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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
DIVERSITY, A MATTER OF COMMUNICATION
No full textThis paper provides a model to evaluate the choice of (non-)diversity in team settings. It includes the role
of communication intervals as well as the probability of similarity in ideas. This makes it able to compare
diverse teams to less diverse teams and draw conclusions for specific projects with different characteristics.
This paper does not give an absolute answer for the question whether or not to choose for diverse team
members but gives more insights in the factors complying diversity. In this model, diversity is narrowed down to the aspect of abilities as abilities contribute to the expected output of a team. It assumes that the more diverse a team is, the lower the level of communication and the lower the probability of drawing the same idea. On the other hand, the less diverse a team is, the better the communication but the higher the probability that the team members draw similar ideas. This pay-off should be analyzed including the important characteristics regarding communication and generating ideas of the specific project. Further research could include other dimensions of diversity and could implement more factors cooping with diversity in abilities
A game-theoretical model of a financial statement audit
No full textAbstract: In this paper we developed a game theoretical model in order to examine the
equilibria when preparing a financial statement about the firm’s performance. The model is
a dynamic signalling game in which the firm sends a message about its performance to the
auditor. The auditor receives the message but does not know the actual performance of the
firm. The auditor has the possibility to investigate the message in case he expects this
message is exaggerated. When he finds exaggeration he is rewarded with a bonus and the
firm is punished with a fine. When the auditor has a large incentive to investigate a message
the firm is likely to play a strategy where the probability he gets caught exaggerating is low.
When the auditor has no incentive to investigate a message the firm simply chooses the
strategy that is most aligned with its desire to exaggerate
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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