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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
Personality Differences in Peer Review
No full textConsistent with the TCPS 2 (4.7) this is a research summary provided to participants and should not be considered a formal publication of results.Dr. Ken Crame
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
Personality differences in peer review
No full textPeer reviews offer a unique assessment of post-secondary students' writing, wherein students grade fellow students' (peers') essay submissions according to a rubric. Previous research found personality was related to the grades students both gave and received during peer-assessment: conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness predicted higher grades, whereas academic entitlement and grade orientation predicted lower grades. Moreover, peer-assessment has been found to yield similar results to expert assessment, however peers are consistently more lenient in the grading. Past studies have found both agreeableness and extroversion in raters is related to higher grading leniency, whereas conscientiousness is related to lower grading leniency. A better understanding of the interaction between personality traits, grades, and rater leniency will provide insight on factors contributing to academic success aside from intelligence and aid in explaining the variance in grades for the same assignment. The present study examined the influence of personality factors on rater leniency and grades received during an introduction to psychology peer review assignment. Participants completed an online survey assessing academic entitlement, learning orientation, grade orientation, narcissism, and the Big-5 personality traits. These measures were later merged with the peer review grades. Results from correlational analyses revealed academic entitlement and narcissism were related to lower grades, while conscientiousness was related to higher grades. Moreover, students higher in conscientiousness, learning orientation attitudes, and grade orientation attitudes gave more accurate and less lenient grades. Lastly, more variance in the grades received during the peer review was found to be related to higher narcissism and openness scores, as well as lower agreeableness. Possible explanations for these findings are explored
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
How Exposure to Personal Distress With and Without Self-Compassion Affects Emotional Distress Tolerance: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial Conducted in a Sample of University Students and a Sample of Community Adults
Get PDFEmotional distress tolerance refers to the perceived ability to tolerate one’s negative emotions (Simons & Gaher, 2005). Low emotional distress tolerance is a transdiagnostic marker of psychopathology (Leyro et al., 2010) and is therefore important to target in psychological interventions. Cognitive behavioural theories suggest that to overcome low emotional distress tolerance, individuals need to expose themselves to their negative emotions and, in so doing, learn that experiencing negative emotions is more tolerable than they expected. However, when distress intolerant individuals participate in therapy involving such exposures, they find them unbearable (Belleau et al., 2017; Griffen et al., 2018) and terminate treatment early (Daughters et al., 2005; Niles et al., 2017). We theorized that self-compassion, which involves enacting a caring, curious stance toward one’s own distress with the intention of preventing and alleviating it (Gilbert, 2014), might make the experience of feeling negative emotions more bearable due to its soothing physiological effects (Kim et al., 2020). We therefore tested the primary hypothesis that, among individuals low in emotional distress tolerance, exposure to negative emotions with self-compassion, as compared to without and a placebo control condition, would lead to superior emotional distress tolerance and that this effect would occur indirectly via greater levels of soothing affect. We also sought to test the secondary hypotheses that exposure with self-compassion compared to without would have higher treatment acceptability and lead to less emotional avoidance over time. To test these hypotheses, we conducted a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled, three-arm, parallel-group, additive, superiority trial in a Canadian student sample (n = 126) recruited through a mid-sized Canadian university’s participant pool and an international community sample (n = 298) recruited through the Prolific participant pool, both of which comprised fluent English-speaking adults with below-average levels of emotional distress tolerance. In an online session, participants were asked to recall a distressing situation and then were randomly assigned through the randomizer function within Qualtrics at a ratio of 1:1:1 to perform one of three written tasks involving: 1) exposure to negative emotions (student sample n = 42, community sample n = 100); 2) exposure to negative emotions with self-compassion (student sample n = 43, community sample n = 98); or 3) a control distraction-based planning condition (student sample n = 41, community sample n = 100). Participants completed questionnaires immediately before and after their written intervention task and again one week later. ANCOVAs revealed that, controlling for baseline emotional distress tolerance levels, condition significantly predicted emotional distress tolerance levels immediately post-intervention, n2p = .02-.06. The exposure with self-compassion condition yielded higher post emotional distress tolerance than the pure exposure condition in both the student sample (d = 0.52) and community sample (d = 0.37). Further, in both samples, increased soothing affect during the intervention significantly mediated 65-67% of the effect of condition on post-intervention emotional distress tolerance levels. However, ANCOVAs also revealed that, controlling for baseline emotional distress tolerance levels, condition did not significantly predict emotional distress tolerance levels at the one-week follow-up, n2p = .02-.03. Further, results did not support our hypotheses that the self-compassion condition would result in greater treatment acceptability and emotion engagement. Although not all our hypotheses were supported, results across samples support a focus on helping individuals low in emotional distress tolerance to cultivate self-compassion when experiencing negative emotions. It seems that the soothing affect self-compassion promotes may help these individuals to learn that feeling their distress is more tolerable than they had anticipated. This study is registered with the US Clinical Trials Registry #NCT05284578 and was funded by SSHRC Insight Grant 435-2017-0062
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