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Star inventors: quantity and quality in the EOB model
Get PDFStar inventors generate superior innovation outcomes. Their capacity to invent high -quality patents might be
decisive beyond mere productivity. However, the relationship between quantitative and qualitative dimensions has
not been exhaustively investigated. The equal odds baseline (EOB) framework can explicitly model this
relationship. This work combines a theoretical model for creative production with recent calls in the patentometrics
literature for multifaceted measurement of the ability to create high-quality patents, extending the recent results
obtained with forward citations. The results provide evidence in favor of the EOB across all quality indicators and
that inventors’ capacities to create quality patents can be measured to potentially identify star inventors in a way
that explicitly takes the intricate relationship between overall productivity and patent quality into account.
Furthermore, the rankings of inventors in terms of quantity or quality are overall more dissimilar than similar,
confirming that quantity and quality can be measured as orthogonal dimensions. This result is of particular interest
for organizations and for the society: i ncentives and compensation schemes that focus only on a quantitative
assessment of inventors’ output risk to neglect a relevant part of the innovation productio
Reach for the stars: disentangling quantity and quality of inventors’ productivity in a multifaceted latent variable model
Get PDFStar inventors generate superior innovation outcomes. Their capacity to invent high-quality
patents might be decisive beyond mere productivity. However, the relationship between
quantitative and qualitative dimensions has not been exhaustively investigated. The equal
odds baseline (EOB) framework can explicitly model this relationship. This work com-
bines a theoretical model for creative production with recent calls in the patentometrics lit-
erature for multifaceted measurement of the ability to create high-quality patents. The EOB
is extended and analyzed through structural equation modeling. Specifically, we compared
a multifaceted EOB model with a single latent variable for quality, and a two-dimensional
model that distinguishes between technological complexity and value of invention portfo-
lios. The two-dimensional model had better fit but weaker factor scores (for the “value”
latent variable) than the unidimensional model. These findings suggest that both the uni-
and the two-dimensional approaches can be directly used for extending research on star
inventors, while for practical high-stakes assessments the two-dimensional model would
require further improvements
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
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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