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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Sanctuary in spice: The kitchen as a space of wellbeing for a migrant woman in academia
No full textNavigating the competing demands of academic life can be particularly challenging for migrant women. In this chapter I explore how a seemingly ordinary activity – making food –- can foster wellbeing. Drawing on personal experiences of home cooking through the lens of positive psychology, I delve into the interconnectedness of positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement. I observe that activities such as learning and sharing recipes and experimenting with culinary techniques can improve self-confidence, spark nostalgic conversations, and create a sense of belonging. The act of “‘making food”’, therefore as shown, provides a temporal separation from academic pressures, creates joy, and strengthens connections with others. In doing so, I inform a growing body of work on how an ordinary activity, cooking, becomes extraordinary and turns my kitchen into a sanctuary for contemplation, creativity and connection
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
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Thinking through and Speaking to: A Daily Stitching Story
No full textThis chapter explores the work of a decade of daily stitching, Stitch Journal. It accompanies my movements between a textile practice working with materials and alongside communities, and how this becomes part of my academic life. Beginning in 2013 it embodies my thinking through making and accompanies long-term socially engaged arts and health and heritage projects, the duration of a part-time then full-time PhD completed during the COVID-19 pandemic and all the family life and caring in between. As the stitching grows it records change in my practice and thinking and how I describe my work. Informed by other reflective and creative methods, I offer the reader a simple way to begin a practice like this themselves
Answering the Craftsman's Call to Be Academic
No full textMy grandfather was an avid amateur photographer who taught me the practicalities of photography, and more importantly craftsmanship. I never made it as a professional photographer. Instead, I eventually became an academic. In the process, I re-acquired the craftsman’s identity I first experienced through photography, but this time in academic craftsmanship. An identity formed through my educative transformation, and in my need and desire to make knowledge and scholarship of the highest quality and integrity I possibly can.
The problem was, having worked in higher education for years as an administrator, making my shift into being academic confronted me with a very different perspective of work life in universities. In our highly managerialised universities of today, the ability to be academic is diminished in many ways. Not least of all because the administrative burdens placed on academics takes necessary energy and time away from the craft work of making scholarship. This administrative burden is increased when academics take on pastoral service roles such as programme directorships.
I found myself in just such a situation where the university was taking much more from me than I could sustain, with little respect, thanks, or acknowledgement. I realised I was not contributing as an academic because I was too busy being a manager again. The managerial university wanted me to do administration. It tricked me into thinking that was the right way to spend my academic time.
I realised the managerialised university was never going to grant me permission to be academic because it does not value academic craftsmanship and therefore does not ensure there is space for it to prosper. Rather, it values hyper-performativity, quantity over quality of output, massified education that undervalues teaching, and audit and control rather than allowing autonomy to engage in legitimate academic work. I realised I must grant myself permission to be academic. So I did.
In reclaiming the time and space to service and honour my academic community by contributing to quality work with knowledge, service to academic institutional governance, service to my international academic research community, and to giving my students the best of my teaching ability rather than a burnt-out shell, I am now a better university and academic citizen. The result is an emotional re-balancing as I embrace the practicality of being academic. My wellbeing is re-balanced. I have returned to my core purpose and to the very reason why I and my craft belongs in a university – all because I granted myself permission to be academic
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