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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
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
UNE APPROCHE REGULATIONNISTE DE LA DESINDUSTRIALISATION EN ALGERIE
Full text linkInternational audienceThe question of the industrialization in the particular context of a rent-oriented economy can be apprehended in a particularly fertile way through the analysis of the combination of the institutional forms, which are considered as fundamental by the Regulation School. After a characterization of the changes which took place, these two last decades, in the concrete configuration of each of the institutional forms, it is intended to highlight the institutional dimension of the question of industrialization through the examination of the impact of each of the institional form on the development of a manufacturing industry in Algeria.La question de l'industrialisation dans le contexte particulier d'une économie rentière peut être appréhendée de façon féconde à travers l'analyse de la combinaison des formes institutionnelles considérées comme fondamentales par l'Ecole de la régulation. Après une caractérisation des évolutions qui ont eu lieu, ces deux dernières décennies, dans les configurations concrètes de chacune des formes institutionnelles de la Régulation, on se propose de mettre en relief la dimension institutionnelle de la question de l'industrialisation à travers notamment l'identification de certaines des principales caractéristiques des nouveaux arrangements institutionnels au regard des nécessités du développement de l'activité industrielle en Algérie
PROBLEMATIQUE DU CHANGEMENT INSTITUTIONNEL EN ALGERIE.: UNE LECTURE EN TERMES DE REGULATION.
Full text linkInternational audienceThe object of this paper is to show that the question of the institutional change in the context of a rent-oriented economy as that of Algeria would not to be approached without that is evoqued the political dimension of the change. The mediocrity of the economic results recorded by the country is explained largely by the incapacity to generate institutional configurations in adequacy with necessity of the emergence of a productive economy, in rupture with the rent-logic on which the accumulation regime was founded until then.La question du changement institutionnel dans le contexte d'une économie rentière comme celle de l'Algérie ne saurait être abordée sans que ne soit évoquée la dimension conflictuelle et politique du changement. La médiocrité des résultats économiques enregistrés par le pays s'explique grandement par l'incapacité du pays à générer des configurations institutionnelles en adéquation avec la nécessité de l'émergence d'une économie productive, en rupture avec la logique rentière sur laquelle le régime d'accumulation était jusque-là fondé
Habitus and economic institutions of the rentier regime in Algeria: Interactions and discrepancies
Full text linkEssay on the crisis of the rent-oriented regim of accumulation in Algeria : an approach in terms of regulation
No full textPar-delà son aspect morphologique, l’accumulation du capital est avant tout une dynamique sociale dans laquelle les configurations que prennent les rapports sociaux jouent un rôle clé. La présente étude a pour but de montrer que dans le contexte particulier d’une économie rentière (type pétrolier, en l’occurrence), la question de la crise du régime rentier d’accumulation peut être appréhendée de façon particulièrement féconde à travers l’analyse de la combinaison des formes institutionnelles considérées comme fondamentales par l’Ecole de la régulation. L’étude se propose, sur la base d’une périodisation des formes institutionnelles, de caractériser successivement dans un premier temps les évolutions qui se sont produites dans les configurations concrètes de chacune des formes institutionnelles qui, ensemble, constituent un mode de régulation. Dans un second temps, il s’agit d’examiner la compatibilité des régulations partielles et leur aptitude à générer et piloter un nouveau régime d’accumulation qui soit en rupture avec le régime rentier. L’étude conclut que, paradoxalement, seule l’implication du politique, et donc de l’Etat, est à même de permettre la définition d’un arrangement institutionnel favorable à l’accomplissement d’une telle rupture.Beyond its morphological aspect, the capital accumulation is above all a social dynamics in which the configurations that take the social connections play a key role. The objective of the current research study is to show that within a particular context of a rent-oriented economy (oil, in the circumstances), the accumulation issue may be understood in a productive particular way through analyses of the forms of institutional combination, which are considered as fundamental by the Regulation School. Our investigation aims, on the basis of an institutional forms periodization, to characterize successively the evolutions that occurred within concrete configurations of each institutional form, which, together, form a mode of regulation. In a second phase, we examine the compatibility of the partial regulations, and their abilities to generate and command a new accumulation system breaking with the Rent-oriented régime. Our study concludes that, paradoxically, only the politics involvement, so the government, is able to determine an institutional arrangement favorable to accomplish such a break
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