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Comparison of several author indices for gauging academic productivity
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Many author indices exist to gauge academic productivity. Several of these indices are calculated based upon an author's scholarly publication record, but the measurement methodology to calculate each index varies considerably, and the precise function being used, as well as the end result, is often complex and difficult to assess.
Method
Two straightforward methods to weigh author productivity from the publication and citation record were evaluated as possible means for providing a clearer assessment of scholarly activity. The author characteristic index (termed c-index) assigns author rank for each publication based upon author position. The characteristic prime (c') -index normalizes author rank from author position, so that the total weight per publication is unity. The top 10 scholars with keyword 'celiac disease' in the Google Scholar database were then assessed using these metrics. Rankings according to total number of publications, h-index, and c- and c'-indices were compared, then tabulated along with total papers included for assessment, and mean values per paper for author position, number of authors, citations, and year of publication.
Results
The order of the top ten authors with keyword 'celiac disease' varied substantially depending upon whether the h-index, c-index, or c'-index was used as a gauge. The characteristic indices assign credit to authors according to their position in an author list. The affiliated metrics provided a more complete picture of scholarly activity.
Conclusions
Academic achievement by scholars, based upon quantitative publication characteristics, has recently become of interest for evaluating job candidates, for determining work performance, and for bestowing awards and honors. The characteristic indices as described herein are readily calculated and interpreted, and may improve the assessment of scholarly activity
Towards carceral protectionist territories: Relational geographies of anti-trafficking confinement in Nepal
Get PDFThe article draws on labour and migration bans in Nepal as a case study to advance nascent, yet growing attention towards trafficking borders in critical geographical research on anti-trafficking. It does so by highlighting a relational geography of carceral protectionist spaces which are encountered, navigated, and sometimes escaped by women citizens on the move who are pre-emptively rescued/‘saved’ from the possibility of being ‘trafficked.’ Specifically, we aim to extend these critical interventions on carceral protectionism in two interconnected ways. First, whilst extant research mainly focuses on institutions and actors within migrant destination states, we examine the operations of carceral protectionist spaces within the home countries of migrant women. Second, we tease out the ways carceral protectionist spaces can actively produce the very subjects they seek to deter or eradicate as they navigate and challenge these institutional spaces. Through the discussion, we develop threads of the conceptualisation of a carceral protectionist territory to indicate the multiple and diffuse, yet interconnected, sites through which women’s mobility aspirations are constrained by anti-trafficking infrastructures.The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article
Contested geographies of trafficking borders
Get PDFThis article introduces a special issue on Contested Geographies of Trafficking Borders. This collection broadens the understanding of trafficking borders by examining their materialisation, impacts, and contestation across different spaces and times. Expanding this notion of Trafficking Borders, the articles in this issue explore key questions: Where are trafficking borders found, and how do they manifest? Who creates these borders, and what are their motivations? How do those targeted by trafficking discourse resist them? How can researchers effectively study trafficking borders? Together, these contributions establish a critical agenda for contesting the geographies of trafficking borders.The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article
Archaeological Investigation Into Microlithic Assemblage of Bhorgiri - Bhimashankar Region of the Upper Bhima Basin in Pune District of Maharashtra State (Human and Heritage: An Archaeological Spectrum of Asiatic Countries, Felicitation to Professor Ajit Kumar, Vol. II, 2019)
No full textMicrolithic industries are found distributed all over the globe that date to period from the late Palaeolithic until the development of farming communities. And it seems that microlithic technology was a core component in the adaptations of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer populations to their changing environments as temperatures increased and sea levels rose at the end of the Ice Age. It is not perhaps surprising, therefore, that microliths are generally interpreted as elements of hunting equipment.
These microlithic industries are very well represented in the Bhīma stream too. The present paper is a part summary of the archaeological investigations carried out by the author in June 2019 in the Upper Bhīma basin, a tributary of Krishna river system in the Bhimashankar upland. A total of six sites have been discovered so far viz. Bhorgiri, Yelwali, Bhivegaon, Tokavade, Shirgaon & Dhuoli . Almost all the sites are located on the cliff surface at both the banks of the river and its sub-streams, and are found to be associated with the upper most brownish-yellowish coloured sandy deposit. Out of these six sites, two sites i.e. Bhorgiri and Yelwali which are near to the origin of the river, has been taken into typo-technological analysis because of its rich cultural antiquities. The tools collected from these sites were thoroughly studied in order to understand the archaeological potentialities of the area. Occurrences of these material remains show that the Bhorgiri-Yelwali was a favourable area for prehistoric settlement. Also pointing towards emergence of farming communities in the said area under research
Gandhi and Student Politics.docx
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This article focuses on the question of student politics in contemporary India using the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh around the concept of student and student politics. Generally, the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi are read in contrast with the ideas of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, but student politics is one such area where we witness a kind of similarity between both personalities therefore this article is an attempt to explore this. While reflecting on the subject undertaken, this article also attempts to problematize the nature of student politics in current India. </p
A Complete Replica of Contemporary Indian Society in the Fictional Works of Chetan Bhagat: A Detailed Literary Analysis of his Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center and The Three Mistake of My
