papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers
Eugene Garfield
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Thu Mar 1 11:34:08 EST 2012
TITLE: Network model of knowledge diffusion (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Gao, X; Guan, JC
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.749-762 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: Network model; Knowledge diffusion; h-Index
KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; CITATION NETWORK; FIELDS
ABSTRACT: This paper introduces a diffusion network model: an
individual-citation-based directed network model with a time dimension, as a potentially useful approach to capture the diffusion of research topics. The approach combines social network analysis, network visualization and citation analysis to discuss some of the issues concerning the spread of scientific ideas. The process of knowledge diffusion is traced from a network point of view. Using research on the h- index as a case study, we built detailed networks of individual publications and demonstrated the feasibility of applying the diffusion network model to the spread of a research. The model shows the specific paths and associations of individual papers, and potentially complementing issues raised by epidemic models, which primarily deal with average properties of entire scientific communities. Also, based on the citation-based network, the technique of main path analysis identified the articles that influenced the research for some time and linked them into a research tradition that is the backbone of the h-index field.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: X Gao, Inner Mongolia Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Hohhot,
Peoples R China
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TITLE: Shapley values for assessing research production and
impact of schools and scholars (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Tol, RSJ
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.763-780 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: Rankings; Individuals; Departments
KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; ECONOMICS LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC-
RESEARCH; RESEARCH OUTPUT; DEPARTMENTS; INDIVIDUALS;
MANAGEMENT; CITATIONS; INDEX
ABSTRACT: Performance measures of individual scholars tend to
ignore the context. I introduce contextualised metrics: cardinal and ordinal pseudo-Shapley values that measure a scholar's contribution to (perhaps power over) her own school and her market value to other schools should she change job. I illustrate the proposed measures with business scholars and business schools in Ireland. Although conceptually superior, the power indicators imply a ranking of scholars within a school that is identical to the corresponding conventional performance measures. The market value indicators imply an identical ranking within schools and a very similar ranking between schools. The ordinal indices further contextualise performance measures and thus deviate further from the corresponding conventional indicators. As the ordinal measures are discontinuous by construction, a natural classification of scholars emerges. Averaged over schools, the market values offer little extra information over the corresponding production and impact measures. The ordinal power measure indicates the robustness or fragility of an institution's place in the rank order. It is only weakly correlated with the concentration of publications and citations.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: RSJ Tol, Econ & Social Res Inst, Dublin, Ireland
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TITLE: Estimate of global research trends and performance in
family therapy in Social Science Citation Index (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Lou, YC; Lin, HF
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.807-823 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENCE CITATION INDEX
GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 32:5 1990;
KEYWORDS: Family therapy; Scientometrics; SSCI; Research trend; Web
of science
KEYWORDS+: ADOLESCENT ANOREXIA-NERVOSA; RANDOMIZED CLINICAL-TRIAL;
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOR THERAPY; SUBSTANCE-ABUSE; SHORT-TERM;
PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENTS; MULTISYSTEMIC THERAPY;
BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; JUVENILE-OFFENDERS; TREATMENT
OUTCOMES
ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the global
progress and quantitative assessment of current research trends on family therapy, using a bibliometric approach and exploring related literature in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database from 1992 to 2009.
