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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
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
Diagnosis and Analysis of Marine Corps Organizational Culture
Get PDFThis report presents the results of a study into Marine Corps organizational
culture. This report is being submitted to the Naval Postgraduate School’s Senior Marine in partial fulfillment of the requirements of an Executive Masters in Business Administration program. Organizational culture consists of all of the taken for granted values and underlying assumptions that characterize an organization and its members (Robbins & Judge, 2012). It is the tie that binds an organization together (Cameron & Quinn, 2011). Organizational performance is often linked to organizational culture (Robbin & Judge, 2012), and can change in response to internal or external stimuli (Cameron & Quinn, 2011). The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) is based on the Competing Values Framework, which characterizes culture as a competition between flexibility and discretion versus stability and control on one hand, and internal focus and integration versus external focus and differentiation on the other. This struggle results in four common cultures: clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy. (Cameron & Quinn, 2011) The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument was administered to Marine Officers (students) at the Naval Postgraduate School by the Senior Marine Staff in December of 2014. In all, 173 questionnaires were completed. Data from these questionnaires were put in a spreadsheet and forwarded to the author for subsequent analysis. Analysis found that Marine Corps organizational culture is currently 21.2 percent clan, 13.4 percent adhocracy, 35.4 percent market, and 29.9 percent hierarchy. The current organizational culture is weighted toward stability and control, as well as toward viii external focus and differentiation. The data reveals a desire to move toward flexibility and discretion, and external focus and differentiation. Specifically, the data reveals the desire to move from hierarchy and toward adhocracy culture in terms of the Dominant Characteristic, Management of Employees, and Organizational Glue dimensions. The data also reveals a desire to move from market and toward clan culture in the Organizational Leadership dimension. No distinguishable Company and Field Grade sub-cultures are noted, suggesting that current Marine Corps organizational culture is vertically homogeneous (characteristic of high-functioning organizations). Current Marine Corps organizational culture contains marginally distinguishable Service Group or community sub-cultures. Air Officers find the current organizational culture more market-like, while Ground Officers find the current organizational culture more clan-like. Service Support Officers are essentially a hybrid of the Air and Ground sub-cultures. The value of cultural change is illustrated with a story about the New United Motors Manufacturing Incorporated (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California. The value of initiating organizational culture change in the Marine Corps is briefly discussed, as well as the idea that individual change is the key to organizational change via a known six step process. Finally, recommendations are made, to include recommendations for future work. The principle recommendation is to initiate internal discussion and raise awareness of the value of organizational culture, and the need to manage it, by publishing the current and preferred Marine Corps organizational culture profiles in a visible venue like the Marine Corps Gazette.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.http://archive.org/details/diagnosisndanaly109456327
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
ASSESSMENT OF EXTERNAL RELIABILITY DATA SOURCES AND RELIABILITY PREDICTIONS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS IN EARLY SYSTEM DESIGN
Get PDFTwo common reliability prediction methods are the traditional method and physics of failure method. Each method requires accurate failure data in order to fully assess a system’s durability. This is particularly important in early system design when historical design and relative failure rates are non-existent. Consequently, practitioners rely on the use of external reliability data sources such as MIL-HDBK-217F, especially when using the traditional reliability approach. Several other external reliability data sources are available to the practitioner, each with its own strengths and limitations. This thesis surveys the various external data sources industries use in reliability predictions and assesses the completeness of the reliability data sources. The thesis presents the inherent limitations of all external data sources along with further considerations on using the traditional reliability approach. Early system design offers practitioners a significant amount of decision-making flexibility. This thesis further analyzes both reliability approaches and addresses when it is appropriate for a practitioner to use either approach or a combination of the two approaches. The author develops a reliability decision framework to aid practitioners in selecting the reliability prediction approach appropriate for the system.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Civilian, Department of the Navyhttp://archive.org/details/assessmentofexte109456042
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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