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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
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Opportunities for Chinese and American Universities in the Knowledge-Based Economy
Get PDFPaper presented at the China-U.S. Joint Science Policy Seminar and published in Proceedings of the First Sino-US Science Policy Seminar (October 24-27, 1999), edited by Mu Rongping and W. A. Blanpied, Beijing, China: Science Press, 2000
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
The development of the supplier industry for Chinese automobile production since 1979
No full textGlobal befindet sich die Automobilindustrie heute in einer Phase enormer technischer Evolution und Transformation. Die Zulieferindustrie ist gezwungen, ihre Entwicklungsstrategien und -modelle diesen Veränderungen anzupassen. Die wichtigen Entwicklungsansätze wie Diversifizierung der Produktsegmentierung, strengere Qualitätssicherung in der Produktion, Erweiterung der Wertschöpfungskette und Umsetzung der unabhängigen Forschung und Entwicklung sind der Schlüssel für ein gesundes Wachstum der zukünftigen Zulieferindustrie in China. Die Suche nach geeigneten Optionen gilt in diesem Zusammenhang als notwendig zur Weiterentwicklung. Für die Erarbeitung der Entwicklungsmodelle werden im Rahmen dieser Dissertation verschiedene Ansätze zur Transformation, Modernisierung, Globalisierung, Forschung und Entwicklung, Innovation sowie allgemein zur Unternehmensführung dargestellt.
Der heute unterschiedliche Entwicklungsstand zwischen verschiedenen multinationalen und chinesischen Zulieferunternehmen spiegelt das Ergebnis der dialektischen Beziehung zwischen technologischer Innovation und Unternehmensentwicklung. Die Beherrschung der Schlüsseltechnologien und eigenständige Innovationen ergeben gemeinsam die komplexe Wechselwirkung zwischen industrieller Entwicklung, Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft, in die die chinesische Zulieferindustrie tief eingebettet ist. Angesichts der hohen Komplexität der sozialtechnischen Entwicklung musste eine Strategie zur innovativen Weiterentwicklung der chinesischen Zulieferunternehmen systematisch erarbeitet werden. Ein zusätzlicher Forschungsschwerpunkt richtet sich daher hauptsächlich auf die Untersuchung der Anwendbarkeit und Modellgrenzen der Entwicklung in den Industrieländern USA, Deutschland und Japan einschließlich ihrer Erfolgsfaktoren zum Aufbau der Lieferantensysteme. Das Resultat sollte ferner den Besonderheiten der chinesischen industriellen Entwicklung für die Weiterentwicklung der Zulieferindustrie Rechnung tragen und durch den Einsatz geeigneter Entwicklungsmodelle überwunden werden. Insofern bildet das Resultat der vorliegenden Dissertation aus allgemeingültigen Entwicklungskonzepten und spezifischen Strategien einen Ansatz für zukünftige wissenschaftliche Forschungen.The automotive industry is now globally in a phase of enormous technical evolution and transformation. The automotive supplier industry is also developing its latest product and growing strategic cooperation with the OEMs in order to prove its unprecedented transformation capabilities. The developmental approaches, such as product segmentation diversification, higher quality assurance in production, expansion of the value chain and implementation of independent research and development, are the key to a healthy growth for the future automotive supplier industry in China. The search for feasible and suitable options in this context is considered necessary for further development. In the course of this dissertation, various approaches to the theory of transformation, modernization, globalization, research and development, innovation and general management are presented for the exploration of future development models.
The different levels of development between different multinational and Chinese supplier companies today reflect the result of a dialectical relationship between technological innovation and company development. The mastery of both key technology and independent innovations will result in a complex interaction among industrial development, society, politics and the economy, in which the Chinese automotive supplier industry is deeply embedded. In view of the high complexity of the socio-technological development, strategies for the innovative development of the Chinese supplier companies have to be systematically elaborated. Hence, an additional research focus on the case-study of the applicability and model limitation in the industrial development of various industrialized countries including USA, Germany and Japan, along with their success factors for their construction of the supplier systems. The result should also provide suggestions for further development of the supplier industry in China and which should be successfully overcome by the use of appropriate specific features of development models. Insofar the results of the present dissertation from general development concepts and specific strategies form an approach for future scientific research too
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