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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
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
Beyond traditional cost-benefit analyses of vocational education and training : workers' and firms' perspectives
Full text linkHuman capital is the key competitive factor in the developed world. Similar to other types of investments, the decision to invest in human capital is the result of comparing costs and benefits. The traditional cost-benefit analyses, however, do not explain several widespread phenomena, such as a puzzling large number of workers departing from their initially chosen educational paths or even refraining from training at all as well as the existence of firms that provide training although for them this investment does not (directly) pay. Going beyond traditional cost-benefit analyses of vocational education and further training our findings demonstrate that the mentioned puzzles can be solved by the innovations we provide: first of all, we show that it is important to take into account that each educational or further training step is part of a complete educational and training strategy and should, thus, not be analyzed in isolation. Indeed, we find that combinations of different types of human capital varying in their degree of work and labor market relations are at least as competitive as straight educational paths. Second, although wage increases for workers and productivity increases for firms are certainly important benefits, it is a serious shortcoming for the analysis of training decisions if other types of benefits are neglected. In particular, long-term benefits in terms of better prospects on the labor market for workers and indirect benefits in terms of increased overall recruitment success for firms turn out to be decisive. Third, concentrating on monetary costs only is a serious shortcoming as well. In addition to monetary cost components there are also substantial non-monetary costs, especially in terms of time, attached to training participation, and these costs are at least as decisive. Notably, time restrictions seem to be an even more serious hurdle for training participation than liquidity constraints. Fourth, although cost and benefit measures are most important for training decisions, there are other factors that have been widely neglected so far, i.e., risk preferences, information asymmetries and time preferences. We show that these should also be considered as crucial factors in educational and training decisions.
Humankapital gilt heute in der industrialisierten Welt als der zentrale Wettbewerbsfaktor. Die Entscheidung, in Humankapital zu investieren, ist - wie die Entscheidung, andere Arten von Investitionen zu tätigen - das Ergebnis eines Kosten-Nutzen-Vergleichs. Allerdings können traditionelle Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen zahlreiche weit verbreitete Phänomene nicht erklären. So beobachten wir eine bedeutende Anzahl an Arbeitnehmern, die von ihrem ursprünglich eingeschlagenen Ausbildungspfad abweichen, Personen, die ganz generell Bildungsmassnahmen fernbleiben, und Firmen, die Bildungsmassnahmen anbieten, obwohl sich diese für sie nicht (direkt) auszuzahlen scheinen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit schlagen wir deshalb innovative Erweiterungen des traditionellen Kosten-Nutzen-Modells vor, die mit den genannten Beobachtungen vereinbar sind: Erstens muss berücksichtigt werden, dass jeder Aus- und Weiterbildungsschritt Teil einer kompletten Bildungsstrategie ist und deshalb nicht isoliert betrachtet werden darf. Tatsächlich finden wir, dass Bildungspfade, welche verschiedene, sich hinsichtlich Berufs- und Arbeitsmarktbezug unterscheidende Bildungstypen umfassen, mindestens genauso wettbewerbsfähig sind wie geradlinige Bildungspfade. Zweitens zeigen wir, dass eine Gehaltserhöhung für Arbeitnehmer und ein Produktivitätszuwachs für Firmen zwar wichtige Nutzenkomponenten darstellen, dass aber eine Analyse, die andere Ertragsarten vernachlässigt, deutlich zu kurz greift. Insbesondere scheinen für Arbeitnehmer langfristige Erträge aufgrund verbesserter Arbeitsmarktchancen und für Unternehmen ein indirekter Nutzen in Form eines erhöhten Rekrutierungserfolgs zentral. Drittens weisen wir darauf hin, dass auch eine ausschliessliche Berücksichtigung monetärer Kosten unzulänglich ist. So ist eine Investition in Bildung ebenfalls mit nicht- monetären Kosten verbunden, wobei speziell die für den Besuch der Bildungsmassnahme aufgebrachte Zeit gemeint ist. Bemerkenswert ist denn auch der Befund, dass Zeitrestriktionen eine bedeutend höhere Hürde für (Weiter-)Bildungsmassnahmen darstellen als Liquiditätsbeschränkungen. Viertens belegen wir, dass neben den genannten Kosten- und Nutzenaspekten weitere Faktoren wie Risikopräferenzen, Informationsasymmetrien und Zeitpräferenzen entscheidende Determinanten für Aus- und Weiterbildungsentscheidungen sind
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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