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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
Project Management in Information Systems Development
No full textAlthough there is a growing body of literature concerned with the adoption of
agile software development within a large organization, there is still very little in terms of
empirical research of practice. This research uses principles from the Beyond Budgeting
model to investigate the budgeting practices of large organizations using an agile
method. Budgeting is taken in this context to mean the performance management process
that executes the organizations financial plan (Hope and Fraser 2003). Using this model,
the research will seek to establish a framework for ¿agile project budgeting¿ which can
be used as a tool to help with the alignment of the Finance and IT functions of a large
organization. The main research questions identified thus far are; How are Beyond
Budgeting principles used in agile software development? What are the advantages and
disadvantages with combining the Beyond Budgeting principles with agile software
development? How might organizations optimize their budget process to facilitate agile
development? Using case study research methods including open-ended interviews the
researcher will conduct two in depth case studies to develop the agile project budgeting
framework
Extending Agile Systems Development: An Application of the Beyond Budgeting Model
No full textThe field of information systems development (ISD) is continuously evolving, with new development practices and methodologies regularly introduced to the field. It is widely recognised that one of the most recent family of methodologies, agile methods, is fast becoming one of the most commonly used. Surveys have recently shown that the majority of systems development teams worldwide are using agile practices in some form. While there is a growing body of research examining agile methods and the theoretical bases and implications of agile practices, very little research has addressed concerns raised by both academics and practitioners regarding the integration of agile practices with and within traditional organisational environments. Recent empirical evidence suggests that agile practices are not well suited to traditional organisational environments. Organisations need to consider how best to extend agile practices beyond the systems development team to facilitate the required integration with the wider organisational environment.
Beyond Budgeting is an innovation from the management accounting literature that seeks to manage organisations through flexible sense-and-respond type mechanisms, rather than the more rigid traditional command-and-control models. This study is based on the premise that the principles of the Beyond Budgeting management model are well suited to an agile systems development (ASD) environment. The study operationalises the Beyond Budgeting model and applies it in an ASD environment. The findings suggest that contemporary thinking in management accounting resonates strongly with contemporary thinking in ISD. The Beyond Budgeting model shares many similarities with ASD with both having a distinctly agile and flexible foundation.
By using the Beyond Budgeting model as a lens to examine seven ASD teams this research discovered that legacy organisational processes and mechanisms have a direct impact on the regular operations of the ASD teams. The study highlights that organisations need to consider how traditional processes and mechanisms will affect the ASD environment. Functional areas within the organisations such as human resources and budgeting need to be aware that agile practices require a change from how they traditionally operated. ASD teams find many difficulties when operating within traditional processes. Applying the operationalised model has highlighted these difficulties and discovered where current ASD practices do not sufficiently address the issues teams face. For example, issues surrounding customer relationships, a central axiom of ASD, are far from well understood. ASD teams need to further consider and develop the complex developer-customer relationship. They need to better understand the role the customer proxy has in the development process. Relationships with other teams and with others within the organisation also have an important role in an ASD environment and are not sufficiently addressed by current ASD practices. From the findings of this study a set of nine recommendations are made to extend and improve upon current ASD practices
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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