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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
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
Integration of Sustainability Goals in the Product Development of Finnish Startups
Get PDFObjectives
The main objectives of this study were to investigate the sustainability goals of Finnish startups, and how they are integrated into the product development process. In addition, the methods utilized to measure sustainability in the product development process in startup product development were analyzed.
Summary
Most of the environmental impacts of a product are determined during early stages of product development. Meanwhile, sustainability is increasingly seen as a strategic management tool. To understand how sustainability is integrated in the product development of Finnish startups, interviews with product developers in Finnish startups were conducted.
Conclusions
Sustainability is a core value in Finnish startups, which is integrated into the product development process through various methods of measuring product features and the production process. Sustainability is approached through minimizing the environmental impact of products and processes. The most common method for measuring sustainability is through a life cycle assessment (LCA) of the product. Resources provide some limitation to the level of integration, thus it is also proposed that companies should not only consider sustainability in the product, but also in the production process
Why am I an alien in my own country? : communication problems that Finnish higher education level students encounter when returning to their home country
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"The Birth Home of dreams": A Case study about a co-design process of a birth home
Get PDFIn social and health services, the customer’s role is changing from a passive service user to an active service designer. In Finland, the big reform in social and health care services has brought a pressure to renew social and health care services, and this has helped the progress of customer oriented services. Co-design is a method that enables service design with the customers.
This case study was conducted by using co-design and participatory action research. The object of this case study was to co-design a visionary birth home with its potential customers and personnel. The data for this study was collected in two workshops by using participatory methods.
The results of the participatory methods with the most common expressions concerning the birth home of dreams were related to the services given before the birth, family centeredness, the use of water in the birth, safety, the use of time, mental coaching, the use of space, naturalness, home-likeness, visuality, individuality, peacefulness, nature, congeniality, the nearness of the hospital and professionalism. Co-design was found to be a useful method in designing social and health care services. The workshops produced voluminous amounts of beneficial material. The added value of co-design in designing social and health care services are the opinions and thoughts of the service users that are taken along to the design of the services
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