The Impact Factor Fallacy

Citations: Indicators of Quality? The Impact Fallacy

We argue that citation is a composed indicator: short-term citations can be considered as currency at the research front, whereas long-term citations can contribute to the codification of knowledge claims into concept symbols. Knowledge claims at the research front are more likely to be transitory and are therefore problematic as indicators of quality. Citation impact studies focus on short-ter...

factor influencing the adoption of internet banking

دوره مشترک کارشناسی ارشد بازاریابی و تجارت الکترونیک دانشگاه تربیت مدرس_ دانشگاه تکنولوژی lule? چکیده پایان نامه عوامل موثر بر پذیرش اینترنت بانک توسط مشتریان پیشرفت فناوری اطلاعات و ارتباطات و به طور خاص رشد اینترنت جهت تراکنش های معاملات بازرگانی، تاثیر بسیار عمیقی در صنعت بانکداری داشته است.این در حالی ست که نفوذ بانکداری اینترنتی در کشورهای در حال توسعه بسیار کندتر از نفوذ آن ...

The “banzhaf Fallacy” Fallacy

the impact of morphological awareness on the vocabulary development of the iranian efl students

this study investigated the impact of explicit instruction of morphemic analysis and synthesis on the vocabulary development of the students. the participants were 90 junior high school students divided into two experimental groups and one control group. morphological awareness techniques (analysis/synthesis) and conventional techniques were used to teach vocabulary in the experimental groups a...

The Risk-return Fallacy

We assume that in the world of business, higher risks are only taken when rewarded with higher expected returns. This supposition has been confirmed empirically using capital market data. However, accounting measures have yielded puzzling results: using the mean and variance of ROE as measures of return and risk, respectively, Bowman (1980) and other researchers find a negative relationship bet...