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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
Exploring Social Media Adoption Processes and Factors: Small and Medium Enterprises in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Get PDFVariations 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
Implications of Socio-Technical Interactions for e-Government Implementation and its Success
Get PDFe-Government projects have become a strategic enabler for public administration reform and the development of the local economy. However, there is an agreement among researchers that most e-Government implementation projects fail to achieve their goals and deliver their desired benefits. One important reason for this failure reported in the literature is that current e-Government system designs do not meet the socio-technical reality of e-Government, which is shaped by several environmental, social, political, and technical forces. Researchers emphasise that e-Government projects can continue to fail unless equal attention is devoted to these diverse aspects. On the other hand, the current e-Government stage/maturity models (e.g., Layne & Lee, 2001) offer only little awareness about the effects, implications, and attributes of the changes happening within and between organisations as e-Government projects go through design and implementation, thus falling short to fully address the socio-technical nature of e-Government. Moreover, little is known about not only how and in what ways social and technical factors interact and affect each other but also the implications of their interactions for e-Government implementation and its success. This research is set to investigate the implications of socio-technical interactions for implementing e-Government and its success, using the lens of socio-technical systems (STS) theory.
This study was conducted within the previously unexplored setting of Oman using the multiple case-study method. Further, it employed semi-structured interviews as the primary data collection instrument, supported by archival analysis as a secondary data source. Oman was chosen as the context for the study due to its rapid socio-economic development in embracing an e-Government design for public administration reform.
The research outcome indicated that the socio-technical factor effects identified in this study are mostly consistent with those reported in the extant literature. The findings of the analysis of socio-technical factors’ interaction, presented in terms of theoretical propositions, further support the extant literature. They demonstrated that examining e-Government implementation from the holistic view of STS theoretical lens can help significantly understand the complexity of e-Government systems.
This outcome will help in identifying the various tangled issues attached to the project’s implementation and contribute towards lowering the failure rates of e-Government projects. It can also assist e-Government researchers by offering them a holistic analysis of this phenomenon to avoid the pitfalls resulting from focusing on specific aspects or dimensions of e-Government.
The results of this study also offer a diagnostic tool to practitioners to gain better control over e-Government projects and provide great opportunities for avoiding potential failure and increasing the rate of success, either entirely or partially
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
Accountability in Responses to Natural Disasters: A Case Study of Flooding in Garut, West Java, Indonesia
Get PDFThis study assesses how accountability is practiced and justified in collaboration of cross-sector organisations and community. It addresses three main questions: firstly, what are the roles of actors in collaborative working setting of repeated flooding, where government organisations and non-government organisations, civil society groups, and individuals all work together in dealing with this recurring issue; secondly, what is working relationship between different actors in four phases of disaster management; and thirdly, how does accountability arrangement affect actions in every disaster phase.
These three questions are addressed through case study approach conducted between 2015-2019. The research involves qualitative analysis of collected data from field work and semi-structured interviews with actors who involve in disaster management. This data is complemented by document analysis.
There is a contrast in the response to disaster management between the state and some communities and local NGOs. The communities and local NGOs respond to natural disaster according to their ancestral beliefs and knowledge about their relationship with nature. In contrast, local government institutions often execute transactional projects which are measured by results of short-term activities. Local communities use their knowledge from generation to generation in preserving and treating nature as part of their life but this does not inform government activities in the development of the natural environment (e.g, farming and tourism sectors).
This study finds that accountability concept is recognised differently by the state (local government of Garut officers) and people, including NGOs and donors. The state defines accountability as a hierarchical mechanism which is manifested in the form of reports to higher authority within state system. However, accountability in disaster management has different aspects including the natural environment as an actor. Nature has a significant influence in understandings of the concept of accountability in disaster responses. There are two types of accountability within this context. Accountability between actors which is influenced by nature and between actors with nature. The first accountability type is a negotiable accountability and the second accountability type is non-negotiable type of accountability.
Understandings of accountability in developing countries needs to engage with the idea of the prismatic society and recognize the experience of colonization
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