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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Organisateurs communautaires et développement des communautés : le cas du Centre de santé et de services sociaux de la Vieille-Capitale
No full textEn 2003, les autorités de santé publique du Québec ont publié leur premier programme de santé publique dans lequel une stratégie d’action, « Soutenir le développement des communautés », était inscrite. Afin d’enrichir les connaissances sur la mise en œuvre de la stratégie et de son influence sur la pratique des professionnels interpelés pour l’actualiser, les organisateurs communautaires des centres de santé et de services sociaux, cette thèse avait trois objectifs principaux qui se sont traduits par autant de volets de recherche. Le premier volet visait à étudier concrètement le processus de mise en place d’une démarche de développement des communautés. Une étude ethnographique a révélé la complexité de l’action, souligné le rôle des facteurs socioculturels et historiques et fait ressortir des éléments à considérer pour la pratique. Elle a également mis en lumière l’importance d’adopter une perspective d’équité en santé. Le deuxième volet avait pour objectif de décrire comment la pratique des organisateurs communautaires se transforme. L’analyse des rencontres d’un groupe de pratique réflexive a permis de nommer les principaux défis dans l’actualisation de la stratégie : le besoin de clarifier le rôle des organisateurs communautaires; la difficulté à susciter et soutenir la participation citoyenne; et enfin, les difficultés liées à cette fonction en regard du contexte organisationnel. Enfin, le troisième volet cherchait à identifier les éléments favorables ou non à l’intégration de la stratégie dans la pratique des organisateurs communautaires et des organisations qui les emploient. En sus des entrevues réalisées dans le cadre de l’étude ethnographique et du groupe de pratique réflexive, des entrevues avec des acteurs-clés ont été réalisées. Les participants ont mentionné que le soutien au développement des communautés amène un changement de paradigme, en faveur de l’équité en santé, qui ne peut se réaliser sans des modifications importantes et sur lesquelles ils ont fourni des informations inédites. Les résultats indiquent que la stratégie demeure encore à préciser et que sa mise en œuvre pourrait être bonifiée. Un modèle heuristique pour susciter une conversation entre les praticiens des deux principaux champs d’intervention concernés, l’organisation communautaire et la santé publique, est présenté.In 2003, public health authorities of the Province of Quebec, Canada, published their first national public health program in which a strategy known as the “Support for the development of communities” was included. In order to enrich the knowledge on the implementation of the strategy and its influence on the practice of the professionals mandated to update same, community organizers from the local Health and Social Services Centers, this thesis had three main objectives which were investigated through three different research processes. The first part had for objective to study a community development process. An ethnographic study revealed the complexity of the strategy, underlined the role of the socio-cultural and historic factors and targeted elements to be considered for practice. It also highlighted the importance to adopt a health equity perspective. The second part aimed at describing how the strategy influenced community organizing practices. The analysis of a reflexive practice group, composed of community organizers, helped identify key challenges related to the strategy: the need to clarify the role of community organizers in community development, the difficulties to stimulate and support citizen participation and finally the difficulties associated with this function within the organizational context of Health and Social Services Centres. Finally, the third part sought to identify favourable and unfavourable elements to the integration of the strategy in the practice of community organizers and the organizations that employ them. In addition to the interviews realised in the ethnographic study and the reflexive practice group, nine semi-structured interviews with key actors were realised. The participants indicated that the strategy brings a paradigm shift in favour of health equity, which cannot be achieved without important changes to professional and organizational practices. This thesis has thus contributed to provide new knowledge on the development of communities for the field of public health and the results indicate that it still has to be refined and that its implementation could be improved. In this regard, a heuristic model to generate a conversation between community organizers and public health practitioners, is offered in conclusion
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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