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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
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
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Targeting Prosodic Atypicalities Using Self-Management for Individuals with ASD
Full text linkThere is a considerable amount of literature reporting prosody is atypical in most individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), however there is almost no literature addressing interventions for improving these prosodic atypicialities. This study used a concurrent multiple baseline design to assess whether adults with ASD could be taught appropriate prosody within the context of a self-management program. Additionally, the study assessed whether improvements in prosody would generalize outside of the intervention setting to the participants' natural environments. Data showed improvements in prosody in the clinical setting following intervention with generalization for two of three participants across settings and conversational partners. Long-term generalization occurred for all the three participants, as well. Further, a six-point normalcy scale was used to assess whether naïve observers scored any collateral gains in how natural participants' general conversations sounded before and following the intervention. These observers rated the conversation as sounding more natural following intervention. Finally, data were collected to assess the participants' acceptability of the intervention, which participants found intervention helpful and unstressful. Results indicate that self-management may be an effective strategy for improving prosody in adults with ASD
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Parent-to-parent peer support for diverse low-income families of children with disabilities: A qualitative interview study of a self-help program as part of a medical home model
Full text linkNearly one in five children in the United States has a special healthcare need and/or disability today. Families of children and youth with special needs can be vulnerable to weaknesses within the healthcare system, as services and supports for families are often uncoordinated, inaccessible, and lacking social supports. Currently, there are few organizations that help guide families of children with special needs in accessing healthcare systems and supports within the United States. This dissertation focused on the impacts of integrating a parent-to-parent peer support program to primary care medical home clinics along with outreach specialty clinics serving low-income, diverse families, including underserved and unrepresented families, of children and youth with special healthcare needs and disabilities. The program was granted to improve medical clinics for children in urban and rural areas from a Midwestern state of the United States. Peer support is a topic of interest in research on disability, and medical and mental health. It may represent an adjunct to professional services, and could offer a unique and supplemental form of helping. The purpose of this study was to identify the social exchanges that take place in a parent-to-parent support program, and investigate how they are understood and valued by the participants when parents acting as support providers join with medical personnel within the medical home model of care to serve families with children with special needs who are traditionally underrepresented and underserved. The parent-to-parent support movement has traditionally been organized by Caucasian, middle-class women throughout the United States and abroad. Recently, however, parent-to-parent programs are beginning to transform by working collaboratively with more culturally and linguistically diverse populations, which is more representative of the population of the United States than in the past. Data were collected from 24 interviews with key stakeholders taking part in the parent-to-parent support program in the Midwest. Data were systematically analyzed in multiple rounds and resulted in six themes including trust and empathy; resources and accessibility; awareness and understanding; cultural competence; mutual respect and partnerships; and empowerment and advocacy. These findings suggest that parent-to-parent support can provide culturally competent, family-centered support to families of children and youth with special healthcare needs and/or disabilities that help serve as an adjunct to traditional medical services to help achieve a medical home model of care for families
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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