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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
Decomposing Gender Differences in Reading: Evidence from Nordic PIRLS 2016
No full textGender differences in reading are a common finding in international assessments with girls usually outperforming boys. The difference in reading between girls and boys has been highlighted as an educational challenge in most OECD countries, and the gap was significant for the Nordic countries. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Survey (PIRLS) is among the widely known international large assessment that focus solely in assessing reading achievement of 4th grade students. It offers the possibility to investigate how variability in various background context relate to reading achievement. Using PIRLS 2016, this study aims to investigate gender differences in reading achievement by accounting the contribution of different variables related to engagement in reading lessons, reading motivation, reading self-efficacy, sense of belonging at school, home characteristics (parents reading attitude, early literacy activities, early literacy tasks. The data is analysed using multiple regression analysis, and the gap in reading score would be decomposed for each Nordic country. The decomposition results suggest the reading score of boys increased if they have the same characteristics as girls. Reading motivation and early literacy skills before primary school account the most in explaining gender differences in reading achievements, while some of the gap remained unexplained
Community Forests at a Crossroads: : Lessons Learned from Lubuk Beringin Village Forest and Guguk Customary Forest in Jambi Province - Sumatra, Indonesia
No full textThe study focuses on two types of community forest, village forest and customary forest - using qualitative case study from two villages namely Lubuk Beringin and Guguk in Jambi Province. The findings show that village forest management in Lubuk Beringin is mainly by village officials, while the customary forest, Guguk, host a self-determined customary community that pay attention to the representativeness of sub-clans within the forest management. The schemes nowadays are mainly self-supported by the people as the facilitation assistance given to the villages was primarily limited to the period until forest managing permit was obtained. The study identifies three main actors at the village level, namely Warsi (Indonesian Conservation Community, KKI-Warsi), forest managing groups, and the villagers. The relations between these actors are analyzed using the ‘Actor-Centered Power concept’. Warsi is shown to be the driving force in the adoption of both the village forest and customary forest schemes. The study of power relations between these three groups shows that trust, incentives and coercion are all relevant to different extents.
Key words: Community Forest, Village Forest, Customary Forest, Lubuk Beringin, Guguk Customary Community, Community-Based Forest Management, Actor-Centered Power concept, Power Relations
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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