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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
Mise en oeuvre d'un système normalisé optimisé par les démarches du Lean Management
No full textThe research presented in this PhD thesis looks at an approach which attempts to merge Lean Management and the implementation of ISO-type certification. This method, that we have called "Lean Normalization", proposes a new way of approaching the implementation of ISO standards in a company, using six steps inspired from Lean Management concepts.Once a state of the art of ISO, its history and the different normative versions have been presented, we then analyze the different approaches and definitions of Lean Management.The bibliographic study of both ISO and Lean methods has enabled us to identify the following problem: the attempts to merge ISO and Lean do not lead to any type of formal modelling. We therefore propose an innovative approach which we call "Lean Normalization".This approach is composed of the following six steps: Documentary Muda, Right Documents,Design of the Process of Continuous Improvement, Due Quality, Visual Management and Animation of the Quality Management System. The application of our approach in companies has enabled us to highlight the ineffectiveness of conventional audit. Therefore, in the last chapter, we propose a different vision of an audit based on the Organizational Stress Test.Les travaux présentés dans ce mémoire de thèse portent sur une démarche de fusion entre le Lean Management et la mise en oeuvre d’une certification de type ISO. Nous avons qualifié cette démarche de « Lean Normalisation ». Elle propose une nouvelle façon d'aborder la mise en oeuvre des normes ISO dans une entreprise, avec six étapes inspirées des principaux concepts du Lean Management.Après un état de l’art présentant l’ISO, son historique et les diverses versions normatives, nous proposons une analyse des différentes approches et définitions du Lean Management. Cette analyse repose sur une étude bibliographique abondante du domaine depuis plusieurs années.L’étude bibliographique couplée ISO/Lean nous a permis d’identifier la problématique suivante : les tentatives de fusion entre ces deux approches n’émergent pas sur une proposition de modélisation mettant en synergie l’ISO et le Lean Management. Nous proposons, de ce fait, une approche novatrice que nous avons qualifiée de « Lean Normalisation ». Cette approche se déroule en six étapes : le Muda Documentaire, le Juste Documentaire, la Conception du Processus d’Amélioration Continue, la Qualité Exigible, le Management Visuel, et l’Animation du Système de Management de la Qualité. La mise en oeuvre de cette approche s’appuie sur une démarche projet constituée de dix jalons.Suite à l’application de notre approche dans différentes entreprises, et après avoir fait le constat de l’inefficacité des audits de certification classiques, nous ouvrons de nouveaux horizons en proposant une vision différente de l'audit fondée sur le Stress Test Organisationnel
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
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
How to optimize an organization system (ISO Standards) by the Lean Management methods
No full textLes travaux présentés dans ce mémoire de thèse portent sur une démarche de fusion entre le Lean Management et la mise en oeuvre d’une certification de type ISO. Nous avons qualifié cette démarche de « Lean Normalisation ». Elle propose une nouvelle façon d'aborder la mise en oeuvre des normes ISO dans une entreprise, avec six étapes inspirées des principaux concepts du Lean Management.Après un état de l’art présentant l’ISO, son historique et les diverses versions normatives, nous proposons une analyse des différentes approches et définitions du Lean Management. Cette analyse repose sur une étude bibliographique abondante du domaine depuis plusieurs années.L’étude bibliographique couplée ISO/Lean nous a permis d’identifier la problématique suivante :les tentatives de fusion entre ces deux approches n’émergent pas sur une proposition de modélisation mettant en synergie l’ISO et le Lean Management. Nous proposons, de ce fait, une approche novatrice que nous avons qualifiée de « Lean Normalisation ».Cette approche se déroule en six étapes : le Muda Documentaire, le Juste Documentaire, la Conception du Processus d’Amélioration Continue, la Qualité Exigible, le Management Visuel, et l’Animation du Système de Management de la Qualité. La mise en oeuvre de cette approche s’appuie sur une démarche projet constituée de dix jalons.Suite à l’application de notre approche dans différentes entreprises, et après avoir fait le constat de l’inefficacité des audits de certification classiques, nous ouvrons de nouveaux horizons en proposant une vision différente de l'audit fondée sur le Stress Test Organisationnel.The research presented in this PhD thesis looks at an approach which attempts to merge Lean Management and the implementation of ISO-type certification. This method, that we have called "Lean Normalization", proposes a new way of approaching the implementation of ISO standards in a company, using six steps inspired from Lean Management concepts.Once a state of the art of ISO, its history and the different normative versions have been presented, we then analyze the different approaches and definitions of Lean Management.The bibliographic study of both ISO and Lean methods has enabled us to identify the following problem: the attempts to merge ISO and Lean do not lead to any type of formal modelling. We therefore propose an innovative approach which we call "Lean Normalization".This approach is composed of the following six steps: Documentary Muda, Right Documents,Design of the Process of Continuous Improvement, Due Quality, Visual Management and Animation of the Quality Management System. The application of our approach in companies has enabled us to highlight the ineffectiveness of conventional audit. Therefore, in the last chapter, we propose a different vision of an audit based on the Organizational Stress Test
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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