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THE ROLE OF TIKTOK CONTENT AUTHENTICITY IN SHAPING MALAYSIAN DOMESTIC TOURISTS’ TRAVEL INTENTION
Full text linkThe factors influencing customer loyalty among residents in Denai Alam who had gone with Umrah travel The rapid rise of TikTok as a leading social media platform has significantly transformed the way travel information is produced and consumed. This study explores the role of TikTok content authenticity in shaping the travel intentions of Malaysian domestic tourists. With the increasing influence of user-generated content, authenticity has emerged as a crucial determinant of trust, engagement, and decision-making in tourism marketing. Drawing upon the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the Source Credibility Model, this research examines how perceived authenticity in TikTok travel videos influences tourists’ attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control toward travelling within Malaysia. Data were collected from a sample of Malaysian TikTok users who actively engage with travel-related content. The findings reveal that authentic and relatable TikTok content significantly enhances viewer trust and emotional connection, which in turn positively impacts travel intention. The study highlights the importance for tourism marketers and content creators to prioritise authentic storytelling, real experiences, and transparent communication when promoting destinations on social media. Ultimately, this research contributes to the growing body of knowledge on digital tourism marketing and offers practical insights for leveraging TikTok as an effective platform for encouraging domestic travel in Malaysia Keywords: TikTok, content authenticity, travel intention, domestic tourism, Malaysia, social media marketin
CHALLENGES IN HALAL CERTIFICATION AMONG TRADITIONAL FOOD VENDORS IN MELAKA: A CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE
Full text linkHalal certification plays a crucial role in Malaysia’s food ecosystem, enhancing consumer trust and ensuring regulatory compliance. While large and formal food enterprises benefit from institutional support and streamlined certification processes, traditional food vendors—particularly those in heritage destinations such as Melaka—continue to face unique challenges. This conceptual paper examines the institutional, socioeconomic, and cultural barriers affecting halal certification among traditional vendors. Drawing on regulatory compliance theory, institutional support theory, and heritage authenticity frameworks, the paper proposes a conceptual model linking vendor attributes, authenticity concerns, and perceived certification burden to certification behaviour. The contribution of the study lies in addressing an overlooked intersection between halal governance and heritage gastronomy, while offering policy insights to support traditional vendors within Malaysia’s growing halal tourism landscape.
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
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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