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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
Inside the boardroom: Exploring board member interactions
No full textThis study aims to open up the black box of the boardroom by directly observing directors'
interactions during meetings to better understand board processes.
We analyze videotaped observations of board meetings at two
Australian companies to develop insights into what directors do in meetings and how they participate
in decision-making processes. The direct observations are triangulated with semi-structured
interviews, mini-surveys and document reviews.
Our analyses lead to two key findings: while board meetings appear similar at a surface
level, boardroom interactions vary significantly at a deeper level (i.e. board members participate
differently during different stages of discussions), and factors at multiple levels of analysis explain
differences in interaction patterns, revealing the complex and nested nature of boardroom discussions.
By documenting significant intra- and inter-board meeting differences, our study challenges the widespread notion of board meetings as rather homogeneous and monolithic,
points towards agenda items as a new unit of analysis and highlights the need for more multi-level
analyses in a board setting.
While policymakers have been largely occupied with the right board
composition, our findings suggest that decision outcomes or roles execution could be potentially
affected by interactions at a board level. Differences in board meeting styles might explain prior
ambiguous board structure-performance results, enhancing the need for greater normative
consideration of how boards do their work.
This study complements existing research on boardroom dynamics and
provides a systematic account of director interactions during board meetings
An observational analysis of the impact of board dynamics and directors' participation on perceived board effectiveness
Full text linkThis study addresses calls for closer examination of board dynamics by offering an inside
view of director interactions. Video observations of three board meetings at each of two
Australian corporations matched with director interviews and secondary data reveal
distinct patterns of director interactions, their sources of variation and their impact on
perceived board effectiveness. The data reveal that director interactions are multidimensional
and dynamic: while group interactions across agenda items are similar, with a few
directors leading the discussion, the contributing directors change across items. Moreover,
directors??? inclusiveness and evenness of participation are associated with higher
perceptions of board effectiveness. Lastly, the study found that director interactions
change with the nature of the items, board climate and board meeting arrangements. The
study contributes to the literature by moving beyond the individual-level analysis of
directors??? skills or independence, and offering a detailed view of how the joint group and
individual dimensions of board dynamics affect board functioning
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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