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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
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
Exploring relational connections and the emergence of shared leadership in experiential agencies
Get PDFThis exploratory and cross-sectional study focussed on the specific setting of
experiential event agencies and explored leadership through the lens of the ‘post-heroic’
leadership theories, in particular the theory of shared leadership. Adopting a social
constructionist perspective, the investigation took the form of a collective case study, using
a constructionist grounded theory approach to guide the data collection, analysis and
theory development. The research explores the way in which leadership is shared among
team members within three experiential event agencies.
Despite the growing body of research which indicates that shared leadership has a
positive effect on team performance and team effectiveness, there has yet to have been
any research that explores the conditions which enable shared leadership to be practiced in
the context of cross functional, interdependent, project based teams such as those found in
experiential agencies. This, coupled with the lack of empirical research around the form and
function of the leadership within the event industry, forms the background to this research.
This thesis addresses these gaps in knowledge by identifying which conditions of work
enable shared leadership to become a useful process in project based event organisations.
The study therefore responds to the following overarching question: ‘How is leadership
shared in an experiential agency?’
The analysis of the data collected from the three case studies resulted in the
emergence of a new theory of relational connections and the emergence of shared
leadership. The theory suggests that shared leadership develops through relational
connections within organisations, and demonstrates that the relationships between
individuals within these organisations are the cornerstone of effective participation in
shared leadership. This research is the first to closely examine the nature of workplace
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relationships in the context of shared leadership and, in particular, it has illuminated how
these connections are constructed through a sense of belonging in the workplace and trust
between team members.
The developed theory therefore reveals the dynamics that underpin shared
leadership and gives a clear understanding of how these relational connections are
constructed. In doing so, it indicates that shared leadership is an influence process that
emerges from interactions, and resides in the relationships that exist in work groups. This
study has therefore engaged with the complex – and topical - problems of how shared
leadership emerges and the processes of leadership within experiential agencies, and has
provided new empirical material which is important from both theoretical and practical
perspectives
The impact of group projects on learning, teaching and assessment in a year 3 BA course.
Get PDFThe following case study is an analysis of a Level 6 course, on the BA Events Management programme. It explores the effectiveness of group projects as a learning tool, the teaching strategies employed on this course and the assessment process currently in place. The course is designed to synthesize all elements of the programme in order to allow students to reflect upon and develop earlier theoretical learning and to encourage students to put theory into practice within a real world context. There is a substantial advanced practical element to the course with students aiming to deliver an event of their own devising in groups of six students. Assessment consists of an individual formative piece, a group pitch assignment, a written group proposal and an individual reflective assignment
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