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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
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
" Boire un verre dans un bar...! " : modulation de l'expérience d'une boisson par le contexte : apport de l'immersion à l'étude des influences contextuelles sur le comportement alimentaire
No full textThe overall aim of the present thesis is to study contextual influences on food behaviour (including variables coming from the environment and from the consumer). To this purpose, an immersive method using a space with physical elements was used, in order to evoke a realistic situation within a laboratory setting. Here, the method consisted in designing an immersive bar evoking the situation of “having a drink in a bar”. Two variants of the bar were created and five studies were implemented in these spaces to study how context influences food choices and evaluation. Our approach consisted in taking the product as central in the link between the consumer and the environment and not as a contextual variable itself.From a methodological point of view, the results show that immersive bars are a flexible tool evoking a realistic situation. They can be used to study the effects of an integrated set of contextual factors and to determine the relative weight of each of these factors. From a theoretical point of view, the results underscore that in a specific situation, contextual variables are interacting together to create what we called a “moment of consumption”. When a product is consumed in such a “moment of consumption”, consumers’ product experience is modulated by perceptive, affective and semantic contextual influences.This work concludes that the act of food consumption reflects consumers’ product experience in a “moment of consumption”. Understanding the link between consumer and product cannot be done by appealing only to these two terms but needs to be explained as part of a complex set of contextual interactionsL’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier l’influence du contexte sur le comportement alimentaire ; le contexte incluant les variables environnementales et celles issues du consommateur. A cette fin, une méthode d’immersion à l’aide d’éléments physiques a été utilisée. Cette méthode consiste à évoquer une situation réaliste à partir de quelques éléments de mobilier dans un laboratoire. Des bars immersifs ont ainsi été créés selon le concept de « boire un verre dans un bar ». Cinq études ont été mises en place pour étudier le contexte. L’originalité de l’approche théorique est de ne pas considérer l’aliment comme une variable contextuelle mais comme étant le centre de la relation entre le consommateur et l’environnement.D’un point de vue méthodologique, les résultats montrent que les bars immersifs sont un outil flexible favorisant l’évocation d’une situation réaliste tout en permettant d’étudier à la fois les effets de l’intégration d’un ensemble de variables contextuelles et le poids relatif des variables les unes par rapport aux autres. D’un point de vue théorique, les résultats soulignent que lorsque l’ensemble des variables contextuelles présentes interagissent pour définir ce que nous avons appelé un « moment de consommation ». Lorsqu’un produit se trouve dans ce « moment de consommation », l’expérience qu’en a le consommateur est modulée par des influences contextuelles affectives, sémantiques et perceptives.Cette thèse conclut que l’acte de consommation alimentaire est le reflet de l’expérience qu’ont les consommateurs d’un produit au « moment de consommation ». Plus que simplement comprendre la relation entre le consommateur et le produit, il faut maintenant comprendre cette relation comme étant au centre d’interactions complexes avec le context
"Having a drink in a bar...!" : contextual effects on drink experience : promises of the immersive approach for studying contextual influences on food behaviour
No full textL’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier l’influence du contexte sur le comportement alimentaire ; le contexte incluant les variables environnementales et celles issues du consommateur. A cette fin, une méthode d’immersion à l’aide d’éléments physiques a été utilisée. Cette méthode consiste à évoquer une situation réaliste à partir de quelques éléments de mobilier dans un laboratoire. Des bars immersifs ont ainsi été créés selon le concept de « boire un verre dans un bar ». Cinq études ont été mises en place pour étudier le contexte. L’originalité de l’approche théorique est de ne pas considérer l’aliment comme une variable contextuelle mais comme étant le centre de la relation entre le consommateur et l’environnement.D’un point de vue méthodologique, les résultats montrent que les bars immersifs sont un outil flexible favorisant l’évocation d’une situation réaliste tout en permettant d’étudier à la fois les effets de l’intégration d’un ensemble de variables contextuelles et le poids relatif des variables les unes par rapport aux autres. D’un point de vue théorique, les résultats soulignent que lorsque l’ensemble des variables contextuelles présentes interagissent pour définir ce que nous avons appelé un « moment de consommation ». Lorsqu’un produit se trouve dans ce « moment de consommation », l’expérience qu’en a le consommateur est modulée par des influences contextuelles affectives, sémantiques et perceptives.Cette thèse conclut que l’acte de consommation alimentaire est le reflet de l’expérience qu’ont les consommateurs d’un produit