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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
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
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A conceptual framework for service system interaction
No full textThere is a growing research concern on how service ecosystems form and interact. This research thus aims to explore the service ecosystem formation and interaction as well as its underlying nature of value co-creation. This work develops an initial conceptual framework for assessing service system interactions that includes the various stages of value co-creation within ecosystem context. How the conceptual framework will further be developed and future plan are also presented
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
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An investigation into factors affecting value co-creation between businesses
Get PDFThis thesis explores the phenomenon of value co-creation (VCC) in a business-to-business (B2B) context; VCC has received much attention by scholars in recent years, especially with the emergence of service science in which VCC is one of the core concepts for investigating exchange among service systems from the perspective of service dominant logic (SDL) perspective. Successful organisations co-create products and services with their customers and also their business partners. Nonetheless, the VCC literature within the B2B context provides little insight into factors affecting VCC between businesses. This study thus examines value co-creation aiming to investigate (1) factors affecting VCC between an organisation and its business customers, and (2) factors affecting VCC between an organisation and its business partners.
To achieve this aim, a conceptual framework of factors affecting VCC between an organisation and customers identified through a systematic literature review was first developed. This resulted in the Customer-Organisation-Technology-Environment (COTE) framework, which is used to guide the empirical investigation. Interviews with executives in nine information-intensive organisations to explore their VCC practices were then conducted to refine the final COTE framework. The final framework captures sixteen COTE-related factors of VCC: Customer-related factors are identified as culture, motivation, perceived value, competence, trust and relationship, and peer influence; Organisation-related factors are motivation, perceived value, competence, policy and governance and organisational culture; Technology factors consist of digital infrastructure, new technology and security and privacy; and Environmental factors are recognised as government policy and regulations, market structure, trends and competition. The findings also reported a new form of co-creation called co-conception of competition, i.e. business customers, often in long-term relationships, helping firms to beat competition.
To uncover factors affecting VCC between organisations and their business partners, a framework of factors affecting value co-creation in an alliance (FAVCA) was developed from the literature. A case study research method was adopted. The case chosen is VCC practice between an AlphaVendor and its partners with a global presence and reputation in hardware technology, using multiple sources of evidence: 12 interviews, audio recording and documents were used. The FAVCA consists of four key factors: an alliance governance mechanism, and technology-related collective strengths; these were found to enable actors’ efforts in co-creating value, whereas, actors’ practice of power and politics, and opportunistic behaviours were found to contribute to inhibiting VCC in sales ecosystems. The FAVCA framework represents the nature of multiple actors’ collaboration, and contributes to the debate on co-creation as well as co-destruction of value. The results were further validated with five informants. Overall the FAVCA argues that transaction cost theory (cf. Williamson, 1985) should be considered in the development of service science and SDL to understand the effect of actors’ troublesome behaviours in value co-creation
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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