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MigraMed HCP
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Utrikes födda på arbetsmarknaden i Sverige [Elektronisk resurs] : en forskningsöversikt
No full textDenna forskningsöversikt har tagits fram på uppdrag av Försäkringskassan, för att stödja myndigheten i att utveckla sitt samarbete med andra aktörer i arbetet med att stödja utrikes föddas integration på arbetsmarknaden, och i och med ett ökat arbetsmarknadsdeltagande minska risken för sjukskrivning för gruppen. Syftet med rapporten är att sammanställa tillgänglig internationellt publicerad forskning om utrikes föddas förutsättningar på svensk arbetsmarknad, samt studier av utrikes föddas hälsa och användande av välfärdssystemet i relation till arbetsmarknaden.Rapporten har skrivits av Andrey Tibajev vid Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO) vid Linköpings universitet, i dialog med Christian Ståhl vid Rikscentrum för arbetslivsinriktad rehabilitering, Institutionen för medicin och hälsa, Linköpings universitet.</p
The value of immigrants' human capital for labour market integration
No full textThis dissertation focuses on the productive knowledge and skills, i.e., human capital, that immigrants bring from before immigration, as well as new human capital acquired in the destination country. The four studies included use registry and survey data to consider different aspects of labour market integration in Sweden, analysing how immigrants’ human capital is used and valued in the Swedish labour market, and how this affects labour market outcomes. Study I, co-authored with Carina Hellgren, analyses the effects of formal recognition of foreign higher education on employment and earnings. Study II focuses on the value that domestic employers assign to immigrants’ labour market experience from both before and after immigration. Study III examines the link between experience of self-employment before immigration and the propensity to enter self-employment in the destination country. Study IV explores immigrants’ occupational mobility, testing whether there is a trade-off between finding employment quickly and attaining a better position. Overall, the results indicate that origin-country human capital is devalued in the Swedish labour market. Immigrants can, however, get their previous knowledge and skills recognized, complemented with domestic human capital, and put to productive use after immigration. Nevertheless, achieving labour market outcomes either on par with the pre-immigration level or with comparable natives appears difficult for most.Den här avhandlingen behandlar utrikes föddas produktiva kunskaper och färdigheter, dvs. humankapital. Dels humankapitalet som de har med sig från före migrationen, dels det nya humankapital de tillägnar sig i mottagarlandet. Avhandlingen består av fyra studier som använder register- och enkätdata för att undersöka olika aspekter av arbetsmarknadsintegration i Sverige. Mer specifikt analyseras hur humankapital bland utrikes födda används och värderas på den svenska arbetsmarknaden, samt hur detta påverkar arbetsmarknadsutfall. Studie I, författad tillsammans med Carina Hellgren, analyserar vilka effekter formellt erkännande av högre utländsk utbildning har på utrikes föddas sysselsättning och inkomst. Studie II fokuserar på det värde som inhemska arbetsgivare tillskriver utrikes föddas arbetslivserfarenhet, och skiljer på sådan som tillägnats före och efter migrationen. Studie III prövar sambandet mellan tidigare erfarenhet av egenföretagande och benägenheten att starta eget företag i mottagarlandet. Studie IV undersöker utrikes föddas yrkesmobilitet, och testar om det råder ett motsatsförhållande mellan snabbt inträde på arbetsmarknaden och nivå av arbetsmarknadsutfall. Som helhet tyder resultaten på att humankapital från ursprungslandet devalveras på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Utrikes födda kan dock få sina kunskaper och färdigheter erkända samt kompletterade med inhemskt humankapital, och på så sätt nå ett bättre läge på arbetsmarknaden i mottagarlandet. Samtidigt visar resultaten att de flesta utrikes födda har svårt att uppnå arbetsmarknadsutfall i nivå med situationen före migrationen, eller i nivå med jämförbara inrikes födda
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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