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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
Deciphering decision-making: Exploring the differences of criminal decision-making between offenders and college students
Get PDFPrevious research has used rational choice to look at criminal decision-making, with the majority of the research using college student samples. The current study uses a
sample of college students and offenders to extend upon a previous research comparing
the decision-making of the two samples and examining three different types of crime; drive while intoxicated, commit robbery and get into a fight. Comparing the two samples
on their decision-making to provided support for rational choice in that individual’s do consider costs and benefits. The current study found that the students and offenders
decision-making was comparable for one type of crime, but not for the other two. The findings, implications and future research are discussed
Community Type in Context: Expectations of Guardianship and Victimization Experiences on a College Campus
Get PDFThe principles of guardianship can be traced through the communities and crime literature. While guardianship originates from the opportunities’ perspective and specifically from Routine Activities, it can be viewed as informal social controls at the community level. This study examines the impact of community type on expectations for guardianship. It also investigates the potential impact of these guardianship expectations on victimization on a college campus.
This study uses original survey data. The sampling method consisted of two
stages. In the first stage, courses were randomly selected for inclusion in the sample. In the second stage, the survey was made available to students in the learning management system course page with the consent of the instructor. The students completed a separate consent form. Data was collected in two waves in March/April and June/July of 2020. The final sample was 766 undergraduate students from a midsized southern university. The student response rate was 53% for both waves of data collection. This is a strong response rate for an online survey with data collection occurring during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community type does influence expected guardianship with respondents from extremely rural communities having significantly lower expectations of guardianship than respondents from large urban cities. Expected guardianship does not significantly impact the odds of on-campus victimization. Exposure does not mediate this relationship although respondents with higher expected guardianship have significantly reduced exposure. Finally, neither fear of crime on campus nor just world belief significantly moderated the relationship between expected guardianship and victimization
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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