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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
What drives the performance of tourism enterprises? A systematic review of the literature
Get PDFBusiness performance has gained increasing scholarly attention within tourism research, especially in recent years. This study aims to expand our knowledge of performance drivers in the context of tourism through a systematic literature review of 137 articles published in SSCI-listed journals from 2001 to 2021. Each article was subjected to content analysis concerning performance drivers, research scope, and methodology. The findings reveal that the literature is characterized by an abundance of studies examining single-country settings, mainly in Europe, focusing on small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), especially in the accommodation sector, using quantitative methods. In terms of empirical issues, the results show that performance drivers in the internal environment have received great scholarly interest from researchers, while antecedents in the external environment are understudied. The study points to some noteworthy aspects of business performance drivers and presents several important research gaps to be addressed based on the findings
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
Place, community and tourism entrepreneurship
No full textPlace and community play an integral role in the development of tourism and tourism enterprises. Similarly, tourism and tourism entrepreneurship shape the creation of places and the development of host communities. Drawing on concepts of economic and human geography and previous research on community-centric tourism entrepreneurship, this chapter conceptualizes the interrelationships between place, community, and tourism entrepreneurship. This chapter proposes a conceptual model that illustrates the role of place-making within the interplay of factors in community-centric tourism entrepreneurial phenomena. The conceptual model suggests that tourism entrepreneurs who have established relationships with and attachment to a place and/or host community are more likely to form community-centric tourism enterprises that contribute to place-making and commit to community development. This chapter outlines avenues for future research that could enhance our understanding of the interrelationships between place, community, and tourism entrepreneurship
Conceptualizing the tourism entrepreneurial ecosystem
No full textThis chapter seeks to provide a conceptual underpinning to the notion of the tourism entrepreneurial ecosystem. Entrepreneurship does not occur in a vacuum and yet for some considerable time, much focus in the entrepreneurship literature has been on the characteristics of the entrepreneur. More recently, and building on systems theory and subsequent applications in economics, the concept of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) has spawned much research interest. In part because of its relative novelty, the concept has only just begun to attract interest in tourism. We argue that the concept deserves increased focus because of entrepreneurship’s importance to tourism development. Based on a review of the EE concept and its application to tourism, a framework is provided that supports the use of the tourism EE as an analytical category, thereby assisting future research in this area
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
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