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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
The Impact of Leadership on Organisational Performance: A Case of Farm and City Centre Chipinge Zimbabwe
No full textThe study seeks to assess the effect of leadership on organisational performance at Farm and City Centre (FCC) in Chipinge, Zimbabwe. Theoretically, the study is guided by the Trait Theory, the Stakeholder Theory, the Contingency Theory and the Resource-based Theory which can be adapted in different situations to help leaders to improve their effectiveness in guiding terms towards success, and the literature review from other contexts worldwide. The study methodologically employs a quantitative approach where closed ended questionnaires were used to collect data using stratified sampling and managed to get 40 respondents out of the total population of 60. The SPSS was used to examine the results that were received, using regression analysis. Based on the results of the study, servant leadership is the dominant leadership style employed by FCC. The results also show the impact of leadership style on organisational performance is not statistically significant, meaning that leadership style has no impact on organisational performance. The research bring forward strategies that improve leadership style and enhance organisationalperformance, which include leadership training, employee empowerment, effective communication and being customer centri
The Relationship between Reward Management and Organisational Growth: Evidence from Commercial Banks in Zimbabwe through Balanced Panel Data Analysis (2017-2023)
No full textThe study aims to analyse the impact of reward management on organisational growth in the Zimbabwean banking sector. The objectives of the study are to analyse the nature of relationship between reward management and organisational growth as well as examine the impact of reward management on organisational growth. Economic growth is regarded as way through which a country can achieve its developmental goals, such as reducing poverty, eliminating hunger and creating employment. Organisational growth is one area through which private institutions and organisations can support the economic growth drive of a country. To achieve growth, organisations have normally used various reward management methods. In Zimbabwe many organisations have been failing to manage reward management practices, leading to poor performance by employees and retarded organisational growth prospects. Employees in Zimbabwean banks are dissatisfied with the reward management practices that they are exposed to, posing a huge threat to the growth of the banking industry. Despite the increased interest, there are a few studies on reward management in the banking sector, especially in developing countries. The study employs panel cointegration and pooled ordinary least squares regression to analyse the impact of reward management on organisational growth. The study uses secondary data from 2017 to 2023, collected from a sample of 10 Zimbabwean banks. The panel cointegration study results show that reward management and organisational growth have a long-term relationship, whilst the pooled regression results show that reward management has a negative impact on organisational growth. A 1% increase in innovation and adaptability and social benefits results in a respectively 22% and 6% decline in organisational growth. The study recommends digital transformation of banks, streamlining of processes, adoption of strong ethical leadership andmanagement practices and foster macroeconomic stability by policy-makers in order to promote growth of banks
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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