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    Disabled students and the quality of relationships within the class

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    An investigation of the quality of peer relationships of disabled students within regular classes was conducted. A total of 496 students participated in the study, 40 of which disabled, enrolled in 27 public elementary and middle schools. The students filled in the “Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Scale” (Asher, 1984) and responded to three questions of a sociometric test. Disabled students significantly felt lonelier in class compared to the students with no disability. They were also often rejected or left out during play activities, and probably due to the rejection experienced in class, over the years disabled students increasingly expect rejection from their peers

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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