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Book Review:50 Economics Classics: The Greatest Books Distilled
Get PDF50 Economics Classics: The Greatest Books DistilledAuthor: Tom Butler-BowdonNicholas Brealey Publishing, 2017Paperback, 357 pages: ISBN 978-1-857-88673-3As a matter of fact, Economics shapes our lives and drives the modern world, but mostof us lack knowledge of the key ideas, thinkers, and writing in the discipline. Readinga huge number of economic books to understand the key ideas of economic thinkersis not an easy task. It takes time to read them all. If you are looking for a shortcut to complete such a difficult undertaking, Tom Butler-Bowdon’s “50 Economics Classics: TheGreatest Books Distilled” is the right choice for you.Butler-Bowdon, as the notable author of the 50 Classics Series, is a graduate of theLondon School of Economics and the University of Sydney. He left his job as apolitical advisor to write the bestselling 50 Self-Help Classics (2003) - a guide topersonal development literature, and then followed that with 50 Success Classics (2004),50 Spiritual Classics (2005), 50 Psychology Classics (2007), 50 Prosperity Classics(2008), 50 Philosophy Classics (2013), and 50 Politics Classics (2016). In 2017, Butler-Bowdon authored this compelling book of 50 Economics Classics as the best option as ashortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy.Importantly, 50 Economics Classics was awarded a silver medal in the 2018 AxiomBusiness Book Awards, in the Business Reference category
Book Review: Public Management: Performance, Professionalism and Politics
Get PDFIf you are interested in public management, and finding a way to make sense of theacademic discourse and practical developments, to develop your own views ofmanaging public organizations, and get things done, Public Management: Performance,Professionalism and Politics, written by Mirko Noordegraaf, is the right book for you
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
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
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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