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International production, structural change and public policies in times of pandemics
Full text linkThe COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the world economy at a pace never seen
before. Both supply- and demand-side conditions have been affected, putting all relevant
dimensions of the economy under unprecedent stress.
At the time of writing this introduction, the virus is continuing to infect and kill
large numbers of people in several countries, especially in the US, Brazil and India.
In Europe, the contagion curve has flattened almost everywhere through the widespread
application of draconian lockdown and social distancing measures. By drastically
reducing interpersonal contacts, such measures were instrumental to mitigate
the health consequences of the pandemic. At the same time, they caused a dramatic
drop in global GDP and employment, resulting in a major economic slowdown
which is paving the way for a recession even worse than the one triggered by the
Great Financial Crisis of 2008
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
Industrial diversity and innovation spillovers: dynamic innovation and adoption
No full text"This paper explores the links between open innovation and the emergence of a
phoenix industry – the low carbon vehicles sector - in the UK’s traditional automotive
heartland, focusing on the West Midlands region. It highlights three major factors in
driving the development of this ‘phoenix’ industry at a regional level. Firstly, it
highlights the role of ‘open innovation’ approaches in driving the sector, for example
noting that smaller firms can sometimes innovate more quickly/more cheaply than the
major auto firms; the increased interaction across technologies, up and down supply
chains and between larger and smaller firms. In so doing, it also notes the role of
hybrid firms providing services, plus prototyping/low volume manufacturing (largely in
niche vehicles) and the transferability of these competences across industrial
sectors. Secondly, it points to the role of historic (and relatively immobile)
investments in the region, for example the past/ongoing importance of established
mass producers, the depth of skills and experience in suppliers and in the local
workforce; and cross-overs with the overlapping motorsport cluster. Finally, it
stresses the role of public-private sector cooperation, such as: the establishment of
the Automotive Council UK and its work in developing technology roadmaps,
informing regulation, and supporting development of the UK supply chain (a type of
industrial policy as a discovery process and in line with ‘smart specialisation’
principles); the R&D funding programmes developed with industry input; and the
earlier role of the Regional Development Agency. Overall, it points to the possibilities
of building smart specialisation strategies and industrial policies which are aligned
with ‘high-road strategies’."WWWforEurop
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
Industrial diversity and innovation spillovers: dynamic innovation and adoption
No full text"This paper explores the links between open innovation and the emergence of a
phoenix industry – the low carbon vehicles sector - in the UK’s traditional automotive
heartland, focusing on the West Midlands region. It highlights three major factors in
driving the development of this ‘phoenix’ industry at a regional level. Firstly, it
highlights the role of ‘open innovation’ approaches in driving the sector, for example
noting that smaller firms can sometimes innovate more quickly/more cheaply than the
major auto firms; the increased interaction across technologies, up and down supply
chains and between larger and smaller firms. In so doing, it also notes the role of
hybrid firms providing services, plus prototyping/low volume manufacturing (largely in
niche vehicles) and the transferability of these competences across industrial
sectors. Secondly, it points to the role of historic (and relatively immobile)
investments in the region, for example the past/ongoing importance of established
mass producers, the depth of skills and experience in suppliers and in the local
workforce; and cross-overs with the overlapping motorsport cluster. Finally, it
stresses the role of public-private sector cooperation, such as: the establishment of
the Automotive Council UK and its work in developing technology roadmaps,
informing regulation, and supporting development of the UK supply chain (a type of
industrial policy as a discovery process and in line with ‘smart specialisation’
principles); the R&D funding programmes developed with industry input; and the
earlier role of the Regional Development Agency. Overall, it points to the possibilities
of building smart specialisation strategies and industrial policies which are aligned
with ‘high-road strategies’."WWWforEurop
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
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