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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
The history of Koi aquaculture in Singapore from 1965 to the present : translating translocated scientific knowledge from Japan into biosecurity
No full textKoi is a non-native ornamental commercially valuable species imported and cultivated as an ornamental fish in Singapore. In this thesis, I analysed the translocation of Japanese koi to Singapore from 1965 to 2018. In order to successfully translocate koi from Japan to Singapore, its environment had to be translated into scientific and vernacular knowledge which were translated into Singapore farm practices, policies and regulations by different social groups. Singaporean hobbyists attribute many of the differences among the koi kept in Japan versus that of in Singapore to the difference in climate and environment, in particular different water conditions. My study was an attempt to answer these questions: First, how and why did ornamental aquaculture practices in Singapore change over time? Second, what did Singapore take from Japan's koi cultivation practices, and how did they change them? Finally, what kind of knowledge is derived from koi aquaculture? I answered these questions by analysing the kind of knowledge that emerged from the translocation of koi and the translation of this knowledge into Singapore farm practices, government policy and regulations.
I conducted semi-structured interviews and participant observation, and used snowball sampling to obtain interviewees, between June 2015 to the end of 2016 in both Singapore and Niigata Prefecture, Japan. I used document sources to build a qualitative history of the ornamental aquaculture industry of Singapore. I analysed the kinds of knowledge generated by the people working within agriculture, prioritizing ornamental fish aquaculture. I used thematic analysis to code my data and obtain themes. Two main themes emerged: the importance of water and the biosecurity of koi aquaculture in Singapore from the analytic lenses translation and translocation.
Biosecurity emerged from the translocation and translation of koi and KHV from Japan to Singapore. Knowledge about KHV was translated into a disease-regulation protocol in Japan. The protocol was then transferred to Singapore and officials used a militarized concept of disease to translate the protocol into biosecurity regulations. This facilitated the formation of new koi-cultivation practices in the form of strict quarantine and certification measures that impacted farm practices and eventually the ornamental fish aquaculture industry in general. The biosecurity measures prioritized disease-free status of koi in Singapore. The implementation of these strict measures fell to the regulatory officials of the AVA, and thus contributed not only to the more antagonistic relationship between the regulators and the regulated, but also to the decline of the koi industry in Singapore. The translocation of koi from Japan to Singapore provided the impetus for scientific knowledge generation about koi and its complex relationships. The translations of this knowledge into a disease management protocol that could be understood and implemented resulted in the emergence of biosecurity within ornamental fish aquaculture.Doctor of Philosoph
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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