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Van den Hoonard (Will C.). The Origins of the Baha'i Community of Canada. 1898-1948
No full textWright Elizabeth. Van den Hoonard (Will C.). The Origins of the Baha'i Community of Canada. 1898-1948. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°108, 1999. pp. 121-122
Making worlds collide : using Tolkien’s fantasy literature to create a new leadership development framework
Full text linkComplex global challenges, and the need to radically reinvent processes and products, confront
today’s leaders, yet the leadership development field is often criticised for being confused,
disparate, and not fit for purpose for today’s organisations (Kellerman, 2012), with much
criticism of its limitations and narrowness. New imaginative processes are needed to develop
leaders’ skills, behaviour and thinking to create alternative futures, and find new ways to
generate innovative solutions. Literature reviews reveal that leaders and leadership developers
have generally not considered the possibility of using speculative fiction and fantasy literature
as a source for imaginative growth and the stimulation of multiple perspectives. This research
creates a new process for leader developers and coaches to use fantasy literature in this way,
called Practical Applied Literature.
Literary Conceptual Encounter was devised as a tool to work directly with a piece of fantasy
literature, adapted for this research from De Rivera’s Conceptual Encounter technique.
Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy was used as a working model to demonstrate the
process of Practical Applied Literature, and to create a new leadership development framework
for leadership developers and coaches. This new framework was then explored with a group of
senior leaders, using Conceptual Encounter interviews to produce collaborative insights for
further development. The many insights generated were collated and assessed, using another
new technique developed for this study called Conceptual Synthesis. The subsequent improved
version of the framework showed that the structured use of fantasy literature for imaginative
leadership development solutions can be useful and effective; and that this unique approach has
sufficient value to merit further improvement and research.
This study will contribute to the work and thinking of leadership development theorists and
practitioners through the new Practical Applied Literature process, the tools it uses, and the
Leadership Development framework that can form the basis of a new leadership development
modular programme. This research will also contribute to Tolkien Studies because leadership
and its development have generally been neglected by Tolkien commentators and academics,
but can provide many imaginative insights and ideas for today’s world
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
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