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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
SUSTAINABLE COUNTRYSIDE AND COMPETITIVENESS
Full text linkSustainability, which is a way of thinking, life, production and consumption, covers all dimensions of human existence, its relation to natural resources, the economy and society. Sustainability can be the solution, beside research and development processes, to global problems like globalising economy and market competition, global warming, poverty and famine. United Nations’ actions from Rio to Johannesburg and EU decisions seem to underpin this. Well intentioned efforts up to the present have been made on global level with few results. Therefore it is necessary to implement sustainability on regional and local sub-regional, company level. Sustainability is getting into the centre of expectations and actions. It is very likely that only regions and subregions recognising the importance of sustainability in time, will be successful and competitive as a result of this advantage. Settlements neglecting sustainability will not be able to keep their inhabitants, the countryside around them will not be able to produce enough products meeting food safety standards, and will exhaust its natural resources fairly quickly. The competitiveness of a region is largely determined by the state and development pattern of its rural areas and settlements. Therefore research has been focused on sustainable countryside and its important elements, sustainable (liveable) settlements. During our investigations we implemented a new indicator and index number set that reflects all dimensions of sustainability, the present situation, and supports the bottom up decision making process of local governments and NGOs in order to promote development. These investigations highlighted the facts that potential competitiveness of a region can only be based on sustainable settlements, subregions and it is essential to eliminate deficiencies that restrain present and future development. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX A fenntarthatóság, amely szemlélet-, gondolkodás-, élet-, termelési-, valamint fogyasztási mód felöleli az emberi létezés valamennyi dimenzióját, a természeti erÅ‘forrásokhoz való viszonyát, a gazdaságot és a társadalmat. A globális kihÃvá-sok leküzdésében – mint például a globalizálódó gazdaság és piaci verseny, a globális felmelegedés, a szegénység és éhezés leküzdése –, a kutatási – innovációs folyamatok mellett a fenntarthatóság jelentheti a megoldást. Ezt megerÅ‘sÃtik az ENSZ világrendezvényei Riótól – Johannesburgig, valamint az EU határozatai. Az eddigi jó szándékú próbálkozások globális szinten mozogtak, vajmi kevés eredménnyel. Ezért szükséges a fenntarthatóság regionális és lokális – kistérségi, települési, vállalkozási – szintjein kezdeményezni a megoldást. A fenntarthatóság egyre inkább az elvárások és cselekvések középpontjába kerül, várható, hogy csak azok a régiók, kistérségek, helyi szintek lehetnek eredményesek, versenyké-pesek melyek idÅ‘ben felismerték a fenntarthatóság érvényesÃtésének szükséges-ségét, s ezzel helyzeti elÅ‘nyre tesznek szert. Ugyanis a fenntarthatóságot mellÅ‘zÅ‘ települések nem tudják megtartani lakosaikat, s a vidék nem képes megfelelÅ‘ minÅ‘ségű, az élelmiszerbiztonsági igényeknek megfelelÅ‘ termékeket kibocsátani, s nem hosszabb távon felélik természeti erÅ‘forrásaikat. A régiók versenyesélyét sokban meghatározzák a régión belüli vidéki térségek és települések helyzete, s fejlÅ‘dése. Ezért a kutatások a fenntartható vidék és ennek lényegi elemére a fenntartható, vagyis élhetÅ‘ településre irányultak. A vizsgálatok erre a célra egy újszerű indikátor és mutatószámrendszert alkalmaztak, amely tükrözte a fenn-tarthatóság dimenzióit, az adott helyzetet, s megalapozzák az alulról épÃtkezÅ‘ te-lepülési és civil szervezeti önkormányzatok a fejlesztés lehetÅ‘ségeit. A vizsgálatok hangsúlyozzák, hogy a fenntartható településekre-kistérségekre épülhet a régió versenyesélye, s mindebben különösen fontos szerepe van a jelent és jövÅ‘t korlá-tozó „hiányok†felszámolásának.Community/Rural/Urban Development, Environmental Economics and Policy, Public Economics, sustainability on regional level, settlements, investigations - fenntarthatóság regionális szintje, települések, beruházások,
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
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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