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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
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
A securitização das doenças infecciosas emergentes: o caso da pandemia da Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 no Brasil
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Política, Florianópolis, 2017.A presente tese teve como objetivo geral analisar as ações governamentais brasileiras de gerenciamento da pandemia do vírus da Influenza A(H1N1) em 2009 no país, buscando averiguar os aspectos que contribuíram para o processo de construção social da ameaça e de enquadramento da doença à esfera de segurança nacional. Há muito a gripe pandêmica tem sido uma ameaça à saúde humana. No entanto, na virada do último milênio a doença foi reconhecida como capaz de ameaçar o funcionamento, a estabilidade, a sobrevivência e a segurança dos Estados nacionais, trazendo assim profundas implicações tanto na elaboração e implementação de políticas públicas quanto na efetividade dos mecanismos e atores da governança global em saúde. A partir das contribuições da Escola de Copenhague, esta tese aborda o processo de securitização do vírus da Influenza A(H1N1) 2009 no Brasil, e as políticas públicas emergenciais criadas a esse enquadramento. O presente estudo teve como hipótese que a gripe A (H1N1) 2009 foi considerada uma grande ameaça à segurança nacional do Brasil, fazendo com que a mesma fosse securitizada pelas autoridades governamentais brasileiras. No entanto, no decorrer da pesquisa verificou-se que a hipótese não foi corroborada ao constatarmos que o Brasil já possuía políticas públicas emergenciais para o controle de doenças infecciosas e pelo fato da gripe H1N1 não ter se alastrado no país conforme as previsões feitas pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS). A metodologia utilizada na tese consistiu na pesquisa bibliográfica a partir de fontes primárias como documentos, relatórios e discursos oficiais por parte de organizações internacionais como a ONU e a OMS; de órgãos governamentais brasileiros como o Ministério da Saúde, ANVISA, entre outros, tendo como enfoque os discursos e as políticas emergenciais encaminhadas pelo governo brasileiro na gestão da pandemia da influenza A (H1N1) em 2009 e 2010, e também foram utilizados livros, teses, dissertações e artigos científicos sobre o tema.Abstract : The present thesis had as general objective to analyze the Brazilian government actions of management of the virus influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in 2009 in the country, seeking to ascertain the aspects that contributed to the process of social construction of the threat and of framing the disease to the sphere of national security. Pandemic flu has long been a threat to human health. However, at the turn of the last millennium, the disease was recognized as capable of threatening the functioning, stability, survival, and security of national states, thus having profound implications both in the elaboration and implementation of public policies and in the effectiveness of the mechanisms and actors of global health governance. Based on contributions from the Copenhagen School, this thesis addresses the process of securitization of the virus Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 in Brazil, and the emergency public policies created in this framework. The present study hypothesized that influenza A (H1N1) 2009 was considered a major threat to the national security of Brazil, causing it to be securitized by brazilian governmental authorities. However, in the course of the research, it was verified that the hypothesis was not corroborated when we found that Brazil already had emergency public policies for the control of infectious diseases and because the H1N1 flu had not spread in the country according to the forecasts made by the Organization World Health Organization (WHO). The methodology used in the thesis consisted of bibliographical research from primary sources such as documents, reports and official speeches by international organizations such as the UN and WHO; of brazilian governmental agencies such as the Ministry of Health, ANVISA, among others, focusing on the speeches and the emergency policies sent by the brazilian government in the management of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in 2009 and 2010, and also used books, theses, dissertations and scientific articles on the subject
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Ação externa dos governos subnacionais: um estudo da inserção internacional de Curitiba e do estado do Paraná
No full textRESUMO O presente texto tem como objetivo contribuir para o estudo do crescente e surpreendente papel dos governos subnacionais nas relações internacionais. Para tanto, inicialmente o texto tece uma abordagem conceitual para a análise do contexto internacional no qual se inserem os governos subnacionais, destacando alguns dos principais conceitos utilizados pela literatura especializada. Na segunda seção, são abordadas a emergência e a evolução da paradiplomacia nas relações internacionais e o surgimento do fenômeno no Brasil. A terceira parte destina-se a apresentar algumas características e resultados que marcaram o processo de internacionalização de Curitiba e Paraná. Palavras-chave: paradiplomacia, governos subnacionais, entes não centrais. ABSTRACT This paper aims to contribute on the study of growing and surprising role of subnational governments in international relations. For this purpose, initially the text weaves a conceptual approach to analyze the international context in which subnational governments fall, highlighting some of the key concepts used by the literature. In the second section, we discuss the emergence and evolution of paradiplomacy in international relations and the emergence of the phenomenon in Brazil. The third part is intended to present some characteristics and results that marked the process of internationalization of Curitiba and Paraná. Keywords: paradiplomacy, subnational governments, non-state actors
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