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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
The institutionalization of American made : autoworkers and their local interpretations of a global industry
No full textMichigan State University anthropology doctoral candidate, Emily L. Altimare, examines the notion of American made vehicles in a modern manufacturing environment defined by global outsourcing. Altimare's presentation is titled, The institutionalization of American made: autoworkers and their local interpretations of a global industry and is based, in part, upon interviews done with UAW Local 602 workers at the General Motors Lansing Delta Township assembly plant in Lansing, MI. Altimare describes a local workforce with a vibrant work ethic and which identifies strongly with American made and union made products. Her hypothesis suggests that a preference for American made is the result of a normative process operating both in the workplace and in the community. Altimare is introduced by Professor John P. Beck, Associate Director, Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum
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
The institutional field and organizational continuity and change at General Motors' Lansing Delta Township manufacturing plant
No full textThis dissertation investigates the topic of organizational continuity and change as it occurred throughout General Motors, most specifically its Lansing Delta Township (LDT) manufacturing plant, in order to better understand processes of institutionalization and the implications of both continuity and change on organizations and society. The research and analysis rests on new institutional theory and privileges the \u201c...field rather than the organization\u201d as a focus of analysis (Davis and Marquis 2005: 332). So although my ethnographic data was collected at LDT\u2014my focus is on the larger institutional field in which LDT is a part. The institutional field is inclusive of the General Motors Corporation, the auto-industry as a whole, in addition to the local Lansing, Michigan community and individual social agents within it. The work of Bourdieu (1993) and his notion of the field, as well as, the broader discipline of anthropology support this theoretical grounding with its interest in rules, norms, behaviors, and cognitive schema. Most significant regarding this notion of the field is the fact that is serves as the location of contestation where power relations play out\u2014the power relations being defined by the specific field, the habitus, and the social capital possessed by the actors. Bourdieu\u2019s (1993) notion of a field presents a required construct when analyzing processes of continuity and change. This dissertation aims to demonstrate how large scale social and economic changes in the auto industry have impact on the local level and offers insight to anthropologists and other socials scientists interested in understanding how particular institutions change over time (Davis and Marquis 2005:333). By focusing on the field as opposed to the organization our understanding of how institutional continuity and change occur is strengthened. This focus overcomes the weaknesses of previous research that drew lines of demarcation around particular organizations and attempted to analyze them independent of the larger global context. This dissertation does not attempt to build a general theory of organizations; in fact, quite the opposite, this dissertation aims to elucidate changes as they occurred in a specific time and place in direct reference to LDT\u2019s unique context. This pursuit is in accord with what Davis and Marquis championed as the next step in organizational theory the attempt to understand more deeply mechanism-based conceptions of how change occurs (2005:335). This research relies on Scott (1995, 2013) for its working definition of institutions and grounds its understanding of observable stability within GM in concepts put forth by Scott. Institutions according to Scott \u201cconsist of cognitive, normative, and regulative structures and activities that provide stability and meaning to social behavior. Institutions are transported by various carriers\u2014culture, structure, and routines\u2014and they operate at multiple levels of jurisdiction\u201d (1995:33). The construct of routines as established within the sub-field of evolutionary economics and theories of evolutionary change will be employed to help explain observations of how continuity and change occurred at LDT. By relying on a field level approach this dissertation contributes to the discipline of anthropology by advancing understanding of how institutional continuity and change occur\u2014both LDT\u2019s recent lean manufacturing initiatives, GM\u2019s bankruptcy, as well as the impact and influence that bankruptcy had on the lean initiative which was underway throughout the corporation all contribute to an unprecedented context in which to examine processes of institutionalization.Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Anthropology, 2016Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201
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