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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
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
The effects of acute psychosocial stress on the attentional networks
No full textAcute stress is a pervasive aspect of modern life that is often considered harmful to health and wellbeing. Whilst its potential to alter attention is also well reported (McEwen & Sapolsky, 1995), there is no consensus whether this change is advantageous or detrimental. This programme of work investigated the effects of acute psychosocial stress on aspects of attention that are frequently engaged in many different tasks; the attentional networks. Additionally, the programme examined whether the physiological transformations following acute stress directly influence any changes to attention. In a synthesis of these aims, novel experiments were designed to measure changes to the normal efficiency of three attentional networks, in two discrete periods following stress that broadly reflect the known physiological response: (1) the activation of the Sympathetic Nervous System (0-15 minutes), and (2) the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis (20-35 minutes). Selfreport measures and biomarkers Alpha Amylase (SNS) and Cortisol (HPA-Axis) confirmed successful stress induction following a Socially Evaluative Cold Pressor Task. Behavioural data showed that whilst exposure to acute stress can lead to heightened levels of vigilance, it can also suppress practice effects impacting on executive control of attention. Moreover, these effects manifest differently depending on the time of day. When measured in the morning, the effects appear dependent on the time course of stress, with hypervigilance evident immediately following exposure, and practice suppressed in the delayed period. However, in the afternoon, such effects did not appear to be moderated by time-course and appeared irrespective of period. Alpha Amylase and Cortisol were further examined to understand whether elevated levels of the biomarkers predicted those changes to attention. Elevated SNS activity (Alpha Amylase) was related to heightened vigilance in the morning. However, in spite of its prominence across stress literature, Cortisol did not appear to share a relationship with any change to attentional efficiency
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
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