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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
Pembinaan dan penilaian sistem pengurusan rekod stor bengkel sekolah menengah teknik berasaskan web (SISTOR)
No full textVariations 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
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
Relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention among lecturers in private higher educational institutions in Shandong province in China
No full textThis study explored the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention among the lecturers in private Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) in Shandong Province of China. 36-items from Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) and 6-items from Turnover Intention Scale (TIS-6) were utilized to measure the level of job satisfaction and turnover intention respectively. Through stratified random sampling, 4 private HEI was selected with 231 lecturers involved in this study. The level of job satisfaction was at moderate level (3.05 ± 1.15) and turnover intention was at high level (4.05 ± 0.97). Married lecturers were found to have higher satisfaction with the pay than those single lecturers. Significant negative correlation was found between all the dimensions of job satisfaction and turnover intention. Stepwise linear regression analysis further pin-points the important predictors of turnover intention and they are communication, promotion, pay, co-workers and supervision. This study recommended improvement in the pay level, effective incentive mechanism, fair promotion, solid professional development and rational operating procedure as intervention to curb turnover intention
Relationship between learning environment and teamwork skills among final year students of vocational colleges
Full text linkTeamwork skills are one of the soft skills prioritised by employers when recruiting employees. In fact, lack of teamwork skills among new graduates will affect hiring for job. This article is intended to study the influence of the learning environment based on the perception of the relationship among students and the relationship between student and teacher on the teamwork skills among final year students in vocational college in Malaysia. The correlational design was utilized for this study which involved 241 final year students as respondents. All respondents were randomly selected from six vocational colleges in the State of Selangor, Malaysia. Questionnaires were used to collect research data. Finding shows that the respondents’level of teamwork skills is high. Finding also reveals that respondents’ perception on the relationship among students and the relationship between student and teacher shows a positive learning environment. Furthermore, finding also shows the learning environment based on the relationship among students and the relationship between student and teacher that are able to provide a positive relationship that contributes to the increase of teamwork skills among students at vocational colleges
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