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The cognitive base of educational background and its impact on entrepreneurial knowledge structures
No full textPrior research in entrepreneurship suggests that the type of educational background is conducive for different cognitive bases. However, very few studies have produced empirical support for this assumption, and existing research does not define what these cognitive differences refer to. With this study, we aim to address these theoretical and empirical gaps. In a sample of 575 university students wishing to attend an entrepreneurship education program, we found that the fields of academic specialization have an impact on students’ knowledge structures, operationalized as the way of organizing a set of non-technical concepts related to entrepreneurship. Students in humanities exhibit significant differences from their peers with backgrounds in engineering, hard and social sciences. At the same time, students outside the humanities show homogeneous cognitive patterns. Important implications related to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial cognition are discussed
Entrepreneurs' and students' knowledge structures: a journey into their entrepreneurial mindset
Full text linkThis proposal investigates how entrepreneurs and students associate a set of 18 concepts in order to gather their Entrepreneurial mindset. Which is the connection that entrepreneurs and students
believe to be among concepts such as intuition, innovation and entrepreneur? How they think innovation is associated to risk in an entrepreneurial domain? To what extent passion is connected to the idea of entrepreneur? These questions represent some extract of concepts we asked to connect. An ad-hoc software implementing the Pathnder algorithm produced a visual representation
(simplified networks) of the mindset of each group, composed by 167 students and 29 entrepreneurs.
Three questions have driven our study: (1) which are the characteristics of the entrepreneurs and students mindset? (2) Are there any dierences between the two representations? (3) Are there any
differences among students depending on their educational background? A qualitative inspection, supported by network centrality measures, and a quantitative analysis, based upon the number of
links in common among groups' networks (closeness index) and the rank-order correlation among each couple of concepts, have shown that entrepreneurs' and students' representations differ and that
these differences increase when comparing entrepreneurs with students in human and natural sciences, rather than with students in social and engineering sciences. Through additional analysis we observed that the highest differences concern concepts such as Failure, Success, Social and Regional context and, in some cases, Innovation and Risk. Suggestions for future research are presented
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
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
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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