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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
Employee Capital Plans in Poland (2020–2024): Performance measurement and a rolling returns perspective
No full textEmployee Capital Plans (ECP; in Polish: Pracownicze Plany Kapitałowe — PPK), introduced in Poland in 2019, are a voluntary, long-term savings scheme designed to supplement the public pension system and improve the financial security of the future retirees. The program features automatic enrolment and offers highly favorable conditions for participants, thanks to employer contributions and government subsidies. This article evaluates the performance of savings within the PPK framework from 2020 to 2024, focusing specifically on how the entry date into the program affects investment outcomes. The analysis covers the period from January 1, 2020 to December 2, 2024, and takes into account employee contributions, employer contributions, and state subsidies. The study examines indicators for the individual Target Date Funds (TDF, in Polish: Fundusze Zdefiniowanej Daty — FZD), and averages them for groups of funds with target dates ranging from 2025 to 2060. The study is complemented by a dynamic performance assessment that utilizes a rolling returns methodology. In this analysis, we iteratively calculate the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) for investments that begin on consecutive business days, starting from January 1, 2020, while using a fixed 24-month window for each calculation. By employing rolling returns analysis, this method reduces the impact of selecting a single start and end date on the assessment of investment performance.It also provides a more detailed understanding of how the investment start date influences the results
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
Systems of remuneration of finacial intermediaries: theory and practice
No full textSkuteczne motywowanie pośredników finansowych do maksymalizacji sprzedaży produktów i usług finansowych oraz budowania trwałych relacji z klientami ma bardzo duże znaczenie dla instytucji finansowych oraz dla przedsiębiorstw zajmujących się pośrednictwem finansowym. Istotnym elementem tego motywowania jest wynagradzanie. Niestety w ostatnich latach znaczną część tego wynagrodzenia stanowiła prowizja. System wynagradzania pośredników finansowych oparty na prowizji motywował do maksymalizacji sprzedaży, zapewniając wyższe dochody w krótkim okresie, ale narażając niestety instytucje finansowe na straty w perspektywie długookresowej. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie wybranych teoretycznych i praktycznych aspektów wynagradzania pośredników finansowych. Zasadniczą częścią artykułu jest charakterystyka trzech najczęściej stosowanych systemów wynagradzania pośredników finansowych (czysta prowizja, stała płaca, system mieszany) wraz z ich zaletami i wadami oraz przedstawienie wpływu tych systemów na różne aspekty działalności pośredników finansowych.Effective motivation of financial intermediaries to maximize the sale of financial products and services and to build lasting relationships with customers is very important for financial institutions and financial intermediation enterprises. Remuneration is a significant element of this motivation. Unfortunately, in recent years, commission was a considerable part of this payment. The commission system of remuneration of financial intermediaries motivated the employees to maximize sales, and provided higher incomes in the short term, but, unfortunately, exposed financial institutions to losses in the long term. The aim of the article is to present selected theoretical and practical aspects of the remuneration of financial intermediaries. A fundamental part of the article is a description of the three most widely used systems of remuneration of financial intermediaries (the pure commission system, the fixed salary system, and the mixed system), together with their advantages and disadvantages, and a presentation of the impact of these systems on various aspects of the activities of financial intermediaries
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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