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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
To support all children's play and playing in preschool from a special educational perspective
No full textBakgrunden till denna studie är att undersöka och kritiskt granska synen på lek och vilket handlande det kan generera. Särskilt avser studien undersöka hur förskollärare, specialpedagoger och rektorer ser på förskollärares handlande samt hur den specialpedagogiska rollen beskrivs i relation till förskollärares handlande och barns lek. Tidigare forskning hänvisar till att förskollärare har behov av kunskap för att agera stödjande i förhållande till barns lek. Studier pekar på att omkringliggande samverkansfaktorer är avgörande för förskollärares möjligheter, där betydelsen av ett systematiskt tänk i organisationer visar på positiva effekter i ett långsiktigt perspektiv. Studien utgår från systemteoretiska synsätt samt från kommunikationsteoretiska, sociologiska och kulturella synsätt på lek. Både kvalitativ metod i form av fokusgruppintervjuer och kvantitativ metod i form av enkät har använts. Fokusgruppintervjuer har genomförts med förskollärare och specialpedagoger och digital enkät med öppna frågeställningar till rektorer. Resultaten från intervjuer och enkät visar att lekens betydelse behöver lyftas för att möjliggöra förskollärares handlade i samverkan med specialpedagog och rektor. Resultatet visar också att förskollärare handlande styrs av andra delar i organisationen som ses som viktigare. Andra delar som framkommer är behov av kunskap av betydelsen av vuxnas agerande i förhållande till lek som innefattar teorier kring lek samt att lyfta leken i de lokala styrdokument och uppföljningsverktyg som används. Sammantaget kan resultatet relateras till ett helhetstänk som kan bidra till ett systematiskt arbete runt lek i en organisation. Genom fokus på professioners handlande gällande barns lek och ett proaktivt arbetssätt kan barn stödjas i socialt samspel som ett sätt för att minimera risken för utanförskap.The basis of this study is to investigate and critically examine the view on play and what action it can generate. In particular, the study aims to investigate how preschool teachers, special educators, and principals view preschool teachers' behavior, as well as how the role of the special education teacher is described in relation to preschool teachers behavior and childrens play. Previous research refers to preschool teachers having a need for knowledge in order to act in a supportive way in relation to children's play. Studies indicate that surrounding collaboration factors are crucial for preschool teachers' opportunities, where the importance of systematic thinking in organizations shows positive effects in a long-term perspective. The study assumes the systems theory perspective as well as the communication theoretical, sociological, and cultural approaches to play. Both a qualitative method in the shape of focus group interviews as well as a quantitative method by way of questionnaires have been used. Focus group interviews have been carried out with preschool teachers and special educators, and digital questionnaires with open questions for the principals. The results from interviews and questionnaires illustrates that the importance of play needs to be emphasized to enable preschool teachers to act in collaboration with special educator and principal. The results show that the preschool teacher's actions are guided by other parts of the organization that are seen as more important. Other parts that appear in the results are the need for knowledge of the meaning of adult's actions in relation to play that involves theories around play, and to lift play in the local control documents and follow-up tools that are being used. Overall the result can be seen related to holistic thinking that can contribute to a systematic work around play in an organization. Through focus on professionals' actions regarding children's play and a proactive way of working, children can be supported in social interaction as a way to minimize the risk of exclusion
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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