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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
Learning cities for adult learners
No full textComprends des référence bibliographiques et un index.1. Evolution and Reconstruction of Learning Cities for Sustainable Actions Connie Watson, Aimee Tiu Wu A discussion of learning cities requires social sustainable change that traces its roots back to the idea of a “learning society,” which featured a lifelong education movement long before the common expression of lifelong learning.2. Learning Cities, Systems Change, and Community Engagement Scholarship Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Renee Zientek Community engagement scholarship describes the mutual relationship in higher education for civic, community, and public engagement that create systems for service learning in the context of a learning city/region.3. Workplace, Organizational, and Societal: Three Domains of Learning for 21st-Century Cities Lyle Yorks, Jody Barto Interconnections between workplace and organizational learning inform how learning cities and regions must function to promote learning for a larger society.4. Public Libraries and Cooperative Extension as Community Partners for Lifelong Learning and Learning Cities Alysia Peich, Cynthia Needles Fletcher Public libraries, land-grant institutions, and Cooperative Extension are just a few existing examples in America concerned with adult education serving the larger adult learner community.5. A Connected History of Health and Education: Learning Together Toward a Better City Joanne Howard, Diane Howard, Ebbin Dotson Health and education must be included in any strategic planning of learning cities; such implications must consider how to improve the social quality of life for children and adults.6. Role of Leisure in Humanizing Learning Cities 73 Dan K. Hibbler, Leodis Scott Leisure shares a special connection with adult education from ancient times to significant events in history such as the Industrial Revolution; these connections play a part in the need for leisure education that is essential for social and human development.7. Learning Cities for All: Directions to a New Adult Education and Learning Movement Leodis Scott Through encouraging leadership from the adult and continuing education field, the idea of learning cities can be realized and implemented within existing communities across America
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
Towards a Learning Society: Four Waves Shaping the Future of Lifelong Learning
Get PDFThis paper develops a theory of the learning society through four transformative waves—human potentiality, corporate employability, scholastic inflexibility, and communal responsibility—shaping future paradigms in lifelong learning. By exploring these waves\u27 interconnections, the presentation examines how learning cities and educational democracy can create inclusive, adaptable frameworks for adult and continuing education, fostering global collaboration and unity
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
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