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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
Effect of Talent Attraction on Organizational Performance: A Case of Hotels in South Rift Region, Kenya
Get PDFHotel sector in the tourism Industry is more and more treating human capital as a typical positive feature that can be leveraged to provide sustainable competitive advantage. As a consequence investors and administrators of hotels have resorted to embracing strategies geared towards talent building and relating it with their hotels. It is hoped that talented employees would enable the hotels realize their objectives. South Rift Region which was the focus of the study, exhibits diversity of star rated tourist hotels classified by Tourism Regulatory Authority. The study was conducted in two to five star hotels, within South Rift Region. This research sought to determine the effect of talent attraction on organizational performance of hotels in South Rift Region, Kenya. The study was guided by Resource Based View Theory. Given that the target population was small (40), a census survey was conducted and structured questionnaires administered to all Human Resource Managers and Hotel Managers in hotels in South Rift Region. The instrument was pilot tested to ascertain the reliability of the research instrument using Cronbach Alpha Reliability Coefficient. The reliability of the research instrument was found to be 0.946 which was considered reliable. The study employed both descriptive (frequency distributions, means and percentages) and inferential statistics. Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple Linear Regression analysis was conducted at significant level of α= 0.05. Data analysis was done with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24. The study established that talent attraction, has a positive significant effect on organizational performance of hotels in South Rift Region with correlation coefficients of (r = 0. 810, p < 0.05). The study recommends that further research could be done on Influence of Innovation Management on organizational performance. Keywords: Talent attraction, Talent Management Practices, Organizational Performance, South Rift Region DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-6-02 Publication date: February 29th 202
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
AN EVALUATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSUASION AND CHOICE OF DAILY NEWSPAPER BY READERS IN KENYA
No full textFULL TEXTAn average consumer is exposed to a range of persuasion marketer generated communications seeking to get his/her attention and elicit some desired response. This communications may make decision making less demanding reducing the time and effort spent in selecting a product/ service (consumer involvement). Also the level of involvement a consumer places on a particular purchase has a bearing on the actual selection (consumer choice) that will be made. But, some of the persuasion messages are relayed at a speed that makes it impossible to comprehend the communications, raising questions on the nature of elaborations consumers make, and involvement level they experience, which ultimately influences choice of product or service they make. To better understand this concept the Consumer Involvement Theory (CIT) and Elaborate Likelihood Model (ELM) were used to evaluate persuasion and its relationship with consumer choice. The study postulated that all forms of persuasion have a positive and significant relationship with consumer involvement in the choice of daily newspapers by readers in Kenya; consumer involvement has a weak, positive and significant relationship with choice of daily newspapers by readers in Kenya; there is a significant difference between relationships of different forms of persuasion and consumer involvement in the choice of daily newspapers by readers of different gender in Kenya; and there is no significant difference between relationships of consumer involvement and consumer choice between male and female daily newspaper readers in Kenya. A multi stage sampling technique was employed to get a sample of 384 respondents who completed close ended questionnaires. The findings of this study revealed that a positive correlation existed between all forms of persuasion and consumer involvement. Self persuasion and subliminal persuasion predicted consumer involvement but interpersonal persuasion did not. Further, daily newspapers strongly displayed features of low involvement product purchase and the study results showed a weak relationship existed between consumer involvement and consumer choice. Generally, all hypotheses were supported with exception of the first one, which stated that all forms of persuasion have a positive and significant relationship with consumer involvement in the choice of daily newspapers readers in selected counties in Kenya. The study recommends that daily newspapers publishers should research further on their customers and/or potential customers to understand content that appeal to them more and then strategically infuse this in their dailies to gain a competitive edge. The newspaper publishers could also explore possibility of growth in their sales through online prints targeted at those within age ranges of 18 and 24 years as their computer literacy level is high (94.4%). Advertising clients are similarly advised to identify the daily newspaper with the highest readership when pitching their adverts. This is because a large percentage of daily newspaper readers (65%) do not purchase and read more than one daily newspaper. The findings of this study contribute to knowledge in the area of persuasion, consumer involvement and consumer choice, thus building on existing theories. Policy formulators will be sensitised by the findings related to subliminal persuasion‘s ability to influence, hence they can take appropriate steps in regulating its influence on consumers and challenges that may result. Marketers and advertising practitioners on the other hand, have knowledge generated by this study that is critical for strategic preparation of persuasive messages that will elicit desired outcomes
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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