Prolific Publisher Research Articles

Boundary Spanning in a For-Profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe

In innovative industries, private-sector companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries. In a quantitative case study of one firm in the biopharmaceutical sector, we explore the consequences of scientific publication - an instance of public disclosure - for a core set of activities within the firm. Specifically, we link publications to human capital management practices, showing that scientists’ bonuses and the allocation of managerial attention are tied to individuals’ publications. Using a unique electronic mail dataset, we find that researchers within the firm who author publications are much better connected to external (to the company) members of the scientific community. This result directly links publishing to current understandings of absorptive capacity. In an unanticipated finding, however, our analysis raises the possibility that the company’s most prolific publishers begin to migrate to the periphery of the intra-firm social network, which may occur because these individuals’ strong external relationships induce them to reorient their focus to a community of scientists beyond the firm’s boundary.

French voices recovered

So much French vocal music of the late 17th century has appeared difficult of assessment by musicians, and has not always been considered by musicologists, simply because it survives only in partbooks rather than in score. This particularly applies to the music of Henry Du Mont, arguably the finest and certainly one of the most influential of French court composers in the early years of Louis XIV. Some of Du Mont's collections (and he was, by the standards of the time, quite a prolific publisher) have long been available in facsimile, such as his most mature collection and the last to appear in his lifetime, the Motets à II, III et IV parties of 1681 (Peer: Alamire, 1989). These works have now been scored and edited by the French scholar, Laurence Decobert, already responsible for the tour-de-force of assembling into score all 16 partbooks of 20 of Du Mont's grands motets originally published posthumously in 1686. Thus, we now have for the first time the possibility (aside from consulting a manuscript in the British Library in the hand of John Blow) of studying from score these works which achieved such a wide distribution in their day, not least in England.

Cultivating Regenerative Medicine Innovation in China

While China has become a significant contributor and prolific publisher in regenerative medicine, its role in the field is not well understood. We analyze how capacity in regenerative medicine was built in China to identify some of its main strengths and challenges. This case study of regenerative medicine in China is primarily based on interviews with experts in China, including researchers, policy makers, clinicians, representatives of firms and regulators. Our analysis shows that diverse groups are active in this field in China. Leading research groups are contributing extensively to international peer-reviewed journals. Strong governmental support and recruitment of highly trained Chinese scientists from abroad has made it possible for China to rapidly build up capacity in regenerative medicine. However, some hospitals in China are offering stem cell therapies with limited scientific evidence supporting their efficacy/safety, and international skepticism of medical research in China presents a challenge to the development of the field. China has been able to catapult itself into the forefront of regenerative medicine but needs to address current regulatory challenges in order to secure its position in this emerging field.

Current Bengali Book Reviews:A Study of Comprehensiveness, Currency and Publishers' Participation

Book Review is an excellent tool both for publicity and collection development. In a country like India, where the regional language publishing is much significant, the local book review media plays an imperative role in this respect. This article reports the results of a quantitative study of the contents of reviews of Bengali titles appeared during the initial five and half years in the new millennium. Four Bengali newspapers with weekly book review pages, one reputed literary magazine in Bengali and a group of twenty little magazines of literary importance have been chosen for study. Reflections of titles and participation of publishers in local book review media in terms of the comprehensiveness and currency of review, identification of marginalized and prolific titles and publishers in terms of single and multiple appearances including the patterns of reflections of subjects and price of the reviewed titles are covered in this study. The study reveals that the local book review media is lacking in the comprehensiveness and currency factors. Prolific appearances of titles and publishers in more than one source of review simultaneously are not usual phenomena in local book review media.

