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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
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
Wozu Wissenschaftskommunikation? Antworten 15 Jahre nach PUSH
Full text link"Warum ist Wissenschaft eigentlich eine Angelegenheit von öffentlichem Interesse?" Wer sich diese Frage stellt, wird sie gemäß dem Wissenschaftsbild beantworten, das er oder sie sich jeweils über die Bedeutung dieses Begriffs zurechtgelegt hat. Aktuelle Debatten über Wissenschaftskommunikation zeigen, dass Wissenschaftsbilder und damit auch die Beurteilung von Wissenschaftskommunikation sehr kontrovers ausfallen: von einer unvoreingenommen positiven Einschätzung der Effekte auf Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, bis zur völligen Ablehnung als systemgefährdend für die Wissenschaft. Der Artikel greift als Replik einen Beitrag von Frank Marcinkowski und Matthias Kohring am Workshop Wissenschaftskommunikation der Volkswagenstiftung 2014 auf, die Vertrer letzterer Auffassung sind und vor allem das Zerstörungspotenzial der Wissenschaftskommunikation thematisieren
Wozu Wissenschaftskommunikation? Antworten 15 Jahre nach PUSH
Full text link"Warum ist Wissenschaft eigentlich eine Angelegenheit von öffentlichem Interesse? Wer diese Frage stellt, wird sie gemäß dem Bild von Wissenschaft beantworten, das er oder sie sich jeweils über die Bedeutung dieses Begriffs zurechtgelegt hat. Aktuelle Debatten über Wissenschaftskommunikation zeigen, dass Wissenschaftsbilder und damit auch die Beurteilung von Wissenschaftskommunikation sehr kontrovers ausfallen. Eine Replik zum Beitrag von Frank Marcinkowski und Matthias Kohring am Workshop Wissenschaftskommunikation der Volkswagenstiftung 2014." (Autorenreferat
Measuring health-related quality of life in patients with cancer: recent developments on the QLU-C10D
No full textThis dissertation focuses on assessing psychometric evidence on the validity, sensitivity, and responsiveness of a cancer-specific health utility instrument, the QLU-C10D. This instrument is designed for oncological studies, making the relevant patient experience available for health economic decision-making processes. Based on the cancer-specific nature of the QLU-C10D, it was expected that patient-reported assessments with this instrument would show higher sensitivity and responsiveness to change than generic utility instruments, which are typically used to measure quality of life for economic evaluations of health-related interventions.
The first paper of this dissertation presents a review of previously published evidence of the QLU-C10D's psychometric properties and a synopsis of its user manual. Furthermore, current questions and limits concerning its practical use for economic evaluations of health interventions are discussed.
In addition, two papers present analyses of retrieved data from international multi-centre cancer clinical trials, one with a sample of patients with glioblastoma and the other studied data from four lung cancer trials. These papers aimed to investigate statistical parameters of content and construct validity in the respective patient populations. Moreover, indices for relative sensitivity and responsiveness were calculated to compare the QLU-C10D with the most widely used generic utility instrument. These papers are part of a total of seven studies with samples of various cancer types, which systematically investigated content and construct validity based on a comprehensive methodical procedure.
Results of this dissertation highlight that the analysis of the samples of various cancer types and review of previously published studies support the evidentiary basis of the validity of the QLU-C10D in many cancer populations.Author Simone SeyringerDissertation Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
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