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Profile in Public Integrity: Adam Graycar
Full text linkAdam Graycar is Professor of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU), where he is also Director of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption. He joined ANU in 2010 when he became the Foundation Dean of the Australian National Institute for Public Policy for two years. He recently stepped down after four years as Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU.
Graycar acquired extensive policy experience over 22 years in the senior posts he held in Australian government at state and federal levels. He has had long experience in both academia and in government. His most recent government position was Head of the Cabinet Office of the Government of South Australia.
Previously, Graycar was Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His latest book “Understanding and Preventing Corruption,” coauthored with Tim Prenzler, was published in 2013
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
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
How Australians Live: Social Policy in Theory and Practice
No full textThe new edition of this title brings the examination of the theory and practice of the welfare state in Australia up to date with documentation of changes since the first edition in 1989.Adam Graycar and Adam Jamrozi
Policy design for an ageing population
Full text linkPublished online: 29 Mar 2018.This article describes how a state government in Australia designed and implemented policy for an ageing population. In 1984, the parliament of South Australia passed legislation which aimed to lay a foundation for the successful ageing of the population. Three components are examined here, the legislation, policy design, and practice. Although the legislation was passed more than 30 years ago, there are lessons and implications for today. The author was appointed Commissioner in 1985 and had responsibility for the policy design and implementation.Adam Grayca
Australian Institute of Criminology in an era of change
Full text linkA report prepared by Adam Graycar, Director, Australian Institute of Criminology, 1996. Made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Describes the core business of the Australian Institute of Criminology
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