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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
Images of race over time at British Airways : a case study
Get PDF1 online resource (59 p.)Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-59).This research project examines the ways in which race is presented through photographs taken from British Airways newsletters, located in the British Airways Archives, during the period of 1932-1946. The purpose of the study is to consider the predominant themes of those images, how the images change over time, and the various ways that discrimination seems to be reproduced and recreated at the organization through the images. The content analysis of how race is shown in the organization’s materials over the fourteen year time period provides a case for how images are reproduced and subtly altered over time to maintain a dominant stereotype of non-white individuals as a means of exclusion or discrimination within the organization.
The content analysis reveals three main themes over time that act as categorizations for the way in which race is admitted into the organization in the materials studied. These three themes are primitivism, exoticism, and superiority, and together these different themes demonstrate a change over time in the way that race is shown in the organization.
The significance of this study lies in the need for more considerations of racial discrimination within organizations, as evidence suggests that historical treatment of certain groups, such as those of non-white races, can impact the treatment that such groups receive today in organizations (Acker, 2006; Nkomo, 1992; Cox & Nkomo,1992). The study will contribute to the existing literature as a case study by attempting to show how discrimination was enacted during one time frame at the organization through images in the organizational newsletters, and how that discrimination changed over time. The study takes into consideration previous work on British Airways (Mills, 1995; Mills, 2006) and draws its time frame from Mills’(1995; 2006) identification of junctures (Mills, 2010) within the organization. The study also considers Nkomo’s (1992) theory of race-neutrality, which asserts that organizations often fail to sufficiently consider the impacts of race and racial discrimination, and calls for greater investigation into past experiences of minority workers
“You are just a temp” : intersectional experiences of temporary help agency workers In Nova Scotia
Get PDFThis paper examines the intersectional experiences of temporary help agency workers. Temporary help agency work is overrepresented by women and individuals occupying multiple marginalized categories of identity, such as race. I interview eight individuals about their experiences as temporary help agency workers, using an intersectional lens to
better understand the complexity of their experiences as they relate to categories of identity. I use critical discourse analysis to analyze their interviews and find that consistent themes emerge related to insecurity and precariousness, as well as competence and professionalism. These themes are explored in the context of intersectional identities. This analysis provides insight into a marginalized population of workers who are understudied in current organizational researc
Toward intersectional history
Get PDF1 online resource (241 pages) : colour chartsIncludes abstract and appendix.Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-235).In this thesis, I introduce a theoretical approach called Intersectional History (IH).
IH is theorized by bringing together a critical approach to intersectionality with a
postmodern approach to the study of the past. The purpose of bringing these two domains
together is to provide a theoretically-informed way to focus on revealing intersectional based privilege and marginalization in historical accounts of organizations. A primary focus of IH is to consider how categories of identity are constructed and reproduced
within organizational materials from the past, over time. In particular, IH is concerned
with the ways that those powerful constructions of categories of identity overlap and
reinforce systems of oppression, such as racism, sexism, and colonialism, within
organizational contexts. Another key purpose of IH is to reveal the stories of those at the
intersection of overlapping, marginalized categories of identity and re-centre their
experiences and contributions in organizations. I demonstrate the potential of IH through
an analysis of the Australian Airline, Qantas, with a specific focus on how women and
Aboriginal Australians are constructed within the organizational material, over time
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
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