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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
A Review of the Current Policy Environment Promoting Access to Early Childhood and Primary Education in Zambia
Full text linkThis is a research report on a Review of the Current Policy and Legal Environment Promoting Access to Early Childhood and Primary Education in Zambia. In this study, we focus on the gaps that exist in the current policy and legal framework, as well as the identified challenges and suggested strategies to overcome the identified challenges for ECE and Primary subsector to thrive in Zambia. Emerging from the recent research study on Zambia citizens’ access to Economic and Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) is a gloomy picture portraying more than 80 percent of children without access to Early Childhood Education. Ridding on the ESCR findings, this study then interrogates policies and related legal framework in the provision of education to the Zambian community. This study adopts a purposeful visit to selected institutions with access to policies and legal documents related to the topic championing ECE and Primary education in Zambia. The study adopts an interpretive research approach. Our central endeavour into the context of the interpretive research paradigm was to understand the extent to which the various policies and legal provisions are facilitating and/or disabling children to access education in Zambia. The findings from this study could form a basis for formulating an advocacy strategy to lobby for improved access to quality education at foundational stage.It is said that a successful implementation of any Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes greatly depends on the availability of a comprehensive ECE policy. Sadly, for Zambia, fifty-two years after independence, the country has no comprehensive ECE policy to guide the practice. It is not surprising therefore that a majority 76 percent of children at grade 1 level are without ECE experience, rendering them vulnerable and unprepared for the formalised education system demands. On the other hand, the minority 24 percent with ECE experience are doted along the rail-line between Lusaka and Copperbelt
and in provincial centres, leaving most rural children unattended to. The immediate observable effect of having an educational system built on a weak ECE foundation is visibly seen through the very low completion rate currently at 30.8 percent (MoGE, 2015), ejecting out the 70 percent by the way-side by the time of completion at grade 12 stage. To a larger extent, the quality of education is compromised. Whereas Zambia has numerous policies and pieces of legislature in support of education, little is known regarding the various policies and their contributions to the ECE and Primary subsector. At the same
time, whereas stakeholders appear to concentrate resources on Primary Education sub-sector, it is not clear what policies and legislations are enabling or disabling the provision of quality education. Given the reality highlighted above, this study was commissioned with the following specific objectives in mind:
i) To identify policies that support early childhood and primary education in education.
ii) To identify gaps that lie in the current policies in the enhancement of access to early childhood and primary education.
iii) Identify challenges faced in the provision of early child childhood and primary education.
iv) To identify interventions that will increase access to early childhood and primary education.
v) To map out relevant stakeholders in promoting access to early childhood and primary education
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
LIVED EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AT SIM UNIVERSITY IN ZAMBIA: A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMELOGICAL APPROACH
Full text linkThesisThis study focuses on lived experiences of Students with Visual Impairments (SwVI)
while pursuing their studies at ‘Sim’ University (Pseudonym) in Zambia. Anecdotal
evidence from the university records showed that a significantly low number of
approximately 0.001 percent of students with impairments in comparison to the
recommended 15 percent by the World Health Organisation (WHO) were present at
Sim University. Within the 0.001 percent, approximately 70 percent were classified as
students with Visual Impairments.
The research objectives that guided this study were to:
i). Describe the lived experiences SwVI face at university.
ii). Explore enablers that empower SwVI achieve academic success at university.
iii). Explore disablers faced by SwVI at university.
iv). Develop a framework for interpreting lived experiences of SwVI at university
A qualitative methodology driven by Hermeneutics Phenomenology research design
was applied. In addition, purposive sampling technique was used to enlist seven SwVI
to participate in this study. Participants volunteered to voice their lived experiences
and clusters of themes emerged thereafter. The themes were generated using the
‘Simui's Hermeneutics Crossword Analysis (SHCA) framework, a product of the
current study. Emergent from the lived experiences of SwVI was a host of enablers
and disablers that represent their felt worlds while at Sim University. The silent voices
expressed their felt vulnerabilities and triumphs, resilience and frustration, while
pursuing their studies in an environment favouring and dominated by the sighted.
Amidst the disabling environment, five ingredients proved pivotal to SwVI’s academic
success namely: (i) positive attitude, (ii) family support, (iii) peer support, (iv)
institutional support, and (v) beneficial partnerships. It is clear that the lived world of
SwVI had more disabling than the enabling factors. With the exception of a positive
attitude, the other four enablers pointed to the ‘dependence syndrome’ on the sighted
that SwVI were reduced to within an exclusive learning environment. To this extent,
positive attitude was singled out as the most important enabler among others to the
success of SwVI at Sim University. The positive attitude showed itself in various ways
such as resilience, determination, innovation and self-motivation. Even where the
support from the sighted was not available, a sheer determination, combined with
resilience and innovation in the face of oppression was enough for SwVI to progress
through the academic ladder.
Emerging from the study are the ten recommendations three of which are: (i) develop
and implement an inclusive policy to guide practice; (ii) involve SwVI in decisionmaking
process affecting their academic progression; and (iii) improve on the
accessibility to the learning environment and content. In a nutshell, whereas resources
are limited in universities similar to Sim University, SwVI carry with them unexploited
mental resources that administrators, managers and teaching staff can tap into and
devise innovative ways to combat exclusion. If only SwVI can be engaged and
consulted in decision-making process, institutions are bound to break-through to
multitude of challenges encountered when implementing inclusive education
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
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