Laurence Steven Moss, 1944–2009

AbstractLarry Moss lived a busy life as an academic, a professor, an attorney, a journal editor, and a skilled magician. He was a prolific publisher of scholarly articles and books, and an editor of scholarly volumes. With friendly charm and humor, he sought to encourage others in their scholarly pursuits. He employed his magical skills to enliven his courses and to illustrate certain economic phenomena. Larry served the History of Economics Society in important capacities, including its presidency. He sought “methodological tolerance” and interacted with scholars of different philosophical persuasions. He organized memorials for numerous other economists; it thus is fitting that we do so here for him.

PRIVATE PUBLISHING IN THENAHḌA

Khalil Sarkis (1842–1915) was an eminent figure in late Ottoman Beirut and an important contributor to thenahḍa, the Arab literary-cultural “awakening” that began in the latter part of the 19th century. Less known to Western scholarship than Butrus al-Bustani, Faris al-Shidyaq, or Jurji Zaydan, he is not usually regarded as a pillar of that awakening. He may not have been, but he certainly was an indispensable brick in its edifice. Born in 1842, when the most exciting changes were still in the future, Sarkis spent all his life in the service of his country's cultural betterment. He is mostly remembered for his newspaper,Lisan al-Hal, which was launched in 1877 and for many decades was one of the most credible Arabic organs. More than a journalist, however, Sarkis was a pioneering printer, a prolific publisher, and the author of nine books. In the last quarter of the 19th century he built one of Beirut's largest printing businesses, which turned out several journals, hundreds of books, and numerous publications. In the 19th-century Middle East, being a printer often meant being a publisher; Khalil Sarkis was both on a grand scale.

“A Terrible Ordeal from Every Point of View”: (Not) Managing Female Sexuality on the Wedding Night

To j u d g e b y p u b l i s h e r s ’ l i s t s from the first decade of the twentieth century, self-appointed doctors of sexual pathology must have abounded in France at the time. Or if, as one suspects, they were in fact few in number, they managed remarkably well to “multiply themselves,” as the French would say, being both active and increasingly numerous. Not only were they prolific publishers, but they also used noms de plume (often simply identifying themselves as a docteur without a full name) and borrowed liberally from each other’s texts. Moreover, the milieu in which they published produced its own effect of multiplication, as medical texts were offered for sale alongside fictional stories of passionate eroticism, prurient studies of exotic or ancient cultures, and flagellation pornography. So even as these compendia worked to establish a newly orthodox understanding of such made-to-order medical topics as syphilis, impotence, and abortion, they were laying equal claim on behalf of sexual medicine to topics like hysteria, hypnotism, and morphinomania. Their activity and the place in which they conducted it effectively defined the range of the sexual, and that range was vast. One topic regularly included within the scope of sexual knowledge was marriage. The fifth volume of the bibliotheque sexuelle du Docteur Desormeaux (Dr. Desormeaux’s Sexual Library) is entitled Le mariage (Marriage), and the twentieth volume of Dr. Caufeynon’s bibliotheque populaire des connaissances medicales (Popular Library of Medical Knowledge), Le mariage et son hygiene (Marriage and Its Hygiene). Attention often focused in these texts on the quality of amorous relations between husband and wife: Dr. Desormeaux added a separate volume to his library entitled L’amour

A Conversation with Clem Tisdell

This is an interview with one of Australia’s most prolific publishers in the economics discipline. Clem Tisdell can be regarded as a pioneer of ecological, natural resource and environmental economics. The conversation takes us through the variety of his interests over the years, which he usefully categorises into six interrelated strands of research. We chart his career from humble beginnings through appointments at the Australian National University, the University of Newcastle and finally the University of Queensland.

