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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
From Services to Offices: Investigating the Integration of Service Robots into Our Lives
No full textTechnologies based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as service robots, are increasingly penetrating multiple areas of our lives: From services to office areas, they are integrated in a variety of functions and forms. In the service area, service robots are an important interface to customers and work alongside human employees. In offices, robots provide assistant services to their human colleagues. These developments call for guidance on how to effectively integrate service robots for successful human-robot interaction in these contexts. This dissertation aims to provide nuanced insights into service robot implementation, depending on the level and perspective of interaction. It thus sheds light on individual and team-level interactions between humans and robots, covering the external, i.e., customer perspective, and internal employee perspective on these service robots. With this differentiation, this work advances knowledge and theoretical concepts for each area and also provides concrete managerial guidance.
The dissertation contains three research studies dedicated to specific levels and perspectives of human-robot interaction. Additionally, service and office contexts are investigated. Research study 1 focusses on individual interactions between human and robotic employees from an external customer perspective in a frontline service environment. Relying on social identity theory and the black sheep effect, study 1 shows that customers upgrade norm-compliant behaviors by human employees more than similar behaviors by service robots. Additionally, they downgrade norm-violating service behaviors more when interacting with a human service employee compared to a service robot. This effect also occurs in service failures with greater anger and frustration towards human service employees. As an important mechanism to the black sheep effect, this work shows that customers assign human service employees to a social ingroup, while service robots represent the social outgroup. This study gives theory-based guidance for the deployment of service robots in customer-service situations and effective division of labor with human service employees.
Research study 2 addresses service robot implementation into an office context from an internal employee perspective. Again, individual interactions are the focus of the study. Based on a typology approach, distinct robot user types are established through interviews. These types and related patterns are then investigated in an online study providing insights on performance-related and social relations for each type. By utilizing these types, firms can tailor service robot implementation to their employees’ needs with targeted but economical strategies.
Going beyond individual level interactions with service robots, research study 3 sheds light on an emerging phenomenon in services and office contexts, human-robot teams (HRTs.). In these teams, robotic and human capabilities can be combined to achieve organizational goals. The study combines the internal employee perspective and the external customer perspective and examines both response types to service robots in teams with an empirics-first mixed-methods approach. A first online study establishes important effects of robot design and acceptance. Specifically, android robotic team assistants are preferred over humanoid ones by employees. Relying on the expectation-disconfirmation paradigm and robot role theory, the study shows that the acceptance of the service robot is highest with high robot role expectations and corresponding high levels of experiences. A longitudinal pre-study shows that proactively behaving service robots are not well received. Finally, longitudinal team performance patterns reveal a smaller drop in performance for later team performance stages for HRTs than for a human-only team. Customers further rate the HRTs’ project outcomes higher. Notably, this study creates a comprehensive picture of HRTs and goes beyond single touch-points by providing a longitudinal perspective to these teams of the future.
In summary, this work advances scientific research on human-robot interaction by shedding light on different levels of interaction and by covering multiple perspectives and areas. Besides providing new insights for each area, this dissertation transfers and extends important theories, approaches and models to robotics research with a variety of methods and instruments to create a holistic understanding. The goal is to pave the way for a successful introduction of service robots into our lives
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
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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