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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
AGENDA AMBIENTAL NA ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA (A3P): ANÁLISE DA ADERÊNCIA DE UMA AUTARQUIA FEDERAL – RIO DE JANEIRO/RJ
No full textIn public environmental management it is necessary the active performance of agencies, not only in the regulation and supervision, but also in the execution of their own activities. In this sense, governments have been implementing programs and projects to stimulate public managers in practices that encourage socio-environmental responsibility in the sector, such as the Environmental Agenda in Public Administration (A3P), created by the Ministry of Environment. This article presents and discusses the results of a qualitative and quantitative research that assessed the degree of adherence of a federal government agency, located in Rio de Janeiro/RJ, to the axes of the A3P. The study took place at the headquarters of the agency, which consists of two buildings located on the same street, with a total built area of approximately nine thousand square meters, where only administrative activities are performed. A field research was carried out with the organization's sectors, in order to verify the socio-environmental sustainability actions developed by the agency. Data and documents were also requested from managers that could support such verification. A checklist was then developed based on the practices suggested in the A3P reference documents. After applying the list, we obtained an adherence of only 26% to the axes of the A3P, which allows us to conclude that there is a deficiency in the socio-environmental management of the organization, which should encourage more practices that reduce possible impacts that are being caused by its activity.Na gestão ambiental pública é necessária a atuação ativa dos órgãos, não somente na regulação e fiscalização, mas também na execução de suas próprias atividades. Nesse sentido, os governos vêm implantando programas e projetos para estimular os gestores públicos em práticas que incentivem a responsabilidade socioambiental no setor, podendo-se citar, a esse exemplo, a Agenda Ambiental na Administração Pública (A3P), criada pelo Ministério do Meio Ambiente. Este artigo apresenta e discute os resultados de uma pesquisa qualiquantitativa que avaliou o grau de aderência de uma autarquia federal, localizada no Rio de Janeiro/RJ, aos eixos da A3P. O estudo ocorreu na sede do órgão, que consiste em duas edificações localizadas na mesma rua, com área total edificada de aproximadamente de nove mil metros quadrados, onde são executadas somente atividades administrativas. Foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo junto aos setores da organização, no intuito de verificar as ações de sustentabilidade socioambiental desenvolvidas pela autarquia. Foram solicitados também dados e documentos aos gestores que pudessem subsidiar tal verificação. Foi desenvolvida então uma lista de verificação a partir das práticas sugeridas nos documentos de referência da A3P. Após a aplicação da lista, foi obtida uma aderência de apenas 26% aos eixos da A3P, o que permite concluir que há deficiência na gestão socioambiental da organização, que deve incentivar mais práticas que reduzam possíveis impactos que estão sendo causados pela sua atividade
A questão ecológica: entre a ciência e a ideologia/utopia de uma época
No full textA problemática atual da questão ambiental remete-nos à discussão histórica da racionalidade científica, sobretudo nas sociedades ocidentais contemporâneas, onde o conflito entre a relação homem/meio natural fica evidenciado. Pretendendo dar conta deste conflito, a ecologia constituída como disciplina científica destaca-se como um campo problemático da ciência que busca integrar diversas disciplinas em torno de si. Alguns movimentos sociais, orientando-se por uma "visão ecologizada" (ecossistêmica) de mundo, partem para denunciar os impactos ambientais oriundos, dentre outros, do modelo tecno-industrial altamente poluidor, consumidor dos recursos naturais e gerador da atual desordem global da biosfera. Esses movimentos, sendo orientados por éticas diferenciadas, reivindicam mudanças do quadro social e ambiental da sociedade atual a fim de garantir as necessidades das futuras gerações
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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