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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
Circular Supply Chain Management: Conceptualisation and Empirical Investigation of Performance and Barriers in China
No full textThis thesis conceptualises a new frontier in supply chain sustainability research, namely Circular Supply Chain Management (CSCM), which integrates the Circular Economy (CE) concept in Supply Chain Management (SCM). Building on the newly-established CSCM definition, this thesis investigates the performance outcomes of CSCM and its implementation barriers. The thesis comprises three sequential and interrelated studies/manuscripts contributing to the CSCM perspective, as described below.
The first study/manuscript presents a comprehensive, integrated view and a unified definition of CSCM. It conducts a structured literature review of 261 articles and provides a classification of CSCM research into two broad categories, i.e., at SCM and/or value chain level, and at SCM functional level. Future research directions are discussed for advancing this important and emerging research domain. More research is called for in the areas of design for circularity, procurement and CSCM, biodegradable packaging for CSCM, circular supply chain collaboration and coordination, drivers and barriers of CSCM, circular consumption, product liabilities, and producer’s responsibility, and technologies and CSCM.
The second study/manuscript examines the impact of CSCM on firm performance, including the contextual role of eco-industrial parks (EIP). A conceptual model is developed, based on the Natural Resource-Based View (NRBV), Contingent NRBV and the literature on CSCM. A statistical analysis of the survey data collected from 255 Chinese manufacturing firms establishes the following results: Firstly, CSCM, when exercised as a unified strategy, has a significant positive effect on environmental, cost, and financial performance. However, quite surprisingly, there is no statistically significant improvement in resource circularity performance, which may be due to the modest progress towards CE in China. Secondly, firms located within EIPs demonstrate higher levels of CSCM adoption when compared to firms located outside EIPs. Thirdly, the contextual factor of being located within an EIP does not moderate the CSCM-to-firm performance relationship, which suggests that performance is driven by practices rather than firms’ locations.
The third study/manuscript identifies and systematically analyses the causal-effect relationships among barriers to integrating CE in SCM. For this purpose, the paper develops a theoretical framework grounded in multiple organisational theories. The study uses 105 responses from Chinese food supply chain stakeholders and applies a fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method to examine the causal-effect relationships among the identified barriers. Overall, the results reveal two key causal barriers: weak environmental regulations and enforcement, and lack of market preference/pressure. Lack of collaboration/support from supply chain actors is identified as the most prominent barrier. Based on these results, important managerial and policy implications are drawn. A systemic sustainability collaboration among key food supply chain players needs to be established, focusing on increasing economic and environmental gains. Moreover, designing and launching an extensive promotion campaign using a variety of media sources should also be considered, in addition to strengthening CE and environmental education in the schools.
This thesis makes multiple theoretical contributions. It is among the first to define CSCM and map the current state of research, providing a comprehensive, integrated view of the field. This thesis further contributes by developing new constructs, namely CSCM, which consists of four operational practices (i.e., circular product design, circular procurement, cleaner production, and end-of-life product and waste management), and resource circularity performance. These constructs are developed through extensive review, and their measurement items are validated by academic and industry experts. The studies/manuscripts presented in this thesis use and validate several organisational theories in the CSCM research context. Manuscript 2 links CSCM with Natural Resource Based View (NRBV) of the firms and contingent NRBV to develop a conceptual model. Manuscript 3 develops a theoretical framework of barriers to integrating CE in SCM. It contributes by identifying resource dependence theory, institutional theory and stakeholder theory as the most relevant theories that may be focused in the CSCM barriers research.
The practical contributions of this thesis include the provision of a reference point to SCM practitioners on how to implement CE/CSCM at the firm and supply chain level. The positive and significant CSCM-to-performance link provides clarity to SCM practitioners in implementing CSCM. Firms operating inside an EIP demonstrate higher levels of CSCM adoption but being located inside an EIP itself does not moderate the CSCM-to-firm performance relationship, suggesting that performance is driven by practices rather than firm location. Based on the study results, all manufacturing firms, irrespective of their locations, are advised to develop systemic collaboration for CSCM, as its implementation offers numerous opportunities for organisational gains in supply chains. Moreover, the identification of barriers serves an important purpose, that of helping managers and policymakers in developing appropriate strategies and in prioritising relevant barriers in the short and long run. This research suggests developing systemic sustainability collaboration among key food supply chain players in China, with an explicit focus on improving economic and environmental impact outcomes. The Chinese government needs to improve and enforce environmental regulations and to better educate the public on environmental protection
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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