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Determinants of Islamic Business Unit Performance in Indonesia: Evidence from 2022–2024
Full text linkIntroduction: Islamic Business Units (Sharia Business Units/UUS) has a strategic value to enhance the Islamic banking system in Indonesia, but its performance in terms of profitability is still unstable, especially during the post-pandemic time. The sustainability of UUS profitability is also questioned because of operational inefficiencies, increased financing risks, and difficulty in intermediation activities. This problem creates the necessity of the empirical study of the main factors that determine the UUS financial performance within the dynamic economic environment. Research Methods: The research method consists of a quantitative research design where the data used are monthlyean values of Sharia Business Units in Indonesia between the period of January 2022 and December 2024. The Yield Proportion, Non-Performing Financing (NPF), Financing to Deposits Ratio (FDR), and Operating Expenses to Operating Income (BOPO) are studied using multiple linear regression to determine their relationship with Return on Assets (ROA). The validity and reliability of the regression model is carried out by classical assumption tests. Findings: The empirical evidence shows that all the explanatory variables, including NPF, FDR, BOPO, and Yield Proportion, have negative impacts on ROA that are significant both in part and at the same time, which indicates that the inefficiency, financing risk, and not optimum intermediation undermine UUS profitability. Conclusion: The paper has concluded that operational efficiency, enhancement of credit risk management and optimization of functions of intermediaries are the main factors needed to increase the profitability of UUS. The findings lead to the Islamic banking literature and offer managerial and policy elucidations on how this is attained through sustainable performance of Sharia Business Units in Indonesia
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
Digital Zakat and Islamic Fintech: A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research Trends and Collaboration Networks (2012–2025)
No full textThis paper examines global research trends, collaborative networks, and prevailing themes in digital zakat and Islamic fintech studies published from 2012 to 2025. We retrieved a total of 194 Scopus-indexed publications using bibliometric methods on September 23, 2025, and analyzed them using VOSviewer version 1.6.20. The analysis set a minimum occurrence threshold of 5 for keywords and a minimum citation threshold of 10 for documents. The results indicate that the number of publications has been steadily rising since 2017, with the most in 2023 (42 documents). Malaysia, Indonesia, and Nigeria were the top contributors, and INCEIF University and the International Islamic University Malaysia were the main places where people worked together. The Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research and the International Journal of Islamic and Middle East Finance and Management were the two most active places to publish. Keyword analysis shows that the most important topics are zakat, fintech, financial inclusion, blockchain, and sustainable development. Recent research is focusing increasingly on new technologies and the world after COVID-19. The results indicate that digital zakat and Islamic fintech lead to more open and fair financial practices
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
Religious Traditions and Cultural Acculturation: A Global Bibliometric Mapping (2001–2025)
Full text linkThe proposed research is expected to present a bibliometric mapping of the world research on religious traditions and cultural acculturation of the past 20 years (2001-2025). Using 324 publications indexed in the Scopus database, the analysis was conducted using VOSviewer software to explore the structure of publications, author collaboration networks, institutional contributions, key journals, and keyword co-occurrences. The results indicate that in 2015 and subsequent years, there was a high rise in academic interest in the topic, and the United States and the United Kingdom became the major contributors. Schools like Brandeis University and the University of California, Irvine, are important vehicles of the discourse. Other researchers, such as Thomas G. Kirsch and David Mosse, are intellectuals who connect research clusters. The most frequent keywords include “religious pluralism,” “religion,” and “religious identity,” grouped into five thematic clusters covering identity, multiculturalism, syncretism, and cultural adaptation. The history of keywords shows that in recent years, there is an increasing emphasis on cultural adjustment and interreligious relations. This paper affirms the interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to the research topic, as well as the interest of researchers in utilizing bibliometric techniques in integrating scattered literature and visualizing the history of the international scholarly pursuit
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