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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
Thapelo Ndlovu. Dear Power Monologues.
Get PDFAlthough Botswana is arguably a liberal democracy that guarantees freedom of speech and expression, political humour is not a tool that is often used to enjoy such freedoms save a few stand up comedians through the Comedy for the Nation of Botswana series (also known as ‘Laff-A-Lot’). Hence, Thapelo Ndlovu’s Dear Power Monologues is a welcome addition to the contours of freedom of speech and expression in Botswana. Nobody is safe from his acerbic tongue: Africans leaders such as Botswana’s Ian Khama, South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Swaziland’s King Mswati, Libya’s Kaddafi; Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta, Congo’s Joseph Kabila, Malawi’s Joyce Banda, Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan, and Zambia’s Michael Sata are lampooned. In no small measure, Ndlovu is Botswana’s Michael Moore (see Dude Where’s My Country?)
Financing poverty programmes in Botswana under fiscal uncertainty
No full textBotswana has achieved an impressive developmental record since independence in 1966 and it belongs to a category of medium human development countries. Despite this achievement, it is faced with development challenges such as poverty. The state provides a policy response in the form of poverty programmes and these are well funded. However, since 2008, the government is faced with a declining revenue envelope because diamonds, the backbone of the economy, are not selling well. Cutback budgeting has been forced on the government and while social programmes have been spared the budget axe, this cannot be guaranteed in the future. Moving forward, there is a need for reform, vitally, rigorous means-testing and dealing with problems such as a dependency syndrome. Finally, the general lesson from this case study is that the government need not wait for a crisis to manifest before interrogating the efficiency of public spending, particularly, on social programmes.Keywords: Poverty; Poverty Eradication Programmes; Fiscal Uncertainty; Botswan
Tax and Customs Duty Administration in Botswana
Get PDFFor governments to effectively deliver on the social contract which includes providing physical infrastructureand social goods and services, they need adequate financial resources. Public financial resources comefrom taxes and customs duty. Sufficient public revenues require efficient and effective tax and customsduty administration. As the pressure to deliver the social contract increases in the face of the post-2007fiscal strictures, there is a need to continuously improve tax and customs duty administration. The aim ofthis paper is to discuss tax and customs duty administration in Botswana. The study on which this paperis based used a qualitative research approach and a case study method. It concluded that while there aresuccesses in tax and customs duty administration, there are problems such as low tax effort. To ensureeffective tax and customs duty administration, the system requires some improvement
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
The Sir Ketumile Masire Factor in the Making of Botswana as an ‘African Miracle’
Get PDFEconomic growth and development are associated with or caused by many variables one of which is leadership. The functional approach of leadership holds that leadership is not about an individual and his/her attributes. Rather, it is about a group and its attributes. However, it is unwieldy to focus on the role of the entire leadership in impacting macro-economic outcomes such as economic growth and development. Therefore, this paper discusses Sir Ketumile Masire’s role in shaping Botswana’s economic and development trajectory as founding Deputy Prime Minister, founding Vice President and Finance Minister and, latterly, President. It concludes that he provided leadership which very favourably circumstanced Botswana to become a relative economic and developmental success. In the process, the country earned accolades such as the ‘African Miracle’. However, serious macro-economic challenges such as persistent poverty and massive income inequality detract from these economic and developmental achievements. Hence, there is a need to determinedly address them to ensure prosperity for all or at least for the great majority of the country’s citizens
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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