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Community Pathways: A Joint Black Country Mental Health Trust and Sandwell College Project to Encourage Participation in Education
No full textWe plan to include in each future issue something on opportunities in education. This time, Tracey Austin and Liam Dolan write about an unusual partnership between a college and a psychiatric hospital. Tracey Austin is Education Editor for A life in the day and she would be delighted to discuss articles for inclusion in future issues. She can be contacted at Sandwell College, telephone: 0121‐556 6000.</jats:p
The Role of Education in the Lives of People with Mental Health Difficulties
No full textTracey Austin draws on her experiences in community mental health and further education t introduce a regular feature exploring the opportunities for education in the lives of people with mental health difficulties.</jats:p
Working the market
No full textA life in the day Board member Tracey Austin came across a unique craft business while browsing in Spitalfields market. She was inspired to pay a visit and here is what she found…</jats:p
resources
No full textIntroducing a new regular page listing reports, publications and training materials of relevance to readers. If you come across new publications, training materials, websites or other resources that might be of interest to other readers, please send details to Tracey Austin e [email protected]</jats:p
Core Arts ‐ a labour of love
No full textTracey Austin, trustee, Core Arts, grapples with the task of describing an arts project that manages to engage with and inspire a very diverse population. Despite funding difficulties the project finds room not only to welcome all its members, but also to draw out creative potential and to support participants, volunteers and staff in dealing with whatever life brings along. This article will make you wonder about what turns an ordinary project into an extraordinary one like Core Arts.</jats:p
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
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
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