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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
Building a System of Institutional Autonomy of a Higher Education Institution: Methodological Background
Get PDFThe article deals with the further improvement of the methodological background for building a system of autonomy of a higher educational institution (HEI). Based on a critical analysis of the world and national experience, it is determined that the current stage of the functioning of the world higher education system is characterized by the formation of a new development paradigm and implies the need to find a certain balance between university autonomy and government regulation in this sphere. The main dimensions in changing the global paradigm of development of the education market are defined and, accordingly, the peculiarities of changing the paradigm of modernization of the national higher education system in Ukraine are formed. It is proved that autonomy of an HEI is, above all, the decentralization of management culture at the university and the construction of an effective system for managing its structural components – academic, staffing, financial, and organizational autonomy. The stages of development of the concept for building a system of HEI institutional university autonomy are proposed; hypotheses, provisions, functions of the system of autonomy of the university are formed
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
Models Of Forecasting Of Enterprise’s Behavior In Non-Stationary External Environment
No full textIn conditions of a high level of market economy instability, an enterprise\u27s behavior is a complex phenomenon that depends on the impact of numerous external and internal factors. This determines the need to develop specific tools for modeling the behavior of the production system to support its competitiveness. The article is devoted to the construction of forecasting models of an enterprise\u27s behavior, namely: 1) a predicting model of the production system\u27s activities that combines the resource capabilities of the enterprise with the state and prospects of branch development; 2) a model of determining the sustainability of the enterprise\u27s development trajectory. The first model contains the production component in the form of the Cobb-Douglas function; financial, labor, innovative and enterprise’s image components, represented by autoregressive functions. The specifically feature of the constructed model is to use capital and labor resources of the enterprise as factors that ensure the transfer and interaction of internal and external fluctuations of the production system. To using factors of the export volume and the gross value added of the branch in the enterprise’s image component allowed to have regard to the development opportunities of the enterprise in the national economy. To determine the stability of the enterprise\u27s development trajectory, the study uses Lyapunov\u27s theory of stability. The general integral factor proposes to use as a factor that reflects the trend of the enterprise’s behavior. Models tested on the data of two industrial enterprises in Morocco
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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