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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Off Into the Sunset: Designing for the Inevitable End of Projects
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2023Ending projects – in whatever form that takes – is a known area of difficulty for research that involves designing and implementing technologies with community partners. The ending process is particularly salient to underserved and marginalized communities and populations. This dissertation explores the project ecosystem and power dynamics in which researchers and participants exist when collaborating on technology design projects involving youth and their communities. From this exploration, I look to identify types of and strategies for ending, to build a framework for advancing design justice in the ending process.The first set of empirical studies in this dissertation address the power dynamics and roles within community-based technology design projects and multigenerational co-design teams. From this work we learn how we can encourage youth and their communities to take ownership of learning technologies through participatory design and involvement in the technology implementation process. Subsequent studies focus on the long-term impacts of such projects and how the community and researchers can begin to transition these technologies to community ownership, while understanding the resource constraints of both the researchers and communities, particularly the youth members. The final study — a cross case analysis of two long-term projects — extends this work on power dynamics and impacts, using the understanding of systems and infrastructure to frame our understanding of the equitable ending process and what different endings might look like. Together, these studies provide grounding for a framework to create a more just and equitable ending process, specifically creating guidelines for designing the end of the research cycle in an ethical and practical manner.
This dissertation provides a number of empirical insights on the development and changes within relationships and power dynamics throughout the course of community-based educational technology design projects involving youth; the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities at the conclusion of the life cycle of the aforementioned projects; and the different ways ending a project occurs. The work also has theoretical implications, drawing on value sensitive design, research-practice partnerships, and other theories around community relationships to form an understanding of project ending as a space for design. Finally, this work contributes a theoretically-grounded methodological framework for designing projects involving long-term technology development with youth and their communities that plan for and incorporate the ending of the project, derived from the findings in the previous contributions. Through this work I explore the dimensions and considerations in ending a project that involves a long-term partnership with a community, developing ways to discuss, navigate, and plan for the closing process and facilitating less extractive and more mutually beneficial community research partnerships
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Participatory Design in Different Contexts: Understanding the role of the facilitator
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2021Participatory Design is a design method that includes the end users in technology design. While there are studies that examine the implementation of PD methods in both Library and Information Science and Human Computer Interaction research, existing studies lack an examination of how participant groups are created and maintained. This study contributes to understanding 1) how the skills of participatory design are first taught and learned while developing relationships for co-design 2) how participatory design projects are maintained and 3) how participatory design projects are enhanced by working with different cultures. By understanding how PD is taught and learned among different stakeholders, how projects are maintained and how we expand by creating a culturally inclusive environment, we will be opening more spaces where people can be a part of co-designing future technology that meets their needs.In order to answer the research questions, I examine three case studies of 1) a class that taught participatory design in libraries 2) how we transitioned to the online space to sustain the partnership and 3) how researchers expanded the project by working with children at the welfare center in Korea. In each case my focus shifts to how PD is learned and partnership is developed, how it is maintained and how we expand. This research expands our knowledge of how we teach our students to work with the community and ways we develop community partnership, how researchers and practitioners can continue to support projects for the community growth and well-being, and how researchers can be more culturally aware in working with diverse users. I aim to address three main themes in the dissertation: public spaces, onlines spaces and cultural awareness. By understanding the role of the facilitator, we can improve how we work with end-users and our overall practices with regards to inclusivity and diversity in technology design
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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