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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
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
Ledarskapsförändring och OSA : En undersökning om pandemins påverkan hos kommunala chefer
No full textThis study examines the impact of the pandemic on municipal managers, focusing on how it contributed to altered working conditions and leadership practices that affected the work environment. The primary aim of this thesis was to enhance the understanding of how the Covid-19 pandemic changed the conditions for exercising leadership in municipal operations and how this affected the leaders' organizational and social work environments. The objective was to illustrate how the pandemic influenced various leadership roles by closely investigating the collective experiences of leaders during and after the pandemic. The investigation is based on a qualitative study involving several representative participants holding leadership positions within the public sector, spanning various administrative departments. To ensure valid data, semi-structured interviews were deemed an advantageous approach for this study. The findings, grounded in six themes derived from AFS 2015:4 §4, were subsequently analyzed using the Job Demand-Resource Model. The results demonstrate that the pandemic introduced significant challenges and transformations in leadership, with many respondents reporting increased stress levels, uncertainty, and substantial changes. Simultaneously, the study revealed that the pandemic profoundly altered work situations for leaders post-pandemic and contributed to innovation and a more digitalized way of working. The conclusion highlights that leading personnel remotely is more challenging and underscores the necessity for leaders to be provided with adequate resources to manage sustainable change during complex societal transitions. Keywords: Organizational and social workenviroment, leadership in change, job demand - resources JD-R modelFöljande studie undersöker pandemins påverkan på kommunala chefer, hur detta bidrar till förändrade arbetsförhållanden samt förändrat ledarskap som påverkar arbetsmiljön. Huvudsyftet i denna uppsats var att öka uppfattningen om Covid-19 pandemins förändring av villkoren att realisera ledarskap inom kommunala verksamheter samt hur detta påverkat ledarnas organisatoriska och sociala arbetsmiljö.Undersökningens syfte var att försöka illustrera hur pandemin påverkat olika ledande befattningar genom att noggrant undersöka ledares sammantagna upplevelser hur det var under samt efter pandemin. Undersökningen baseras på en kvalitativ studie som omfattar ett flertal representativa deltagare som arbetade med ledande befattningar inom offentlig sektor, avgränsat inom varierande förvaltningar. För att kunna påvisa valida data, ansåg vi att semistrukturerade intervjuer var ett fördelaktigt tillvägagångssätt i vederbörande studie.Resultatet som grundar sig i sex olika teman från AFS 2015:4 §4 gick senare att analyseras med Job, demand- resource model som visar att pandemin bidrog till utmaningar där flertalet av respondenterna upplevde ett ökat stresspåslag, ovisshet och stora förändringar. Parallellt visade studien att pandemin förändrade arbetssituationen mycket för ledare efter pandemin samt bidrog till innovation och ett ökat digitaliserat arbetssätt. Slutsatsen är att det är svårare att leda personalgrupper på distans och nödvändigt att ledare tilldelas adekvata resurser för att driva en hållbar förändring genom komplexa samhällsförändringar
Ledarskapsförändring och OSA : En undersökning om pandemins påverkan hos kommunala chefer
No full textThis study examines the impact of the pandemic on municipal managers, focusing on how it contributed to altered working conditions and leadership practices that affected the work environment. The primary aim of this thesis was to enhance the understanding of how the Covid-19 pandemic changed the conditions for exercising leadership in municipal operations and how this affected the leaders' organizational and social work environments. The objective was to illustrate how the pandemic influenced various leadership roles by closely investigating the collective experiences of leaders during and after the pandemic. The investigation is based on a qualitative study involving several representative participants holding leadership positions within the public sector, spanning various administrative departments. To ensure valid data, semi-structured interviews were deemed an advantageous approach for this study. The findings, grounded in six themes derived from AFS 2015:4 §4, were subsequently analyzed using the Job Demand-Resource Model. The results demonstrate that the pandemic introduced significant challenges and transformations in leadership, with many respondents reporting increased stress levels, uncertainty, and substantial changes. Simultaneously, the study revealed that the pandemic profoundly altered work situations for leaders post-pandemic and contributed to innovation and a more digitalized way of working. The conclusion highlights that leading personnel remotely is more challenging and underscores the necessity for leaders to be provided with adequate resources to manage sustainable change during complex societal transitions. Keywords: Organizational and social workenviroment, leadership in change, job demand - resources JD-R modelFöljande studie undersöker pandemins påverkan på kommunala chefer, hur detta bidrar till förändrade arbetsförhållanden samt förändrat ledarskap som påverkar arbetsmiljön. Huvudsyftet i denna uppsats var att öka uppfattningen om Covid-19 pandemins förändring av villkoren att realisera ledarskap inom kommunala verksamheter samt hur detta påverkat ledarnas organisatoriska och sociala arbetsmiljö.Undersökningens syfte var att försöka illustrera hur pandemin påverkat olika ledande befattningar genom att noggrant undersöka ledares sammantagna upplevelser hur det var under samt efter pandemin. Undersökningen baseras på en kvalitativ studie som omfattar ett flertal representativa deltagare som arbetade med ledande befattningar inom offentlig sektor, avgränsat inom varierande förvaltningar. För att kunna påvisa valida data, ansåg vi att semistrukturerade intervjuer var ett fördelaktigt tillvägagångssätt i vederbörande studie.Resultatet som grundar sig i sex olika teman från AFS 2015:4 §4 gick senare att analyseras med Job, demand- resource model som visar att pandemin bidrog till utmaningar där flertalet av respondenterna upplevde ett ökat stresspåslag, ovisshet och stora förändringar. Parallellt visade studien att pandemin förändrade arbetssituationen mycket för ledare efter pandemin samt bidrog till innovation och ett ökat digitaliserat arbetssätt. Slutsatsen är att det är svårare att leda personalgrupper på distans och nödvändigt att ledare tilldelas adekvata resurser för att driva en hållbar förändring genom komplexa samhällsförändringar
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