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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
On the che-shu 讁戌 and che-min 讁民 in the Ch'in 秦 and Han 漢 Dynasties
No full textIn the Ch'in and Han eras men were forceably transported for border defense and border land reclamation. They were called che-min and usually were charged with severe tasks exceeding the ordinary annual military duties of commoners. Conscription of che-min was limited under Ch'in Shih-huang 秦始皇 and Han Wu-ti 漢武帝. Under Ch'in Shih-huang, the principal objective of che-min conscription (che-shu) was the maintenance of the. chun-hsien 郡縣 system which had been set up in the border regions. Those who were classified as che-min had failings on their record and were prohibited from holding public office. With the fall of the Ch'in, che-min was stopped for a time, but was revived with Han Wu-ti's second campaign against the state of Ta-wan 大宛. The che-min at this time were called ch'i-k'e-che 七科讁 and were characterized by the new addition of refugees into their ranks. The reason that refugees came to be placed among them was because of the rise of large-scale migrations due to natural disasters. The social position of people stigmatized at che-min was unstable but this opens up the major problem of how to understand the systems for liang-min 良民 and chien-min 賤民 in ancient China
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
Determining the factors that influence the sales volume: a case study of MVBD, Menara Kuala Lumpur / Nuradlina Che Min
Get PDFThis study examines the factors of marketing mix that influence the sales volume of products and services offered. Specifically, the study examines the association between price; service, and promotional activities with sales volume. Delivering service quality is an essential strategy for success and survival in today's competitive environment. Furthermore, price is the determining key that could and would seal consumer's decision. A structured questionnaire was developed and administered to a total of 49 customers via telephone interviews. Two types of data analysis, descriptive analysis and correlation coefficient, were used for this research. The result provides support for three out of four objectives that were examined.
The analysis reveals that service provided by personnel, facilities, and price positively related with sales volume. The finding also suggests that the three factors appear to be the most influential organizational responses that can affect sales volume as well as revenue. The result shows that there is no statistically significance relationship between promotion and sales
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
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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