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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
The transformation of the Spoorzone
No full textThis thesis is focussed on the Spoorzone, an area in the city centre of Tilburg. This area was reallocated after it was purchased from the NS, creating a large opportunity for redevelopment in the city centre of Tilburg. Ten years after the purchase the Spoorzone can be seen as a largely developed area in which several modern themes like attractiveness and design. The effects which these themes have on the city centre are analysed and listed in the research, showing which effects have the biggest impact on the feeling of attractiveness by the redevelopment. In the research different effects are listed and grounded in theory written by names like Gehl and Jacobs. The ideology by these thinkers is integrated into the project by using the basics of the theories in the interview guides used to analyse the effects of the redevelopment. This casestudy on Tilburg involves interviews with several experts on the topics in the region and stakeholders present in the Spoorzone as well as inhabitants of Tilburg. The research is aimed to see whether the effects of the redevelopment have positively impacted the feeling of attractiveness in the city centre of Tilburg
Real Estate Projects in Noord Brabant: a research on factors which affect the duration of real estate projects in Noord Brabant
No full textThe Dutch real estate sector faces significant challenges due to delays in project completion. With national agendas focussing on different housebuilding objectives, pinpointing Noord-Brabant as one of the largest potential building areas. This research identifies and analyses the key factors that influence project delays, and see how they correlate. This study utilises quantitative surveys with project developers to measure the presence and impact of potential delay factors. The Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) method is employed to assess interdependencies and multiple causal pathways leading to project delays. The presence of different pathways identifies which specific condition-combinations can potentially contribute to project delay. The research uncovers that singular conditions are not individually causing project delay, but combinations of conditions are. The three configurations which lead to severe delay all include financial uncertainty as a background condition, with procedural implications and /or public litigation as delay factors. Implying that tailored policy is needed to decrease delay in future projects. The research contributes to both academic knowledge and practical implementation suggestions such as increasing plancapacity and working with prefabricated housing types
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
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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