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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
Assumptions motivating a framework to enhance intercultural communication within a diverse organisation : the case of Tshwane University of Technology
Full text linkPhD (Communication), North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusThe composition of the South African workforce has changed and many organisations employ people from different cultural backgrounds. Cultural diversity affects behaviour and, regarding organisations, its impact also becomes evident in the way employees communicate with each other as they struggle to identify how they relate to colleagues who are different to them. Organisations that manage intercultural communication benefit from such an approach, as they are more likely to improve intercultural communication competence of employees. Without effective intercultural communication, culturally diverse organisations, such as TUT, cannot effectively function, which is why its strategic and continuous enhancement is important.
This study maintains that strategic and continuous enhancement of intercultural communication is one possible way of improving intercultural competence and ultimately assisting an organisation to achieve success. The study suggests that intercultural communication needs to align with the strategic orientation of an organisation. Accordingly, the study argues that the strategic orientation of an organisation ought to serve as the specific purpose or main motive for why employees, despite different cultural backgrounds, need to adapt to one another in intercultural communication encounters. It is assumed that strategy-aligned intercultural communication enhancement endeavours could improve intercultural communication competence of employees, including the overall effectiveness of a team, in that it allows coherence and integration between strategic priorities of an organisation and the goals and desired outcomes of internal communication. In view of this assumption, the following general research question guided the study:
What are the assumptions motivating a communication framework to assist Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) to enhance intercultural communication such that employees from various cultural backgrounds could improve intercultural communication competence, and ultimately assist the university to achieve success?
The study’s design was divided into three parts. First, the conceptualisation of the study involved a literature review that was intended to extract theories pertinent to intercultural communication adaptation principles. Second, an empirical study that followed a mixed methods research approach was conducted to explore TUT’s intercultural communication and approaches and practices. Phase 1 of the empirical study involved content analysis of TUT’s strategic and policy
documents. A significant finding from content analysis results is that, even though TUT, currently, values cultural diversity and recognises it as a strategic priority, there is no strategic emphasis on enhancing intercultural communication to assist employees to improve their intercultural communication competence. Phase 2 of the empirical study involved extracting information and data by means of semi-structured interviews and an online survey respectively. The findings pertaining to information sourced through semi-structured interviews overall point to a need for TUT to develop and implement a framework to assist the university to enhance intercultural communication. The conclusions drawn from findings of the online survey emphasised the need for TUT to utilise intercultural communication adaptation as a foundation for its intercultural communication enhancement endeavours. This finding supports the literature review finding that the extent to which intercultural communication effectiveness is achieved is based on the extent to which intercultural communication adaptation determinants are inculcated in an internal communication strategy. In the third part of the study, the assumptions motivating a framework to enhance intercultural communication within a culturally diverse organisation, specifically TUT, were identified based on the literature review and empirical findings and conclusions.
Overall, the current study argues that following a common approach to issues of intercultural communication, including its enhancement, could assist a culturally diverse organisation to improve intercultural communication competence and offer it a common basis for increasing effectiveness of a team, unifying employees towards a common purpose and achieving success. With strategy alignment and continuous enhancement as guiding principles, informed by assumptions motivating a framework that the study proposes as its main contribution, the study adds to the volume of research that has been conducted, and to the knowledge base regarding enhancement of intercultural communication, with the primary purpose of improving intercultural communication competence.Doctora
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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