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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
Multiple health risk behaviours among vocational education students
No full textThere is limited research examining multiple health risk behaviours among vocational education students. This thesis examined important aspects that influence behaviour change for multiple health risk behaviours (i.e., smoking tobacco, inadequate fruit intake, inadequate vegetable intake, risky alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity) to inform the development of multiple health behaviour interventions for vocational education students. Chapter 1 summarises the literature about the co-occurrence and clustering of health risk factors among vocational education students, intention to change multiple health risk behaviours in vocational education students, availability and use of online and telephone support services targeting health risk behaviours and, barriers and facilitators to uptake of online and telephone support services targeting health risk behaviours. Chapter 2 describes a systematic review of studies that have examined the co-occurrence and/or clustering of health risk factors (i.e., smoking tobacco, inadequate fruit intake, inadequate vegetable intake, risky alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, obesity/overweight, depression, and anxiety) and socio-demographic characteristics associated with co-occurrence and/or clustering of health risk factors among vocational education students. Eight studies were included in the systematic review, with six studies examining the co-occurrence of health risk factors and three studies examining the clustering of health risk factors. Co-occurrence of health risk factors ranged from 29-98%. Clustering of health risk factors was commonly reported for alcohol use and tobacco smoking. There was limited evidence about the socio-demographic characteristics associated with co-occurrence or clustering of health risk factors. Given the limited studies that have examined co-occurrence and/or clustering of health risk factors among vocational education students an examination of how all eight health risk factors co-occur or cluster in vocational education students is needed. In Chapter 3, clustering of multiple health risk factors and socio-demographic characteristics associated with identified clusters was examined among vocational education students (n=1134). Four clusters were identified using latent class analysis. Cluster 1 (13% of sample) had “high anxiety, high inadequate vegetable intake, low tobacco and low alcohol use”. Cluster 2 (16% of sample) had “high tobacco smoking, high alcohol use, high anxiety, high depression and high inadequate vegetable intake”. Cluster 3 (52% of sample) had “high risky alcohol use, high inadequate vegetable intake, low depression, low anxiety, low tobacco smoking and low physical inactivity”. Cluster 4 (19% of sample) was a “lower risk cluster with high inadequate vegetable intake”. All clusters had moderate fruit intake and moderate overweight/obesity. Compared to cluster 4, participants who were 16-25 years-old and those experiencing financial stress were more likely to belong to clusters 1, 2 and 3 and females and people who identified their gender as other were more likely to belong to cluster 1. Compared to cluster 4, students with an education of Year 10 or less and those who identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander were more likely to belong to cluster 2. The study findings suggested multiple health behaviour change interventions for vocational education students may need to be targeted based on risk clusters. Chapter 4 examined vocational education students’ (n=540) intention to change multiple health risk behaviours and whether intention to change, psychological factors and socio-demographic characteristics predicted behaviour change at 6-months follow-up. Of 450 (83.3%) participants who reported multiple health risk behaviours at baseline, 35.8%, 38.9%, 18.7% and 6.7% engaged in two, three, four and five health risk behaviours respectively at that time. One-third (33.1%) of participants intended to change at least two health risk behaviours within 6 months. Participants who reported experiencing symptoms of anxiety and those who intended to change three to four risk behaviours rather than one health risk behaviour, had significantly greater odds of successfully changing at least one behaviour. Chapter 5 examined the uptake of proactively offered online and telephone support services targeting multiple health risk behaviours among vocational education students (n=551). Socio-demographic and psychological characteristics associated with uptake of online and telephone support services targeting health risk behaviours were also explored. Uptake of proactively offered online or telephone services was 6.8% for smoking, 14.5% for fruit and vegetables, 5.5% for alcohol use, and 12.7% for physical activity. Uptake of any online or telephone service for at least two health risk behaviours was 5.8%. Participants who were employed and reported not being anxious had smaller odds of signing up for online or telephone support services for smoking tobacco, whereas participants who reported not being depressed had greater odds for signing up for online and telephone support services for smoking. Participants who intended to change their physical activity in the next 30 days had greater odds of signing up for online or telephone services for physical activity. Participants who were employed had smaller odds of signing up for online or telephone support services for at least two health risk behaviours. Given Chapter 5 reported low uptake, Chapter 6 explored the barriers and facilitators to uptake of online and telephone support services targeting health risk behaviours. Semi-structured individual telephone interviews with 15 vocational education students were conducted using a discussion guide informed by the COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behaviour) model. Facilitators to uptake of online services targeting smoking, nutrition, alcohol, physical activity (SNAP) risk behaviours included: desire to try or learn something new; online support complements telephone support (capability-related); easily accessible and convenient/flexible; additional support to change; cost-free to use and acceptable duration (opportunity-related) and motivation to change SNAP risk behaviours (motivation-related). Facilitators to vocational education students’ uptake of telephone services were online support complements telephone support (capability-related) and prefer to talk to a support provider (opportunity-related). In relation to barriers, a capability-related barrier was difficulty understanding accent or language for telephone services. Opportunity-related barriers for online and telephone services were preference for face-to-face interaction and lack of time, while preference for apps or online programs was also reported as a barrier to the uptake of telephone services. A motivation-related barrier for both online and telephone services was not wanting to change SNAP risk behaviours while being able to change SNAP risk behaviours themselves was a motivation-related barrier for online services. Chapter 7 presents a discussion of the main findings, limitations of the thesis, and implications of findings for support service providers, vocational education settings and researchers
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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