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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
Variations 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
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
REGULAR ANNUAL INTERVIEWS IN THE INSTITUTE OF PENSION AND INVALIDITY INSURANCE OF SLOVENIA
Get PDFOrganizacije v zadnjem obdobju namenjajo vse več pozornosti razvoju človeškega in intelektualnega kapitala, upravljanju delovne uspešnosti in motivaciji zaposlenih. Kadrovska politika postaja zelo pomemben del poslovne politike. Za organizacijo je bistvenega pomena, da ima kadre, ki so strokovno izobraženi in usposobljeni za opravljanje dela, zato mora poskrbeti, da jih ustrezno izobražuje, usposablja in izpopolnjuje, saj bodo le tako zmožni opravljati svoje delo, ki jih od njih zahtevajo zapleteni delovni procesi. Organizacija mora pri razvoju kadrov upoštevati poleg strokovnega tudi osebni razvoj.
Letni razgovor je formalni proces, v katerem zaposlenemu zagotovimo povratno informacijo o njegovih dosežkih v preteklem letu, vodstvo pa pridobi informacije o mnenjih, potrebah in razvojnih željah zaposlenih. Glavni namen letnega razgovora ni le v ocenjevanju delovne uspešnosti sodelavcev, ampak je odlično orodje za izboljšanje pretoka informacij, zbiranje podatkov o kadrovskih potencialih, lažje vodenje in določanje osebnih ciljev zaposlenih. Letni razgovor ima močan motivacijski motiv. Daje priložnost odpravi napetosti in težavam posameznika v organizacijski enoti ter ustvarja dober temelj za medsebojno sodelovanje na delovnem mestu.
Magistrsko delo z naslovom Redni letni razgovori na Zavodu za pokojninsko in invalidsko zavarovanje Republike Slovenije je sestavljeno iz teoretičnega in raziskovalnega dela. V teoretičnem delu smo na podlagi domače in tuje literature predstavili kadrovski management, sistem razvoja kadrov, izobraževanje in usposabljanje zaposlenih, kompetence in vodenje s cilji, motivacijo, redne letne razgovore (RLR), komuniciranje in okolje, kjer je potekala raziskava. Zavod za pokojninsko in invalidsko zavarovanje Republike Slovenije (Zavod, ZPIZ) je redne letne razgovore vpeljal v prakso leta 2006 kot sestavni del projekta Načrtovanje in razvoj kadrov.
Z raziskavo, ki je potekala od junija do novembra 2009, smo želeli ugotoviti, kako se izvajajo RLR na ZPIZ, stopnjo zadovoljstva vodij in njihovih sodelavcev z njihovim izvajanjem, mnenje o smiselnosti razgovorov, počutje na razgovoru in medsebojno komunikacijo. Odgovore zbrane na podlagi izpolnjenih anonimnih vprašalnikov smo obdelali in predstavili grafično s programom MS Office Excel 2003. Hipoteze smo testirali s statističnim programom SPSS 10.0 for Windows. Delo smo zaključili s predstavitvijo glavnih ugotovitev raziskave in predlogi izboljšav. Želeli smo, da bi bila pot vodstva do željenih ciljev s skrbno izbranimi ukrepi krajša in zanesljivejša.Organisations are increasingly concentrating on the development of human and intellectual capital, performance management and employee motivation. Human resources policy is becoming a very important part of business policy. It is essential for an organisation to have professionally educated and competent personnel performing their work and must therefore provide appropriate education, training and professional improvement since this is the only way they will be able to perform the work required by complex operating processes. Besides professional development, organisations must also take personal development into account when developing human resources.
An annual interview is a formal process in which the employee receives feedback about their achievements in the previous year and the management obtains information about the employee\u27s opinions, needs and wishes regarding their development. The main purpose of the annual interview is not merely to evaluate the co-worker\u27s performance but it is also an excellent tool to improve the flow of information, to collect data on the potential of human resources, to facilitate management and to determine the employee\u27s personal goals. The annual interview has a strong motivational motive. It is an opportunity to remove the tension and the difficulties individuals are facing in an organisational unit and is also a good foundation for cooperation at the workplace.
This master\u27s thesis, titled Regular Annual Interviews at the Institute of Pension and Disability Insurance of the Republic of Slovenia, is divided into two parts: the theoretical part and the research part. Based on Slovenian and non-Slovenian resources, the theoretical part presents human resources management, human resources development system, education and training of employees, competences and goal-oriented management, motivation, regular annual interviews, communication and the environment where the survey took place. The Institute of Pension and Disability Insurance of the Republic of Slovenia (the Institute, IPDI) began the practice of conducting regular annual interviews in 2006 as an integral part of the Načrtovanje in razvoj kadrov (Human Resources Planning and Development) project.
The purpose of the survey, which was conducted during the period between June and November of 2009, was to determine how regular annual interviews were being conducted at the Institute, how satisfied the management and their co-workers were with conducting the interviews, the opinions about the reasonableness of the interviews, how the participants feel at the interviews and to establish the level of communication between the participants. The answers collected on the basis of the completed anonymous questionnaires were processed and presented graphically using the MS Office Excel 2003 software. The hypotheses were tested with the SPSS 10.0 for Windows statistical software package. The main conclusions of the survey and proposals for improvements are presented in the final chapters of the thesis. Our desire was to provide the management with carefully chosen measures that will make the path towards their goals shorter and more reliable
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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