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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
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
The role of a broker in facilitating transdisciplinary project teams.
No full textCollaborations of diverse participants at this front-end of innovation are becoming increasingly common as the combination of heterogeneous knowledge improves idea generation and innovation activity through the incorporation of a variety of different stakeholder perspectives. However, diverse participants are not always able to interact effectively, creating difficulties in reaching a level of shared understanding. The introduction of a broker provides a means to overcome these problems. A broker is a person who creates and maintains social ties and operates in a sparse social network, occupying a central position amongst groups of otherwise unconnected individuals.
In Australia, the Victorian State government has invested substantially in a new approach to change to a low-carbon future, creating the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) with the explicit task of shaping sustainable urban landscapes. VEIL is a consortium of government agencies, four universities, and a number of private firms. VEIL’s task is to project visions of Victoria, initially Melbourne, that break from the trajectories of the past, with a time horizon of 25 years. Those visions are then used to back-cast, to identify “vision-driven” design and innovation projects for the present or short-term future.
This paper reports the findings of a process study of the idea generation process during the evolution of a single eco-innovation urban renewal project carried out by the VEIL in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows over a period five months from April, 2010 to July, 2010. A process-tracing method was used to explicitly capture time by identifying the links between chains of events and establishing how these links can highlight particular processes at work. It identifies the conditions under which processes operate within the case in order to explain the role a broker played in facilitating the emergence of ideas. Process-tracing is well established in disciplines such as political science and sociology where history and time matter. It is a form of within-case analysis which seeks to explain how phenomena come about by identifying the process(es) or explanatory mechanisms
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
Organizational Identity Evolving: Developing a Process Model
No full textExisting research regarding organizational identity are dominated by comparative static, cross-sectional, variance based, approaches in which identity at a point-in-time outcome is the focus of explanation. But this tells us little about the development of identify because it is a process that until recently has not been studied processually. These tell us little about the ongoing process of organizational identity development and the underlying forces shaping the way it changes and develops over time. This requires the development of process theories and methods that focus on the temporal sequence of events taking place and the mechanisms and processes driving this. I discuss the nature of process theory and a research methodology for developing such theories based on the analysis of case histories. I propose a research framework to develop a process theory of evolving organizational identity based on an analysis of specific context. It involves: (a) identifying and conceptualizing the sequence of key events or critical incidents taking place in time and space and how they are interconnected; (b) and, identifying and conceptualizing the causal mechanisms connecting events and driving the process
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