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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
Community forest enterprises in Cameroon : Tensions, paradoxes and governance challenges
No full textCommunity Forest Enterprises (CFEs) are “a form of enterprise based on collective ownership or secured access to forest resources by a community. Their governance is derived from local community traditions, where tensions between direct “democratic” community control and hierarchical management structure are present, and which typically have multivariate objective functions with profits as only one of several goals. This definition underscores the presence of tensions that could have adverse effects on achieving the economic, social, and environmental objectives of CFEs. However, conceptual and empirical research on tensions within CFEs is sketchy. This paper adapts and contextualizes a framework using the paradox lens to explore CFE governance in Cameroon. Narrative inquiry research coupled with focus group discussions and confirmatory document analysis of 31 CFEs was used to characterize performing, belonging, organizing, and learning tensions within CFEs and explore the main challenges. A performing paradox was found, manifested in differences in short-run and long-run perceptions of performance between CFEs, community, and village chiefs. An organizing paradox was found, where tensions in the recruitment of external and resident labor and commercial tensions between CFE management, intermediaries, and community members. How the CFE selects products to generate revenue from the forest created belonging tensions when the choice of products did not include women, and the gendered family context created factions that resulted in belonging tensions at the CFE level. Learning tensions occurred when CFEs grew and had to balance community pressure for social investments against reinvestment for CFE financial sustainability. “Electing” or finding board members with adequate skills and experience, the power of boards to control management, and interdependencies between boards and management were significant challenges faced by CFEs. The accommodation and information strategy employed by some CFEs to manage paradoxes is adequate and recommended to be continued
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
How working capital management affects the profitability of Afriland First Bank of Cameroon? A case study
Get PDFThe main objective of this study is to assess the effect of working capital management on the profitability of
Afriland First Bank Cameroon. Time series data from 2002 to 2013 was extracted from the financial statement
of the bank. Correlation analysis and ordinary least Square regression were used to determine how working
capital affects profitability. The findings of this study show that working capital management
effectively influences the performance of Afriland First Bank. The analysis revealed that customer deposits, the size of the bank, outstanding expenditure and return on assets all have a positive impact on bank profitability and are statistically significant
while loan portfolio has a positive impact on bank performance but is statistically insignificant. On the other hand, reserves have a negative impact on bank profitability. Thus efficient management of working capital is prerequisite for growth and profitability of commercial banks in general
and Afriland first Bank in particular
The Impact of Financial Sector Development on Economic Growth: Analysis of the Financial Development Gap between Cameroon and South Africa
No full textThe impact of financial sector development on economic growth: analysis of the financial development gap between Cameroon and South Africa
Get PDFAfrican countries are developing better economic and monetary reforms so as to gain the status of an emergent country over a certain period of time, Cameroon is not left behind, she wants to be emergent by 2035. This study seeks to verify the short-run and long-run impact of financial sector development on economic growth and also to verify the gap of financial development that separates Cameroon and an emergent country like South Africa. The vector error correction model was used, in Cameroon a long-run relationship between economic growth and financial development was noticed while for South Africa there is a short-run relationship between bank deposits and economic growth, there is also a long-run relationship between economic growth and financial development. The South African economy moves towards its long-run equilibrium faster after economic shocks thanks to its good financial developed economy. We also notice that there is a gap of 0.26, this means that for the economy of Cameroon to be emergent, the speed of long-run adjustment should increase by 0.26
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
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