially youth) to reduce negative climate change impacts in the future. It also provokes that youth should be supported by government and corporate action to assist them in climate-friendly lifestyles
Community involvement in wetland restoration: How are community values and knowledge integrated into wetland restoration at the Waikato peat lakes, New Zealand.
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Over the past two decades, wetland restoration has been undertaken in New Zealand as a response to the historical loss and maltreatment of these ecosystems, which left many of them in a degraded state. The evidence suggests, however, that in both theory and practice wetland restoration is primarily driven by a desire to improve the ecological functions and values of wetland, directed by scientific knowledge held by experts. And while some research is beginning to emerge on the other values the community associate with wetland environments and how the community can be involved in environmental management more widely, there is still a significant gap between the translation of this theory into practice. In response to this observation, this thesis explores community involvement in wetland restoration highlighting barriers and opportunities towards community involvement in this process and examines how community values and knowledge are (or are not) being integrated into the restoration of wetland environments. This research utilises a mixed-methods case study of the Waikato peat lakes in New Zealand and draws upon data gathered from a web-based questionnaire disseminated to the Waikato community by organisations connected to the peat lakes and community groups and pages on Facebook, and semi-structured interviews with both members of the community and members of organisations involved in the restoration of the peat lakes. The analysis reveals the range of values communities hold towards wetlands, including cultural, historical, and social values. But these values are often not prioritised within restoration as highly as ecological values, which have a strong focus within wetland restoration. The research also highlights the barriers indigenous Māori face to have their mātauranga (Māori knowledge) included alongside scientific knowledge to help inform wetland restoration. The findings of this research further suggest the important role that building relationships and collaborating with the community can have in integrating their values and knowledge into wetland restoration projects and increasing their involvement more generally. In addition, this thesis argues that environmental education can play a major role in increasing community involvement in restoration projects through generating a greater sense of care towards them
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
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