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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
Płeć Nabywcy A Wpływ Działań Promocyjnych Na Proces Wyboru Produktów Spożywczych
Get PDFCelem przedstawionych rozważań i analiz jest przybliżenie znaczenia płci w kształtowaniu zachowań nabywców w procesie decyzyjnym. Głównym celem badawczym była ocena wpływu działań promocyjnych na kształtowanie się procesu zakupowego konsumentów na rynku wybranych produktów żywnościowych Część badawczą opracowano na podstawie wyników badań sondażowych, które zostały przeprowadzone w 2016 roku na grupie 486 konsumentów żywności, przy zastosowaniu metody doboru celowego. Z badań wynika, że znaczenie poszczególnych działań promocyjnych w procesie zakupowym badanych konsumentów było różne w zależności od płci. Z analiz statystycznych wynika, że różnice te nie były duże. Na podstawie odpowiedzi respondentów można zauważyć, że mężczyźni byli znacznie bardziej wrażliwi na działania promocyjne w swoich decyzjach związanych z wyborem produktu. Najbardziej zróżnicowani w ocenie wpływu reklamy ze względu na płeć byli badani respondenci w grupie nabywców owoców i warzyw oraz produktów mleczarskich, a najmniej nabywcy produktów mięsnych
Development and Significance of the Small and Average-Size Companies Sector in the Polish Economy
No full textAn increase in the role and significance of the sector of small and average-size companies in Poland may become an important factor of economic growth, as well as an element of the process of adjusting the structure of Polish economy to the shape allowing its efficient competence within the European Union. The countries, in which small and average-size companies constitute the core of economy are characterized by a greater resistance to economic crises, they experience slumps in the economy more rarely, and have a greater dynamics of the economic growth. The present article is devoted to assessment of the role of small and average-size companies in the economic growth. It presents the stages of formation and development of the sector of small and average-size companies in Poland, the quantitative changes of the sector and its significance in the economy by showing the effects of its participation in creating the GNP, employment, financial effects and export
Innowacyjność jako element strategii kształtowania pozycji konkurencyjnej małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw na obszarach wiejskich
No full textAchieving a competitive advantage is a major problem in the strategic management of each company operating in market conditions. Market realities are identified by dynamic competitive situations, characterized by the presence in the market of a large number of enterprises. Each of them is aware that the entities operating in the same market may be a threat to the company, which means that they can remove it from the market. The advantageous position of an enterprise in relation to other competitors, and thus gaining a competitive advantage over them, effectively requires overcoming restrictions resulting both from the changing environment, as well as those caused by the resources of the company. The main objective of this paper is to present how small and medium-sized enterprises operating in rural areas are acquiring and maintaining a competitive advantage in the market. The study will present competitive activities conducted by enterprises with particular emphasis on innovation, the conditions for their implementation and the opportunities and risks arising from their use, with particular regard to the specificity of the SME sector in rural areas of the Lublin province. The presented results are part of a broader research environment of small and medium sized enterprises operating in the province of Lublin
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
Consumer attitudes towards products of regional manufacturers and their impact on the purchasing behavior on the market for dairy products
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to present, analyze and evaluate the behavior of buyers on the market for dairy products, including the importance they attach to the origin of the product and to the producers in the buying process. The attitudes towards regional products and producers were associated with other elements of consumer behavior related to the decision-making process on the dairy market, such as: product selection criteria; frequency of purchases in various store types; and basic criteria for store selection. The research part is based on the analysis of the results of surveys conducted in 2015 with a group of 694 students. The study demonstrates the existence of important links between “pro-regional” attitudes and such determinants of the choice of dairy products as the product’s nutritional composition; absence of preservatives; quality certificates; country of origin; and environmental performance. This suggests that dairy products from regional producers are associated with high quality, naturalness and wholesomeness
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
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