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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
A framework for understanding transformational FDI
Get PDFThis paper was commissioned by the Office for Investment and the Department for Business and Trade to aid their developing strategy on how inward investment promotion can contribute to so called levelling up. The purpose of this paper is there to explore the potential for inward investment into the UK to contribute to reducing regional inequality. We present a framework which explores how inward investment can be used to “move the dial” in lagging nations and regions of the UK, not merely offering more of the same in terms of output, productivity and employment opportunities, or alternatively not simply attracting activity that is subsequently rather divorced from the rest of the local economy
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
Leveraging the benefits of location decisions into performance : a global view from matched MNE
Get PDFWe examine how firms leverage their resources, through FDI decisions into profits growth. Drawing on over 19,000 multinational firms, we employ a matching process and find that while investment in developed countries leads to productivity improvement, profits growth is not automatic, but requires continued productivity growth. Contrasting the emphasis placed on different firm-level resources by the resource-based view and the knowledge-based view, we show that a firm’s capability to invest in firm-specific assets accelerates the speed of reaping the rents from knowledge seeking FDI in developed countries. In addition, profits growth as a result from investing in developing countries is greater for firms who appoint foreign directors from the same global or regional cluster as their foreign subsidiaries. Moreover, developing country MNEs, if properly deploying their firm resources, can leverage the benefits of FDI location into performance better than developed country MNEs
Job loss and job creation : pitfalls and opportunities? Brexit, foreign investment and employment
Get PDFThis briefing outlines recent policy-orientated research from the University of Warwick on the impact of Brexit on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and employment. It presents a number of policy recommendations based on this research, to mitigate the negative effects of Brexit on inward investment and job creation. Above all, the Government needs to avoid a hard Brexit that sees tariff barriers returning, and secure a trade deal that prioritises access to the single market for as many sectors as possible, as soon as possible
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