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Development of the rural household energy insecurity experiences scale with insights from Ethiopia
No full textThere is little evidence on how energy poverty affects rural households in low- and middle-income countries. To address this, the CGIAR NEXUS Gains Initiative developed the Rural Household Energy Insecurity Experiences Scale (RHEIES) and piloted the tool in Ethiopia using in-depth interviews. We find heterogeneous energy insecurity experiences across locations and gender dimensions
Strengthening women’s access to rural energy sources and technologies in Ethiopia: From research to action
No full textA NEXUS Gains workshop held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia explored entry points to strengthen women’s access to energy in rural area
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
Intra-household decisions on cookstove choices and impacts on the welfare of women and girls
No full textThis study aimed to examine the intra-household decision-making on stove choice and understand whether the gender and other characteristics of the household member who decides on the type of cookstove used affect the intended welfare gains for women and girls. Using a nationally representative data set collected by the World Bank in 2018, factors associated with cookstove choices and the impact of the chosen cookstove type on women’s time use were estimated using a generalized structural equation modelling. The findings show that cookstove choices are associated more with the characteristics of the person who makes such decisions within the household than the characteristics of the head of the household. When the person who decides on the types of stoves used in the house is female, literate, married, cooks frequently in the house, and is employed, they are more likely to choose manufactured and self-built stoves. Women and girls in households that use a combination of manufactured and self built stoves spend less time on cooking and collection of fuel for home use and more time on childcare and paid work outside the house compared to women and girls in households that use only open fire tripod stoves. The stacking of manufactured, self built, and open fire tripod stoves frees up women's and girls' time for schoolwork by reducing cooking time, though it increases time they spend on fuel collection. Education and extension campaigns aimed at improving the adoption of improved cookstoves in rural Ethiopia would be more successful if they first identified who in the household makes the decision on cookstove choices and then focused their messaging to those persons, who are not always household heads. Cookstove program implementers will have a higher chance of convincing people to adopt self-built and manufactured stoves instead of open-fire stoves if their messaging focuses more on female members of households rather than male members, on those household members who cook frequently rather than those who cook only sometimes, and focus on educated rather than non-educated members of the household
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Impact of electrification on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia: A gendered perspective
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