This study used the bibliometric arrropach to learn about the subject categories, core journals, top countries and leading research institutes in publication, most frequently used author keywords, and most frequently used KeyWords Plus. Also, this study used a "word cluster analysis"
method to locate research hot topics. A majority of the subject categories were located in clinical psychology and family studies. The core journals for family therapy located in Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Contemporary Family Therapy, and Journal of Family Therapy. The US ranked as the top country of world articles with the highest h-index, followed distantly by the UK and Germany. The leading research institutes were Purdue University, University of Miami, and Brigham Young University. "Adolescents" and "adolescent" were highly used words in article titles. Next, the top three most frequently used author keywords were "anorexia nervosa", "adolescents", and "psychotherapy". Finally, the top three most frequently used KeyWords Plus were "psychotherapy", "children", and "intervention". Based on "word cluster analysis" to determine the research hotspots, the research hot topics of family therapy fall into three categories: treated subjects, treated matters, and treatment issues. The research trend in family therapy seems to involve the therapist often treating adolescents or children for eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, or schizophrenia. During treatment or therapy, therapists and researchers must pay attention to the issues of gender, training, and therapeutic alliance.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: YC Lou, Asia Univ, Dept Social Work, 500 Lioufeng Rd,
Taichung 41354, Taiw
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TITLE: Future publication success in science is better predicted
by traditional measures than by the h index (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Honekopp, J; Khan, J
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.843-853 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: Science; Evaluation; Creativity; Bibliometry; h index
KEYWORDS+: STANDARD BIBLIOMETRIC MEASURES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE;
PRODUCTIVITY; INDICATORS; VARIANTS; JUDGMENT; MODEL
ABSTRACT: Although the use of bibliometric indicators for
evaluations in science is becoming more and more ubiquitous, little is known about how future publication success can be predicted from past publication success. Here, we investigated how the post-2000 publication success of 85 researchers in oncology could be predicted from their previous publication record. Our main findings are: (i) Rates of past achievement were better predictors than measures of cumulative achievement. (ii) A combination of authors' past productivity and the past citation rate of their average paper was most successful in predicting future publication success (R-2 approximate to 0.60). (iii) This combination of traditional bibliographic indicators clearly outperformed predictions based on the rate of the h index (R-2 between
0.37 and 0.52). We discuss implications of our findings for views on creativity and for science evaluation.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Honekopp, Northumbria Univ, Dept Psychol, Newcastle Upon
Tyne NE1 8ST, Tyne & Wear, Englan
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TITLE: Scientific collaboration in Library and Information
Science viewed through the Web of Knowledge: the Spanish case (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Ardanuy, J
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.877-890 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth
KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Library and Information Science;
Scientific collaboration; Co-authorship
KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL LITERATURE; QUALITY; COAUTHORSHIP; AUTHORSHIP;
20TH-CENTURY; UNIVERSITY; PATTERNS; CHINA
ABSTRACT: This study analyzes the level of co-authorship of Spanish
research in Library and Information Science (LIS) until 2009, the chronological development that has taken place, and the level of local, domestic and international cooperation. This bibliometric study was made using the data retrieved from the Web of Knowledge (WoK) following a dual strategy-on the one hand through the filter of the category Information Science & Library Science, and on the other hand through a subject search. In this way a significant number of works has been retrieved, some of which are in journals indexed in SCI or A&HCI and not in the SSCI. The results show a significant increase in all co-authorship, including publications in English and those involving international collaboration. As with the increase in Spanish participation in social science (WoK), this growth, coupled with the significant increase in Spanish scientific production in the area of LIS, suggests that the discipline in Spain has entered a more mature phase-although so far it has focused particularly on bibliometric studies.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Ardanuy, Univ Barcelona, Dept Bibliotecon & Documentacio,
Edifici UB Sants,C Melcior de Palau 140, Barcelona 08014,
Catalonia, Spain
