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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
Reorganizations law : a study in labour law
No full textSi, ces dernières décennies, les pratiques de réorganisation d’entreprise n’ont pas substantiellement changé, l’ordonnancement autour de cet objet s’est, quant à lui, radicalement transformé. La valorisation que le droit en donne, la distribution du pouvoir, la légitimation de ces opérations, sont autant de paramètres qui ont profondément évolué. De sorte que se distingue l’avènement d’équilibres nouveaux. En retrait mais pas tout à fait destitué, le régime du licenciement pour motif économique demeure, en dépit de ses érosions et avec ses mues successives, une partie significative de ce pan du droit du travail. Il est d’ailleurs le siège de préfigurations, comme par exemple les contours du contrôle désormais dévolu à l’administration bien au-delà des licenciements. Par ailleurs, les régimes concurrents au régime du licenciement pour motif économique, qui se multiplient depuis les années 1990, parviennent aujourd’hui à un certain degré d’autonomie. Accord portant rupture conventionnelle collective et accords de performance collective en sont autant d’illustrations. C’est en contradiction, mais donc aux prises avec ce régime classique, qu’ils se sont construits, et, à ce titre, les voies et artifices empruntés pour parvenir à l’émancipation esquissent les caractéristiques du nouvel ensemble. L’hypothèse est que prend forme, aujourd’hui, un droit des réorganisations. Ni état statique du droit, ni forme à prescrire, le droit des réorganisations désigne un mouvement à l’œuvre, une hybridation entre un régime du licenciement pour motif économique lui-même infléchi et des régimes concurrents affranchis. Or, il se joue dans l’avènement de ce droit, doté de structures et de raisons propres, un accroissement certain du pouvoir de l’employeur.While corporate reorganization practices have not changed substantially in recent decades, the legal frame has radically changed. The valuation that the law gives them, the distribution of power, the legitimization of these operations, are all parameters that have changed profoundly. So that new balances stand out. The regulation of dismissals for economic reasons has been put aside but not entirely deposed. Despite its erosion and after a series of successive reconfigurations, this regulation remains a significant part of this section of labor law. It is also the seat of foreshadowing, such as the outlines of the control now devolved to the administration well beyond dismissals. In addition, the systems competing with the regulation of dismissals for economic reasons, which have multiplied since the 1990s, are now achieving a certain degree of autonomy. This is for instance the case for collective agreements concerning “collective terminations by mutual consent” or “collective performance” agreements. These systems have been built in contradiction with the common regulation of dismissals for economic reasons. The ways and devices used to achieve their emancipation outline the characteristics of the new whole. The hypothesis is that a reorganizations law is taking shape today. Neither static state of law, nor form to be prescribed, the reorganizations law is the name of a movement at work. It is a hybridization between common regulation of dismissals for economic reasons and competing regulations that have developed freely. This new and developing law is endowed with its own structures and reasons. For sure, it allows the power of the employer to increase
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
A perspective on expertise and the works council
No full textFace à la complexité du monde de l’entreprise, le recours à l’expertise s’avère être indispensable afin de permettre au comité d’entreprise d’exercer pleinement ses attributions, et, in fine, de contribuer à l’application du principe de participation des travailleurs. Une approche plus réaliste de l’expertise permet d’établir que le comité d’entreprise a à sa disposition deux types d’experts : les experts institutionnels (l’expert-comptable, l’expert technique, l’expert libre et l’expert économique) et les experts non institutionnels (certaines commissions du comité d’entreprise et le comité d’hygiène, de sécurité et des conditions de travail). Les liens que le comité d’entreprise et les experts entretiennent oscillent entre vision traditionnelle et vision renouvelée. De façon tout à fait traditionnelle, ces deux types d’experts accomplissent, de façon inégale, une mission d’éclaireur pour le comité d’entreprise en lui apportant de l’information mais également en la traitant lorsque cela est nécessaire. De façon plus singulière, il apparaît que les experts interviennent également dans le processus de décision, mais également dans le processus de concertation. Au-delà du rôle que les experts peuvent jouer auprès du comité d’entreprise, les liens qu’ils entretiennent avec le comité révèlent l’existence de deux sortes de dynamique sous-jacentes : une dynamique relationnelle entre les différentes parties prenantes à l’expertise, marquée par un subtil équilibre entre dépendance et indépendance des uns envers les autres, et une dynamique collective qui témoigne de l’existence d’une expertise collective constituant un système d’intelligence collective nécessaire à l’effectivité du principe de participation des travailleurs.Given the complexity of the business environment, resorting to expertise proves to be essential for the works council to fully exercise its powers and ultimately for the council to contribute to the application of the employee involvement principle. A more realistic approach to expertise enables us to establish that the works council has two types of experts at its disposal: institutional experts (chartered accountants, technical experts, expert consultants and economic experts) and non-institutional experts (some of the works council commissions and the Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee (CHSCT)). The relations between the works council and experts oscillate between a traditional perspective and an updated perspective. In a very traditional fashion, these two types of experts unevenly act as pathfinders for the works council. They provide the council with information but also process this information when it is necessary. More strangely, however, experts also appear to be involved in the decision-making process as well as in the process of consultation. Beyond the tasks that experts can perform for the works council, two kinds of underlying dynamic can be evidenced by the relations between the experts and the council: a relational dynamic between the various players involved in the expertise that is characterised by a subtle balance between dependence on and independence from one other, and a collective dynamic that indicates the existence of a collective expertise. This collective expertise consists in a system of collective intelligence that is necessary to the effectiveness of the employee involvement principle
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
Le pacte d'actionnaires n'est pas un accessoire au contrat de travail
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