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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
Sustaining Participatory Design in the organization - Infrastructuring with Participatory Design
No full textModern organizations need to be able to change to seize opportunities and meet challenges, which are ever more rapidly presenting themselves. In doing so, they need to make use of the creativity and innovations of their employees. At the same time Information Technology applications today are likely to take the form of complex, integrated infrastructures, supporting collaboration within and across organizations. This places requirements on the development of ITinfrastructures. As the work practices within an organization change, the supporting infrastructure also needs to evolve. This PhD thesis is aboutsustaining Participatory Design in the organization to enable users to influencethe development of the IT infrastructure that supports their work practices.The empirical research is based on a long-term action research study, where this researcher works as an embedded researcher, complementing action research with daily work of developing software support with users. In addition,ethnographically inspired research methods have been used to understand andevaluate how different situated development practices come together ininfrastructure development.The empirical results put forward the following contributions: (1) Shop floor IT management is a core capability for innovation, and is a driver for sustained PD in the organization. Users on the shop floor trigger infrastructure development when their IT applications need to be technically and organizationally integrated. (2) A flexible technical infrastructure is needed to support Participatory Design. The technical base as infrastructure both enables and constrains the design of local software support, as well as the application ofParticipatory Design methods. (3) Users on the shop floor need to participate inorganizational IT management in order to relate the development of their localsoftware support in an integrated infrastructure. The results of the actionresearch report four interlinked improvements to sustain Participatory Design inthe organization concerning structuring end-user influence in the organizationalarena, a participatory and evolutionary project management, and participatorytools and techniques appropriated for infrastructure development
Sustaining Participatory Design in the organization - Infrastructuring with Participatory Design
Get PDFModern organizations need to be able to change to seize opportunities and meet challenges, which are ever more rapidly presenting themselves. In doing so, they need to make use of the creativity and innovations of their employees. At the same time Information Technology applications today are likely to take the form of complex, integrated infrastructures, supporting collaboration within and across organizations. This places requirements on the development of ITinfrastructures. As the work practices within an organization change, the supporting infrastructure also needs to evolve. This PhD thesis is aboutsustaining Participatory Design in the organization to enable users to influencethe development of the IT infrastructure that supports their work practices.The empirical research is based on a long-term action research study, where this researcher works as an embedded researcher, complementing action research with daily work of developing software support with users. In addition,ethnographically inspired research methods have been used to understand andevaluate how different situated development practices come together ininfrastructure development.The empirical results put forward the following contributions: (1) Shop floor IT management is a core capability for innovation, and is a driver for sustained PD in the organization. Users on the shop floor trigger infrastructure development when their IT applications need to be technically and organizationally integrated. (2) A flexible technical infrastructure is needed to support Participatory Design. The technical base as infrastructure both enables and constrains the design of local software support, as well as the application ofParticipatory Design methods. (3) Users on the shop floor need to participate inorganizational IT management in order to relate the development of their localsoftware support in an integrated infrastructure. The results of the actionresearch report four interlinked improvements to sustain Participatory Design inthe organization concerning structuring end-user influence in the organizationalarena, a participatory and evolutionary project management, and participatorytools and techniques appropriated for infrastructure development
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
Researching intercultural participatory design
Get PDFWhat impact does culture have on tools and techniques that are used to\ud
facilitate cooperation amongst stakeholders in Information Communication\ud
Technology (ICT) design projects? This is a question facing the ICT development\ud
activities at the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. At the university\ud
around 300 staff and students from 90 different countries come together every\ud
year. Continuously finding ways to improve how they can actively participate in\ud
design activities of useful and usable ICT support to benefit their everyday work\ud
is a prioritized area. This short paper presents a case that illustrates the\ud
intertwined and negotiated characteristics of culture when working with tools and\ud
techniques for cooperation in a student ICT design project. Using the case, an\ud
ethnographically based research cycle is explored to make sense of and ultimately\ud
further improve the interactions between the actors in an intercultural application\ud
domain
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
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