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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
An Application Of Augmented Monetary Conditions Index On The ASEAN-Five
Get PDFPrevious studies have suggested Monetary Conditions Index (hereafter MCI) serves
as an indicator of the monetary policy stance to capture the degree of tightness of the
monetary policy. The weights of the MCI in the model reflect long-term effects of
the interest rate and the exchange rate on the economic activity and ultimately the
inflation. Nevertheless, MCIs may not be used as an operational target as it has
heavily been documented in the mainstream literature since it is not resilient to the
problem of shock identification. Recognizing the caveats upon its usage empirically,
the augmented MCI (AMCI) is contemplated by incorporating more informative
‘other variables’ into the conventional model which consists of two major variables
i.e., the interest rate and the exchange rate. Since monetary policy affects the price
level through a number of transmission mechanisms, other potential variables need
to be incorporated to AMCI to account for possible channels in the transmission
mechanisms. The details of “other variables” are as follows: 1) government bonds yield as proxy for long-term interest rate; 2) the real share price as proxy for asset
price channel, and 3) real claims on private sectors for credit channel. However, the
lag effects of the examined determinant variables on output are dynamics and vary,
at least in the short-term. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to estimate
the weight of the AMCI, and identify the lag effect on the real Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) using Autoregression Distribution Lags (ARDL) bounds test
approach for cointegration analysis as proposed by Pesaran et al., (2001).
Bounds test reveals an evidence of the long-run cointegration for all the
ASEAN-Five founder countries. This has verified the stability of the country’s GDP
demand function which is used to construct the AMCI ratio. In Indonesia, the bounds
test reveals an evidence of the long-run cointegration between the real GDP and its
determinants, namely the bond rate, the exchange rate, and the share prices from
1983:2-2004:4. Nevertheless, the claim of private sector (COPS, the proxy of credit
channel) does not appear to be a significant variable in the model. Meanwhile for
both Malaysia and Singapore, the ARDL approach validates the existence of
long-run cointegration between the GDP and the exchange rate, the bond and the
short-term interest rate, as well as the COPS over the quarterly period of
1980:1-2004:4 and 1981:1-2004:4 respectively. Nevertheless, the asset price channel
does not fit into the model significantly. While in Thailand, the bounds test reveals
an evidence of the cointegration between the real GDP and its determinants, i.e., the
interest rate, the exchange rate, and the share price over the quarterly period of
1980:1-2004:4). However, the credit channel does not reveal any significant result in the model. In the Philippines, the bounds test reveals an evidence of a cointegration
between the real GDP and the bond rate, the short-term interest rate, the exchange
rate, the COPS, and the share price that address all the key transmission mechanisms
channels in the conduct of the monetary policy, namely the interest rate channel, the
exchange rate channel, the credit channel, and the asset price channel over the
quarterly period of 1982:1-2004:4
Monetary conditions during the period under-study are found to be reflected in each of
the central banks’ reaction to the prevailing economic situation, which implies that
AMCI tracks the inversed movements of the real GDP plausibly on the average,
except during the onset of Asian financial crisis in 1997
Pekali Gini, purata pendapatan bulanan isirumah ras, dan nisbah jurang pendapatan antara ras di Malaysia
No full textUsers' adoption of e-banking services: the Malaysian perspective
No full textPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of users' adoption momentum of e-banking in Malaysia.
Design/methodology/approach - A questionnaire with four-point Likert scale is applied to 324 usable responses. Ten attributes are tested, namely convenience of usage, accessibility, features availability, bank management and image, security, privacy, design, content, speed, and fees and charges.
Findings - Results indicate that all elements for ten identified factors are significant with respect to the users' adoption of e-banking services. Privacy and security are the major sources of dissatisfaction, which have momentously impacted users' satisfaction. Meanwhile, accessibility, convenience, design and content are sources of satisfaction. Besides, the speed, product features availability, and reasonable service fees and charges, as well as the bank's operations management factor are critical to the success of the e-banks. WAP, GPRS and 3G features from mobile devices are of no significance or influence in the adoption of e-banking services in this study. Results also reveal that privacy, security and convenience factors play an important role in determining the users' acceptance of e-banking services with respect to different segmentation of age group, education level and income level.
Research limitations/implications - The use of convenience sampling in this study weakens research objectivity. This study excludes the voice of non-users and non-users' views should be taken into account in future study.
Practical implications - The results are expected to provide a practical contribution in the area of retail banking and in understanding consumer behavior in the Malaysian business-to-business financial services industry.
Originality/value - This paper is the extension of an earlier study by Suganthi et X which identified seven factors affecting the adoption of internet banking, with 17 elements, This study examines a wider scope of factors that consist of ten attributes with 78 elements based on the extant literature
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
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