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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
« L’outil de notre métier » : définir et enseigner l’empathie dans les programmes collégiaux
No full textEmpathy is a fundamental skill in developing trusting, respectful relationships, which is a required capacity for many college program graduates upon entering the Canadian workforce. However, little is known about how faculty define, value, and teach students to develop and effectively utilize empathy. A grounded methodological approach shaped the gathering of curriculum and interview data to assess relevant faculty understandings and teaching approaches. Faculty generally shared an understanding of empathy as ‘putting yourself in another person’s shoes’, while also valuing attention to emotions and a perspective-taking orientation. All faculty saw empathy as central to their students’ future success in the field, and to the well-being of Canadian society as a whole. A variety of teaching approaches were noted, with an emphasis on experiential methods. Faculty members expressed universal interest in further collaboration with peers.
L’empathie est une compétence fondamentale qui permet de développer des relations de confiance et de respect, ce qui constitue une capacité requise pour de nombreux diplômés de programmes collégiaux lorsque ceux-ci font leur entrée sur le marché du travail canadien. Toutefois, on sait peu de choses sur la manière dont les professeurs et les professeures définissent, valorisent et enseignent à leurs étudiants et à leurs étudiantes comment développer et utiliser efficacement l’empathie. Une approche méthodologique fondée sur le terrain a façonné la collecte de données sur les programme scolaires et les entretiens afin d’évaluer les compréhensions et les approches pédagogiques pertinentes des professeurs et des professeures. En général, les professeurs et les professeures s’accordent pour dire que l’empathie est « le fait de se mettre à la place d’une autre personne », tout en accordant de la valeur au fait de prendre en considération les émotions et l’orientation vers la prise de recul. Tous les professeurs et toutes les professeures considèrent l’empathie comme un élément central de la réussite future de leurs étudiants et de leurs étudiantes dans leur domaine, et du bien-être de la société canadienne dans son ensemble. Toute une variété d’approches d’enseignement ont été notées, avec une concentration sur les méthodes expérientielles. Les professeurs et les professeures ont exprimé un intérêt universel de collaborer plus avant avec leurs pairs
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
Embodied Transformation: Tapping into the Nature of Emergent Learning
Full text linkThis dissertation describes a basic qualitative inquiry research study, regarding participant
experiences of an emergent approach to teaching in higher education. Patterns in transformative
meaning-making were a particular focus. Complexity theory was an orienting theory for the
study, and was included in a theoretical framework which organized observation, interviewing,
and the analysis of data. Participants were twenty-two (22) pre-service teacher education
students, specializing in ecological literacy and consciousness. There were fifteen (15) female,
and seven (7) male participants, with an age range of 22-33. Research methods included informal
and semi-structured interview notes, field notes, and artifacts collected and analyzed to identify
themes and patterns. The course being studied utilized an emergent design approach, in which
participants played roles in “macro-models”, which are analogous representations of ecological
phenomena. Participants also engaged in a variety of other activities, and reflected on
experiences. Macro-models encouraged intensive interaction between participants and were
conducted in natural surroundings. A new term, “embodied transformation”, emerged from the
analysis of data to describe the dynamic learning process that participants experienced. A model
was developed to visually represent embodied transformation, including growth in conceptual
understanding, which occurred through linear and non-linear processes of disequilibrium,
dispersal of old understandings, and coalescence of new and more adaptive understandings of
key concepts. Conceptual understanding was not solely intellectual, but rather was rooted in the
physiological, emotional, and psychological aspects of participant experiences. These
dimensions caused changes in the intent and behaviour of participants as their understanding
became personally meaningful and connected to the larger ecosystem. This process was
recursive in that understandings, including discovering connections between concepts, were re-visited on multiple occasions, becoming more complex and transferrable to novel situations as
the course progressed. Embodied transformation is discussed as a natural learning process,
evoked by the emergent design approach. The doctoral research project itself is discussed as a
complex phenomenon, in which conceptual understanding of complexity grew through an
unforeseen, recursive, embodied, and emergent process
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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