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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
Being-responsible in psychotherapeutic supervision: a hermeneutic phenomenological study
No full textPsychotherapeutic supervision exists to support, develop and monitor the practice of counsellors and psychotherapists. This endeavour creates an opportunity for counsellors and psychotherapists to learn and develop their craft and engage in on-going professional development. The establishment of a safe and trusting supervisory relationship enables supervisees to openly reflect on their casework and gain professional and personal insights. Psychotherapeutic supervisors are experienced practitioners, who are motivated to empower their supervisees, share their wisdom and safeguard clients. The question guiding this research was ‘What is the meaning of being a psychotherapeutic supervisor?’ In order to address this question a Heideggerian, hermeneutic phenomenological philosophical and methodological position was taken. Evocative experiences were captured from 22 interviews with 14 experienced psychotherapeutic supervisors who practised in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The analysis of the stories borrowed from participants illuminated the Phenomenon of Responsibility. This phenomenon manifested in unique yet common human experiences in terms of Responsibility as being-true and being-untrue ,Responsibility as leaping-in and leaping-ahead, and Responsibility as existing-resolutely. This study offers the finding that an enduring meaning of being a psychotherapeutic supervisor is being-responsible. The view is offered that existential angst pervades psychotherapeutic supervisory relationships and is inter-twined with experiences of heightened responsibility. The participants’ stories have revealed that the experience of responsibility pervades the world of psychotherapeutic supervision. Being-responsible was an inescapable experience for these psychotherapeutic supervisors. It is contended that responsibility is a hidden yet influential aspect of being a psychotherapeutic supervisor which if unconcealed could be of benefit to the supervisory endeavour. It is argued that the phenomenon of responsibility can be rendered intelligible, in the world of psychotherapeutic supervision, by moving outside of the confines of epistemologies that focus on theories about responsibility or prescribed ethical guidelines and instead, by uncovering and dwelling in the day to day lived experience of being-responsible when being in human to human relationships
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Precarious entitlement to public space and utility cycling in Dublin: a grounded theory study
No full textReports on the safety of cycling and research investigating factors thought to impinge on cycling risk and safety are often complex, insufficient and, at times, contradictory and inconclusive. Amongst this ambiguous understanding of matters of risk and safety in relation to cycling, the provisional aim of this study was to explore how cyclists themselves deal with matters of risk in the context of Dublin. Classical grounded theory methodology was employed over the course of the study. Data collection involved 28 qualitative interviews which took place simultaneously with data analysis, in which grounded theory procedures were adhered to; namely, open coding, selective coding, memoing, theoretical sampling, and theoretical saturation. Emerging from data collection and analysis, it was conceptualised that dealing with conditions of ‘precarious entitlement’ to public space is a main concern of utility cyclists in Dublin. That is, cyclists in Dublin perceive an entitlement to public space that is precarious to exercise as a cyclist in practice. In order to negotiate such conditions, cyclists in Dublin can engage in ‘privatising vulnerability’. Namely, they can make their vulnerability a matter of personal rather than shared responsibility, prioritising their perceived safety over matters of entitlement, responsibility and fairness through particular modes of action. Furthermore, cyclists in Dublin can engage in practices of ‘provoking responsibility’, in which both subtle and conspicuous actions are taken in order to provoke a sense of responsibility in other public space users to respect a cyclist’s entitlement to public space and vulnerability within conditions of precarious entitlement. This theory reveals a new form of structural vulnerability, a ‘state of nature within a state of civilisation’ and a problem of accessibility to public space. Moreover, it conceptualises modes of action in an urban context that involve social withdrawal, submission, and individualisation in public space, as well as active and ongoing negotiation between citizens of life in common and recognition, alongside efforts to appropriate and produce public space
Revealing the unknown in creative supervision: a grounded theory
No full textA supervisor uses psychotherapeutic supervision for professional development, to provide support to supervisees, to monitor quality and as quality control for the profession. It also allows therapists to explore their client work more fully. Although, traditionally, it takes place as a conversation between the supervisor and supervisee, it has been argued that supervisors can use an array of creative techniques to enhance the supervisory process. Yet, there has been limited empirical research in this area. This qualitative study aimed to develop a deeper understanding of the use of creativity in supervision. Using a classic grounded theory method, this study aimed to discover a theory that identified and explained how supervisors account for their use of creativity in supervision. A pattern in the creative supervision approach of 13 experienced psychotherapy