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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
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
Providing Integrated Health and Social Care in Italy
No full textIn Italy, although some experiences have been realised, we cannot say that there is a single integrated health and social system, but two distinguished ones, the system of health services and the one of social services, that have managed to establish more or less stable or tight organisational ties. This dualism fostered the proliferation of divergent patterns of approaches to long-term care, both from a territorial and organizational perspective. In Italy, at least until the 1990s, there was an unclear perception of older persons’ care needs, and there were unclear typologies of services aimed at maintaining their health. Furthermore, different regional contexts, different functions performed by institutional actors, associations and families consistently influenced the territorial organization of integrated services for older persons.
Nevertheless, after a period of strong diversity among territories during the 1990s, almost all Italian regions have been implementing similar structures of care provision. Convergence towards similar modes of integrated care is the outcome of the transfer of policy knowledge from Regions in the van (North and Centre) to other ones.
Territorial integrated health and social care for older persons is focused on the promotion of older persons’ security and autonomy. The system of care provision has a network configuration, involving different local services, with clear and common goals, processes, instruments and methods of evaluation. Regions represent the institutional level devoted to define strategic goals for the local integrated network. They have to plan the local system of care provision and they are responsible for its financial and economic management. Local Health Units and their Districts, in particular, are liable for providing health services and for planning individual care. Municipalities are, in turn, liable for the coordination of the whole network.
Recently, a renewed attention towards “weak citizens”, especially older persons (who represent almost the 20% of Italian population), joined to the birth of a new administrative culture - due to administrative and social reforms launched by the Italian government during the 90s – have fostered the experimentation of innovative care services, especially at the regional level. For instance, latest regional integrated services for older persons in Veneto, Tuscany and Emilia Romagna, try to combine recent organizational theories with new ways of working (i.e. project management, quality management, empowerment techniques, etc), and a client-oriented approach.
Such services represent new model ways of working that promote quality:
− at a structural level: by integrating different organizational units and by using new technologies for a rapid data exchange among services (Single Point of Home Care - Municipality of Empoli)
− during the process of care provision: by creating multi-professional teams for a multi-dimensional needs assessment (The Multidimensional Evaluation Unit - Regione Veneto)
− at a client level: by adopting a quality management strategy or a person-centred approach (Operative Unit of Seamless Care – Local Health Unit Vicenza; Quality of Home Care – District of Correggio; The Alzheimer Day Centre “Stella del Colle” – Municipality of Florence).
Although legislative, organizational, financial, and cultural impediments have hampered for years the development of integrated health and social care in Italy, such factors have not prevented the blooming of many pioneering projects and experiences at the local level. In particular, some stakeholders have taken initiative based on different rationales, for instance:
− administrators who consider the integration of health and social services as a strategic factor qualifying the system and overcoming financial gaps (principle of effectiveness – efficiency);
− professionals who are convinced that they cannot produce satisfying results if they do not increase the collaboration among the various professions (principle of technical effectiveness); and, last but not least
− citizens who become aware of their complex needs and claim for more coherence of the supply system (principle of strategic effectiveness)
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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