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    Disruptive Innovations: Essence and Benefits

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    The aim of the article is to study the essence of the definition “disruptive innovations” and the nature of disruptive processes, which, according to the President of the World Economic Forum in Davos, K. Schwab, are the drivers of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and lead to fundamental changes in market values. The necessity of improving the categorical apparatus of the theory of disruptive innovations due to the emergence of disagreements between theoretical and applied aspects of its manifestation in the environment of world disruptive transformations is grounded. In particular, there carried out a comparative analysis of qualitative characteristics of supporting and disruptive innovations highlighting aspects that lead to the need to complement the essence of the latter. Taking into account these studies, the substantive content of the definition “disruptive innovations” is specified. There considered problems of using the theoretical base of disruptive processes in the domestic scientific literature, in particular, the emergence in the framework of the theory of disruptive innovations of a number of definitions that are identical in essence but different in name. The use of the term “disruptive innovations” as a form of selection in the field of innovations is argued. The organizational aspects of the introduction of disruptive innovations are investigated, and the need to prevent a shift of emphasis towards supporting innovations is substantiated. The critical prerequisites for and key principles of “disruptiveness” of innovations, the consideration of which significantly increases the ability of enterprises to realize their innovative potential, are identified. Further research will be aimed at developing measures to level the negative impact of disruptive processes on activities of business entities in the Ukrainian economy

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    Competitive diagnosis

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    Визначено, що конкурентна діагностика містить у собі певний набір методів стратегічного та конкурентного аналізу, що відповідають умовам функціонування підприємства.The article defines that the competitive diagnosis contains a set of methods of strategic and competitive analysis, proper functioning of the enterprise

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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