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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
Entrepreneurial judgment
No full textThis chapter explores a series of central themes in contemporary Austrian entrepreneurship research that we group under the heading of entrepreneurial judgment. These themes are crucial elements in what is now known as the judgment-based approach to entrepreneurship (JBA). The JBA has a distinguished pedigree in Austrian work and has been growing substantially in recent years both there and in other areas of social science and management research. We first outline the history and major themes of the JBA, including decision-making under uncertainty, the ownership and use of heterogeneous capital assets, the delegation of authority within the firm and its implications for organization, and the social function of the profit and loss test. We then discuss several current trends in the judgment literature and explore some open questions and debates that continue to animate this body of research. Following this, we discuss the use of the JBA in fields of management beyond entrepreneurship; the relation of judgment to institutions; and the relation of judgment to economic policy.<br/
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
Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship:Alertness or Judgment?
No full textIt is uncontroversial that poor public policy undermines entrepreneurial behavior and reduces public welfare. However, the exact mechanisms by which policy interventions affect entrepreneurial behavior are often unclear. This paper contrasts two competing theories of the relation between public policy and entrepreneurship: the theory of entrepreneurial incentives suggested by Israel Kirzner, and the theory of economic calculation and judgment proposed by Ludwig von Mises and Joseph T. Salerno. I argue that the alertness theory provides inadequate grounding for policy analysis because it rests on a paradoxical approach to opportunity discovery. The calculation view, on the other hand, is well-suited for application to policy problems, as it rests on a realistic view of entrepreneurial decision-making
Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship:Alertness or Judgment?
No full textIt is uncontroversial that poor public policy undermines entrepreneurial behavior and reduces public welfare. However, the exact mechanisms by which policy interventions affect entrepreneurial behavior are often unclear. This paper contrasts two competing theories of the relation between public policy and entrepreneurship: the theory of entrepreneurial incentives suggested by Israel Kirzner, and the theory of economic calculation and judgment proposed by Ludwig von Mises and Joseph T. Salerno. I argue that the alertness theory provides inadequate grounding for policy analysis because it rests on a paradoxical approach to opportunity discovery. The calculation view, on the other hand, is well-suited for application to policy problems, as it rests on a realistic view of entrepreneurial decision-making
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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