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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
The Legal Framework of Internal Auditing in Greek LGOs Before and After the COVID-19 Era: Pros and Cons
No full textIn Greece, Local Government Organizations (LGOs) are under the responsibility of the General Government. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, in the above-mentioned organizations, internal audit was exercised following Law 4270/2014 (Article 168). Overall guidance and supervision were provided by the General Accounting Office. However, the number of municipalities and regions that established internal audit departments was very low. According to the post-COVID-19 Law 4795/2021, internal audit is now mandatory. The pros and cons of the new legal system compared to the old one are highlighted in this study through interviews with financial officers, elected officials, and internal auditors
Organizational Reputation and Citizen Satisfaction in the Public Sector: Evidence from Greece
No full textThe purpose of this research is to investigate the organizational reputation of public organizations, along with the views and attitudes of citizens in terms of their satisfaction. More specifically, a survey was carried out with the help of a structured questionnaire, distributed to all the citizens of Serres, regarding the image they have of the services provided by the Citizen Service Center (CSC) of the municipality of Serres, who are selected as research sample. The results show a better level of satisfaction with staff and service and a moderate level with environment. Also, non-significant and significant correlations were found between specific demographic variables and certain occupational characteristics, indicating some certain demographic factors do while others do not have a significant impact on the occupational profile of employees. Regarding the factors that shape a positive reputation, it was found that the main characteristic that citizens believe that the CSC of Serres has is the efficiency of the services offered, while what lags is the lack of bureaucracy. In conclusion, the research suggests that there are areas which must be emphasized and problems to be addressed; these are the attractive facilities, the modern equipment, the full staffing of employees, and the waiting time
HRM Practices and Their Impact on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from the Public Sector in Greece
No full textThe aim of this paper was to investigate human resource management (HRM) practices and their effects on the job satisfaction of public sector employees in Greece. More specifically, a survey was carried out via a structured questionnaire distributed to all the employees of the Regional Administration of Crete (Region of Crete), who were selected as research samples. The results of the survey showed a good level of job satisfaction, but a moderate level of satisfaction from the HRM practices of the organization. However, a strong correlation between HRM practices and job satisfaction was statistically proven. Furthermore, significant correlations were identified between specific demographic variables or certain occupational features and the levels of satisfaction from both the job and the HRM practices. In conclusion, the research suggested that there were areas that must be emphasized and problems to be addressed by the top management. These, among others, were the improvement of evaluation procedures, the promotion of fair treatment, and the better planning of development of human resources
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
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