Charlotte Lees Evans, 1841-1882

Charlotte Evans is among the earliest of New Zealand’s romantic novelists and a writer of popular romantic melodrama belonging to the ‘Pioneer Period’ of 1861–1889 in what is termed the ‘sensation’ genre (Jones 120). Evans was born in Lancashire, England on 21 September 1841 and died in New Zealand on 22 July 1882 at the age of 40 years. Evans’ full collection of published works included three novels, of which the first, a story entitled Guy Eversley was serialised in the North Otago Times and Waitaki Reporter in 1865-66. This publication was then followed in 1874 by the two novels: Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand and A Strange Friendship: A Story of New Zealand. Evans also produced three short stories: A Narrow Escape, Only a Woman’s Hair and Our Nearest Neighbour that were published posthumously in 1900 and 1903 by a London publication called The Family Herald. A selection of her poetry, also collected posthumously, were to be eventually published by her husband Eyre Evans in 1917. It is largely unknown, however, as to what extent Evans’ novels were read, either in New Zealand or overseas. Copies of the first editions of her published works are now held in the National Library of New Zealand and Oamaru Public Library collections, along with a miscellaneous collection of prose and poetry entitled ‘Fragments of Poetry and Prose’ (ATLMS-Papers-4426). Evans’ two major works, the novels Over the Hills and Far Away and A Strange Friendship were both published in 1874, in hardback, by the international London-based firm Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle. Sampson Low was one of the nineteenth-century’s more prolific publishers of popular fiction that contributed significantly to the transnational world of Empire readership to which Evans belonged. Other writers published by Sampson Low included her contemporaries the American popular authors Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott and the well-known British sensation writer Wilkie Collins. As versions of sensation narrative Evans’ novels are recognised in The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature as being ‘tightly plotted’, incorporating recognisable ‘sensation’ features: i.e. ‘crimes and secret past that helped separate hero and heroine’ involving ‘violations of Victorian sexual mores’ (adultery bigamy, and illegitimacy) (Jones 125)). The elements recognised in sensation writing also featured an ‘emphasis on the unravelling of a mystery that often turned on ‘substitution and false identity)’ (125). This also involved detective work and a ‘documentary’ method of telling the story’, including ‘partial perspectives of letters’ (125). Prior to the full denouement of

American pestalozzianism in Greek mathematical education 1830–1836

The American missionaries, who came to the newly established Greece around 1830, developed a prolific educational and publishing activity. Within this context, they translated and disseminated six schoolbooks of elementary arithmetic, imbued by the pedagogical ideas of Pestalozzi. This venture was far from random, but echoed the progressive current of pestalozzianism, which prevailed in North America in the 1820s, and which they wished to embed into the then existing Greek mathematical culture. However, due to its incompatibility with the Greek religious tradition, the project of the missionaries largely failed.

Making Austen Mad: Benjamin Crosby and the Non-Publication of Susan

In 1803, Jane Austen sold the copyright of Susan, a work that would later appear as Northanger Abbey, to the London firm Crosby and Co. The novel was never published by Crosby, leading to a brief but acrimonious exchange between author and publisher in 1809. Although this episode has been mentioned frequently by Austen scholars, little attention has been paid to Crosby and Co., resulting in a number of mistaken assumptions about both the firm itself and its reasons for not publishing Susan. Commentators have argued that Crosby and Co. was not particularly significant for its publication of fiction; however, it was actually the fourth most prolific publisher of novels during the 1800s, suggesting a reason for Austen's approach. Additionally, the general reason given for Crosby's not publishing Austen's Gothic satire is the firm's commitment to Gothic: in fact, the non-publication was owing to economic factors rather than generic concerns. Finally, Austen mysteriously left 6 years before contacting the firm, although it would seem that this is explicable by her problematical personal circumstances during the 1800s.

The winnowing away of behavioral accounting research in the US: The process for anointing academic elites

This paper reports the results of a study of the most prolific publishers in the four recognized most prestigious journals in accounting for the period 1963 through 1999. The focus is on learning whether the widespread perception that behavioral accounting research (BAR) has diminished in significance as a prominent paradigm in the US accounting academy has any validity and to identify whether a new generation of US BAR researchers is emerging to join the academic elite. Based on the characteristics of persons who have appeared as authors five or more times during the study period, it seems that BAR is in recession in shaping the US academic agenda in accounting. The power of successful individuals to shape the academic agenda as evidenced by service on editorial boards of prominent journals is dominated by those individuals who are graduates of a set of elite schools utilizing a neoclassical economics based research paradigm. The power of this group seems to be growing in the US. In spite of the interest in BAR among accounting doctoral students and faculty, it is not a pursuit that now leads to academic status, which, in turn, diminishes its potential contribution towards the shaping of the accounting academic agenda.

