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Transferable Skills
No full textBeing a research administrator requires a number of hard skills, from understanding budgets, interpret call texts, and to understand the academic environment you are working in. But to act in the often contradictionary environment between the researcher and his or her team, the institutional rules and regulations and the research funding bodies you will often come short by only building on hard skills. As a research administrator you will need to master skills going beyond the technical requirements. The communication and presentation skills are obvious key competencies, but they will have to be complemented with diplomacy, team-working skills, and not least: a good sense of humor and self-insight. In this chapter, we will present some of these skills and how you as research administrator better can handle the complex environment you are acting in
Preaward — Project Preparation
No full textThis chapter will take the starting point that research is a continuous process, where ideas, projects, data gathering, and documentation are closely interwoven. It will investigate the role of research administration staff facilitating this process, introducing the project life cycle, as a way to describe the different stages in a research process. We will concentrate on research with external funding using the generally acknowledged terminology of a preaward phase and a postaward phase to describe the difference between planned projects and actually running projects.The chapter will give a thorough introduction to the preaward part of the project life cycle, from the project idea, finding funding opportunities, awareness raising, preparation and writing of the project, submission, and contract negotiation phase; finally we will touch briefly on the rejection of proposals and how they can be recycled. Each component will be described with emphasis on the need for support in each step of the preaward phase
Research Strategy
No full textThis will establish a further understanding of research strategy, its history, role, and context, followed by a presentation of tools for how to work with and develop research strategies.The starting point is an analysis of the changing in research funding, moving from primarily be public funded to be primarily funded by competitive funding; moving from bottom-up research to problem-solving and contributing to societal challenges; and moving from individual projects to large-scale international consortia: These changes forces the need for the establishing of a research strategy on research group level, and institutional level.We will present the overall framework of research and from there move into the different components of how to establish a research strategy, hereunder hierarchies of strategies, mission and vision, actors and ownership, building successful teams, ending up with three major case stories on how to build successful research strategies
The European Research Environment
No full textThis chapter presents the European research environment and the interaction with regional and national research structures and funding mechanisms, in what we will call the research landscape. The chapter will explore the formation of a common European research agenda, and the modalities, policies, and programs introduced.The chapter will explain the structure of the current EU Horizon 2020 research program, hereunder the institutions involved in the planning and running of the program.The European research funding landscape can be analyzed and looked upon from different angles. We present the perspective of the research administrator and provide an overview, allowing the reader to navigate in the enormous amount of other relevant documents and analysis relevant for a thorough and in-depth understanding of the development of the European research landscape. We intent to give an introduction that will be both inspiration and guideline for further exploration on your own
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
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
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