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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
A devoted home teacher :transformative strategies for adult teaching and mentoring of families in their homes /by Zane M. Calderwood.
No full textThe purpose of this interpretive biography was to [examine the transpersonal and transformative nature of devoted home teaching as lived experience], by examining the """"life portrait"""" (Lomask, 1986, p. 1) of James, a home teacher in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.;James is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a priesthood holder, and a home teacher. James as a young man stopped participating in church activities and developed habits that were prohibited by the LDS Church. Smoking was his most serious habit prohibited by the Church that James described as creating feelings of guilt and self-consciousness. When James became a young husband and father of three children, he moved his family into a Southeastern Idaho community. Here James was contacted by Leland, a helpful neighbor, who eventually became his home teacher in their new LDS congregation. James described his lived experience with Leland as one of devoted home teaching. Through Leland's service and mentoring as a devoted home teacher; James started attending church, was welcomed by the local bishop and congregation, stopped smoking, and eventually qualified himself to be found worthy to be sealed to his family in a LDS temple ceremony. Because of the transpersonal and transformative influence Leland had on James, James determined to become a devoted home teacher by serving and mentoring others.;In studying James lived experience with devoted home teacher six patterns of core meanings and experiences emerged: (1) Preparatory Experiences that Facilitated a Response to Devoted Home Teaching; (2) Influence of a Devoted Home Teacher; (3) Supporting Roles of Bishop, Ward, and Family; (4) The Smoking Focus; (5) The Acknowledgement of the Spirit and the Savior; and (6) Attempting to Influence Others. James lived experience with home teaching was viewed through the lens of adult educational theoretical literature of servant leadership, mentoring, and transpersonal and transformative learning. The theoretical literature review, citing Abraham Maslow, Jack Mezirow, Stephen Brookfield, along with others, provides an important background and depth in understanding James' life portrait in this interpretive biography.;Examining James' life portrait with devoted home teaching through this lens can provide insights and lessons learned that can mutually benefit those who wanting to understand devoted home teaching and those who are seeking to increase their understanding of servant leadership, mentoring, and transpersonal and transformative learning in adult education. The insights and lessons learned from James' perspective and the researcher's perspective are applied as implications for practice for the LDS Church and implications for adult education.Thesis (Ed. D., Education)--University of Idaho, November 9, 2006
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
Supplemental Material - Patterns of educational performance among Indigenous students in Australia, 2010–2019: Within-cohort, peer matching analysis for data-led decision-making
No full textSupplemental Material for Patterns of educational performance among indigenous students in Australia, 2010–2019: Within-cohort, peer matching analysis for data-led decision-making by Peter J. Anderson, Owen Forbes, Kerrie Mengersen, and Zane M. Diamond in Australian Journal of Education</p
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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