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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
Documentation de l’impact d’un programme d’intervention par l’art sur le bien-être de personnes ayant subi un traumatisme cranio-cérébral
No full textUn traumatisme cranio-cérébral (TCC) modéré à sévère peut entraîner des conséquences graves et variées, tout en affectant de façon temporaire ou permanente les dimensions du vécu physique, cognitif, affectif, familial, social, scolaire et professionnel (Gadoury & Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec [SAAQ], 2002), ce qui, à son tour, peut conduire de nombreuses personne à vivre divers processus de deuils (Charette et al., 2011).
Généralement, il s’agit du deuil d’une réalité possible avant le TCC (Lefebvre et Levert, 2005). Dans ce contexte, l’offre d’un soutien psychosocial apparait nécessaire une fois le processus de réadaptation en milieu hospitalier terminé. Pour adresser une souffrance pouvant être inhérente à l’expérience du TCC et ses conséquences, ainsi que favoriser un épanouissement sociétal pour ces personnes ayant subi le TCC, des programmes d’intervention s’insérant dans une perspective d’amélioration de la participation sociale peuvent avoir un impact positif sur la qualité de vie et le bien-être des participants (Lefebvre et al. (2013). Étant donné que les interventions en groupe au moyen des arts peuvent contribuer au bien-être de personnes ayant subi des lésions cérébrales traumatiques ([ex. AVC]; Beesley et al., 2011; Gonen et Soroker, 2000; Higgins et al., 2005; Kim et al., 2008; McGuinness et Schnur, 2013) et que peu d’études visent spécifiquement les effets d’un tel programme sur une clientèle ayant subi un TCC, il demeure pertinent de documenter les impacts d’un programme d’intervention par l’art sur le bien-être psychologique de personnes ayant subi un TCC.
Ainsi, un programme d’intervention par l’art a été monté, puis administré par des membres de l’équipe de recherche auprès de six participants ayant subi des TCC. L’animation du programme
d’intervention par l’art a eu lieu en milieu communautaire, hebdomadairement, sur une période de 14 semaines. Le programme comprenait une rencontre d’accueil, 12 ateliers et une rencontre bilan avec les participants. Les participants ont été invités à compléter un questionnaire sociodémographique à la rencontre d’accueil ainsi que le questionnaire OQ-45.2 à la rencontre d’accueil, au 6e atelier et à la rencontre bilan. Ces données recueillies ont permis des analyses quantitatives sommaires à partir de tests T visant à vérifier l’hypothèse statistique d’une amélioration des scores entre les temps de mesure.
Il est observé que les scores des participants tendent à s’améliorer entre le 1er et le 2e temps de mesure. Un plateau est également visible entre le 2e et le 3e temps de mesure. Dans un autre ordre d’idées, les rencontres hebdomadaires comprenaient un atelier et une discussion de groupe, cette discussion de groupe était enregistrée et retranscrite en verbatim à des fins d’analyse qualitative. Au terme des analyses qualitatives catégorielles de contenu, une amélioration générale des six composantes du bien-être psychologique (Ryff, 1995) est observée.
Pour ce qui a trait au bien-être subjectif (Diener, 1984), l’analyse des discussions de groupe a permis d’observer des résultats allant dans le sens à la fois d’une amélioration et d’une détérioration éphémère pour les composantes affectives ainsi qu’une quantité limitée de témoignages ne permettant pas de qualifier de manière satisfaisante la composante cognitive. Par ailleurs, bien que certains mouvements de recul ou des affects négatifs aient été observés auprès des participants, un apaisement ainsi qu’une augmentation d’affects positifs ont été notés et dégagés au fil du programme. Cette expression apparait compatible avec celle des mouvements d’intégration, tels qu’observés dans les changements dits thérapeutiques (Zech, 2008).
Il importe de rappeler que le programme en lui-même ne s’inscrivait pas dans une visée thérapeutique. Néanmoins, ce type d’action transformatrice a pu être dégagé et supporté par les participants eux-mêmes, dans leur implication face au programme. Considérant les retombées ainsi que la portée de ce type d’intervention, il importe de maintenir une grande sensibilité dans la reprise du programme afin qu’il puisse à nouveau servir des clientèles diversifiées dans un esprit de participation sociale et d’humanité, en prenant en considération la part de dévoilement et d’implication qu’il peut engager
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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