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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
A checklist to support knowledge workers in implementing robotic process automation projects
No full textIn a continuously changing world, for business processes it is crucial to be highly adaptive and to become more efficient and effective. As a consequence, companies crave for process automation to stay competitive in their markets. In this context, a promising approach is provided by Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which aims to automate business processes or parts of them using software robots that mimic human interactions.
Developing such software robots is a challenging task as every software is unique and has individual challenges and characteristics. In practice, it is further common that software robots are implemented by knowledge workers, i.e., domain experts without profound IT background. As RPA projects often fail, we aim to understand RPA challenges to sustainably support the implementation of RPA projects accomplished by knowledge workers.
For the support of knowledge-intensive processes, traditional workflow solutions are not recommended, but checklist-based approaches have established. Checklists constitute a simple concept to cover all tasks relevant in the given context and have proven to work in various domains, e.g., medicine or aviation.
In this thesis, the results of developing a checklist that supports knowledge workers implementing RPA projects are presented.
The research is based on design science methodology. In particular, interviews are conducted and questionnaires are distributed to understand the effects that can be achieved with RPA projects. Through an exploratory case study we identify the challenges faced during RPA projects leading to undesired effects. The current state-of-the-art is analyzed by a systematic mapping study. Using the resulting framework, the challenges not been tackled by literature so far are determined. The latter include user acceptance as well as human-robot interaction problems as robots take over tasks previously accomplished by humans.
To tackle the challenges, we design and empirically validate an RPA user acceptance model.
Furthermore, we investigate desired human-robot interactions empirically. For both research projects, we include RPA users in the automotive industry as participants in the study. The findings are used to derive the checklist, which is then evaluated according to the design science framework, in four evaluation steps.
To conclude, the artifact, i.e., the checklist, improves the implementation of RPA projects. Furthermore, the special requirements of knowledge workers are met and, therefore, the checklist represents a valuable contribution to practice and scientific literature.In einer sich ständig verändernden Welt ist es für Geschäftsprozesse entscheidend, in hohem Maße anpassungsfähig zu sein und effektiver und effizienter zu werden. Infolgedessen sehnen sich Unternehmen nach Prozessautomatisierung, um auf ihren Märkten wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben. Ein vielversprechender Ansatz ist in diesem Zusammenhang die robotergestützte Prozessautomatisierung (RPA), die darauf abzielt, Geschäftsprozesse oder Teile davon mithilfe von Softwarerobotern zu automatisieren, die menschliche Interaktionen nachahmen.
Die Entwicklung von Softwarerobotern ist eine anspruchsvolle Aufgabe, da jede Software einzigartig ist und individuelle Herausforderungen und Eigenschaften aufweist. In der Praxis ist es außerdem üblich, dass Softwareroboter von Wissensarbeitern, d.h. von Fachexperten ohne tiefgreifenden IT-Hintergrund, implementiert werden. Da RPA-Projekte häufig scheitern, wollen wir die Herausforderungen von RPA verstehen, um die Implementierung von RPA-Projekten durch Wissensarbeiter nachhaltig zu unterstützen.
Für die Unterstützung von wissensintensiven Prozessen werden traditionelle Workflow Lösungen nicht empfohlen, viel mehr etablierten sich checklist-basierte Ansätze. Checklisten stellen ein einfaches Konzept dar, um alle im gegebenen Kontext relevanten Aufgaben abzudecken und haben sich in verschiedenen Bereichen wie beispielsweise der Medizin oder der Luftfahrt bewährt.
In dieser Arbeit werden die Ergebnisse der Entwicklung einer Checkliste vorgestellt, die Wissensarbeiter bei der Umsetzung von RPA-Projekten unterstützt.
Die Forschung basiert auf der Methodik der Design Science.
Insbesondere werden Interviews geführt und Fragebögen verteilt, um die Effekte zu verstehen, die mit RPA-Projekten erzielt werden können.
Anhand einer explorative Fallstudie identifizieren wir die Herausforderungen, die bei RPA-Projekten auftreten und zu unerwünschten Effekten führen.
Der aktuelle Stand der Technik wird durch eine systematische Mapping-Studie analysiert. Anhand des deraus resultierenden Frameworks werden die in der Literatur bisher nicht behandelten Herausforderungen ermittelt.
Dazu gehören die Benutzerakzeptanz sowie Probleme bei der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion, da Softwareroboter Aufgaben übernehmen, die zuvor von Menschen ausgeführt wurden.
Um diese Herausforderungen anzugehen, entwerfen wir ein RPA-Benutzerakzeptanzmodell und validieren es empirisch.
Außerdem untersuchen wir empirisch die gewünschten Mensch-Roboter-Interaktionen. Für beide Forschungsprojekte beziehen wir RPA-Anwender aus der Automobilindustrie als Studienteilnehmer mit ein.
Aus den Ergebnissen wird die Checkliste abgeleitet, die dann in vier Evaluationsschritten nach dem Design Science Framework evaluiert wird.
Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass das Artefakt, d.h., die Checkliste, die Umsetzung von RPA-Projekten verbessert. Darüber hinaus werden die speziellen Anforderungen von Wissensarbeitern erfüllt, so dass die Checkliste einen wertvollen Beitrag für die Praxis und die wissenschaftliche Literatur darstellt
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
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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