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Replication Data and Materials to Coproduction of Core and Complementary Tasks in Times of Service Decline: Experimental Evidence
No full textReplication Data and Materials to Coproduction of Core and Complementary Tasks in Times of Service Decline: Experimental Evidenc
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
Public Service Users’ Responses to Performance Feedback
Full text linkOffentlige services er i dag kendetegnet ved omfattende resultatmåling, og en stor andel af disse resultatmålinger gøres tilgængelig for den brede offentlighed for at fremme borgernes frie valg, konkurrence og ansvarligholdelse. Servicebrugerne forventes at spille en nøglerolle i den henseende, da resultatinformation kan informere bl.a. til- og fravalg af services og voice. På trods af årtiers forskning i effekterne af resultatinformation i den brede befolkning, ved vi dog kun meget lidt om, hvordan resultatinformation påvirker faktiske servicebrugere. Dette er uhensigtsmæssigt, da brugere kan reagere anderledes på resultatinformation på grund af deres eksisterende viden og personlige interesse i resultaterne i en given servicekontekst.For at fremme vores viden om effekterne af resultatmåling i den offentlige sektor undersøger denne ph.d.-afhandling derfor, hvordan resultatinformation påvirker brugeres virkelighedsopfattelser, deres evalueringer af offentlige services samt deres intenderede adfærd. Først undersøges det, i hvilken udstrækning brugeres følelse af tilknytning med deres serviceudbyder giver brugere bias i deres virkelighedsopfattelse. Dernæst undersøges effekter af resultatinformation på en række klassiske typer reaktioner på resultatinformation i form af bl.a. tilfredshed, voice og exit. Til sidst undersøges det, i hvilken udstrækning resultatinformation påvirker brugeres villighed til samproduktion (coproduction), som er en type reaktion der i vid udstrækning er blevet overset i den eksisterende litteratur.Afhandlingens resultater indikerer, at en stærk tilknytning til serviceudbyderen ikke hæmmer brugeres evne til at danne en nøjagtig opfattelse af virkeligheden igennem resultatinformation. Dog finder afhandlingen, at resultatinformation kun giver anledning til en lille eller ingen effekt på brugeres evalueringer af services samt deres intenderede exit og voice. I stedet antyder afhandlingens resultater, at resultatinformation påvirker brugeres villighed til at samproducere. Fundene har en række implikationer for både resultatlighed og ansvarligholdelse i relation til resultatmåling i den offentlige sektor, og afhandlingens resultater antyder, at utilsigtede strategiske reaktioner på resultatinformation kan være en større anledning til bekymring end bias.Today, unprecedented amounts of performance feedback are produced and disclosedabout public services in efforts to promote choice, competition, and accountability.Public service users are expected to play an instrumental role in these efforts sinceperformance feedback can inform consequential behaviours like exit and voice. However, despite decades of research on effects of performance feedback among citizensin general, less is known about how performance feedback affects actual public service users. This is an unfortunate omission since the service users may differ in theirresponses to performance feedback due to their prior knowledge, their personal interests in service outcomes.To advance our understanding of performance disclosure, this dissertation examines how performance feedback affects service users' belief formation, evaluations ofservice performance and behavioural intentions. First, the dissertation studies the extent to which public service users’ belief formation is hampered by self-serving biasfrom attachment to their provider. Next, the effects of feedback are studied on canonical downstream outcomes like satisfaction and intentions to voice and exit. Finally,the dissertation examines the effects of performance feedback on service users' willingness to coproduce, which is a type of response that has been largely overlooked byexisting research.The results of the dissertation indicate that service users are able to form correctbeliefs from performance feedback and are unhampered by self-serving biases. However, the dissertation also finds that performance feedback only generates small or noeffects on downstream evaluations of service and intentions to exit and voice. Instead,the results indicate, that service users' willingness to coproduce changes in responseto performance feedback. These results have implications for both equity and accountability in response to performance disclosure, and they indicate that unintended butstrategic responses may be a bigger cause for concern than biased information processing
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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