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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
Trends and issues affecting workforce planning in New Zealand university libraries
No full textUniversity libraries are facing transformational changes in order to remain relevant and meet the needs of their users in the 21st century. This study investigated the trends and issues affecting workforce planning in New Zealand university libraries. New Zealand university library senior managers and younger staff were interviewed to draw on their insights and understanding of these trends and issues taking the New Zealand context into account. An examination of the literature found similarities between New Zealand and other parts of the world with regard to the technological developments and changes in scholarly publishing models that are impacting on university libraries. This has and will continue to impact on the services offered, both in the physical and virtual environments, as well as the skills and competencies required by library staff to meet these needs. Within the Zealand tertiary education context cognisance needs to be taken of the identified priorities to increase the country’s research profile and improve the productivity levels of an increasingly diverse population. This is underpinned by the government funding model which is unlikely to benefit from any significant increase in light of the current global economic situation.
Workforce planning has become increasingly important to ensure that university libraries have staff with the appropriate skills and competencies to meet these changing needs in the future. The impact of the ageing workforce working for longer as well as the impending retirement of many of this cohort in the next ten to fifteen years presents challenges and opportunities for libraries. The recruitment of new staff to the library profession as well as the relevance of the present professional qualifications were identified as issues of concern. Succession planning and the provision of career development opportunities for these staff, particularly in the area of leadership and management development are essential to ensure that they are retained
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
Trends and issues affecting workforce planning in New Zealand university libraries
No full textUniversity libraries are facing transformational changes in order to remain relevant and meet the needs of their users in the 21st century. This study investigated the trends and issues affecting workforce planning in New Zealand university libraries. New Zealand university library senior managers and younger staff were interviewed to draw on their insights and understanding of these trends and issues taking the New Zealand context into account. An examination of the literature found similarities between New Zealand and other parts of the world with regard to the technological developments and changes in scholarly publishing models that are impacting on university libraries. This has and will continue to impact on the services offered, both in the physical and virtual environments, as well as the skills and competencies required by library staff to meet these needs. Within the Zealand tertiary education context cognisance needs to be taken of the identified priorities to increase the country’s research profile and improve the productivity levels of an increasingly diverse population. This is underpinned by the government funding model which is unlikely to benefit from any significant increase in light of the current global economic situation.
Workforce planning has become increasingly important to ensure that university libraries have staff with the appropriate skills and competencies to meet these changing needs in the future. The impact of the ageing workforce working for longer as well as the impending retirement of many of this cohort in the next ten to fifteen years presents challenges and opportunities for libraries. The recruitment of new staff to the library profession as well as the relevance of the present professional qualifications were identified as issues of concern. Succession planning and the provision of career development opportunities for these staff, particularly in the area of leadership and management development are essential to ensure that they are retained
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
Aktiv i Lærerstuderendes Landskreds?: Participation in Lærerstuderendes Landskreds?
No full textGennem samarbejde med den frivillige interesseorganisation Lærerstuderendes Landskreds, udarbejdes et projekt over de konflikter, der eksisterer mellem deres organisatoriske forhold og medlemmernes motiver til at være aktive. På baggrund af teori om typiske problemstillinger i frivillige organisationer udarbejdes først en analyse af Lærerstuderendes Landskreds’ organisatoriske forhold, herunder demokrati, professionalisme, åbenhed og modtagelighed. Dernæst foretages en motivanalyse, bygget op omkring en elektronisk survey, hvor de frivilliges motiver undersøges, for at afgøre hvem de aktive er og hvorfor de er aktive. Analyserne sammenholdes og det konkluders hvor der er konflikter.Gennem samarbejde med den frivillige interesseorganisation Lærerstuderendes Landskreds, udarbejdes et projekt over de konflikter, der eksisterer mellem deres organisatoriske forhold og medlemmernes motiver til at være aktive. På baggrund af teori om typiske problemstillinger i frivillige organisationer udarbejdes først en analyse af Lærerstuderendes Landskreds’ organisatoriske forhold, herunder demokrati, professionalisme, åbenhed og modtagelighed. Dernæst foretages en motivanalyse, bygget op omkring en elektronisk survey, hvor de frivilliges motiver undersøges, for at afgøre hvem de aktive er og hvorfor de er aktive. Analyserne sammenholdes og det konkluders hvor der er konflikter
Collaboration of New Zealand’s Expressive Civil Society Organisations Amidst Neoliberalism
No full textDespite extensive scholarly interest in the topic of collaboration, there remains little academic literature at its intersection with New Zealand 114,000 civil society organisations that deliver non-profitable social services and/or community outlets for human expression. These organisations expend around 5% of the country’s gross domestic product and engage around 75% of the nation’s population; thus, they add significant value to New Zealand’s economy and society. Since the advent of neoliberal policies during the 1980s, it is argued that the introduction of contracting, as the primary way government funds the sector, has undermined these organisations. Furthermore, it is contended that under neoliberalism, rather than collaboration generating beneficial outcomes that create synergy to address society’s wicked social problems, competitive contracting may be disadvantageous.
