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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
Pathways to reading acquisition : effects of early skills, learning environment and familial risk for dyslexia
No full textMinna Torppa tutki lasten lukemisen ja lukemisvalmiuksien kehittymistä syntymästä kahdeksan vuoden ikään. Hän huomioi sekä ympäristöön että perimään liittyviä riskejä ja suojaavia tekijöitä. Torppa tarkasteli erityisesti äänteiden tunnistamista ja kirjaintuntemusta sekä ympäristötekijöistä kodin lukemisvirikkeitä ja kouluvaiheessa luokkaympäristöä.Lukutaidon oppiminen edellyttää aina kirjoitettua kieltä sisältävän ympäristön. Oppimisen helppouteen vaikuttavat myös lapsen perityt vahvuudet ja heikkoudet erilaisilla taitoalueilla. Lukemisen vaikeuksien onkin havaittu periytyvän.This thesis examined the development of reading and its key predictors. A combination of traditional variable-oriented and person-oriented methods enabled a more holistic approach to the study of reading development than is usually adopted by traditional approaches. The analyses incorporated levels of early language and literacy skills, the learning environment, the child’s interest in reading activities and familial risk for dyslexia. Data from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD) was used in the analyses whereby 214 children (half of whom had familial risk for dyslexia indexed by parental incidence) and their families were followed from the child’s birth until the end of third grade. This thesis incorporates data that spans early language and literacy development from 1 to 8 years of age in the domains of vocabulary, phonological awareness, rapid serial naming (RAN), letter knowledge, morphological awareness, IQ and memory. The home literacy environment was measured through parental reporting of the amount of reading and print exposure during the children’s first eight years. Classroom effects were also studied from school age. Measures of the children's interest in reading were derived from parental reports spanning age two to eight.The results suggest that development of phonological awareness skills, letter knowledge and RAN provide the strongest prediction of reading. The associations between phonological processing, letter knowledge and vocabulary development were found to be bidirectional from early on. The effects of learning environment on reading were modest as observed in previous studies. The strongest associations between home environment and child skills emerged between shared reading and vocabulary development and between letter name teaching and letter name learning. In addition, children with poor reading skills differed from children with good reading skills in the amount of early shared reading and amount of reading alone. The effect of school classroom explained a small but significant portion of reading skills. Familial risk for dyslexia increased the risk of difficulties in several early skill areas but the learning environments of children with familial risk and those of the control children were found to differ only in relation to parent’s own reading activities. Familial risk for dyslexia moderated the associations between various environmental factors and between environmental factors and children’s skills in that the correlations were higher in the at-risk than the control group.unknown accessibilityei tietoa saavutettavuudest
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
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