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Reflections on the democratization of knowledge generation in research partnerships for sustainable development
Full text linkResearch collaboration and production of excellence:Finland 1995-2009
No full textThis study describes a novel method of assessing credit for authorship and citations received, and argues that conventional bibliometric assessments used for policy development lead to misguided conclusions about how best research is created, and what type policies may promote research excellence. Exploring Finnish research 1995-2009 based on ISI data, we demonstrate that the nature of the Finnish "hot papers" or research frontiers (papers that receive most citations within two years after publication) doesn't correspond with the idealized vision of "high quality research", being highly national and created by relatively small author teams. As such, it also resembles closely research with no impact, i.e. the non-cited papers. These two differ from the "other cited papers", which are authored by larger and highly international teams. While we describe the author team structure and national nature for different cohorts of scientific excellence, our central result is the observation that in terms production of excellence, whole citations created per author, small Finnish author teams are slightly more productive than large international author teams. We discuss at some length the methodological and policy implications of our results, especially as far as they give rise to the suspicion that conventional (Finnish) policy efforts to foster research excellence target the middle-tier papers and target poorly the best papers that resemble closely the worst ones. We also demonstrate how results and conclusions are highly dependent whether research excellence assessment focuses on papers or alternatively researchers. Finally, we consider how "scientific excellence" should be defined and measured in national contexts
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
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
Differential Outcomes to Strategy - Exploring Factors Shaping the Returns to Innovation Policies in China and Russia
No full textUnsupervised learning based linkages between patents and scholarly publications
No full textBibliometrics has been used to produce measures of knowledge flows between scholarly literature and patents, most notably by using the non-patent literature citation in patents. Existing methods offer a obstructed and narrow view of interplay between science and technology. This study complements existing methods by analyzing the semantic similarity of patents and publications in the context of Finland, uncovering thematic overlap between science and technology. The study uses Latent Dirichlet Allocations to analyze 185 931 patent and publication records in a merged corpus. The data spans patents (USPTO) and publications (WOS) with one or more Finnish author or inventor. The approach enabled the discovery of patent and publication links between documents without an explicit citation between the documents. This suggests that the method could complement existing approaches to science and technology mapping by producing a novel vantage point to the issue
Differential Outcomes to Strategy - Exploring Factors Shaping the Returns to Innovation Policies in China and Russia
No full textDispelling 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
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