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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
Unpacking value creation through new product development at the bottom of the pyramid: evidence from local manufacturing firms in Ethiopia
No full textThesis by publication.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Do bottom of the pyramid manufacturing firms with bricolage capabilities and social capital deliver superior value to their customers? -- 3. When does new product development team problem solving creativity in bottom of the pyramid firms' pay off? -- 4. Leveraging local BoP manufacturers' ability to offer affordable products and enhance new product performance in bottom of the pyramid markets -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendices.Delivering value to customers and fostering new product success at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) are major challenges for local manufacturing firms. At the BoP, local manufacturing firms (which originate in the local community and are owned by locals) pursuing the development of new products as part of their strategy have to deal with significant challenges such as poor infrastructure, poor distribution channels, high citizen illiteracy rates, corruption, and lack of enforceable legal frameworks. In order to deliver value to customers and realise new product success, local firms in BoP markets need to create ways to overcome these challenges. One key focus for local BoP firms is to effectively manage their intra (widening their resource base, deploying capabilities) and extra organisational processes (establishing collaboration) which may help better drive new product development (NPD) projects towards successful outcomes. Yet, the literature remains almost silent about how these intra and extra organisational processes affect NPD at the BoP. In an effort to raise awareness and address the silence of research on firms from BoP countries, this thesis develops three papers. The first paper (under 2nd round review at Industrial Marketing Management) examines how a firm's bricolage capability helps to enhance new product innovativeness and how social ties with civil society organisations and government bolster the impact of bricolage by moderating the relationship between bricolage and new product innovativeness. The study further discusses marketing capabilities as an important moderator of the relationship between product innovativeness and the firm's ability to create customer value. Data were obtained from managers of 150 Ethiopian local manufacturing firms and 325 active business customers. Drawing on the capability-based view and social capital theory, the findings show that bricolage has an inverted-U shape relationship with product innovativeness, and ties with civil society organisations attenuate this effect. Whereas our data do not support the moderating role of ties with governments. Further, the results demonstrate a significant moderating role for marketing capabilities in translating product innovativeness into customer value at the BoP. The second paper (under review at the Journal of Business Research) focuses on the role of NPD team's problem-solving creativity in enhancing new product performance. The paper seeks to identify factors (such as leadership style and role ambiguity) that facilitate or inhibit problem-solving creativity in NPD teams within BoP firms. Underpinned by social exchange theory and using a sample of 274 middle-level managers from local BoP firms in Ethiopia, the study shows that NPD team's creativity is a key to develop a new product that pays off financially in BoP markets. The study identifies that ambidextrous leaders (leaders who can deploy simultaneously transformational and transaction leadership styles) can reduce ambiguity in the minds of their NPD managers to foster their teams to look for new and better methods of performing tasks. The findings suggest that CEO's of BoP firms who engage in ambidextrous leadership attenuate the negative effect of role ambiguity on problem-solving creativity in their NPD teams. The third paper (under review at the European Journal of Marketing) examines underlying mechanisms linking collaboration with customers and suppliers to new product advantage en route to creating affordable product and enhancing new product performance for local firms at the BoP. The study further focuses on the contingent roles of two environmental factors relevant to the BoP market context (i.e., market turbulence and competitive intensity). Survey data were collected from three respondent groups including two managerial positions including marketing and NPD managers in local BoP firms and their customers. Drawing upon social capital and institutional theories, the findings show that collaboration with customers and suppliers enhance the ability of local BoP firms to create new product advantages. The relationship between collaboration with customers and suppliers, and new product advantage is, however, impacted by the level of market turbulence BoP local manufacturers face. Market turbulence diminishes the capacity of customer collaboration to generate new product advantage, while its effect on the supplier collaboration - new product advantage relationship was not supported. The study provides evidence for the view that new product advantage in the form of cost-efficiency and differentiation are determinants of affordability and new product performance at the BoP. The study confirms that new product advantage is translated into new product performance in environments with a higher level of competitive intensity. However, the benefit of product advantage in BoP markets to affordability diminishes at higher levels of competitive intensity1 online resource (v, 160 pages
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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