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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
On the turning away: direct and indirect effects of mortality salience, self-esteem, and fear on death-thought accessibility
No full textTerror management theory (TMT) claims that when people are reminded of death through mortality being made salient (mortality salience; MS), we experience increased death-thought accessibility (DTA) which must be managed by our psychological anxiety buffers (e.g., selfesteem) to maintain psychological well-being. While some TMT research claims these processes do not depend on the experience of negative affect, such as fear, other research claims that affect plays a central role in this process. The studies in this thesis test two hypotheses: 1) MS will increase fear among those with lower self-esteem, and 2) increased fear among those with lower self-esteem will result in decreased DTA, indicating that MS indirectly decreases DTA through the experience of fear in those with lower self-esteem. These studies also tested to what extent delay measures and order of presentation of downstream measures affect both fear and DTA. To test these hypotheses, I recruited participants from Prolific crowd-sourcing software and measured their self-esteem. I then randomly assigned them to respond to either an MS prompt or control prompt (TV salience and dental pain salience) and quantified the amount of fear they wrote about. Participants then completed self-report measures of affect and a word-fragment DTA task. Using a moderated-mediation regression model, I examined the direct and indirect effects of MS, selfesteem, fear, and other moderators on DTA. I found insufficient evidence to support either hypothesis; MS does not appear to indirectly decrease DTA through fear. Implications for TMT, future research directions, and limitations are discussed.Keywords: terror management theory, self-esteem, mortality salience, fear, death-thought accessibility.</p
The art of self-deception: individual differences in death-thought accessibility following standard manipulations of mortality salience and delay
No full textAccording to Terror-Management Theory (TMT), all people are afraid of death, whether they realize it or not. Despite this, people report varying degrees of fear of death. Are people who say they are not afraid of death in denial? The current study sought to test this hypothesis using TMT methodology. Accordingly, I assessed the extent to which people dismiss thoughts of death from focal attention following a death reminder (i.e., mortality salience; MS) using an implicit measure of death-thought accessibility (DTA). Participants (N=758) completed a pre-screening questionnaire assessing self-reported fear of death (FOD) and were randomly assigned to a 2 (MS v. control) × 2 (delay v. no delay) between-subjects factorial design. Results showed only an MS × Delay interaction such that DTA was heightened immediately after MS, but not after a delay. FOD did not moderate the results
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
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