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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
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
“Shea Moisture is Cancelled”: Racialized Identification in the 2017 Shea Moisture Crisis
No full textIn 2017, Shea Moisture, a company that created natural hair products targeted primarily toward Black women, released an online video in which ostensibly white and multiracial women discussed the struggles they encountered in accepting their natural hair. This video led to a public relations crisis for the organization as a result of its perceived exclusion of the organization’s core public--Black women with 4C hair, who arguably experience the highest levels of discrimination on account of their natural hair. This study explored the role of identity and identification in this crisis by conducting a qualitative content analysis of identification types in Black men and women’s online responses to the video. Emotions present in the online posts were used as rhetorical indicators of deidentification, ambivalent identification, identification or disidentification. The findings of this study, contextualized within the socio-political context of the crisis, suggest that responses to Shea Moisture’s video were informed by : its public’s identification with one another, their construal and co-construction of the organization’s identity as a Black business, and their identification with the organization on the basis of this identity. This study reinforces the role played by publics in co-constructing an organization’s identity and reveals the importance of sociopolitical realities and uneven power relations to publics’ identification. This study also introduces the concept of “protected identification” to describe a mode of identification that informed by a socio-political context wherein marginalization exists, comes with a unique set of expectations for the actions of an organization
Consumer construction of the agricultural biotechnology industry\u27s legitimacy: An empirical test of values congruency as institutional and actional legitimacy formation
No full textThe assumption that legitimacy is related to the similarity of values that publics see between themselves and an organization (i.e., values congruency) has been stated frequently in scholarship but never empirically tested. To expand the empirical depth of legitimacy scholarship, survey research was conducted using a convenience sample of consumers (N = 358). A coorientational measurement approach was used to assess the relationship between legitimacy and values congruency regarding how consumers perceived the rights of the agricultural biotechnology industry to exist as a big business entity (an instance of institutional legitimacy) and to market drug-producing crops called Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (an instance of actional legitimacy called output ). The consideration of output was intended to expand the breadth of legitimacy scholarship. There was no significant relationship between the perceived right of the industry to exist as a big business entity and the perceived values congruency of biotech consumers (r = .141). Further, there was no significant relationship (r = .312) between legitimacy and values congruency as calculated using (1) consumer responses to how much they valued a statement and (2) how much they thought the biotechnology industry would value the same statement. These results challenge the long-standing assumption of a strong relationship between legitimacy and the similarity of values as perceived by members of it publics. It also suggests that the actual difference between consumer values and the values consumers perceive between themselves and the industry may be a better predictor of an organization\u27s legitimacy than the perceived difference by consumers between these value sets. This research was also an initial attempt to analyze output as a specific type of organizational legitimacy. Consumers were more slightly more likely to acknowledge the industry\u27s right to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (r = .257) than they were to recognize the industry\u27s right to exist as a big business (r = .141). The results of this research are also significant because they explain which values in particular are related to the rights of the biotech industry to exist as a big business entity and to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals
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
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and the mortgage crisis of 2008
Full text linkThe practice of financial public relations is widespread in the field of public relations, but there is little research concerning the practice of financial public relations. In response to the call for additional research on financial public relations, this paper will examine the intersections of financial public relations, issue management, and organizational communication. Specifically, this project will explore how contemporary issue management requires companies to maintain their actional and institutional legitimacy. Following the Financial Crisis of 2008, major banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo attempted to rebuild stakeholder and shareholder trust in the American financial system. Financial public relations played a key role in rebuilding this trust. Through a rhetorical analysis of the use of strategic communication by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, a number of conclusions can be drawn about the practice of issue management and financial public relations. Specifically, this paper found that legitimacy is of importance in post-crisis corporate communication. How JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo responded to questions raised about their actional and institutional legitimacy impacted their press coverage and organizational discourse. This underscores the importance of careful communication in managing shareholder and stakeholder concerns and rebuilding public trust in their corporations
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