Top LRA Items for November 2011
Posted by gazjjohnson on 5 December, 2011
Here are the most accessed items on the LRA in November 2011
- Financial Development, Economic Growth and Stock Market Volatility: Evidence from Nigeria and South Africa Ndako, Umar Bida
- High Performance Work Practices: Work Intensification or ‘Win-win’? Sparham, Eimer et al
- The propagation of VHF and UHF radio waves over sea paths Sim, Chow Yen Desmond
- Social inclusion, the museum and the dynamics of sectoral change Sandell, Richard
- Facebook, social integration and informal learning at university: ‘It is more for socialising and talking to friends about work than for actually doing work’ Madge, Clare et al
- Ethics and Plagiarism – helping undergraduates write right Willmott, Christopher J.R. et al
- Introducing undergraduate students to scientific reports Willmott, Christopher J.R. et al
- The List of Threatening Experiences: a subset of 12 life event categories with considerable long-term contextual threat Brugha, Traolach S. et al
- Measuring the efficiency of European airlines: an application of DEA and Tobit Analysis Fethi, Meryem Duygun et al
- Optimal Number of Response Categories in Rating Scales: Reliability, Validity, Discriminating Power, and Respondent Preferences Preston, Carolyn C. et al
An interesting split with the top half of the table being mainstays from recent months, but with the lower half all being new materials. Notably the articles by Chris Willmott (et al) had been actively marketed by the academic this month, with links back to the LRA as the primary access route. Notably, fewer theses than in recent months are also seen in the table.
Don’t forget you can follow all the new additions to the LRA on twitter – UoLLRA.
AJCann (@AJCann) said
It would be interesting to see some statistical analysis of month to month variation in these figures. How significant are the ups and downs?
gazjjohnson said
Would that I had the time to do something more detailed than this broadbrush approach! What we do tend to see overall is a gradual tracking up and down of some papers in the top 10, with some remaining at comparable levels for months, and others appearing as brief novas never to be seen again (at least at the top of the table). As we develop the return of stats in 2012 I hope to be able to present something a bit more detailed then. Likewise come Jan 2010 I’ll be doing the third annual review of all papers usage.
AJCann (@AJCann) said
The open data movement would say publish the data and the analysis will be done for you