Thirty Years of Published Research in the Australian Journal of Management

This study reviews 30 years of scholarly research published in the Australian Journal of Management (AJM) over the period 1976–2005. The study examines the productivity, influence, and contribution of management research in Australia. In the past three decades, AJM has published 406 research articles from 458 different authors and co-authors. Over the past 30 years, the four most prolific publishers were Philip Brown (11 papers), Philip Yetton (9), Ray Ball (8) and Terry Walter (8). In the last decade alone, Robert Faff and Raymond da Silva Rosa have published the greatest number of AJM articles (6). The Journal has been most supported over the past three decades by authors from AGSM, UNSW, UWA, UQ, Monash, Melbourne, ANU and Sydney. The top six institutions contributed more than half of all AJM publications. The AJM has also experienced increasing contributions from finance articles in recent years, accounting for 51% of total published articles in AJM. Opportunities and challenges remain ahead for the AJM, particularly when one considers the decision by The University of Chicago's Journal of Business to cease future publications beyond 2006, citing the establishment of specialist journals.

The long road to publishing: A user-friendly exposé

The popular axiom which suggests that there are two certainties in life (namely, taxes and death) should be extended to include a third dimension for aspiring academics, that is publish or perish. The scholarly activity of academic enquiry and publishing the results of these endeavours is an inescapable pre-requisite for a successful academic career. While some academics are prolific publishers, others are not. For those who find publishing a convoluted soul-destroying experience, this paper provides an exposé of the publication process from an author's perspective. It illustrates that the refinement of academic papers for publication is a collaborative effort between authors, editors and referees. Further, it shows that, for authors, there is no substitute for focus, perseverance and hard work. Copies of the letters tabled in this discussion are intended to serve as a useful framework for those who feel alienated by the academic review process.

Specific epithets of the flowering plants of central French Guiana

The epithets of the flowering plants of central French Guiana are classified into derivation categories. Specific epithets of the flowering plants of central French Guiana refer mostly to shapes (274 species), persons (252), places (212), appearance (146), and size (140). These categories account for 55% of names given to the plants of this flora. The most prolific publishers of names for the flora of central French Guiana are Aublet and Linnaeus, who were respectively the authors of 177 and 110 of the names of species (15% of the total) found in the flora of central French Guiana. Although many of the species names, such as those relating to place and person, are easy to categorize, many others are open to different interpretations. Specific epithets with different orthographies derived from Guiana or Guyana are discussed. In addition, problems in the use of diacritical marks and inconsistencies with spacing between the abbreviations of given names and surnames of authors of plant names are noted.

Nancy Cunard's English Journey

This essay analyses Nancy Cunard's contribution to the struggle for racial justice in England and her work with the black communities in Liverpool and London (whose histories and experiences differ radically from their counterparts in the United States) in the 1940s. It chronicles for the first time her campaign to safeguard the African collections in the Liverpool Museum and her specific contribution to the archive of black British history. This includes not only the monumental the Negro Anthology (1934) but also the tract, The White Man's Duty (1943) arguing for an end to British imperialism and for race relations legislation. Cunard is situated within a history of the Communist left in Britain and the United States. Her insistence on the primacy of race differentiates her from other white left activists in her day for whom issues of gender and race were or secondary importance compared to those of class (Cunard, 1944). Using unpublished archive material from the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas I show that Cunard's work constitutes one segment in the rich and varied mosaic of black cultural activity in the 1930s and 1940s and discuss how Cunard knew and worked alongside some of the key figures in the black British politics of her day including Una Marson, Learie Constantine, John Carter, Harold Moody, Rudolph Dunbar and Paul Robeson. A prolific writer, publisher and political activist, Cunard presented a white readership with documentation which prompted them to question their own prejudice and rendered problematic the imaging of black people as fixed embodiments of a Eurocentric sense of reality. Cunard's work in the 1930s and 1940s predates the sailing of the Empire Windrush and the accelerated immigration to Britain from the Commonwealth after the Nationality Act of 1948. It adds to our knowledge of earlier black history, narratives, settlements, and anti-racist struggles.

