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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
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
Controllerns förändrade roll : En systematisk litteraturstudie
No full textDen här studien undersöker beskrivningar av controllerns roll och dess funktion under tre decennier i Europa. Studien utgår från en systematisk granskning av vetenskapligt granskade artiklar som publicerats i tolv ledande journaler under perioden 1990-2014. Begrepp och funktioner undersöks tillsammans med val av forskningens teoretiska ansatser och metoder. Resultatet i studien visar att det finns tydliga faser av forskningens beskrivningar av controllern, en tidig fas där rollen frigörs från tidigare föreställningar av en ekonom som hanterar redovisning och kassaflöden, en mellanfas där rollen påverkas av exempelvis nya tekniker som IT-stöd och affärssystem leder till att omdefinitioner av rollen anses vara viktiga samt en modern fas där tidigare rolluppdelningar ifrågasätts och fokus ligger på rollens makt i organisationen och möjligheter att skapa sin egen yrkesidentitet. Det finns ett relativt homogent mönster i val av teoretisk ansats gällande beskrivning av controllern. Majoriteten av artiklarna i urvalet utgår från ett sociologiskt perspektiv vilket pekar på att controllern har beskrivits utifrån den kontext controllern verkar i och därmed gett viktiga indikationer för en förståelse av just denna kontext. Studien visar att det framförallt uttrycks att det är organisationella faktorer som driver förändringarna av roll och rollfunktion. Varje organisation definierar vad controllern har för funktion och vilken påverkan denne ska ha på verksamheten. Den kunskapsbas som en controller bör ha, enligt beskrivningarna, visar att controllern behöver hantera fler områden än redovisning. Detta har rapporterats tidigare, men har beskrivits som att det handlar om en rollförändring och en uppdelning av roller. Resultatet i den här studien pekar snarare på att det är en naturlig process av förändring av rollen för ett företags vidare överlevnad. This study examines the descriptions of the role of management accountants in Europe (available only in Swedish). The study is a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed articles, published in twelve leading journals during 1990-2014. The descriptions of the role are examined in relation to theoretical approaches and methods. The result indicates that there are three distinct phases of the descriptions of management accountants, from a role that is released from the previous assumptions of an accountant as a bean-counter towards a phase where the role is affected by new technologies that leads to redefinitions of the role, up to today’s phase where previous role types are questioned with a focus on the power position of the role within the organization and opportunities to create a professional identity. There is a relatively homogeneous pattern in the theoretical approach to the study of the management accountant. The vast majority of articles are based on a sociological perspective, which indicates that the management accountant has been described based on the context the management accountant operates in, given important indications for understanding this particular context. The study indicates that it is primarily the organizational factors that are driving the changes and the function of the role. Each organization defines the function of a management accountant based on to what extent this function is linked to business. The knowledge base of a management accountant, according to the descriptions, illustrates that the management accountant requires managing more areas than accounting. This has been reported before, but has been explained as a role change and a variety of role types. The results of this study indicate that it is rather a natural process of change in relation to the further survival of a business.
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
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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