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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Key Economic and Social Determinants in Bangladesh: A Multi-Faceted Analysis
Full text linkIn this paper, the various economic and social factors that have characterized the development history of Bangladesh are analyzed to provide an understanding of the backward, the post-independence period, resilience, and success story of this South Asian country. The social, political, and economic evolution of the Bangladesh economy from a least developing nation affected by a devastating war to a higher middle-development economy is one of the stunning success stories in the development economics discipline. Macroeconomic policy environment, trade and investment climate, technology adoption in agriculture, and flows of remittances are among the factors include in the analysis. On the social aspect it focuses on demography, education, health, gender agenda, and the effects of increase in urbanization. Further, the paper covers the perpetual issues of poverty, inequality, environmental issues, and governance as well as the necessity for technology advancement. But in this way, the paper carries out a detailed analysis of these determinants to give an understanding of the policies that have enhanced the growth of Bangladesh in the past and the policies which are needed the sustain and further enhance the growth in the future
Dissection of the Behavior of Interest Rates in a Developing Country’s Commercial Banking Sector
Full text linkThe comportment of interest rates within Bangladesh's commercial banking sector, particularly with regard to lending, has emerged as a matter of considerable concern. The modulation of these lending rates is swayed by an intricate web of determinants, such as statutory reserve requirements, policy rates dictated by the Bangladesh Bank, deposit interest rates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), National Savings Certificate rates, banks' income-to-expenditure ratios, profitability metrics, liquidity and solvency conditions, as well as the overarching stance of both monetary and fiscal policies. Additionally, extraneous, non-economic forces exert their own influence. In this inquiry, an effort is undertaken to meticulously scrutinize the manifold factors shaping lending rate behavior through the application of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) methodology. The analysis reveals that CPI, excess reserves, deposit rates, and policy rates bear significant influence on the trajectory of interest rate behaviors within commercial banks. Contrary to popular conviction, which holds that Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) are the paramount factor compelling banks to impose elevated lending rates, our findings indicate that NPLs do not exhibit statistical significance in this context. In recent epochs, the growth of credit extended to the private sector has faltered beneath its anticipated pace, largely attributable to a circumspect approach adopted by investors amidst prevailing political turbulence. Given the persistence of high lending rates, it becomes imperative to initiate a systematic endeavor toward establishing a more judicious and sustainable interest rate framework, one that conscientiously aligns with the socio-economic fabric of the nation
Dissection of the Behavior of Interest Rates in a Developing Country’s Commercial Banking Sector
No full textThe comportment of interest rates within Bangladesh's commercial banking sector, particularly with regard to lending, has emerged as a matter of considerable concern. The modulation of these lending rates is swayed by an intricate web of determinants, such as statutory reserve requirements, policy rates dictated by the Bangladesh Bank, deposit interest rates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), National Savings Certificate rates, banks' income-to-expenditure ratios, profitability metrics, liquidity and solvency conditions, as well as the overarching stance of both monetary and fiscal policies. Additionally, extraneous, non-economic forces exert their own influence. In this inquiry, an effort is undertaken to meticulously scrutinize the manifold factors shaping lending rate behavior through the application of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) methodology. The analysis reveals that CPI, excess reserves, deposit rates, and policy rates bear significant influence on the trajectory of interest rate behaviors within commercial banks. Contrary to popular conviction, which holds that Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) are the paramount factor compelling banks to impose elevated lending rates, our findings indicate that NPLs do not exhibit statistical significance in this context. In recent epochs, the growth of credit extended to the private sector has faltered beneath its anticipated pace, largely attributable to a circumspect approach adopted by investors amidst prevailing political turbulence. Given the persistence of high lending rates, it becomes imperative to initiate a systematic endeavor toward establishing a more judicious and sustainable interest rate framework, one that conscientiously aligns with the socio-economic fabric of the nation
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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