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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
The impacts of ethnic resources on enterprises' survival : Liu Chong Hing Bank in Hong Kong
No full textThe highly competitive banking sector has seen a drastic reduction in the number of players since the 1940s. In 1948, there were more than a hundred of local Chinese banks (華資銀行) operating in Hong Kong. The public harbored a general mistrust in local Chinese banks since many of them had indulged in risky investments and lending. Unfounded rumors could trigger bank runs. It was therefore traditionally difficult for small and medium-sized local Chinese banks to survive in the market. Over the past fifty years, mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry had reduced the number of local Chinese banks to eight in Hong Kong by 2008; four of them being small and medium-sized family banks. As small and medium-sized enterprises, these banks must create and sustain their own competitive advantages to survive in a competitive market. This study assesses how ethnic resources helped a small and medium-sized family bank to survive in the competitive market in Hong Kong. The focus is on Liu Chong Hing Bank, a family bank in Hong Kong with a predominantly Chaozhou clientele, in the period between the 1950s and 2014. Annual reports, newspaper articles, data collected from in-depth interviews with management from the bank and entrepreneurs of the ethnic group are the major sources of data. The study aims to discover a major missing piece in the puzzle of the development and the reason of the survival of a family bank in the Hong Kong. It also increases the understanding of the importance of ethnic resources on a highly competitive industry as well as the change of identity recognition of Chaozhounese in Hong Kong. The author finds that ethnic resources can help a company to develop its competitive advantages, but the competitive advantages would dissipate as changing social conditions transform the articulation of ethnic identity. This study also showed the changes of identity recognition of younger generation of Chaozhounese was influenced by their primary language and culture.published_or_final_versionModern Languages and CulturesMasterMaster of Philosoph
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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