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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
The impact of equity-based remuneration on corporate risk strategy in the Australian mining sector
Get PDFThis study empirically examines whether CEO and director equity-based compensation influenced the risk strategy of listed Australian mining sector companies during 2004 to 2013, and whether risk strategy influenced shareholder value creation. The study had three broad objectives. The first was to identify the changes in remuneration structure for the CEO and directors that caused the increase in total compensation throughout this period. Following from the observed growth in equity-based compensation from part one, the second objective was to develop hypotheses to test the relationship between various forms of equity-based compensation and corporate risk strategy, and factors identified from agency and behavioural agency theories that influence firm risk taking and risk management decisions. The third objective was concerned with developing testing hypotheses to examine whether risk taking and risk management is connected to shareholder value creation. The contribution of the study include integrating theories concerned with management equity compensation, firm risk strategy and shareholder value, and to provide insights to enable enhanced understanding of current equity-based compensation practice and corporate risk strategy within the Australian mining sector. The study uses a pooled data set covering the ten year period 2004 to 2013. This comprises mining sector companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Business School, 2015
Chinese Postgraduate Accounting Students’ Learning in Australian Universities: Their Backgrounds, Learning Orientations and Learning Approaches
Get PDFThis thesis reports the process and findings of an empirical study conducted in an Australian university focused on Chinese postgraduate accounting students’ learning. This study was conducted in the context of a preponderance of Chinese students’ in Australian postgraduate accounting programs and recently tightened migration policies. Prior studies on Chinese students’ learning in Western universities have treated Chinese students as a homogenous group but, as Chinese students increase in number and become the majority in postgraduate accounting programs of many Australian universities, the diversity within the group needs to be investigated to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of Chinese students’ learning. This study thus treats Chinese students as a diversified group and aims to understand Chinese postgraduate accounting students’ backgrounds, learning orientations and learning approaches in Australian universities.
This study uses the Student Learning in Context model (Ramsden 2003) to interpret the relationships between students’ backgrounds, learning orientations and learning approaches. Students’ learning orientations are measured and analysed using the Self-Determination theory (Deci & Ryan 1985, 1991), while students’ learning approaches are measured and analysed with the Students’ Approaches to Learning (SAL) model (Biggs 1987). Prior research found that Chinese students are strongly motivated to study accounting in Australian universities by favourable migration policies (McGowan & Potter 2008). This extrinsic learning orientation, language barriers and the teacher-centred learning context in China resulted in Chinese students’ adoption of surface learning approaches in Western universities (Evans, Burritt & Guthrie 2010). This learning approach does not fit the Australian accounting education context that promotes deep learning approaches through a student-centred learning context (Wong, Cooper & Dellaportas 2015).
This study adopts a quantitative approach to answer three research questions: What are the backgrounds, learning orientations and learning approaches of Chinese students in Australian postgraduate accounting programs? What background and learning orientation factors help explain the differences in Chinese students’ learning approaches? How do Chinese students’ learning orientations and approaches change during the time they study in Australian universities? Longitudinal surveys are used to collect data from 428 postgraduate accounting students at the University of Adelaide, including 316 Chinese students and 112 other students. The findings describe unique characteristics of, as well as diversification within, Chinese students’ backgrounds, learning orientations, and learning approaches. The relationship between Chinese students’ backgrounds, learning orientations, and learning approaches are illustrated. The comparison between semesters found that Chinese students’ extrinsic learning orientations decrease over the length of the study. Their adoption of surface learning approaches increases in the second semester and then decreases to its lowest level in the third semester.
This study provides insights to future researchers by treating Chinese students as a diversified group and proposing a combined model that measures and analyses students’ learning orientations and approaches. The empirical findings can help Australian universities better understand their largest international student group and help accounting educators promote deep learning. This study is limited by its small sample, which is a result of environmental restrictions, especially the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Business School, 202
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
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