Jacques Pierre Friederich Sellschop

Jacques Pierre Friederich Sellschop

An Evaluation of Research Productivity in Academic IT

Scholarly research continues to be a significant component of a faculty member’s portfolio. The evaluation of the quality and quantity of that research is becoming increasingly important for tenure and promotion decisions and post-tenure reviews. Using surveys, several recent articles attempted to rank or group IT journals by quality perceptions. This study extends these previous studies by considering the quantity dimension of scholarly research by investigating the number of publications that appear in a set of top-tier IT journals by both individual author and institution. Data is presented on the most prolific publishers and the most productive IS departments in publishing in these premier journals. 1223 authors from 389 different universities were published with an average of 1.41 authors per IS article. Only three non-U.S. universities (National University of Singapore, Queen's University, and University of British Columbia) are in the top 24 publishing universities. 73% of researchers who published in these premier journals publish less than one adjusted count article in a top-tier journal in 5 years using the adjusted count. Only 49 authors had their names on 5 or more top-tier IS articles in 5 years leading to the conclusion that achieving tenure

Modeling electromagnetic propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide

The ionosphere plays a role in radio propagation that varies strongly with frequency. At extremely low frequency (ELF: 3-3000 Hz) and very low frequency (VLF: 3-30 kHz), the ground and the ionosphere are good electrical conductors and form a spherical Earth-ionosphere waveguide. Many giants of the electromagnetics (EMs) community studied ELF-VLF propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide, a topic which was critically important for long-range communication and navigation systems. James R. Wait was undoubtedly the most prolific publisher in this field, starting in the 1950s and continuing well into the 1990s. Although it is an old problem, there are new scientific and practical applications that rely on accurate modeling of ELF-VLF propagation, including ionospheric remote sensing, lightning remote sensing, global climate monitoring, and even earthquake precursor detection. The theory of ELF-VLP propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide is mature, but there remain many ways of actually performing propagation calculations. Most techniques are based on waveguide mode theory with either numerical or approximate analytical formulations, but direct finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modeling is now also feasible. Furthermore, in either mode theory or FDTD, the ionospheric upper boundary can be treated with varying degrees of approximation. While these approximations are understood in a qualitative sense, it is difficult to assess in advance their applicability to a given propagation problem. With a series of mode theory and FDTD simulations of propagation from lightning radiation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide, we investigate the accuracy of these approximations. We also show that fields from post-discharge ionospheric currents and from evanescent modes become important at lower ELF (/spl lsim/500 Hz) over short distances (/spl lsim/500 km). These fields are not easily modeled with mode theory, but are inherent in the FDTD formulation of the problem. In this way, the FDTD solution bridges the gap between analytical solutions for fields close to and far from the source.

Review Article: Lewis Fry Richardson and the Study of the Causes of War

Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953) was one of the most original thinkers ever to apply their minds to the study of war and its causes. In a strict sense he was an amateur in that he held no position of profit dedicated to the pursuit of these researches. He was always employed to do something else and did the research at week-ends and in his retirement. He never taught in the field or anything close to it. Nevertheless he was a prolific publisher on a very wide range of topics, as the two volumes of his collected papers published by Cambridge University Press testify, though his work rarely reached the international relations or political science community at the time. It was after his death that his work had its impact.