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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
Blockchain technology adoption in non-profit organizations in the UAE: a study on enhancing transparency and accountability
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شجع النمو السريع للتقنيات الحديثة المنظمات غير الربحية في مختلف البلدان اعتمادها، لتقديم أفضل الخدمات وتطويرعمليات التبرع، لربما انطوت عملية جمع الأموال في المنظمات غير الربحية على إجراءات غير واضحة بشكل كامل، مما يتسبب في عدم وصول التبرعات لمستحقيها، أو استخدام التبرعات لأغراض غير قانونية، وبالتالي فإنه من المهم تتبع التبرعات، للتغلب على هذا القلق، حفاظا على ثقة المانحين، وضمان الشفافية والمساءلة في عمليات التبرع، تم استخدام تصميم البحث الاستكشافي في هذه الدراسة النوعية، لتحديد كيفية استخدام المنظمات غير الربحية لتقنية البلوكتشين، لتعزيز الشفافية والمساءلة، وكيف يؤدي اعتماد هذه التقنية لتعزيز المبادرات في المنظمات غير الربحية في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، تم تسليط الضوء على أفضل الممارسات الدولية ودراسة الحالة في القطاعين العام والخاص في الدولة، لاقتراح سياسة واستراتيجية تشجع المنظمات غير الربحية في الدولة على تبني هذه التقنية لتتبع التبرعات وتمكين جميع الأطراف من تتبع تقدم التبرعات، تنص السياسة على تسهيل التعاون بين جميع أصحاب المصلحة ، وتعزيز تكامل تكنولوجيا المعلومات والخبرة، وتطوير بنية الحوكمة، ومعالجة معايير ولوائح وسياسات البلوكتشين الخاصة بالمنظمات غير الربحية، وتشجع الاستراتيجية المقترحة على تحديد المرحلة الحالية للمنظمات غير الربحية في الدولة، والتعرف على التحديات، والتغلب عليها لتبني هذه التقنية، حيث تمثلت التحديات الأساسية التي جعلت المنظمات المعنية عالقة في الوسط في الحواجز الثقافية، والريبة في تبني التقنية، والصعوبة في المواءمة بين أصحاب المصلحة، وتقود هذه الاستراتيجية المنظمات المعنية لبناء سلسلة بلوكتشين على منصة معينة، حيث يتم تسجيل كل معاملة ككتلة من المعلومات في السلسلة، وتكون الكتل مرئية لجميع الأطراف وغير قابلة للتغيير، مما يتيح إمكانية تتبع المعاملات أي وقت.The swift advancement of recent technologies has motivated non-profit organizations (NPOs) in different countries to adopt such technologies to provide better services and develop donation processes. NPOs depend on fundraising involving opaque operations, which may cause concerns that donations may not reach deserving people or be used for illegal purposes. The charity donations traceability scheme is necessary to overcome these concerns, which affect donors' trust, and ensure the transparency and accountability of donation processes. This qualitative study used exploratory research design to determine how NPOs can use blockchain technology to enhance transparency and accountability and how its adoption further advances these initiatives in the UAE NPOs. It studied international best practices and the UAE private and public sector cases to propose a policy and strategy to encourage the UAE charities to adopt such technology. It suggested a blockchain-based policy for donation traceability to allow stakeholders to track the progress of donations. The policy states facilitating all stakeholder collaboration, enhancing IT integration and expertise, developing governance architecture, and addressing NPOs’ blockchain standards, regulations, and policies. In addition, the proposed strategy encourages the UAE NPOs to determine their current stage, recognize the challenges, and try to overcome them to adopt this technology. The main challenges that may cause NPOs to become stuck in the middle are cultural barriers, regulatory uncertainty, and stakeholder alignment. The strategy leads the UAE NPOs to build a blockchain on a particular platform, where every transaction is recorded as a block of information in the chain. The blocks are accessible to all parties and immutable, enabling traceable and timely transactions
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
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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