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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
Sociocultural Adaptation Of The Short Personal Experiences Questionnaire (speq) In Brazil [adaptação Sociocultural Do Short Personal Experiences Questionnaire (speq) No Brasil]
No full textPURPOSE: to translate into Brazilian Portuguese and culturally adapt the Short Personal Experiences Questionnaire (SPEQ) to climacteric women. METHODS: the original English version from the University of Melbourne, Australia, was initially translated into Portuguese and back-translated into English. A sociocultural adaptation of vocabulary and linguistic constructions was performed to facilitate comprehension. The questionnaire was then pretested in successive stages in 50 women, until no doubts remained. The final version of the adapted instrument was self-responded by 378 Brazilian-born women, between 40 to 65 years old, with 11 years or more of schooling in a population-based study. The reliability (internal consistency as measured by Cronbach's alpha), the construct validity (correlation coefficients between the items comprising the SPEQ and selected variables) and the criterion validity (correlation coefficient between sexual dysfunction score and overall score of sexual life classification) were analyzed. RESULTS: one hundred and eight women answered all the questions of the SPEQ and were included in the study. Internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) for all the nine SPEQ items ranged from 0.55 to 0.77 and the general alpha was 0.68. In the construct validity analysis, most of the correlation coefficients were significant (p<0.005). The criterion validity analysis showed significant correlation coefficients in most cases. CONCLUSIONS: following the adaptation process, the Portuguese version of the SPEQ was deemed useful and appropriate for collecting data on sexual function and dyspareunia in Brazilian women, aged 45 to 65 years, with at least 11 years of schooling.3227276Kaiser, F.E., Sexual function and the older woman (2003) Clin Geriatr Med, 19 (3), pp. 463-472Dennerstein, L., Guthrie, J.R., Hayes, R.D., Derogatis, L.R., Lehert, P., Sexual function, dysfunction, and sexual distress in a prospective, population-based sample of mid-aged, Australian-born women (2008) J Sex Med, 5 (10), pp. 2291-2299Dennerstein, L., Lehert, P., Guthrie, J.R., Burger, H.G., Modeling women's health during the menopausal transition: A longitudinal analysis (2007) Menopause, 14 (1), pp. 53-62Laumann, E.O., Paik, A., Rosen, R.C., Sexual dysfunction in the United States: Prevalence and predictors (1999) Jama, 281 (6), pp. 537-544Valadares, A.L., Pinto-Neto, A.M., Osis, M.J., Conde, D.M., Sousa, M.H., Costa-Paiva, L., Sexuality in Brazilian women aged 40 to 65 years with 11 years or more of formal education: Associated factors (2008) Menopause, 15 (2), pp. 264-269Edwards, W.M., Coleman, E., Defining sexual health: A descriptive overview (2004) Arch Sex Behav, 33 (3), pp. 189-195Basson, R., Women's sexual dysfunction: Revised and expanded definitions (2005) Cmaj, 172 (10), pp. 1327-1333Valadares, A.L., Pinto-Neto, A.M., Osis, M.J., Sousa, M.H., Costa-Paiva, L., Conde, D.M., Prevalence of sexual dysfunction and its associated factors in women aged 40-65 years with 11 years or more of formal education: A population-based household survey (2008) Clinics (sao Paulo), 63 (6), pp. 775-782Valadares, A.L., Pinto-Neto, A.M., Conde, D.M., Osis, M.J., Sousa, M.H., Costa-Paiva, L., The sexuality of middle-aged women with a sexual partner: A population-based study (2008) Menopause, 15 (4 PART 1), pp. 706-713Valadares, A.L., Pinto-Neto, A.M., Conde, D.M., Sousa, M.H., Osis, M.J., Costa-Paiva, L., A population-based study of dyspareunia in a cohort of middle- aged Brazilian women (2008) Menopause, 15 (6), pp. 1184-1190Abdo, C.H., Oliveira Jr., W.M., Moreira Jr., E.D., Fittipaldi, J.A., Prevalence of sexual dysfunctions and correlated conditions in a sample of Brazilian women: Results of the Brazilian study on sexual behavior (BSSB) (2004) Int J Impot Res, 16 (2), pp. 160-166Dennerstein, L., Sexuality, midlife, and menopause (2008) Menopause, 15 (2), pp. 221-222McCoy, N.L., Female sexuality during age (2001) Functional Neurobiology of Aging, pp. 769-779. , In: Hof PR, Mobbs CV, editors., San Diego: Academic PressRosen, R., Brown, C., Heiman, J., Leiblum, S., Meston, C., Shabsigh, R., The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A multidimensional self-report instrument for the assessment of female sexual function (2000) J Sex Marital Ther, 26 (2), pp. 191-208Thiel, R.R.C., Dambros, M., Palma, P.C.R., Thiel, M., Riccetto, C.L.Z., Ramos, M.F., Tradução para português, adaptação cultural e validação do Female Sexual Function Index (2008) Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet, 30 (10), pp. 504-510Dennerstein, L., Lehert, P., Women's sexual functioning, lifestyle, mid-age, and menopause in 12 European countries (2004) Menopause, 11 (6 PART 2), pp. 778-785Dennerstein, L., Anderson-Hunt, M., Dudley, E., Evaluation of a short scale to assess female sexual functioning (2002) J Sex Marital Ther, 28 (5), pp. 389-397Dennerstein, L., Lehert, P., Dudley, E., Short scale to measure female sexuality: Adapted from McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire (2001) J Sex Marital Ther, 27 (4), pp. 339-351Herdman, M., Fox-Rushby, J., Badia, X., A model of equivalence in the cultural adaptation of HRQoL instruments: The universalist approach (1998) Qual Life Res, 7 (4), pp. 323-335Cronbach, L.J., Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests (1951) Psychometrika, 16 (3), pp. 297-334Nunnally, J.C., Bernstein, I.H., (1994) Psychometric Theory, , New York: McGraw-HillBowling, A., (1997) Measuring Disease: A Review of Disease Specific Quality of Life Measurement Scales, , Philadelphia: Open University PressLeite, A.P.L., Moura, E.A., Campos, A.A.S., Mattar, R., Souza, E., Camano, L., Validação do índice da função sexual feminina em grávidas brasileiras (2007) Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet, 29 (8), pp. 396-40
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
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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