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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
Wartości etyczne i etniczne w kulturze organizacyjnej na Łotwie. Część I
Get PDFThe authors of the article show the importance of studying the economic environment, organizational culture in Latvia, as an ethnically diverse side, taking into account the influence of the ethnic factor. Since there are two ethnocultural poles in the ethnic diversity of Latvia - ethnic Latvians, who are the core of the Latvian nation-state, and Russians, as the largest ethnic minority in the country, the author of the article focused on the issue of the nature of ethnic differences within the Latvian organizational culture. The complexity of this approach to description is due to the fact that the vast majority of scientific works in Latvia, taking into account the influence of the ethnic factor on social life, belong to the field of political science and sociological research. While the few works within the framework of the economic science of Latvia consider the established organizational culture in this country mainly as a homogeneous ethno-cultural entity. To confirm the hypothesis that the ethnic factor also plays an important role in the economic life of Latvia, the author of the article in 2021 organized a sociological study in research project “Interaction of the individual, society and the state in the overall process of Latvian history: conflicts of values and the formation of common values at historical breaking points”. The purpose of this study was to identify the ethnic characteristics of the organizational culture in Latvia through the nature of the ethical relationship between ethnic Latvians and Russians in the economic life of the country. As a key indicator of the integrity of organizational culture for the multi-ethnic environment of Latvia, the author chose the value of universal moral norms, primarily justice, to regulate relations between ethnic Latvians and Russians, to mutually assess their professional and personal qualities in the life of companies and organizations. The data of this study showed that a high assessment of the ideals of justice is characteristic of the moral consciousness of both ethnic Latvian and Russian respondents. At the same time, the attitude towards the implementation of these ideals, as well as other moral values, in economic behavior, business communication, in the adoption of corporate ethics and respect for the established hierarchy in the enterprise and organization, in the perception of professional, moral and psychological qualities of employees with different ethnic identities has some differences among representatives of these ethnic groups. This indicates a significant place of ethnic favoritism both in the minds of ethnic Latvians and Russians when assessing the opposite side, and thus the existence of ethnic subcultures within the business culture and organizational culture in Latvia. Given the large volume of the article, it is divided into two parts. The first part provides a theoretical justification for understanding the relationship between ethical and ethnic values in organizational culture. The second part presents the data of sociological research and their analysis.Autorzy artykułu wskazują na wagę badania środowiska gospodarczego, kultury organizacyjnej na Łotwie, jako kraju zróżnicowanego etnicznie, z uwzględnieniem wpływu czynnika etnicznego. Ponieważ w różnorodności etnicznej Łotwy wyróżnić można dwa bieguny etnokulturowe – etnicznych Łotyszy, którzy stanowią trzon łotewskiego państwa narodowego, oraz Rosjan, jako największą mniejszość w kraju, autorzy artykułu skupili się na zagadnieniu charakteru różnic etnicznych w łotewskiej kulturze organizacyjnej. Złożoność takiego podejścia do opisu wynika z faktu, że zdecydowana większość prac naukowych na Łotwie, uwzględniających wpływ czynnika etnicznego na życie społeczne, należy do obszaru nauk politycznych i badań socjologicznych. Podczas gdy nieliczne publikacje z zakresu nauk ekonomicznych traktują ugruntowaną kulturę organizacyjną w tym kraju głównie jako jednorodną całość etniczno-kulturową. Aby potwierdzić hipotezę, że czynnik etniczny odgrywa również ważną rolę w życiu gospodarczym Łotwy, autorzy artykułu, w 2021 roku, zorganizowali badanie socjologiczne w ramach projektu „Interakcja jednostki, społeczeństwa i państwa w ogólnym procesie historii Łotwy: konflikty wartości i kształtowanie się wspólnych wartości w historycznych punktach zwrotnych”. Celem tego badania była identyfikacja etnicznych cech kultury organizacyjnej na Łotwie poprzez naturę relacji etycznych pomiędzy Łotyszami i Rosjanami w życiu gospodarczym kraju. Jako kluczowy wskaźnik integralności kultury organizacyjnej dla wieloetnicznego środowiska Łotwy, autorzy wybrali wartość uniwersalnych norm moralnych, przede wszystkim sprawiedliwości, do regulowania stosunków między etnicznymi Łotyszami i Rosjanami, do wzajemnej oceny ich zawodowych i osobistych cech w życiu firm i organizacji. Dane z tego badania wykazały, że wysoka ocena ideałów sprawiedliwości jest charakterystyczna dla świadomości moralnej zarówno respondentów łotewskich, jak i rosyjskich. Jednocześnie stosunek do realizacji tych ideałów, a także innych wartości moralnych, w zachowaniach ekonomicznych, komunikacji biznesowej, w przyjmowaniu etyki korporacyjnej oraz poszanowaniu ustalonej hierarchii w przedsiębiorstwie i organizacji, w postrzeganiu zawodowych, moralnych, psychologicznych cech pracowników o różnych tożsamościach etnicznych ma pewne różnice między przedstawicielami tych grup. Wskazuje to na istotne miejsce faworyzowania etnicznego zarówno w świadomości etnicznych Łotyszy, jak i Rosjan przy ocenie strony przeciwnej, a co za tym idzie na istnienie subkultur etnicznych w obrębie kultury biznesowej i kultury organizacyjnej na Łotwie. Ze względu na obszerność artykułu podzielono go na dwie części. W pierwszej części przedstawiono teoretyczne uzasadnienie rozumienia relacji pomiędzy wartościami etycznymi i etnicznymi w kulturze organizacyjnej. W drugiej części zaprezentowano dane z badań socjologicznych i ich analizę
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
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