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Determinants of Islamic Banking Profitability: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis from IFSB Data (2016-2024)
No full textBackground: Islamic banking plays a crucial role in promoting financial inclusion and economic stability across member countries of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB). However, the variability in profitability across nations raises questions regarding which internal financial factors most strongly influence performance at the industry level.
Objectives: This study aims to analyze the influence of CAR, NPF, CIR, and LR on the ROA of Islamic banking industries across twelve IFSB member countries during 2016-2024.
Novelty: This study provides a cross-country industry-level analysis of Islamic banking profitability, revealing that efficiency and credit risk management are stronger determinants of performance than capital strength.
Research Methodology / Design: This research employs panel data regression using secondary data from IFSB. The sample includes 12 countries with consistent financial reporting from 2016–2024.
Findings: The results reveal that NPF and CIR have significant negative effects on profitability, while LR has a significant positive effect. CAR shows a positive but statistically insignificant relationship.
Implication: Theoretically, the study reinforces the efficiency and risk management theories within Islamic financial systems. Practically, regulators should prioritize policies enhancing operational efficiency and credit risk governance, while banks should optimize liquidity without compromising profitability sustainability
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
Integrated Waqf Environment Model (IWEM): Proposal for funding sustainable agriculture through waqf to embrace the Era of Smart Agriculture 5.0
No full textIntroductionAlthough global food production has tripled, sustainable agriculture remains threatened by climate change, land degradation, and financial gaps, especially in smallholder communities. This study introduces the Integrated Waqf Environment Model (IWEM) as a waqf-based funding mechanism to support sustainable agriculture. Additionally, sentiment analysis using VADER Python is employed to assess public perceptions of sustainable agriculture.ObjectivesThis research aims to measure public sentiment regarding sustainable agriculture on the Twitter social media platform. Additionally, the study proposes the Integrated Waqf Environment Model (IWEM) for sustainable agriculture funding as a response to the challenges faced in the agricultural sector.MethodThe research methodology involves the extraction and classification of tweet data using the Python library called VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and Sentiment Reasoner). The study utilizes tweet data posted within the last year. The research findings indicate fluctuations and a decrease in the number of tweets discussing sustainable agriculture. The location with the highest tweet activity related to sustainable agriculture is Brussels, Belgium, with 642 tweets during the observation period.ResultsWord cloud analysis on keywords reveals that, in positive sentiment, terms like "food security" and "climate change" dominate the visualization. On the other hand, in negative sentiment, words like "farmer" and "private farmland" appear more frequently. Overall, the majority of tweets express a positive attitude toward sustainable agriculture, with 68.5% positive sentiment. Approximately 22.3% of tweets indicate neutral sentiment, without a strong positive or negative tendency. Only 9.1% of tweets contain negative sentiment, suggesting that a small portion expresses less supportive views of sustainable agriculture.ImplicationsThe research provides insights into public sentiment on sustainable agriculture and proposes IWEM as a sustainable financing solution. IWEM can bridge financial gaps, enhance technological adoption, and support policy development for sustainable agriculture. This model aligns with the SDGs, ensuring long-term agricultural resilience and environmental conservation.Originality/NoveltyThis study uniquely integrates Islamic social finance with Smart Agriculture 5.0 through IWEM. It also employs sentiment analysis to understand public perceptions, offering data-driven insights for policymakers. The research contributes a novel waqf-based framework that can be scaled for sustainable agricultural development
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
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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