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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
The role of cognition in religious development : the contribution of relational and contextual reasoning (RCR)
No full textIn this work, The Role of Cognition in Religious Development is researched and discussed from various perspectives. Cognition here is defined as the activity of the mind, more specifically the act or process of knowing. This includes perceiving, appraising, understanding, reasoning, judging, remembering, imagining, planning, etc. Clearly, one's personal religiosity involves not just cognition, but also emotions, volition, unconscious drives, etc. However, more dimensions of social behaviour correlate with cognitive development than with any other aspect of personality. The development of cognition is an important ingredient also of religious / spiritual / faith development.
Existing theories of religious / faith development by Fowler, Oser & Gmünder and others ascribing an important, albeit not an exclusive role to cognition are theoretically sound per se (and are empirically supported) as long as it is understood that they do not describe in detail individual development in the course of the life span but indicate developmental milestones many persons will reach along their religious journey (as far as it goes).
While advocating in regard to religious development to take duly into account the important roles of religious rituals and experiences, emotions, meditation, the unconscious, social imbeddedness and other dimensions of religiosity, the case for the role of cognition seems robust enough to warrant a separate study.
The origin as well as the planning of this research project and the sequence of its stepwise execution are presented. After the author had familiarised himself with the scientific background from the perspective of religious studies and psychology of religion, a first theme evolved via the interpretation of a world view study with children and adolescents: While some participants fell victim to cognitive dissonance on account of divergences between a religious and a scientific world view, others managed to “co-ordinate” the two views to their satisfaction.
This co-ordinating capacity was diagnosed as an indication of a particular form of reasoning, eventually labelled Relational and Contextual Reasoning, RCR. Its systematic study was planned accordingly, and a series of empirical studies carried out (chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). This research showed that RCR ingredients are elements of (a) Piagetian operations, (b) cognitive complex thought, (c) dialectical thinking, (d) analogical thinking and it involves (e) a specific, trivalent logic as well as (f) advanced epistemic cognition (specifically an awareness of mental tools and their roles and importance for gaining dependable knowledge).
As the outcome of the theoretical and empirical studies of RCR demonstrated (chapters 2, 3, 4), RCR is particularly useful for understanding religious doctrines such as the Divine Creation of the universe, the Chalcedonian Definition of the two natures of Christ, and the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Likewise, RCR furthers religious development on account of lessening the danger of cognitive dissonances, and supporting a second naiveté (Ricoeur), as well as coordinating conceptual polar pairs such as the holy and the profane, divine providence and luck, freedom and dependence (chapters 4, 6)
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Building on the results reported in chapters 2 to 6, the basics of a dynamic model of the Person-God Relationship were elaborated (chapter 7)
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
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
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