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Policy options for responding to obesity: evaluating the options
No full textThis summary report maps the views of stakeholders involved in tackling obesity, based on an EC-funded project (Porgrow). The summary report abstracts from 10 individual country reports. The methodology is based on Prof Stirling¿s `multi-criteria mapping¿. Prof Millstone initiated and led the Porgrow project, and identifying obesity as an emerging area for applying science and technology policy is largely due to his efforts. The co-author, Dr Lobstein, was based in SPRU during the writing-up of the project. Further details are given in a special issue of Obesity Reviews (Vol. 8, Supp., May 2007, ISSN 1467-7881)
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Policy options for responding to obesity: evaluating the options
No full textThis summary report maps the views of stakeholders involved in tackling obesity, based on an EC-funded project (Porgrow). The summary report abstracts from 10 individual country reports. The methodology is based on Prof Stirling¿s `multi-criteria mapping¿. Prof Millstone initiated and led the Porgrow project, and identifying obesity as an emerging area for applying science and technology policy is largely due to his efforts. The co-author, Dr Lobstein, was based in SPRU during the writing-up of the project. Further details are given in a special issue of Obesity Reviews (Vol. 8, Supp., May 2007, ISSN 1467-7881)
sj-docx-1-inq-10.1177_00469580231154651 – Supplemental material for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Vietnam: A Landscape Analysis of the Extent and Risk Factors
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-inq-10.1177_00469580231154651 for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Vietnam: A Landscape Analysis of the Extent and Risk Factors by Hoang Van Minh, Dr Quynh Long Khuong, Tuan Anh Tran, Hong Phuong Do, Fiona Watson and Tim Lobstein in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing</p
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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
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