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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
Patients' perceptions of complementary therapies in palliative care
Get PDFThe use of complementary therapies within palliative care is increasing, and many different therapies are now offered within the hospice setting. Much of the available literature concentrates on providing a scientific link between administered therapies and the benefit they give, palliative care is unique in that a cure is not sought; the aim of palliative care is to ensure maximum comfort and happiness for the patient and so if patients feel benefit from using a complementary therapy, one can argue that it should be available to them. The work presented in this dissertation is a study of a particular group of palliative-care patients, and their experience of two types of complementary therapies - acupuncture and aromatherapy - as a model to indicate their value in other treatment contexts. The aim of the study is to examine palliative-care patients' perceptions of their experience of acupuncture and aromatherapy. A phenomenological approach is followed in this study utilising triangulation of methods. Six patients were approached and recruited, three of whom were commencing a course of acupuncture, and three of whom were commencing a course of aromatherapy. Prior to starting their chosen therapy, each participant completed the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) quality-of-life questionnaire. Throughout the therapy participants kept a daily diary describing how they felt each day. Upon completion of the course of therapy, participants were interviewed using semi-structured interviews Four themes were identified from the interview transcripts and daily diaries: participants felt the therapy helped with pain, helped with relaxation, gave them 'me time', and they valued the counselling role of the therapist. Results were limited to four participants as two of the original six recruited were not eventually able to be interviewed. Palliative-care patients appear to find acupuncture and aromatherapy beneficial. All were glad to have had the therapy and wanted to have further similar therapy in the future. A qualitative approach proved very useful in gaining patients' perceptions. Two of the themes identified in this study are not apparent in previous literature and so further qualitative research would be informative
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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