A unique feature of New Zealand’s civil society sector is that most of its organisations support individual expression through activities such as culture, recreation and religion. A minority deliver tangible social services, including housing or welfare. Due to the distinctive strength of New Zealand’s expressive organisations, this thesis aims to understand how value might be created through collaborations of this subsector.
Therefore, through a lens of management theory, three questions guided the research: Why do New Zealand expressive civil society organisations collaborate? What obstacles do they encounter when collaborating? And how do they constructively collaborate?
Adopting a constructionist philosophy, the research strategy utilised Grounded Theory. Rather than testing theoretical assertions produced from literature, participants were interviewed so that mid-range theories could be generated from findings. These theories are expressed through propositions that sought to accurately convey the experiences of the 28 participants who were either managers of expressive organisations or representatives of their primary stakeholders.
Of the propositions that emerged through the research, 14 concerned the motivation for collaboration. Here, it was found that civil society organisations principally collaborate to acquire and manage resources. Yet, importantly, they also collaborate to bring about transformation that positively impacts their respective causes through individual/organisational learning, organisational programming, advocacy, and to extend the scale of organisational vision. A further 20 propositions concerned obstacles impeding collaborations. These included resource scarcity, organisational incapability, and organisational cultures perceived as negative. The overarching theme to emerge was that, for many organisations, collaboration is itself perceived as a wicked social problem. More hopefully, a further 24 propositions were generated to explain how organisations go about collaborating constructively amidst neoliberalism. Insights for civil society stakeholders included the importance of creating a healthy collaborative culture, actively portraying desirable collaborative characteristics, and clearly articulating structures, goals and evaluation of collaborations.
Much current debate concerning New Zealand’s civil society sector continues a thirty-year tradition that stalwartly argues for a reversal of neoliberal policies. Taking a divergent approach, this thesis contends neoliberalism is firmly embedded within New Zealand society. Therefore, through empiricism, its contribution is to unearth obstacles besetting collaboration within this environment and to identify constructive strategies for working with others to create individual or sectoral efficiency and innovations that will assist civil society organisations achieve their aims, including the resolution of wicked social problems
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
Collaboration of New Zealand’s Expressive Civil Society Organisations Amidst Neoliberalism
No full textDespite extensive scholarly interest in the topic of collaboration, there remains little academic literature at its intersection with New Zealand 114,000 civil society organisations that deliver non-profitable social services and/or community outlets for human expression. These organisations expend around 5% of the country’s gross domestic product and engage around 75% of the nation’s population; thus, they add significant value to New Zealand’s economy and society. Since the advent of neoliberal policies during the 1980s, it is argued that the introduction of contracting, as the primary way government funds the sector, has undermined these organisations. Furthermore, it is contended that under neoliberalism, rather than collaboration generating beneficial outcomes that create synergy to address society’s wicked social problems, competitive contracting may be disadvantageous.
A unique feature of New Zealand’s civil society sector is that most of its organisations support individual expression through activities such as culture, recreation and religion. A minority deliver tangible social services, including housing or welfare. Due to the distinctive strength of New Zealand’s expressive organisations, this thesis aims to understand how value might be created through collaborations of this subsector.
Therefore, through a lens of management theory, three questions guided the research: Why do New Zealand expressive civil society organisations collaborate? What obstacles do they encounter when collaborating? And how do they constructively collaborate?
Adopting a constructionist philosophy, the research strategy utilised Grounded Theory. Rather than testing theoretical assertions produced from literature, participants were interviewed so that mid-range theories could be generated from findings. These theories are expressed through propositions that sought to accurately convey the experiences of the 28 participants who were either managers of expressive organisations or representatives of their primary stakeholders.
Of the propositions that emerged through the research, 14 concerned the motivation for collaboration. Here, it was found that civil society organisations principally collaborate to acquire and manage resources. Yet, importantly, they also collaborate to bring about transformation that positively impacts their respective causes through individual/organisational learning, organisational programming, advocacy, and to extend the scale of organisational vision. A further 20 propositions concerned obstacles impeding collaborations. These included resource scarcity, organisational incapability, and organisational cultures perceived as negative. The overarching theme to emerge was that, for many organisations, collaboration is itself perceived as a wicked social problem. More hopefully, a further 24 propositions were generated to explain how organisations go about collaborating constructively amidst neoliberalism. Insights for civil society stakeholders included the importance of creating a healthy collaborative culture, actively portraying desirable collaborative characteristics, and clearly articulating structures, goals and evaluation of collaborations.
Much current debate concerning New Zealand’s civil society sector continues a thirty-year tradition that stalwartly argues for a reversal of neoliberal policies. Taking a divergent approach, this thesis contends neoliberalism is firmly embedded within New Zealand society. Therefore, through empiricism, its contribution is to unearth obstacles besetting collaboration within this environment and to identify constructive strategies for working with others to create individual or sectoral efficiency and innovations that will assist civil society organisations achieve their aims, including the resolution of wicked social problems
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