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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
Proactivity and innovation : promoting a new workforce for the new workplace
No full textImagine you are running a marathon. You started at a nice, steady pace, but the speed just kept increasing. You must compete with the others in the race but they keep sprinting forward. And more and more people keep joining the race. Not only that, but things are now being thrown at you from all angles and you must duck and swerve to avoid them, and the finishing line keeps being moved. Feel the pressure? This is how many organizations today operate: in an increasingly competitive environment in which frequent changes in technologies, markets, government regulations, and customers give rise to turbulence and unpredictability. So, how does an organization deal with such pressures? How do they finish the race? We believe that one important ingredient is the proactive and innovative behaviour of employees: that is, employees who help you to sprint forward with new ideas, and who can duck and cope with unpredictability. This chapter examines the concepts of proactivity and innovation. It is unique in that it draws together findings from these traditionally separate research streams and identifies areas of convergence and divergence
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
Ward learning climate and student nurse response.
Get PDFThis research is an exploratory study concerned with student nurse learning on the ward and the related role of the ward sister. Initially three general questions were formulated:- 1) What are the general attitudes and beliefs about the 'ideal' situation of the four nurse groups in the study (student nurses, ward sisters, clinical teachers and nurse tutors)? 2) What happens on particular wards and can a ward be said to have a learning climate which differentiates it from other wards? 3) How is student nurse satisfaction related to attitudes and to ward learning climate? The attitudes and perceptions of the four groups wereinvestigated by means of a questionnaire using a Likert-type response scale. The satisfactions of student nurses were also explored using the same method.As a result of the investigation evidence was presented that ward learning climate exists as a measurable reality for student nurses. Not only did respondents display a high level of consensus regarding important elements of ward learning climate but also they discriminated between two extreme types of ward, labelled high student orientation and low student orientation. It was suggested that patient well-being and student nurse well-being were both enhanced in the high student orientation type of ward.Analysis of data indicated that ward learning climate is a determinant of student nurse satisfaction. General satisfaction with nursing was found to be associated with ward learning climate though this relationship was less close than that between satisfaction provided by a particular ward and ward learning climate.Finally, the nurse groups were compared and contrasted on the basis of their agreement and differences in response to the attitude measures
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
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