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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
Effectiveness of Live-Action vs. Animated Videos in Education
No full textLanguage development, occurring prenatally and throughout childhood, is a stage that significantly impacts one’s abilities to produce and understand language throughout their lifetime. The goal of this study is to find an accessible way to equip caregivers with video-training to help them set their child up for success during language development. Parent’s understanding of childhood development is related to their child’s efficiency in moving through stages, specifically in relation to the acquisition of language (Booth, 2018). Existing literature has shown the power of video-training, such that parents who received it could implement new activities with their children, increasing the development of language-related skills (Blom-Hoffman, 2008).Thus, a video-training program containing facts and activities related to language development is a resource caregivers can use to better understand their child\u27s needs during this stage. Research about video formating with college students has found that participants learn best from combined audio and visual aspects that included social cues from footage of the instructor speaking (Brünken, 2002; Kizilcec, 2015). These features can be present in both live-action and animated formats; therefore this study focuses on finding out if individuals learn better from a live-action or an animated format. We compare learning outcomes from live-action videos compared to a closely matched animation, seeing if one is more effective in relaying memorable information. Findings from this research will give insight to what types of videos are the most effective to equip parents with the knowledge they need to support their child during language development
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
Iconicity of Images in the Most Circulated Children’s Books from Three Counties
No full textParents are encouraged to read to their children, but little is known about the content in children’s books aimed towards children age 5 and below. Children have an easier time generalizing the images in books to the real world when the pictures are highly iconic (Ganea et al., 2008). In the current study, we investigate the degree of iconicity in the most checked out books in one rural and one urban county in Indiana.
Based on 2023 circulation data from Starke, Porter, and St. Joseph county libraries, the top 100 picture books from each library were analyzed. Books were coded as simple lines, basic drawings, detailed drawings, photographs, or mixed, based on Wagner (2017).
We found that the majority of books in the sample included basic drawings , followed by detailed drawings), with few books having simple lines, mixed use of images, and photographs . Thus, children are not being exposed to many picture books with the highest levels of iconicity, but are exposed to some books that make use of some iconicity with detailed drawings. We know that iconicity is an important factor in helping children generalize from books to the real world, therefore childrens books should utilize highly iconic images more than they currently are
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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