au « moment de consommation ». Plus que simplement comprendre la relation entre le consommateur et le produit, il faut maintenant comprendre cette relation comme étant au centre d’interactions complexes avec le contexteThe overall aim of the present thesis is to study contextual influences on food behaviour (including variables coming from the environment and from the consumer). To this purpose, an immersive method using a space with physical elements was used, in order to evoke a realistic situation within a laboratory setting. Here, the method consisted in designing an immersive bar evoking the situation of “having a drink in a bar”. Two variants of the bar were created and five studies were implemented in these spaces to study how context influences food choices and evaluation. Our approach consisted in taking the product as central in the link between the consumer and the environment and not as a contextual variable itself.From a methodological point of view, the results show that immersive bars are a flexible tool evoking a realistic situation. They can be used to study the effects of an integrated set of contextual factors and to determine the relative weight of each of these factors. From a theoretical point of view, the results underscore that in a specific situation, contextual variables are interacting together to create what we called a “moment of consumption”. When a product is consumed in such a “moment of consumption”, consumers’ product experience is modulated by perceptive, affective and semantic contextual influences.This work concludes that the act of food consumption reflects consumers’ product experience in a “moment of consumption”. Understanding the link between consumer and product cannot be done by appealing only to these two terms but needs to be explained as part of a complex set of contextual interaction
" Boire un verre dans un bar...! " : modulation de l'expérience d'une boisson par le contexte : apport de l'immersion à l'étude des influences contextuelles sur le comportement alimentaire
No full textThe overall aim of the present thesis is to study contextual influences on food behaviour (including variables coming from the environment and from the consumer). To this purpose, an immersive method using a space with physical elements was used, in order to evoke a realistic situation within a laboratory setting. Here, the method consisted in designing an immersive bar evoking the situation of “having a drink in a bar”. Two variants of the bar were created and five studies were implemented in these spaces to study how context influences food choices and evaluation. Our approach consisted in taking the product as central in the link between the consumer and the environment and not as a contextual variable itself.From a methodological point of view, the results show that immersive bars are a flexible tool evoking a realistic situation. They can be used to study the effects of an integrated set of contextual factors and to determine the relative weight of each of these factors. From a theoretical point of view, the results underscore that in a specific situation, contextual variables are interacting together to create what we called a “moment of consumption”. When a product is consumed in such a “moment of consumption”, consumers’ product experience is modulated by perceptive, affective and semantic contextual influences.This work concludes that the act of food consumption reflects consumers’ product experience in a “moment of consumption”. Understanding the link between consumer and product cannot be done by appealing only to these two terms but needs to be explained as part of a complex set of contextual interactionsL’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier l’influence du contexte sur le comportement alimentaire ; le contexte incluant les variables environnementales et celles issues du consommateur. A cette fin, une méthode d’immersion à l’aide d’éléments physiques a été utilisée. Cette méthode consiste à évoquer une situation réaliste à partir de quelques éléments de mobilier dans un laboratoire. Des bars immersifs ont ainsi été créés selon le concept de « boire un verre dans un bar ». Cinq études ont été mises en place pour étudier le contexte. L’originalité de l’approche théorique est de ne pas considérer l’aliment comme une variable contextuelle mais comme étant le centre de la relation entre le consommateur et l’environnement.D’un point de vue méthodologique, les résultats montrent que les bars immersifs sont un outil flexible favorisant l’évocation d’une situation réaliste tout en permettant d’étudier à la fois les effets de l’intégration d’un ensemble de variables contextuelles et le poids relatif des variables les unes par rapport aux autres. D’un point de vue théorique, les résultats soulignent que lorsque l’ensemble des variables contextuelles présentes interagissent pour définir ce que nous avons appelé un « moment de consommation ». Lorsqu’un produit se trouve dans ce « moment de consommation », l’expérience qu’en a le consommateur est modulée par des influences contextuelles affectives, sémantiques et perceptives.Cette thèse conclut que l’acte de consommation alimentaire est le reflet de l’expérience qu’ont les consommateurs d’un produit au « moment de consommation ». Plus que simplement comprendre la relation entre le consommateur et le produit, il faut maintenant comprendre cette relation comme étant au centre d’interactions complexes avec le context
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