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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
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
Flexibilité et pénurie de l’emploi sous tension. Une analyse par la régulation du travail dans le secteur belge de la construction
Get PDFLes dynamiques d’emploi dans le secteur belge de la construction sont au cœur de multiples tensions. Parmi celles-ci, la pénurie structurelle de main-d’œuvre et l’éclatement des modes de mobilisation des travailleurs (sous-traitance, mise à disposition, travail intérimaire, etc.) sont régulièrement au cœur des débats. Pourtant, malgré ces tensions, la conjoncture du secteur n’a jamais été aussi bonne qu’aujourd’hui : les chantiers fleurissent un peu partout en Belgique et le chiffre d’affaires du secteur ne cesse de croître.
L’explication à ce paradoxe se situe en partie du côté des migrations de travail, les travailleurs étrangers représentant une part croissante des travailleurs occupés au sein du secteur. Pourtant, alors que leur occupation se généralise, elle reste un sujet tabou, en étant globalement assimilée à des pratiques frauduleuses qui renvoient à la notion imprécise de « dumping social ».
Dans la littérature, les multiples situations d’emploi de ces travailleurs sont régulièrement appréhendées à l’aune de conceptualisations binaires (typique/atypique, formel/informel, décent/précaire) qui empêchent de saisir la diversité de leurs situations professionnelles.
Face à ces constats, cette thèse invite à penser la structure du marché du travail au-delà de ces binarismes, à partir d’une approche centrée sur la régulation du travail, à différents niveaux, sur les chantiers belges de construction. Nous mettons ainsi successivement l’accent sur les inspecteurs du travail, les conducteurs de chantiers, les consultants des agences de recrutement, et les ouvriers étrangers eux-mêmes, afin de montrer en quoi leurs activités quotidiennes participent à structurer les multiples relations d’emploi au sein du secteur. Ce faisant, cette thèse touche à une question centrale de notre époque, à savoir celle de l’évolution du travail au-delà du modèle de l’emploi salarié. Les migrations de travail, à travers les multiples situations socioprofessionnelles qu’elles engendrent, invitent à questionner l’utilisation de ce modèle comme référence absolue pour penser le présent et le devenir du travail dans les pays occidentaux.Regulatingwor
Enacting Uncertainties: A Focus on Labour Inspections in the Construction Industry
Get PDFpeer reviewedIn the construction industry, site inspections are critical moments in the enforcement of labor laws. While conducting inspections, labor inspectors evaluate a wide range of situations and try to determine suitable outcomes. The construction sector requires particular attention from labor inspectors as it is prone to phenomenon such as severe work accidents and social dumping. The sector’s unpredictability drives them to permanently adapt to new situations and rely on their discretionary power, which has been described as “responsive regulation” in the literature (Van de Walle & Raaphorst, 2018). Our study focuses on inspectors’ decision-making processes while conducting well-being and anti-fraud inspections in the construction industry. Drawing on 34 interviews with Belgian labor inspectors and experts, we identify five logics that help to make decisions and justify them afterward. These logics lay back on five inherent dimensions of inspectors’ job: procedures, values, experience, relation to inspectees , and relation to peers. By referring to such logics during inspections, inspectors tend to privilege certain types of outcomes as they pursue their cases. Our contribution highlights a tension between regularization and legal proceedings in inspection work
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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