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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
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
Poverty and Hunger in India: What is Needed to Eliminate Them
Get PDFThere is a widespread impression among the Indian
intelligentsia, foreign scholars, and residents of developed/rich
countries that India’s economic growth has not reduced poverty, that
globalisation has worsened poverty and/or income distribution, and that
there are hundreds of millions of hungry people in India. These
arguments are buttressed by recourse to India’s ranking on several
social indicators. Esoteric debates about the comparability of survey
data and gaps between NSS and NAS add to the confusion and allow
ideologues to believe and assert whatever information suits the
argument. What are the basic facts about poverty, income distributions,
and hunger at an aggregate level? This paper reviews the available data
and debates on this subject and comes to a commonsense view. It then
tries to link some of the outcomes to the policy framework and
programmes of the government. The paper finds that India’s poverty ratio
of around 22 percent in 1999-2000 is in line with that observed in
countries at similar levels of per capita income. The ratio is
relatively high because India is a relatively poor/ low-income country,
i.e., with low average income. 90 percent of the countries in the world
have a higher per capita (average) income than India. The number of the
poor is very high because India’s population is very large, the
secondhighest in the world. India’s income distribution as measured by
the Gini co-efficient is better than three-fourths of the countries of
the world. The consumption share of the poorest 10 percent of the
population is the sixth best in the world. Where India has failed as a
nation is in improving its basic social indicators like literacy and
mortality rates. Much of the failure is a legacy of the three decades of
Indian socialism (till 1979-80). The rate of improvement of most
indicators has accelerated during the market period (starting in
1980-81). The gap between its level and that of global benchmarks is
still wide and its global ranking on most of these social parameters
remains very poor. This is the result of government failure. The
improvement in social indicators has not kept pace with economic growth
and poverty decline, and this has led to increasing interstate
disparities in growth and poverty. JEL classification: I3, I32, I38
Keywords: Hunger, Poverty, Public Goods, Public and Quasi-Public Goods
and Services, Basic Education, Public Health, Sanitatio
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