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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
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
The role of geopolitics in world-class universities : Japan’s implications for Hong Kong
No full textSince the return of great power competition has reached almost every aspect of world politics, including higher education, it is significant to have an interdisciplinary study to expand the understanding of the interplay between geopolitics and higher education by exploring the role of geopolitics in world-class universities. By doing so, this study is to examine the higher education issue of world-class university with a world view from the discipline of international relations. The main purpose of this research is to understand the role of geopolitics in the building of world-class universities in Japan, as well as its implications to Hong Kong. With the determination to gain a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between geopolitics and higher education, this research is designed to be a case study of Japan that aimed to explore the altitude, vision, and rationales behind world-class university policies, as well as the dynamics of geopolitics, government, and universities. It is also aimed to tell the story of the development of world-class universities in Japan against the backdrop of geopolitics, and to present its implications to Hong Kong.
To better understand the role of geopolitics in world-class universities, as well as Japan’s implications for Hong Kong, this study has proposed four guided research questions: 1) How does geopolitics impact world-class universities? 2) What are the challenges and impacts of national policies regarding world-class universities in Japan? 3) What are the challenges for Hong Kong when developing its world-class universities? 4) How can Hong Kong learn from Japan’s experience?
Three phases of data collection had been carried out between 2022 and 2023 to answer the four guiding research questions, which included the first two phases of fieldwork in Japan during the November and December of 2022, and the final phase that consisted of in-depth interviews in Hong Kong in January 2023. This study had conducted campus tours in Japanese national and private universities, an in-class participation in a world-class university in Japan, in-depth semi-structured interviews with university faculty members and senior university administrators across Japan and Hong Kong, as well as the in-depth conversations with university faculty members in Japan and a former special advisor to the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. All conversations and interviews were transcribed and returned to participants for member-checking.
This study has contributed to filling the research gaps first by providing a higher education study on the impact of geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific context, and the findings highlighted Hong Kong’s current understanding of the Tokyo Bay Area might have been an imaginary concept, as the term Tokyo Bay Area is neither a well-known subject in Japan nor a bay area that could resemble the capacity of the Silicon Valley in the United States. In addition, through revealing the interplay between geopolitics and higher education, this study hopes to rediscover the purpose of higher education at times of great geopolitical uncertainty through understanding the role of geopolitics in world-class universities
A study of the greater bay area and the Tokyo metropolitan area in internationalising higher education
Full text linkAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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