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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
How do people cope with stress? building the everyday coping scale and mapping its nomological net
No full textThe diverse and fragmented use of coping scales in past research has made it challenging to understand how people cope with stress in their daily lives. With over 100 different coping scales utilized in the literature, encompassing more than 400 coping factors, there remains significant disagreement regarding the conceptualization of coping factors and their relationships to external psychological variables. To bring some order to the coping literature, the present studies aimed to develop the Everyday Coping Scale (ECS) based on an overarching structure derived from existing coping scales and to map a nomological net of coping strategies using the ECS. To build the ECS, Study 1 culled coping strategies from an extensive review of 24 existing coping scales designed to assess adults’ coping strategies. This study explored the underlying structure in a large sample (N = 419) using exploratory factor analysis. A five-factor model of coping was identified, comprising proactive coping, social support, helplessness, religious support, and distancing. To validate this five-factor model, Study 2 tested its factor structure in a separate large sample (N = 329) using exploratory structural equation modeling. The five-factor model of the ECS proved robust, demonstrating good internal consistency as well as acceptable convergent and divergent validities with personality and religious traits. To map a nomological net of coping strategies, Study 3 conducted a diary study relating the five coping factors to situational (i.e., actual affect, ideal affect) and dispositional (i.e., personality, and religious motivations) variables. The results revealed significant links between the coping factors and the psychological variables examined. Collectively, these studies support the utility of the ECS for assessing coping strategies and systematically relating them to psychological correlates. Keywords: coping strategies, coping scale, Everyday Coping Scale, personality, affect</p
Daily emotions among Hong Kong residents during the COVID-19 pandemic : the role of social interactions
No full textFace-to-face social interactions were restricted during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing measures. Although the deprivation of social interaction is assumed to have adversely impacted emotional well-being, the interplay between daily emotions and social interactions during the social distancing periods has not been thoroughly studied. Two studies are reported in this thesis. Using social media data from the beginning of COVID-19 in December 2019 through to May 2022, Study 1 mapped the emotion trajectories of Hong Kong Twitter users over 30 months and the relationship of these trajectories with the imposition of social distancing measures. The results showed an overall positive emotion trajectory despite the social distancing measures. To explore the reasons behind the overall pleasant emotions during social distancing, Study 2 used a diary method to examine the relationship between different types of social interactions and daily emotions and how this relationship varied with personality. The results showed that the pleasantness of both face-to-face and non-face-to-face interactions were related to higher valence and arousal in everyday life. Of the Big Five personality traits, people high in Neuroticism were less likely to experience pleasure through non-face-to-face interactions than people who were less neurotic, and people high in Openness to Experience were more likely to experience activation through browsing social media. These findings suggest the potential moderation effect of personality on the relationship between social interactions and daily emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p
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
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
From whom should I learn? : examining the development of selective learning impacted by informants’ perceived competence and warmth
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