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TITLE: Specific character of citations in historiography (using
the example of Polish history) (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Kolasa, WM
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.905-923 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; NALIMOV VV rauth; PRICE DJD rauth;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
KEYWORDS: Citation analysis; Historiography; Historical science;
Poland
KEYWORDS+: HUMANITIES; SCIENCE
ABSTRACT: The first part of the paper deals with the assessment of
international databases in relation to the number of historical publications (representation and relevance in comparison with the model database). The second part is focused on providing answer to the question whether historiography is governed by similar bibliometric rules as exact sciences or whether it has its own specific character. Empirical database for this part of the research constituted the database prepared ad hoc:
The Citation Index of the History of Polish Media (CIHPM). Among numerous typically historical features the main focus was put on: linguistic localism, specific character of publishing forms, differences in citing of various sources (contributions and syntheses) and specific character of the authorship (the Lorenz Curve and the Lotka's Law). Slightly more attention was devoted to the half-life indicator and its role in a diachronic study of a scientific field; also, a new indicator (HL14), depicting distribution of citations younger then half-life was introduced. Additionally, the comparison and correlation of selected parameters for the body of historical science (citations, HL14, the Hirsch Index, number of publications, volume and other) were also conducted.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: WM Kolasa, Pedag Univ Cracow, Inst Informat & Lib Sci, Ul
Podchorazych 2, PL-30084 Krakow, Poland
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TITLE: On first quartile journals which are not of highest
impact (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Garcia, JA; Rodriguez-Sanchez, R; Fdez-Valdivia, J;
Martinez-Baena, J
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.925-943 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S):
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006
KEYWORDS: Publication analysis; Quartiles of ISI impact factor;
Journal classification; Impact factor; SJR; Fuzzy
clustering; Multivariate indicator space
KEYWORDS+: FUZZY
ABSTRACT: Here we study the relationship between journal quartile
rankings of ISI impact factor (at the 2010) and journal classification in four impact classes, i.e., highest impact, medium highest impact, medium lowest impact, and lowest impact journals in subject category computer science artificial intelligence. To this aim, we use fuzzy maximum likelihood estimation clustering in order to identify groups of journals sharing similar characteristics in a multivariate indicator space. The seven variables used in this analysis are: (1) Scimago Journal Ranking (SJR); (2) H-Index (H); (3) ISI impact factor (IF); (4) 5-Year Impact Factor (5IF); (5) Immediacy Index (II); (6) Eigenfactor Score (ES); and
(7) Article Influence Score (AIS). The fuzzy clustering allows impact classes to overlap, thereby accommodating for uncertainty related to the confusion about the impact class attribution for a journal and vagueness in impact classes definition. This paper demonstrates the complex relationship between quartiles of ISI impact factor and journal impact classes in the multivariate indicator space. And that several indicators should be used for a distinct analysis of structural changes at the score distribution of journals in a subject category. Here we propose it can be performed in a multivariate indicator space using a fuzzy classifier.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JA Garcia, Univ Granada, Dept Ciencias Computac & IA, CITIC
UGR, E-18071 Granada, Spain
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TITLE: The blockbuster hypothesis: influencing the boundaries of
knowledge (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Brouthers, KD; Mudambi, R; Reeb, DM
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.959-982 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992
KEYWORDS: Knowledge creation; High impact knowledge; Knowledge
gatekeepers; Academic journal quality
KEYWORDS+: PATENT CITATIONS; INNOVATION; SCIENCE; JOURNALS; FIRMS;
PATTERNS; CREATION; NUMBER
ABSTRACT: We argue that the creation of new knowledge is both
difficult and rare. More specifically, we posit that the creation of new knowledge is dominated by a few key insights that challenge the way people think about an idea; generating high interest and use. We label this the blockbuster hypothesis. Using two large samples of published management studies over the period 1998-2007 we find support for the blockbuster hypothesis. We also find that numerous studies in the leading management journals are flops, having little impact on the profession as measured using citation data. Additional tests indicate that journal "quality" is related to the ratio of blockbusters to flops a journal publishes and that journal rankings are a poor proxy for study influence.
