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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
Strategies for cross-cultural health education and their effects: training community health workers in rural indigenous Ecuador
No full textIntroduction and Objective: Community health workers (CHWs) are key actors who provide health services to under-served populations and are often the sole port of entry to westernized healthcare for marginalized communities. CHWs training, and other forms of community health training interventions, sometimes fail in the long-term because local cultural factors are not considered. McGill University Training and Education for Andean Community Health (TEACH) project was envisioned for the training of CHWs in rural indigenous communities in northern Ecuador. Drawing on this case study, the objective of the study is to identify and understand the strategies used by health professionals from a western context to seek to reconcile cultural differences in providing healthcare in a rural indigenous non-western context.Methods: This is a qualitative single-case study of McGill University’s TEACH project between 2012 and 2017. Study participants included CHW-trainees, who were members of five rural northern Ecuadorian indigenous communities, and Canadian health professionals who provided the training. Fifteen participants and six teachers’ semi-structured interviews and workshop reports were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis.Findings: The central theme of the study is that all micro (local teaching), meso (organizational) and macro-level (broadly cultural, institutional and governmental) strategies, enacted by the teachers, showed an increasing emphasis on the macrostructural strategies as the project evolved. This chapter elaborates on the micro, meso and macro strategies through which the Canadian teachers sought to teach in a culturally aware, sensitive and competent manner. The five sub-themes are: co-designing the content and structure of the workshops (micro-level); co-designing the assessment and evaluation strategy (micro-level); building inter-organizational relationships (meso-level); adapting the negotiation of roles of the CHWs to the needs of the communities (meso-level); and systemic cultural engagement: advocating for the roles and achievements of CHWs (macro-level).Conclusions: The results of the study indicate that CHW-trainees and teachers identified the project’s aspects that were incongruent with the communities’ cultures and contexts, and the teachers were able to adapt them to the benefit of the communities. Immersion in, and knowledge of, the community and CHW-trainees’ feedback were essential to identifying elements to change. This study’s findings ought to inform future health training programs in cross-cultural contexts.Introduction et objectif : Les agents de santé communautaires (ASC) sont des acteurs clés qui fournissent des services de santé aux populations sous-desservies et sont souvent le seul point d'entrée des soins de santé pour les communautés marginalisées. La formation des ASC et d'autres formes d'interventions de formation en santé communautaire échouent parfois à long terme car les facteurs culturels locaux ne sont pas pris en compte. Le projet de Formation et d’Éducation pour la Santé en Communauté Andine (TEACH) de l’Université McGill a été envisagé pour la formation des ASC dans les communautés autochtones rurales du nord de l’Équateur. S'appuyant sur cette étude de cas, l'objectif de l'étude est d'identifier et de comprendre les stratégies utilisées par les professionnels de la santé d'un contexte occidental pour tenter de réconcilier les différences culturelles dans la prestation de soins de santé dans un contexte rural autochtone non-occidental.Méthodes : Il s’agit d’une étude de cas qualitative portant sur le projet TEACH de l’Université McGill réalisé entre 2012 et 2017. Parmi les participants à l’étude figuraient des stagiaires ASC, membres de cinq communautés autochtones du nord de l’Équateur, et des professionnels de la santé canadiens qui ont donné la formation. Les entretiens semi-structurés de quinze participants et six enseignants ainsi que les rapports d’ateliers d’enseignants ont été analysés à l’aide d’une analyse thématique inductive.Résultats : Le thème central de l'étude est que toutes les stratégies micro (enseignement local), méso (organisationnel) et macro (culture, institutionnelle et gouvernementale) adoptées par les enseignants ont mis l'accent sur les stratégies macrostructurales au fur et à mesure de l'évolution du projet. Ce chapitre décrit plus en détail les stratégies micro, méso et macro par lesquelles les enseignants canadiens ont cherché à enseigner de manière culturellement attentive, sensible et compétente. Les cinq sous-thèmes sont : concevoir conjointement le contenu et la structure des ateliers (au niveau micro); conception collaborative de l'évaluation et de la stratégie d'évaluation (niveau micro); établir des relations inter organisationnelles (au niveau méso); adapter la négociation des rôles des ASC aux besoins des communautés (niveau méso); et l’engagement culturel systémique: plaidoyer pour les rôles et les réalisations des ASC (niveau macro). Conclusions : Les résultats de l’étude indiquent que les stagiaires et les enseignants ASC ont identifié les aspects du projet qui ne concordent pas avec les cultures et les contextes des communautés, et que les enseignants ont pu les adapter au bénéfice des communautés. L’immersion dans la communauté et la connaissance de celle-ci et les réactions des stagiaires ASC étaient essentielles pour identifier les éléments de changement. Les résultats de cette étude devraient éclairer les futurs programmes de formation en santé dans des contextes interculturels
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
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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