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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
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
Encouraging desistance through prison-based sexual offending programmes with autistic individuals
No full textWhilst autistic people are no more likely to engage in crime than neurotypical people, evidence has suggested that sexual crime is one of the more common forms of offending committed by the minority of autistic people that do engage in crime. Increasing evidence also suggests that autistic individuals have qualitatively different experiences of the criminal justice system compared to other neurotypes. Limited applied empirical research has investigated how prison-based rehabilitation is experienced by autistic individuals, and how best to work with those individuals during offending behaviour interventions. This talk explored how prison-based interventions to address sexual offending are experienced by autistic individuals with sexual offence convictions and the staff who work with them, and how these lived experiences can inform how we work with and support autistic people during these interventions. This presentation summarises
themes that were identified through a multi-perspective phenomenologically-informed thematic analysis of interviews with autistic individuals with sexual convictions, and prison staff involved in prison-based rehabilitation of men with sexual convictions. Themes highlight some of key issues relating to the format and delivery of offending behaviour interventions, as well as the impact of the broader context
around a programme on an individual's engagement with rehabilitation. Findings from this study have informed practical recommendations for how best to work with autistic individuals with sexual offence convictions in criminal justice interventions
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
Experiences of Autistic Individuals in UK Prison-based Sexual Offending Interventions
No full textResearch indicates that autistic people are no more likely to engage in crime than neurotypical people. However, in the minority of autistic people that do engage in crime, evidence has suggested that sexual crime is one of the more common forms of offending committed by those individuals, increasing evidence suggests that autistic individuals have qualitatively different experiences of prison compared to other neurotypes. Despite this, limited research has investigated how prison-based rehabilitation is experienced by autistic individuals, and how best to work with those
individuals during offending behaviour interventions. The present study (i) explored how prison-based interventions to address sexual offending are experienced by autistic
individuals with sexual offence convictions and the staff who work with them, and (ii) identified the features of prison-based sexual offending interventions that can be
challenging or beneficial for autistic individuals with sexual convictions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in the UK with 12 autistic men serving prison sentences for
sexual convictions, and 13 members of prison staff involved in prison-based rehabilitation of men with sexual convictions. This presentation will summarise the themes that were identified through a multi-perspective phenomenologically-informed thematic analysis of interviews. These themes highlight some of the key issues relating to the format and delivery of offending behaviour interventions, as well as the impact of the broader prison context on rehabilitation. Findings from this study have informed
practical recommendations for how best to work with autistic individuals with sexual offence convictions in prison-based interventions
Neurodiversity in custodial settings: lessons from the lived experiences of neurodivergent people in prison
No full textAn insight into the lived experiences of neurodivergent people in custodial settings, and lessons for practice that can be transferred across the criminal justice system
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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