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The frustrations of writing research articles for publication and what to do about them
Get PDFPrepared especially for readers who are considering taking their initial steps in writing for publication, this piece draws on the author\u27s personal experience, as well as insights from related literature, to explore around a dozen challenges that such individuals may face. In particular, it outlines what inexperienced writers, who will be facing them for the first time, can do either in response or to prevent their development from the outset. Sequenced here approximately in the order in which they are likely be encountered, the problems described are effectively of four types: issues pertaining to the tracing of sources that the writer may want to use, concerns that arise when the individual is attempting to cite material, how the author may deal with the reactions of journal editors and reviewers to the work and matters that can emerge when the manuscript has actually been published
Modelling-through-reaction: its nature, implementation and potential
Get PDFRooted in modern, person-oriented perspectives within user studies, modelling-through-reaction is an investigative technique that has been developed by the author over several years with the aim of uniting the often disparate worlds of research and the information professional. The approach results in the creation of principles that represent what the participants believe to be the ideal features of the information entity forming the subject of the research. In sum, these statements constitute a specification that should inform future development of the entity and provide criteria for evaluation. Drawing on a range of sources, this paper explores the early development of modelling-through-reaction and discusses its key characteristics, giving particular emphasis to its flexibility and suitability for use by the information professional, whilst still acknowledging the challenges inherent in its application
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
The "principles" paper: some thoughts on an unusual hybrid
Get PDFFor years, ‘principles’ papers have made an important contribution to LIS literature and their influence on subsequent writers has been considerable. They make a series of concise claims in relation to a topic, which are usually supported by a variety of evidence and are pertinent across time and space. These claims have emerged from the literature or are derived directly from the author’s own experience. In writing such a piece, research students may seek to enhance their abstract thinking abilities, whilst practitioners benefit from considering their work more critically and from contextualising their day-to-day experience in terms of wider knowledge. Although ‘principles’ papers are difficult to construct, a would-be writer should not be deterred, as readers are likely to appreciate the ease with which the main claims can be seen, and the paper may form a significant step towards the creation of higher order work
The characteristics and development of young people's information universes
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Demonstrating impact: a possible approach for the LIS researcher
Get PDFFor many years, research has been judged according to the number of citations it attracts. However, this criterion may be criticised for paying no attention to differences in the nature of individual citations. This article shows how researchers can produce an impact continuum, with one pole highlighting situations where their work is integral to a later study and the other scenarios where it is only peripheral. The continuum presented here suggests ten categories of use and examples from the author’s own work are given as illustrations. The paper also outlines problems associated with the continuum. These include subjectivity in the placement of the categories and the potential difficulty of determining how far a particular study has actually influenced the thinking of a later researcher. Nevertheless, there are clear ways in which the structure may be helpful to readers seeking to highlight their research impact through typologies and case studies
Investigating school pupils\u27 information behaviour via intranet usage data
Get PDFDespite the popularity of electronic information resources among young people and the prevalence of organisational intranets in schools, few researchers have exploited the potential of intranet usage logs to investigate pupils\u27 information behaviour. Nevertheless, the method is attractive on several counts. As it enables data to be collected without the participants\u27 knowledge, it is unlikely to affect behaviour and highly objective data can be gathered. This material can lead to the use of supplementary methods allowing the elicitation of detailed qualitative data. Researchers are, however, restricted to the types of insights that the system log provides and are further constrained by the purposes for which school managers use their intranet. Ethical questions surrounding the gathering of data that participants are not aware is being generated may also be asked. Notwithstanding these issues, intranet usage logs clearly offer considerable potential for the investigation of information behaviour in a range of contexts
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