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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
Victimization, Offending, and Expectations for Future Success Among High-Risk Youth
No full textThis item is available only to currently enrolled UTSA students, faculty or staff. To download, navigate to Log In in the top right-hand corner of this screen, then select Log in with my UTSA ID.Research on how high-risk youth perceive their futures is underdeveloped. Using the Pathways to Desistance Study data, this research examines how direct and indirect victimization, ongoing offending, and the overlap of these experiences influence expectations for future success. Results from a series of OLS regression models offer support for the existence of a relationship between these adverse experiences and expectations for the future. This is especially true for victim-offenders, who report lower expectations for future success than those who are only victims or offenders. In addition, this study examines how this consequence and the prevalence of the victim-offender overlap is influenced by the inclusion of indirect victimization. Implications for intervention and future research are discussed.Criminal Justic
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
Social Conditioning of Police Officers: Exploring the interactive effects of driver demographics on traffic stop outcomes
No full textDispelling 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 violent victimization of children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly: situational characteristics and outcomes
No full textThis item is available only to currently enrolled UTSA students, faculty or staff. To download, navigate to Log In in the top right-hand corner of this screen, then select Log in with my UTSA ID.The current thesis is an exploratory study on the nature and outcomes of the violent victimization of children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Using data from NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System) differences between four age groups will be assessed in terms of both the likelihood of victim injury and clearance by arrest, as well as the situational characteristics that predict these outcomes. Both descriptive statistics, bivariate, and multivariate models will be computed to delineate these relationships. Results from logistic regression analyses indicate that while children do represent a vulnerable and dependent group, the nature and outcomes of crimes involving younger victims do not vary as greatly as anticipated from those involving older victims. It appears that variables predicting a greater risk of victim injury, such as crimes involving weapons or those occurring at night, were less influential for child victims. However, age-specific predictions for variables associated with higher arrest rates were refuted, providing little support for the victim devaluing perspective. The present study represents a first step in assessing how victimization experiences vary by age. Future research should consider examining victim injury or arrest for different age groups than those in this study to determine how these outcomes vary across differing age thresholds. Further, researchers might also use alternative data sets which include measures of police resource use, victim resistance, and offender motive to understand how these factors influence the likelihood of victim injury or arrest, as well as the situational and incident characteristics associated with these outcomes.Criminal Justic
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
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