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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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
*1 NEW NOTIFICATION*: SOCIAL MEDIA MISCONCEPTIONS AROUND TRIBAL ABORTION PROVISIONS AND INDIGENOUS METHODS OF REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AS PRAXIS
Get PDFMy thesis discusses the cultural and social misconceptions of possible tribal abortion provision by social media users in a post Roe setting. Through the analysis of social media posts and further the ideologies expressed by users on Facebook, my project breaks down the meaning and value assigned to Indigenous women regarding their reproductive actions. This assignment of both negative and positive value includes the perception of “proper” motherhood, acts of abortion or miscarriage, and forced sterilization through eugenic pseudoscience. In response to social media discourse and misrepresentations of abortion ideology towards Indigenous women, tribal communities themselves establish projects on social media to discuss thriving and community care such as support for the Indian Child Welfare Act and public education on cradle boarding. Overall, my thesis discusses the harmful implications of assumed tribal abortion provision by misinformed social media users and the methods of reproductive justice Indigenous users have developed to combat them
Crossing to Care: Movement and Flexibility in Mexican Massage Healing
Get PDFTransnationalism and border studies have often rightly focused on the movement of people, materials, and ideas across national lines as well as issues of migration such as along the U.S.-Mexico border. This thesis examines the concept of border crossing from a different angle, where rather than looking at the movement of people across a national border, I examine the social borders crossed within the context of massage cupping therapy, a medical form that itself has traversed borders. My research revolves around a Mexican massage therapist, who frequently travels between the state of Texas and her home in the state of Nuevo Leon. She maintains a large pool of clients in both places. The Texas clients are mostly working-class migrants from Mexico, while the Mexican clients are wealthy Mexican citizens, most of whom own multiple businesses. My findings primarily focused on the interactions during the massage encounter, and acknowledge Teresa’s unique approach of communicating with her clients. Additionally, in examining these interaction, I also found that this massage healing practice, which literally crosses the U.S. Mexico border, also crosses social and metaphorical borders of class, intimacy, mind/body, and traditional/modernity. My overall argument is that in crossing different social borders, this practice emphasizes the massage healer’s flexibility in being able to fit in and create meaningful experiences for clients in two very distinct social contexts. This argument can be extended out to consider the benefit in flexibly crossing border and social categories that structure hierarchies. This thesis adds to existing bodies of anthropological literature on transnationalism, and border crossing, by reaffirming how borders are complex and demonstrating how different, more metaphorical borders can all be crossed within a single cultural practice, in this case massage healing encounters
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