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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
Physically inactive children – I don’t think so!
No full textIntroduction: main topic of the paper The notion that children and young people are physically inactive dominates the research community and in the news media. Alarmistic reports result in school interventions to remedy the problem, often with minimal effect (Larsson & Thedin Jakobsson, 2024). It’s a gloomy picture of children’s movements being painted. But, after spending one year in an ethnographic study at two school-age educare centers in Sweden, I would dare to disagree. As a matter of fact, I find movement everywhere. Theoretical framework The study explores which movement discourses govern ways of moving in the school-age educare center. This entails exploring how discursive practices – such as rules and routines, physical environments, what is being said about movement, and the ensemble of movements occurring – produce different discursive patterns about movement. The study uses Foucault’s notion of discourse as “the ensemble of more or less regulated, more or less deliberate, more or less finalized ways of doing things” (Foucault, 1998, s. 463). Research question(s) The study in the presentation is part of a thesis project that explores how movement is constructed in school-age educare. This paper addresses the following research question: What movement discourses can be identified in school-age educare? Methodology The study is part of a year-long ethnographic research project at two school-age educare centers in Sweden, that uses observations and interviews. The material for this study consists of field notes from 84 occasions (approximately 180 hours). 75 children (ages 7-8) and 18 pedagogues participated in the study. The data was analyzed using discourse analysis. Results Preliminary analysis shows an overarching school-age educare discourse in terms of movement that is built up from two sub-discourses: (i) movement as something natural, and (ii) movement as something that must be promoted and organized. In the presentation I will go more in-depth into the discourse of movement as something that must be promoted and organized, and illustrate with empirical examples. Some elements of discussion (scientific relevance, practical implications, etc.) Swedish school-age educare is in the middle of a schooling process, and there is pressure towards more goal-directed activities (Ackesjö & Haglund, 2021). “Daily physical activity” is part of the Swedish curriculum (Skolverket, 2022) and can be addressed by, for example, organized movement activities. However, this study shows that the adult’s view on meaningful movement may not always coincide with the children’s view. Giving space to children’s self-organized movement in school-age educare is one way of promoting daily, meaningful physical activity
”Rörelseglädje viktigare än antal minuter”
No full textVI LÄRARE DEBATT Kunskapsläget om sambandet mellan rörelse och skolprestationer är osäkert. Ändå får skolan axla uppgiften att få elever att röra på sig varje dag. Det riskerar själva rörelseglädjen, skriver Saga Samuelson, doktorand vid Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan (GIH).</p
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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