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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
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
Investigating Teachers' Implementation of New Social and Emotional Learning Standards Through a Community of Practice
Get PDFPoster Division: Education and Human Ecology: 1st Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum)The state of Ohio has recently released new social and emotional learning (SEL) standards for all subjects and grade levels, yet not all teachers are prepared for SEL. Whenever a change occurs in education, teachers need support to successfully negotiate and implement that change, often in the form of professional development (PD). There is currently a lack of systemic, district-level PD on implementing the new SEL standards. This has created a need for quality PD on SEL, especially for physical education (PE) teachers who often do not receive quality PD. One method that teachers have successfully used as PD is a community of practice (CoP). The purpose of this project was to engage in participatory action research (PAR) with elementary physical education teachers through a CoP focusing on implementing SEL standards in their classes. The study addressed the following research questions (1) How is SEL understood by teachers in the elementary PE curriculum over the course of the project? (2) What do teachers perceive to be the problems of implementing SEL into their lessons? (3) What strategies do teachers use to address SEL in their classes? and (4) What student behaviors do teachers expect students will demonstrate as evidence of growth in SEL? This project is based on a constructivist perspective that knowledge is constructed be each person based on their life experiences. As such, each person has knowledge to contribute to a project; knowledge is not solely held by researchers. PAR occurs as a lead researcher and those involved in the project work together to design, implement, and study the results in a repeated cycle of action. Teachers in this project agreed that new SEL standards was a problem they wanted to investigate. The teachers chose a course of action to address this in their respective teaching. The facilitator observed as action was taken. The teachers and facilitator kept journals of the results of the action, then met as a CoP group bi-weekly to discuss results and choose new courses of action. To gain a greater context for teachers' implementation of new standards, classroom teachers, school counselors, school principals, and district leaders were interviewed in addition to the physical education teachers themselves. The project will continue through January 2020. Anticipated findings include a change in teachers' understanding of SEL as a result of being a part of the CoP. It is anticipated that teachers will begin this project with limited understanding of what SEL is and will have negligible experience implementing SEL during their lessons. Their knowledge of and ability to include SEL will increase as teachers talk with the facilitator and other teachers, and as they attempt to meet the new standards. It is anticipated that each teacher will take unique approaches to including SEL into their practice, but that each will benefit from the sharing of struggles and success with other teachers. It is hoped teachers will expect specific behaviors from students that can be practiced and observed as evidence of teaching SEL. These student behaviors are expected to increase in frequency as teachers include more SEL during instruction. It is also hoped that this project will result in a greater understanding of how teachers want and use PD to improve their own practice, particularly when new standards come out. The implications of this project could have a broad impact in education. Districts can learn how to design PD that is of more benefit to teachers. A greater understanding of how PD is used by teachers to change their teaching practice can be drawn from this study. Building on that finding could be a greater understanding of how the changes teachers make based upon PD impacts student behaviors. This project could lead to a better understanding of how teachers learn, how better to design PD to serve teachers, and how PD for teachers could impact students and student learning.A five-year embargo was granted for this item
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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