supervisors in the United Kingdom and Ireland was identified. The study revealed a main concern that supervisors had regarding their experience of using creativity and how they dealt with this. When supervisors were faced with a lack of clarity concerning the supervision issue in supervision, they experienced a block in their path to understanding what the issue was and how to assist with it. The ‘Revealing the Unknown’ theory explains (a) the purpose of the supervisor’s use of creativity in supervision as assisting in attaining sight of the supervisory issue and (b) the various ways supervisors manage a lack of sight in supervision. When supervisors experienced a block in seeing and understanding the supervisory issue, they used creativity to help the supervisee see more clearly, to cope with their own discomfort in not seeing the issue, to facilitate a sense of connection with their supervisee and foster greater understanding, thus attaining a more favourable supervisory encounter
Against me(n): accounting for oneself as a male victim of intimate partner abuse in a discrediting context
No full textMen who experience intimate partner abuse have been described as ‘marginalised’ (Migliaccio, 2001), ‘unbelievable’ (Corbally, 2011) and ‘unmanly’ (Morgan and Wells, 2016). Men’s experience of intimate partner abuse has increasingly received attention in recent years but, while it is recognised that men can be the victims of intimate partner abuse, men often report that their accounts of abuse are met with disbelief (Hines et al, 2007). This study examined both the verbal and written accounts of male victims of intimate partner abuse to identify how they account for the abuse that they have experienced, in this context. There is a paucity of research examining the accounts of men who have experienced intimate partner abuse and this study should go some way toward filling this gap in the literature. 9 narrative interviews were carried out with male self-identified victims of intimate partner abuse. Further, 64 written accounts from male victims of intimate partner abuse were collected. A theoretical perspective informed by the work of Judith Butler (1993; 1999) was adopted and Riessman’s (2008) dialogic narrative analytic technique was deployed to guide the analysis of these narratives.
As a result of this analysis it was found that (1) there are a variety of lives that may be lived, and told, by men experiencing intimate partner abuse. (2) The participants were performatively produced as male victims of IPA (Butler, 1999), through the deployment of narrative resources that positioned them within dominant discourses of masculinity and positioned their abusive female partners as deviating from acceptable femininity. (3) There was limited language available to the men to talk about abuse, with similar norms of gendered behaviour cited across the sample. (4) The narratives highlighted the variety of IPA experienced by the men, ranging from severe violence to more subtle but all-encompassing control. Finally, (5) the written and spoken narratives were similar in terms of their content, as they both deployed the same narrative resources, despite differing markedly in terms of length.
These cases illustrate the impact of the constitution of IPA against men as ‘unbelievable’ (Corbally, 2011) and ‘unmanly’ (Morgan and Wells, 2016), leading to a situation wherein there are limited narrative resources available to the men through which they may be rendered recognisable as victims of IPA. Identifying these narrative resources may offer ways to talk about intimate partner abuse with men, but the nature of these narrative resources comes with the danger of the perpetuation of gendered norms which deny women’s agency. It is hoped that this study prompts further consideration of men’s ways of accounting for IPA
A hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry into homelessness
No full textResearch into homelessness has been predominantly quantitative in design, solution-focused and may have effectively concealed the phenomenon itself. This study utilised a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, based on Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, to reveal some essential, constitutive characteristics of homelessness. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with six participants accessed through a service provider for homeless persons. Passing Time and Taking Care emerged as essential, constitutive characteristics and were examined to deepen our understanding of the meaning and ground of homelessness itself (Heidegger, 1962). Passing Time revealed boredom as the mood of homelessness and disclosed the daily challenges faced in filling or wasting time when homeless. It is revealed that through profound boredom, homeless persons exist as an empty self, suspended in an empty world. Taking Care disclosed something of the participants’ capacity to take care of themselves and to access care from others. It revealed something of their relationships with self and others and the anxiety such relationships evoke. Homeless persons struggle profoundly to access emotional containment either internally or externally. They exist in a state of deep anxiety and internal turmoil in a rejecting, excluding world. It is recommended that government agencies and homeless services adopt more inclusive, creative, caring attitudes and policies underpinned by an understanding of the homeless persons need for containment in order to become a more integrated and cohesive self. Finally, it is recommended that psychotherapists are actively involved in the design and implementation of programmes to collaboratively work with homeless persons towards re-integration into mainstream society
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
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