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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
Before during and after the elite career : A qualitative essay on elite initiative from five women's perspectives
No full textAtt satsa på något man tycker om att göra är för många inte så konstigt, att ha ett mål att eftersträva. Men att lägga större delen av sin fritid och all tänkbar tid till att förverkliga denna tanke är mindre vanligt förekommande. I vardagen finns det många måsten och sysslor som vi som personer behöver uträtta varje dag för att få vår tillvara att gå runt, att jobba eller studera för att kunna betala räkningar, att transportera oss, att spendera tid med andra för att uppehålla vår sociala status och kontakt med omvärlden, att laga mat och äta för att orka träna, jobba, studera med flera. Min uppsats handlar om att genom kvalitativa intervjuer lyfta fram fem elitsatsande individer och deras väg med dessa omgivande faktorer som påverkar dem på vägen mot sitt mål. Mitt fokus ligger på kvinnlig elitsatsning och att skildra den personliga utvecklingen ur ett historiskt perspektiv. Här har jag tagit mer hänsyn till öppenhet och förståelse med ett fenomenologiskt perspektiv för att kunna öppna upp för tolkningar med skildringar från mina informanters berättelser. Denna uppsats har därför en strukturerad uppdelning med olika ingångspunkter. Det finns en del av uppsatsen med fokus på individ, en del uppväxt, en del familjens syn, samt en del på gruppen som lag. Hur alla dessa perspektiv på sitt eget sätt varit med och påverkat individen till att skapa sin identitet. De fem intervjuerna som uppsatsen grundas på utgår från en semistrukturerad intervjuguide. Alla intervjuer utom en genomfördes i Karlstad och mina informanter hade en god spridning från hemorter runt om i landet. Resultaten från informanterna tyder på gemensamma nämnare mellan olika områden och dess effekter de har på kvinnligt elitsatsande. Mycket tydliga resultat framkom angående familjens påverkan på individen och gruppers inverkan med positiva utvecklingar. Hur den mentala påfrestningen kan förebyggas och vad en grupptillhörighet kan betyda för en individ. To invest in something you care about, to aim for a goal, may not seem very strange to many. But to spend most of your time to actualize this goal is not as common. In a daily routine there are plenty of chores that are necessary like going to work, pay the bills, commute, socialize and so on. This essay will treat these factors and their effect on five individual elite athletes on their journey of reaching their goals through qualitative interviews. The focus will be on female elite athletes and depict the individual development through a historical perspective. I have taken consideration in openness and understanding through a phenomenological perspective to be able to open up for interpretations from my interviewed narratives. The essay will therefore have a structured division with different angles. These parts will be focusing on the individual itself, their childhood, the families point of view, group dynamic in team sports and how all of these different perspectives contribute to the individual. The five interviews that the essay is based upon revolves around a semi structured interview guide. The interviews took place in Karlstad but all of the informants are not originally from Karlstad neither did they grow up with each other. The results from the informants all signify a coherent marker between the different fields and the effects involving feminine elite athletes. Very clear results emerged regarding the family’s effect on the individual and the influence of groups and positive personal developments. How the mental struggle can be prevented by group affiliation and how that contributes to the individual.
Mellan Närvaro och Självbestämmande : Den nya arbetarklassen och den sociala påverkan av RTO-policys
No full textThis thesis investigates the sociological consequences of return-to-office (RTO) policies following extended periods of remote and hybrid work arrangements triggered by the COVID19 pandemic. As organizations shift from flexibility back toward traditional office-based structures, new tensions emerge between institutional expectations and employee preferences.Using a quantitative survey of 70 office-based employees in the Czech Republic, this study examines how RTO transitions impact individuals’ experiences of autonomy, identity, and value alignment, three interrelated dimensions of contemporary labor that are central to wellbeing, motivation, and belonging. Key findings from the study reveal that a reduction in perceived autonomy, especially over where and when work is carried out, is significantly correlated with an increased sense of pressure to conform to organizational RTO mandates. Furthermore, value misalignment between employees and employers, particularly regarding flexibility and work-life balance, is associated with decreased emotional well-being and increased resistance to returning to the office. Notably, the strongest correlation identified in the data links identity coherence with emotional balance, emphasizing the stabilizing effects of authenticity and self-consistency in a workplace context.Denna avhandling undersöker de sociologiska konsekvenserna av återgång till kontor (RTO-policyer) efter långvariga perioder med distans- och hybridarbete som initierades av COVID-19-pandemin. När organisationer rör sig från flexibilitet tillbaka till traditionella kontorsstrukturer uppstår nya spänningar mellan institutionella förväntningar och medarbetares preferenser. Genom en kvantitativ enkät riktad till 70 kontorsanställda i Tjeckien undersöker studien hur övergången till RTO påverkar individers upplevelser av autonomi, identitet och värdeöverensstämmelse tre samverkande dimensioner i det moderna arbetslivet som är centrala för välmående, motivation och tillhörighet. Studien visar att en minskning av upplevd autonomi, särskilt beträffande var och när arbetet utförs, är signifikant korrelerad med en ökad känsla av tryck att anpassa sig till organisationens RTO-krav. Vidare är en värdemässig oenighet mellan medarbetare och arbetsgivare, särskilt när det gäller flexibilitet och balans mellan arbete och liv förknippad med minskad emotionell hälsa och ökat motstånd mot kontorsåtergång. Den starkaste korrelationen i data kopplar identitetskohärens med emotionell balans, vilket understryker de stabiliserande effekterna av autenticitet och självkonsekvens i arbetsrelaterade sammanhan
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
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