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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
Safety at work: Perceptions of managers and employees and probability of having an accident at work in 11 different industry sectors
Full text linkThe aim of the research is to identify how employees of 11 different industrial sectors assess their ability to respond to organizational demands such as time, innovations, guidelines,workload, fatigue and changes (self-evaluations), and to compare these evaluations with those expressed by the managers on the ability of employees to meet the sameorganizational demands (hetero-evaluations). It is hypothesized that, as the difference between self-evaluations and hetero-evaluations increases, the perceived probability of having an accident also increases. The sample: 202 subjects, including 8 managers. A questionnaire asks: ‘How much do youthink you are able do the job according to your ability to manage time, innovations, guidelines, workload, fatigue and changes?’ The answers are expressed on a 5-point ratingscale, 1 = not able, 5 = highly able. Managers are asked the same question. They are also asked to assess the level of ability possessed by employees in relation to the previous organizational demands. Regarding the perceivedprobability of having an accident, the question is: ‘As for your company, indicate a hazardous situation and assess the probability that you and others have a mayor accident oreven be subject to death (0 = minimum probability, 100 = highest probability). Analysis of variance supported all hypotheses. The absence of a cross sectional study and thelimited sample of managers. How to promote confrontation between managers and workers to prevent accidents. Studying multi-level organization as concurrent causes of accidents
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
Could an older worker be regarded as a younger worker? Age stereotypes and age-group relationships in the workplace
No full textCould an older worker be regarded as a younger worker? Age stereotypes and age-group relationships in the workplace
Purpose
Despite the promotion of age-friendly workplace policies by UE governments research over many years has shown that age stereotypes continues to be widespread in the workplaces. The current research examined the role of age stereotypes and age-group relationships (permeability of boundaries between older and younger groups) in attitudes towards work (work disengagement) of younger and older workers.
Design/Methodology
A survey was conducted among 323 employees of a service company (53% under35 and 47% over 50). The sample was extract considering as screening criteria the role (blue-collars, white-collars, managers).
Results
Findings indicated that only for over 50 employees age stereotypes affect the perception of permeability of boundaries between older and younger groups. In addition, the perception of permeability of boundaries moderates the relationship between age and work disengagement.
Limitations
The cross-sectional design of the study limits the strength of the considerations about the causal relationships among the variables.
Research/Practical Implications
Findings encourage HRM policies that avoid the circulation of age stereotypes in the workplace and promote the permeability of boundaries between older and younger groups in order to motivate older workers to continue to work.
Originality/Value
Few studies that investigated age-related processes in the workplace included younger worker in the sample, while it is important to understand how organizations could foster positive intergroup relationships in order to increase the positive attitudes toward work among younger and older employees
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
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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