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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
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
Emotion and trauma: underlying emotions and trauma symptoms in two flooded populations
Get PDFFlood literature presents an inconsistent account of post-disaster distress; debating whether distress is pathological or normal and attempting to understand distress in terms of disaster variables. The literature therefore provides little guidance as to how to formulate difficulties in a clinically meaningful way reflective of individual’s experiences. The SPAARS model is presented as a model by which to reconcile these differences and quantitative support for its concepts were studied within two flooded samples.
Participants who were flooded in Carlisle in 2005 (n=32) and participants flooded in Morpeth in 2008 (n=29) provided two samples at different stages in flood recovery and facilitated a quasi-longitudinal sample for comparison of flood-related distress over time. Participants were asked to complete a survey pertaining to: basic emotions experienced during the flood event, basic emotions experienced after the flood, Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R), Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire (REQ) and the Trauma Symptom Inventory (TSI).
Findings suggest that a third of participants who were flooded experienced clinically significant levels of distress, even after four years. Both samples showed higher levels of impact symptoms on the IES compared to symptoms on the TSI. Anxiety and anger were significant in reported flood experiences both during and after the flooding. Flood-related variables and previous experiences had no effect on increased distress but greater use of internal-dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies was related to increased impact and distress symptoms. Study findings and the SPAARS model are discussed in relation to previous flooding and PTSD literature, as well as clinical implications for the treatment of post-disaster distress and for the future management of flood-affected populations
"I just wasnae me anymore": Individual Experiences of Identity Loss, Identity Negotiation, Acceptance and ‘Adjustment’ in Acquired Hearing Loss
Get PDFObjectives: There appears to be growing evidence that living with acquired hearing loss
(AHL) results in people experiencing increased psychological distress. However, there is
currently a dearth of research examining psychological adjustment to AHL. The available
models assume that psychological adjustment to AHL is a sequential process. Personal
accounts of AHL and evidence regarding other disabilities suggest that psychological
adjustment is a far more complex process. Consequently, the present study aimed to explore
individuals‟ experience of the process of psychological adjustment to AHL. In addition,
individuals‟ understandings of the concept of adjustment were also explored.
Method: Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals who had acquired
a moderate, severe or profound hearing loss in adulthood. These were transcribed and
analysed for recurrent themes using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
Results: Data analysis revealed that 9 super-ordinate themes represented participants‟
experience of adjustment to AHL. Findings indicated that AHL resulted in participants
experiencing identity loss and changes in the dynamics of their relationships. Participants
suggested that acceptance was a difficult but vital process that reduced psychological distress.
Acceptance was hypothesised to be a multi-dimensional continuum along which participants
moved back and forth. Identity negotiation appeared to be an important psychological
process associated with acceptance. Participants believed that there was a “right” way to
“adjust” but none felt their experiences matched this ideal. Consequently, it appeared that
there was a discrepancy in the way participants and the researcher understood the concept of
“adjustment.”
Discussion: The findings suggested that psychological “adjustment” to AHL was a complex
dual-directional process. Participant narratives appeared to be consistent with the recurrent
model of acceptance and adjustment proposed by Newsome and Kendall (1996). It was
suggested that findings regarding participants‟ perceptions of “adjustment” had important
implications for clinical practice and these were described. It was recommended that future
qualitative research should attempt to explore individuals‟ assumptions regarding
“adjustment” in more detail
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
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