Consistent with the notion that editorial boards are able to identify new knowledge, we find that research notes significantly under-perform articles in both the same journal and articles published in lower ranked journals. Taken together, the results imply that only a few scientific studies, out of the thousands published in a given area, change or influence the boundaries of knowledge, with many appearing to have little impact on the frontiers of knowledge. Overall, this analysis indicates that the development of new knowledge is rare even though it appears to be recognizable to knowledge gatekeepers like journal editors.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Mudambi, Temple Univ, Dept Finance, Fox Sch Business,
Alter Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
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TITLE: Mapping the research on aquaculture. A bibliometric
analysis of aquaculture literature (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Natale, F; Fiore, G; Hofherr, J
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.983-999 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974;
KEYWORDS: Aquaculture; Bibliometrics; Computational semantic; Topic
model; Latent semantic analysis; Co-citation analysis
ABSTRACT: Research on aquaculture is expanding along with the
exceptional growth of the sector and has an important role in supporting even further the future developments of this relatively young food production industry. In this paper we examined the aquaculture literature using bibliometrics and computational semantics methods (latent semantic analysis, topic model and co-citation analysis) to identify the main themes and trends in research. We analysed bibliographic information and abstracts of 14,308 scientific articles on aquaculture recorded in Scopus. Both the latent semantic analysis and the topic model indicate that the broad themes of research on aquaculture are related to genetics and reproduction, growth and physiology, farming systems and environment, nutrition, water quality, and health. The topic model gives an estimate of the relevance of these research themes by single articles, authors, research institutions, species and time. With the co-citation analysis it was possible to identify more specific research fronts, which are attracting high number of co-citations by the scientific community. The largest research fronts are related to probiotics, benthic sediments, genomics, integrated aquaculture and water treatment. In terms of temporal evolution, some research fronts such as probiotics, genomics, sea-lice, and environmental impacts from cage aquaculture, are still expanding while others, such as mangroves and shrimp farming, benthic sediments, are gradually losing weight. While bibliometric methods do not necessarily provide a measure of output or impact of research activities, they proved useful for mapping a research area, identifying the relevance of themes in the scientific literature and understanding how research fronts evolve and interact. By using different methodological approaches the study is taking advantage of the strengths of each method in mapping the research on aquaculture and showing in the meantime possible limitations and some directions for further improvements.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Natale, Commiss European Communities, Joint Res Ctr, Inst
Protect & Secur Citizen, Via E Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra,
VA, Italy
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TITLE: The organization of scientific knowledge: the structural
characteristics of keyword networks (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Yi, S; Choi, J
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012. p.1015-1026 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD
KEYWORDS: Organization of knowledge; Keyword network; Small-world
network; Power-law distribution; Hierarchy
KEYWORDS+: PATENT CITATION NETWORK; COMPLEX NETWORKS; MODULARITY;
MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTION; DESIGN
ABSTRACT: The understanding of scientific knowledge itself may
promote further advances in science and research on the organization of knowledge may be an initiative to this effort. This stream of research, however, has been mainly driven by the analysis of citation networks.
This study uses, as an alternative knowledge element, information on the keywords of papers published in business research and examines how they are associated with each other to constitute a body of scientific knowledge. The results show that, unlike most citation networks, keyword networks are not small-word networks but, rather, locally clustered scale- free networks with a hierarchic structure. These structural patterns are robust against the scope of scientific fields involved. In addition, this paper discusses the origins and implications of the identified structural characteristics of keyword networks.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Choi, Sejong Univ, Sch Business, 98 Gunja Dong, Seoul
143747, South Korea
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TITLE: Self-citation: comparison between Radiology, European
Radiology and Radiology for 1997-1998 (vol 87, pg 347, 2011) (Correction,
English)
AUTHOR: Larcombe, AN; Voss, SC
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (3). MAR 2012.
