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Jerry Z. Muller, La tyrannie des métriques
No full textLes quatre parties de l’ouvrage de l’historien américain Jerry Z. Muller s’articulent autour d’un unique message : la quantification des performances d’une organisation ou d’un professionnel – sous forme de « métriques » – est utile si elle vise à outiller un jugement fondé sur l’expérience, mais devient contre-productive lorsqu’elle donne lieu à des sanctions et récompenses. De fait, l’idée peut paraître éculée, mais l’auteur « ne prétend nullement à la nouveauté » (p. 21). Il entend fournir une synthèse accessible de résultats dispersés afin de combattre « l’obsession métrique »
Numbers Games: Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Tyranny of Metrics\u3c/i\u3e by Jerry Z. Muller (2018)
Get PDFJerry Z, Muller. 2018. The Tyranny of Metrics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). 220 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-17495-2 (also available as an e-book).
The historian Jerry Z. Muller argues that quantitative metrics to assess performance have spread throughout many institutions. This trend poses problems when people begin to game the numbers, to focus on achieving good scores rather than on meeting the institution’s goals
Ein Luftmensch in permissiven Zeiten: Rezension zu "Professor der Apokalypse: Die vielen Leben des Jacob Taubes" von Jerry Z. Muller
Get PDFJerry Z. Muller: Professor der Apokalypse: Die vielen Leben des Jacob Taubes. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag / Suhrkamp Verlag 2022. 978-3-633-54321-
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
Más allá del número: una reseña de “La tiranía de las métricas” de Jerry Z. Muller
No full textThis review analyses Jerry Z. Muller's book, "The Tyranny of Metrics," exploring his arguments regarding the fixation on quantitative measurement in modern organizations. It examines the historical roots of the phenomenon and details the metric dysfunctions identified by the author, such as the promotion of short-term goals, the disincentive for innovation, and the erosion of cooperation. The review highlights the high organizational and human costs derived from these systems. It concludes by presenting Muller's proposal, which does not advocate for the elimination of metrics, but rather for their prudent use, subordinated to expert professional judgment as a key solution for contemporary managementEsta reseña examina la obra "La tiranía de las métricas" de Jerry Z. Muller, donde se hace un análisis sobre la obsesión contemporánea por la medición cuantitativa y la rendición de cuentas. Se exploran los argumentos centrales del autor, incluyendo las raíces históricas de la fijación por las métricas, desde antes del Taylorismo hasta su aplicación moderna. Se detallan las principales disfunciones que provoca en las organizaciones: el enfoque en metas de corto plazo, el estancamiento de la innovación, la disminución de la cooperación y el alto costo en tiempo y recursos. Finalmente, se destaca la propuesta de Muller que no busca eliminar la medición, pero sí un uso más inteligente y subordinado al juicio profesional y el context
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