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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
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
A review of the approach to setting national standards and assuring the quality of care in Australian child care services
No full textThe Australian Government and state and territory governments are reviewing the processes for setting\ud
child care standards in Australia. A comprehensive and integrated system of quality assurance for\ud
children’s services requires the administration of structural, process and contextual elements of service\ud
quality which, in turn, affect outcomes for children, families, service providers, and governments. National\ud
standards form a key structural element in the quality assurance agenda, illustrating the level of care that is\ud
assured to children in licensed services across Australia. This report presents findings from a review of the\ud
approach to setting standards and the quality processes surrounding certain child care services—long day\ud
care, family day care, outside school hours care and in-home care services.\ud
The development and implementation of acceptable standards in child care is a significant endeavour\ud
because the quality of care children receive affects their ongoing wellbeing and development—their health,\ud
socialisation and learning. Effective child care is also vital to adult workforce participation and smooth\ud
family functioning. Because of the scope and size of the Australian child care sector (providing care for\ud
839000 children1), together with the level of public investment ($2.4 billion in 2003–04), the standards and\ud
quality processes that are developed and administered by governments need to be robust. The importance\ud
of measures to require, encourage and support the provision of high-quality child care services is reflected\ud
in the communiqué released by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) on 10 February 2006:\ud
High quality and integrated early childhood education and care services,\ud
encompassing the period from pre natal up to and including the transition to the\ud
first years of school, are critical to increasing the proportion of children entering\ud
school with the basic skills for life and learning. COAG will give priority to\ud
improving early childhood development outcomes, as a part of a collaborative\ud
national approach (p. 4).\ud
Promoting children’s health, learning and wellbeing is a shared responsibility, requiring input and\ud
commitment from governments, families, professionals, service providers and the broader community.\ud
This project comprised three broad and interrelated areas of work which resulted in:\ud
• a review of the current approach to the setting of child care standards and the operation of\ud
related standards and quality assurance systems\ud
• some options for an agreed national approach to standards and quality assurance in\ud
children’s services that reflect contemporary evidence and support continuous\ud
improvement\ud
• a conceptual analysis of the costs and benefits of the identified options.\ud
1 These data are drawn from the Productivity Commission. These are 24.4 per cent of children aged 12 years\ud
or younger—the recipients of Australian, state and territory government funded and/or provided formal\ud
childcare in 2003–04 (see section 14.7). While the number of children experiencing formal and informal\ud
care has remained similar over the past decade (1.5 million aged birth–11 years in both 1993 and 2002),\ud
the types of care received and the age of children cared for have changed. Parents have increasingly used\ud
formal child care over informal care and the proportion of younger children (birth–four years) spending\ud
time in non-parental care has increased. (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Social Trends, 2004
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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