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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
STUDYING THE DIALECTICS BETWEEN AND WITHIN MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Full text linkThis paper examines how management philosophy and management accounting are linked to each other through practice. We argue in this paper that management philosophy and management accounting are mutually constitutive to each other in a dialectic manner. We base these findings on a detailed field study of management accounting practices in a research site, a consulting arm offshoot of the planning office in a manufacturing company, that is staffed by highly reflexive practitioners. Drawing upon Giddens’ structuration theory and new institutional theory, we analyzed the way that intrinsic contradictions at the institutional realm are reflected upon and handled in practice. This in turn creates routines that mediate the fundamental contradictions. In particular, we examined the impacts of two fundamental contradictions that exist at the level of management philosophy: romanticism vs realism, and familism vs marketism.These contradictory philosophies influence the way in which formal management accounting systems (hereafter FMAS) are designed. These contradictions result in the structures of responsibility and accountability being fused with a seemingly incompatible mix of management philosophy. Even with these inconsistencies the FMAS is a part of the taken-for-granted reality of management accounting practice. At the practice level the conflicts and tensions within management accounting practice are coped with and in turn become routines when they are replicated over time and space. Our study suggests that dialectic tensions are ubiquitous in organizations. This gives an organization many opportunities to evolve their own sets of coping mechanisms that in turn result in the organization having a unique character. Thus no one organization will conform to a prescribed set of characteristics
Studying The Dialectics between and within Management Credo and Management Accounting
Full text linkThis paper examines how management credo and management accounting systems are linked to management accounting practices by employing evolutionary institutional theories as heuristic devices. Management credo and management accounting systems at the institutional level are understood as “things, ” whereas management accounting practices are understood as flow of events at the level of actions. On the basis of a detailed field study, in this paper, we argue that potential contradictions within management credo and management accounting systems are realized in practice via a certain set of routines that reflects institutional properties, and that the realized contradictions are dealt with in practice, thus creating another set of routines that are neither directly derived nor discernable from the institutional realm
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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