DORDRECHT
AUTHOR ADDRESS: AN Larcombe, Univ Western Australia, Div Clin Sci, Ctr
Child Hlth Res, Telethon Inst Child Hlth Res, POB 855,
Perth, WA 6872, Australia
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TITLE: Knowledge structure in international marketing: a multi-
method bibliometric analysis (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Samiee, S; Chabowski, BR
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE 40 (2). MAR
2012. p.364-386 SPRINGER, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999;
SMITH LC LIBR TRENDS 30:83 1981;
KEYWORDS: International marketing literature; Bibliometrics; Co-
citation analysis; Knowledge structure
KEYWORDS+: BUYER-SELLER RELATIONSHIPS; AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS;
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCH; INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE;
CITATION ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; CONSUMER
ETHNOCENTRISM; EMPIRICAL-EXAMINATION; PRODUCT PURCHASE;
PSYCHIC DISTANCE
ABSTRACT: This study examines the underlying forces that shape the
international marketing (IM) field using three bibliometric methods:
exploratory factor analysis (EFA), hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), and metric multidimensional scaling (MDS). We apply these techniques to evaluate the knowledge structure of IM publications for the 1999-2008 period and to concurrently provide a supplemental examination of the findings for the 2009-2010 period. Overall, our database contains 228,929 citations used in 3,632 IM articles from 34 academic journals in which marketing publications appear. We initially trace the underpinning knowledge structure in the literature in five-year increments for all influential IM publications. We then refine our analysis and examine marketing-centered scholarly influences on the IM literature and undertake an examination of the developments in later years. The results indicate that the IM field is expanding and is considerably more inclusive, sophisticated, and increasingly more complex than in earlier periods. Our findings also demonstrate that other disciplines (principally management) have had a profound influence on the development of the IM literature during the 12-year period under investigation. Using the bibliometric results derived from our data, we provide guidelines for future research and contrast them with those forwarded in review studies of the international marketing literature.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Samiee, Univ Tulsa, Collins Coll Business, 800 S Tucker
Dr, Tulsa, OK 74104 USA
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TITLE: Citation Classic: Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Breathing
Not Properly: The Merger of 2 BNPs (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Maisel, A
SOURCE: CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 58 (2). FEB 2012. p.469-470 AMER
ASSOC CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, WASHINGTON
KEYWORDS+: HEART-FAILURE; DIAGNOSIS
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Maisel, Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Med, 3350 La Jolla
Village Dr,Cardiol 111 A, San Diego, CA 92161 USA
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TITLE: Core/periphery scientific collaboration networks among
very similar researchers (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Rubi-Barcelo, A
SOURCE: THEORY AND DECISION 72 (4). APR 2012. p.463-483
SPRINGER, DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth
KEYWORDS: Network formation game; Scientific collaboration networks;
Inequality; Hierarchy
KEYWORDS+: SOCIAL NETWORKS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; MODEL; ECONOMICS
ABSTRACT: Empirical studies such as Goyal et al. (J Polit Econ
114(2):403-412, 2006) or Newman (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101(Suppl.
1):5200-5205, 2004) show that scientific collaboration networks present a highly unequal and hierarchical distribution of links. This implies that some researchers can be much more active and productive than others and, consequently, they can enjoy a much better scientific reputation. One may think that big intrinsical differences among researchers can constitute the main driving force behind these inequalities. Nevertheless, this model shows that, under specific circumstances, very similar individuals may self-organize themselves forming unequal and hierarchical structures.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Rubi-Barcelo, Univ Illes Balears, Cra Valldemossa Km 7-5,
Palma De Mallorca 07122, Spai
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TITLE: The journals of higher impact on accounting research in
Brazil and USA. A comparative analysis based on doctoral theses citations
(Article, Portuguese)
AUTHOR: Neto, ORD; Cardoso, RL; Oyadomari, JCT
SOURCE: PERSPECTIVAS EM CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO 16 (3). JUL-SEP
2011. p.93-115 ESCOLA CIENCIA INFORM UFMG, BELO
HORIZONTE MG
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
KEYWORDS: Accounting research; Journal ranking; Citation analysis
ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this paper is the construction of a
ranking of the English language journals that most influences formation of the accounting thought in Brazil, based on citations in doctoral theses. The paper has a descriptive characteristic; an archival procedure and quantitative approach has been adopted. In the construction of this journal ranking, we have used the methodology of Chan and others (2009) based on citations analysis to facilitate a comparative analysis with their study which was the American case. The data base used was the doctoral theses on accounting from the Faculty of Economy, Business and Accounting of Sao Paulo University defended between 1996 and 2009. The results are in accordance with those of Chan and others (2009), and also provide evidence that rankings of top journals vary by specialty area and research method. In the Brazilian case, the top journals cited are Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, The Accounting Review, The Journal of Finance, Accounting, Organizations and Society.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: ORD Neto, Univ Presbiteriana Mackenzie CCSA, Nucleo
Pesquisas Controladoria, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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