Get PDFhetan Bhagat is one of the most influential fiction writers of contemporary Indian English literature. Postmodern subjects like youth aspirations, love, sex, marriage, urban middle class sensibilities, and issues related to corruption, politics, education and their impact on the contemporary Indian society are recurrently reflected thematic concerns in his fictions. In all his fictions, he has mostly depicted the contemporary urban social milieu of Indian society. Though the fictions of Chetan Bhagat are romantic in nature, contemporary Indian society and its major issues are the chief of the concerns of all his fictions. He has focused on the contemporary issues of middle class family in his fictional works. All of the chief protagonists of his works are sensitive youth and they do not compromise with the prevalent situations of society. Most of the characters are like caricatures that represent one or the other vice or virtue of the contemporary Indian society. The author has a mastery to convince the reader about the prevalent condition of society so that one can easily reproduce in mind, a clear cut image of contemporary Indian society. The present article is a sincere endeavor to present the detailed literary analysis of the select fictions of Chetan Bhagat keeping in mind how the contemporary Indian society has been replicated in the fictions
Masking and Labeling Problems in Social Network Data Management
No full textOnline social networks (OSN) contain data about persons or objects including private information and user generated labels. We study two problems on managing OSN data. Data is often shared with trusted parties. Still, data has to be adapted so that it does not trivially reveal identities of the users and their interactions. We formulate this problem of “masking ” data by deliberately introducing uncertainty and trading it off with the utility of data for useful analyses. We present methods for masking static and dynamic OSN data and show high accuracy in experiments for answering a variety of queries over the masked data. User-generated labels have many uncertainties due to missing values, synonyms, and so on. The problem of Label Set Enhancing captures the task of reducing these uncertainties, by inferring missing values, replacing labels for larger concept labels and so on. We present first known, efficient, iterative solutions to this problem where the labels form a hierarchy. Our evaluations show significant benefits in using a hierarchy for reducing uncertainty in label sets in OSN data
The Five-Point Indian: Caste, Masculinity, and English Language in the Paratexts of Chetan Bhagat
No full text This article examines the literary celebrity of Indian author Chetan Bhagat and his paratextual articulations in India’s English-language media. It seeks to deconstruct the role of these paratexts in occluding how upper-caste masculinity operates as the normative script in mainstream media discourse. Critically examining Bhagat’s utterances in English-language television news, print newspapers, and social media, I argue that the paratexts enable his authorial persona to be continually constructed in ways that consolidate his caste-patriarchal authority. In the process, these paratexts valorize neoliberal entrepreneurship and narratives of ascent, rendering existing caste hegemonies in India invisible. Bhagat’s use of English also reflects the complex politics of the English language in colonial history, where upper-caste men in service of the empire utilized the linguistic hegemony of English to consolidate their patriarchal and caste dominance. However, I suggest that pockets of awareness operate among Bhagat’s readers and audiences, where subaltern groups have strategically negotiated using this upper-caste masculinized English to forge their own social mobility and empowerment. Bhagat’s performance of celebrity has to thus be seen as being enacted within a complex English-speaking milieu, which is rife with caste and gender power struggles. </jats:p
Devenir écrivain lorsqu'on est ingénieur. Autour du cas de Chetan Bhagat dans la littérature indienne contemporaine de langue anglaise
No full textInternational audienceIn the first decade of the 21st century, in the course of a few years, a handful of engineering graduates from the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, published debut novels, all of which were about being students, boys and girls in the school. The author who initiated the genre I call "engineering novel" is Chetan Bhagat. Through his commercial success and the reputation he has acquired, this singular author has become a positive model of identification for many students, or a negative model of rejection for writers who define themselves by their literary vocation. In this article, I question the ways in which becoming a writer is a part of being an engineer, a tipping point where these people are confronted with a dual professional identity. What relationship do these new writers have with writing and the idea of a literary project? In conclusion, I show that the development of new digital publishing technologies blurs, in the case of contemporary India, a distinction that can be dated and situated between artistic vocation and commercial success.Dans la première décennie du XXIe siècle, en l’espace de quelques années,une poignée d’ingénieurs diplômés de l’école d’élite, l’Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)de Delhi, publient des premiers romans qui portent tous sur la condition d’étudiants,garçons et filles, dans cette école. L’auteur qui a initié le genre que je nomme « romand’ingénieur » est Chetan Bhagat. Par son succès commercial et la réputation qu’il a acquise, cet auteur singulier est devenu un modèle positif d’identification pour nombre d’étudiants, ou un modèle négatif de rejet pour des écrivains qui se définissent par leur vocation littéraire. Dans cet article, j’interroge les manières de devenir écrivain lorsqu’on est ingénieur, ce moment de basculement ou ces personnes sont confrontées à une double identité professionnelle. Quelles relations ces nouveaux écrivains entretiennent-ils avec l’écriture et l’idée de projet littéraire ? En conclusion, je montre que le développement des nouvelles technologies de l’édition numérique vient brouiller, dans le cas de l’Inde contemporaine, une distinction peut être datée et située entre vocation artistique et succès commercial
Discovering Scientific Workflows: The myExperiment Benchmarks
No full textAutomation in science is increasingly marked by the use of workflow technology. The sharing of workflows through publication mechanisms or repositories supports the verifiability, reproducibility and extensibility of computational experiments. However, the subsequent discovery of workflows remains a challenge, both from a technological and sociological viewpoint. We investigate current practices in workflow sharing, re-use and discovery amongst life scientists chiefly using the Taverna workflow management system. The study draws on two key sources: (i) a survey of researchers drawn from 19 research labs and (ii) an analysis of scientists’ behaviour on the myExperiment social network site, designed to encourage workflow exchange. The results reveal a multi-modal approach to workflow discovery, based on a mix of search on the content of the workflow and its situated context. We go on to develop a benchmark specifically for the evaluation of workflow discovery and to demonstrate it on two example approaches
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