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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
Knowledge exchange at York St John: Building capacity in a small university.
Get PDFGovernment policy and Higher Education (HE) sector strategy has promoted increased external engagement and participation in the knowledge economy on the part of universities. These drivers have sought to encourage academics to become engaged in the economic, social and cultural issues of society and to address problems in such a way as to demonstrate a knowledge contribution from the academy. Universities, as knowledge intensive organizations respond by changing their organizational structures and processes to support knowledge exchange and to encourage the involvement of academics in this endeavour. This thesis demonstrates how the concept of absorptive capacity (Cohen & Levinthal 2000) was used to understand knowledge exchange capacity at York St John University; a learning and teaching organization with newly acquired University status and a key strategic aim associated with increasing enterprise and knowledge exchange. The action research revealed a very limited development of knowledge exchange strategy and planning and limited ability to 'assimilate' and therefore 'exploit' new knowledge. Academic individualism and managerial control inhibited participation in the action research process and whilst the diagnosis was partly shared with the academic community further actions were not achieved. However a subsequent re-structuring of the University and a very senior appointment to lead external facing activity, suggested that a structural commitment to external engagement was made. Following a critical reflection on the research process and the systems theory of absorptive capacity, the contribution to practice-knowledge a conceptual framework was devised to explain the outcomes of the action research. The framework 'Knowledge Exchange Leadership in High and Low Absorptive Capacity Settings' articulates how academic leadership mindsets differ in high and low absorptive capacity settings. The framework is based on observed experience and individual interpretation of individual and corporate leadership in low capacity settings and an induction about the same domains in high absorptive capacity settings. The framework will help evaluate HE leadership behaviours and facilitate strategic planning for academic knowledge exchange and organizational knowledge productivity. The framework requires further application in other university contexts, to validate it as a practice tool for individual and organizational development. Through epistemological reflection, the functionalist approach (Burrell & Morgan 1979) through action research is questioned. The practitioner-inquiry experience leads to a more critical and interpretive understanding about the barriers to university based organizational change. Further consideration is given to managing action research using more participative methods. I suggest some key questions to engage the academic community in knowledge exchange and 'engaged scholarship' (Van de Ven 2010) as a means to improve engagement with knowledge and to improve assimilation and capacity for knowledge exchange
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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