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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
Nigerian Journal of Banking and Financial Issues (NJBFI): Impact Of Lending Management On The Performance Of Deposit Banks In Nigeria
No full textThe study investigated the impact of lending management on the performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria, using sectional data for 18 years from 2005 to 2022, the data used were non-performing loans ratio; loan to deposit ratio; loan loss provision ratio and bank lending rate (Independent) and profit after tax (Dependent) which was obtained from the financial statement of the sampled deposit money banks which includes: First Bank Plc; Wema Bank, Zenith Bank, GTB and UBA Plc. Pooled regression analysis of the ordinary least square (OLS) was used to estimate the determinants of the performance function. The result showed that the fixed effect results revealed that bank lending rate (BLR) and loan loss provision ratio (LLPR) have a negative insignificant impact on log of profit after tax (InPAT) going by the coefficient value of -0.059927 and -0.008279 and prob-value of 0.5925 and 0.8584 respectively. It was therefore concluded that banks should always ensure proper credit evaluation of potential borrowers before funds is allocated to prime borrowers. This should be done by collaborating with top quality credit rating firms. The study recommended that banks must put in place sound credit management process, strictly hold to know your customer (KYC) system, applying effective measures in measuring and monitoring of granted credit and ensure effective controls over credit risk
Nigerian Journal of Banking and Financial Issues (NJBFI): Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic On The Performance Of Small And Medium Scale Enterprises In Nigeria
No full textThis study examined the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria. The specific objectives were to determine the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on small and medium scale enterprises performance in Nigeria; examine the effect of lockdown, movement restriction, market closure, and social distancing due to Covid-19 pandemic on small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria and evaluate the possible strategies for effective small and medium scale enterprises management amidst Covid- 19 in Nigeria. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The descriptive statistics include logistics (Logit) regression, frequencies, tables, mean and percentages while inferential statistics include regression, Pearson product moment correlation analysis and variance analysis. The results revealed that Covid-19 pandemic has significantly and indirectly influence the performance of the SMEs in Nigeria. Therefore as long as the Covid-19 pandemic exists, the lesser the ability of SMEs to maximise profit in Ado-Ekiti. The study concluded that SMEs are indispensable to the attainment of sustainable development of any country and as such their survival is of paramount importance to government. More so, as they generate employment and income, thereby improving the standard of living of the people. It was therefore recommended that government should ensure the prompt and effective disbursement of the Covid-19 relief funds to the SMEs in order for them to be able to cushion the effect of the pandemic on their sales and performance
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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