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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
Finnish-Chinese intercultural negotiation : power positioning and search for common ground
No full text‘Rising China’ is a term that has come to refer to China’s march to being number
one, the speed of its economic growth, and its investment around the world during
last two decades. In Finland, government agencies have been established to promote investment, trade, and co-operation with China, while regional and local
governments are also actively involved. Meanwhile, much of the world is now
competing for the attention of China, so the power dynamic is tending to shift in
favour of the Chinese. This developing context has been examined in previous
studies primarily from the perspectives of politics, economics, and management
studies.
The overarching aim of this study is to investigate emerging power relations
between Finns as sellers of investment opportunities and products and Chinese as
investors, buyers, and partners. The study predominantly builds on Positioning
Theory (Harré, 1991). It uses methodological tools of ethnographically framed in
terviewing and observation.
The study comprises five articles - empirical research reports exploring the
major themes in data collected – adjustment of Finns to the Chinese, search of
common ground with Chinese representatives, guest-host positioning during delegation visits, humor in negotiations, and the language aspect in co-operation. Five
styles of positioning regarding power and common ground were found – adjustment, use of existing common ground, autonomy, ‘soft’ power, and pressure /
hedging; the character this typology was found to correspond to phases of the five
Chinese elements (Wu Xing). While the data suggest that both Finnish and Chinese
representatives use all of these strategies, Finnish representatives tended to rely on
active responses such as adjustment and pressure/hedging, while Chinese representatives more often resorted to a stance of autonomy. The dynamic among these
phases is illustrated using the model of a rope, which suggests the integral nature
of change from one style into another, as well as the ways power, common ground,
and culture are all intertwined. A variety of external and internal factors that influence the positioning of Finnish and Chinese representatives could also be traced
from the articles, such as organizational roles, meeting places, discourses about
national characteristics, and considerations of ‘face’. This further reveals the complexity of positioning regarding power and common ground.unknown accessibilityei tietoa saavutettavuudest
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
China-Finland Co-operation, Trade, and Investment: In Search of Common Ground
Get PDFThe importance of co-operation with China has been growing in Finland and the
rest of Europe in view of the rising global economic and political status of China and the
interest in attracting Chinese investments. In Finland, government agencies have been
established for this purpose, and regional and local governments are also actively involved.
Delegation visits between China and Finland have been intensively on-going for some years,
but matching interests and finding common ground for co-operation, trade and investment
often still proves to be a challenging task.
Based on interviews with Finnish representatives and on observing delegation visits,
this paper explores the difficulties that Finns report to be having in moving past a general
level of interest by the Chinese in Finland and presents suggested solutions.
Speech codes theory by Philipsen (1997) and the notion of common ground by
Stalnaker (1999) form the theoretical basis of this paper. The results illustrate how a lack of
serious interest, vague or restrictive government regulations, the long time to build
relationships, and the involvement of intermediaries are seen by interviewees as factors
contributing to talks often remaining at a general level. Suggested strategies to create more
possibilities for finding common ground and for making co-operation talks more specific
include presenting areas of expertise in Finland and matching those with Chinese needs,
utilizing the pragmatism that is seen to be characteristic of both cultures, and investing in
building necessary connections and relationships.peerReviewe
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
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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