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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
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Green CSR communication in the service industry : strategy development for a hotel’s informative and persuasive green messages
Get PDFDue to the hotel’s close reliance on the environment and local communities, sustainability has magnified in the hospitality industry. Hotels strongly consider about environmental issues and adopt pro-environmental programs as a part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business models. However, despite hotels’ highly active engagement in green CSR, hotels face challenges communicating their pro-environmental efforts because CSR communication may backfire by provoking condemnation from the belief that companies are mainly trying to benefit themselves via CSR practices, which are, in actuality, supposed to benefit society. Following a dearth of more in-depth research in CSR communication, this study looked into the message framing strategies that hotels could employ to effectively communicate their green CSR information to their consumers in two ways, in compliance with the two primary objectives of CSR communication – to inform and to persuade. First, Study 1 investigated consumers’ responses to a hotel’s informative green CSR message. Building upon the claim objectivity and correspondent inference theory, it revealed that an explicit and specific CSR message was effective to reduce consumers’ skepticism, bolster their perceived CSR motives as public-serving, and improve a hotel’s brand image and reputation. Consistently, an impact-focused message, which described a hotel’s actual contributions to environment, demonstrated not only the same effects but also, increased consumers’ trust towards a message. Second, for a persuasive CSR message, Study 2 mainly examined the effects of flattery presented in a hotel’s green card on prompting consumers’ green behavior at a hotel based on the self-enhancement theory. It indicated that flattery significantly enhanced consumers’ towel reuse intentions at a hotel. Also, it mitigated their skepticism, and led them to believe in a public-serving motive. Through two studies, a role of skepticism and perceived motives was highlighted that these two constructs, as mediators, could explain the mechanism of consumer responses to a CSR message. This dissertation contributes to advance the understanding of consumer judgment of different types of pro-environmental CSR messages and further, provides empirical framing strategies for hotel practitioners to effectively communicate with their consumers for their green efforts.Advertisin
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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