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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
Identification des variables favorisant l'adoption des comportements préventifs de la maladie de Lyme
No full textThèse ou mémoire avec insertion d'articlesLes changements climatiques ont entrainé une augmentation de l'incidence de la maladie de Lyme en Amérique du Nord. Au Canada, depuis que la maladie de Lyme est devenue une maladie à déclaration obligatoire au niveau national, le nombre de cas humains signalés est passé de 144 cas en 2009 à 2 851 en 2021. En l'absence de vaccin, les interventions visant à protéger les populations contre la maladie de Lyme reposent essentiellement sur la promotion des comportements individuels servant à se prémunir des piqûres de tiques. Malheureusement, ces mesures individuelles de prévention ne semblent pas suffisamment mises en pratique. Cette étude vise à identifier les facteurs saillants qui entravent ou qui pourraient faciliter l'adaptation des populations à la maladie de Lyme. Elle poursuit précisément un double objectif : d'identifier les prédicteurs saillants de l'adoption des comportements visant à se prémunir des piqûres de tiques au sein des différents groupes définis par l'âge et le niveau de scolarité d'une part, et d'autre part de déterminer les différents profils d'adaptation à la maladie de Lyme à partir des prédicteurs saillants retenus dans chaque groupe grâce à la régression par copules. Les données ont été collectées auprès de 3941 adultes vivant dans une zone à risque pour la maladie de Lyme. Les participants ont rempli un questionnaire par téléphone (n = 1003) ou sur le Web (n = 2938). Le questionnaire permettait de savoir s'ils adoptaient ou non les comportements servant à se prémunir des piqûres de tiques proposés par les responsables de la santé publique du Québec. Il mesurait également certaines variables de la Théorie du Comportement Planifié, notamment leur attitude ou les normes sociales perçues concernant les comportements. La méthode d'analyse statistique utilisée est la régression par copules. Nos résultats ont d'abord permis d'identifier les prédicteurs saillants de l'adaptation à la maladie de Lyme au sein de six sous-groupes définis par l'âge et le niveau de scolarité. Les prédicteurs sélectionnés par la régression par copules étaient les suivants : l'intention, la susceptibilité, la connaissance de la maladie de Lyme, le risque perçu, la sévérité perçue, la présence d'enfant dans le ménage, la perception de contrôle et les normes sociales. Leur sélection et leur pouvoir de prédiction diffèrent d'un groupe à un autre, avec quelques similarités remarquables entre les groupes. Ensuite, en « profilant » les participants selon leurs réponses aux questions pertinentes à la prédiction de l'adaptation, nous avons analysé dans chaque groupe les dix profils de réponse qui maximisaient les valeurs conditionnelles attendues de l'adaptation à la maladie de Lyme. Nous concluons que l'âge et le niveau de scolarité jouent dans la décision des individus d'adopter les comportements visant à se prémunir des piqûres de tiques, parce qu'en marge des similitudes notables entre les groupes, des spécificités d'intérêt en termes d'orientation des interventions ont été également identifiées dans certains groupes. En plus, il existe plusieurs manières de bien s'adapter à la maladie de Lyme. Ces informations peuvent donc être utilisées par les autorités sanitaires pour développer des interventions éducatives plus ciblées et plus efficaces dans le cadre de la lutte pour l'amélioration de l'adoption des comportements servant à se prémunir des piqûres de tiques.Climate change has led to an increase in the incidence of Lyme disease. In Canada, since Lyme disease became a nationally notifiable disease, the number of reported human cases has increased from 144 cases in 2009 to 2,851 in 2021. In the absence of a vaccine, interventions to protect populations from Lyme disease rely primarily on the promotion of individual behaviours to protect against tick bites. Unfortunately, these individual prevention measures do not appear to be sufficiently practiced. This study aims to identify salient factors that hinder or facilitate population adaptation to Lyme disease. Specifically, it has two objectives: to identify salient predictors of the adoption of behaviours to protect against tick bites within different groups defined by age and education level on the one hand, and on the other hand to determine the different patterns of adaptation to Lyme disease based on the salient predictors selected in each group through copula regression. Data were collected from 3941 adults living in an area at risk for Lyme disease. Participants completed a questionnaire by telephone (n = 1003) or on the Web (n = 2938). The questionnaire asked whether or not they adopted the behaviours to prevent tick bites proposed by Quebec public health officials. It also measured certain Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) variables, including their attitudes or perceived social norms regarding Lyme disease preventive behaviours (LDPB). The statistical analysis method used was copula regression. Our results first identified salient predictors of adjustment to Lyme disease within six subgroups defined by age and education. The predictors selected by copula regression were intention, susceptibility, knowledge of Lyme disease, perceived risk, perceived severity, presence of children in the household, perceived control, and social norms. Their predictive power and selection differed from group to group, with some remarkable similarities between groups. Next, by "profiling" respondents with identical responses to the variables most predictive of adaptation in each group, we analyzed the 10 profiles in each group that maximized the expected conditional values of Lyme disease adaptation. We conclude that age and education level play a role in individuals' decision to engage in behaviours to protect themselves from tick bites, because, in addition to the notable similarities between the groups, specificities of interest in terms of the orientation of the interventions were also identified in some groups. Furthermore, there are many ways to cope well with Lyme disease. This information can be used by health authorities to develop more targeted and effective educational interventions in the fight to improve the adoption of tick-bite prevention behaviours
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
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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