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Scotland and the EU : comment by Bruno De Witte
No full textPublished online: 10 September 2014This article belongs to the debate 'Schottland als EU-Mitglied'. In wenigen Tagen wird sich herausstellen, ob Schottland Teil des Vereinigten Königreichs bleiben wird oder nicht. Es könnte wirklich passieren, was es bisher noch nie gab: Aus einem EU-Mitgliedsstaat werden zwei. Oder, werden sie? Während EU-Kommission und viele nationale Regierungen sich bemühen, die Perspektiven Schottlands auf eine fortbestehende EU-Mitgliedschaft düster zu malen, stellen sich viele Europarechts-Expert_innen auf den gegenteiligen Standpunkt – darunter Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, EU-Rechts-Professorin aus Oxford. Wir stellen ihre Position in einem Online-Symposium zur Debatte.Two main options have been put on the table for (re-)accommodating an independent Scotland in the European Union: accession of an independent Scotland to the European Union by means of the procedure of accession of new member states set out in Article 49 TEU; or accommodation of Scotland as a new member state at the same time as it achieves independence, by means of a revision of the European Treaties according to Article 48 TEU. The latter option is supported by the Scottish government in its Scotland’s Future White Paper of November 2013. The Treaty revision would enter into force at the same time as Scotland would become independent (and the government suggested a date for this to happen, namely 24 March 2016). In this way, there would be a seamless transition. Scotland would not first drop out of the EU by separating from the UK, and later climb in again through an accession treaty; it would simply stay inside the EU all the time
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
Rethinking academic : Bruno de Witte
No full textPublished online: 29 November 2022If you ask yourself how is it possible that somebody who, like Bruno, has cultivated such an extensive academic network would retire from academia with a Liber Amicarum which almost exclusively includes the voices of female colleagues the answer is simple: this is, probably, what would make most sense to him. Having been increasingly involved in projects of similar nature to honour retiring colleagues, Bruno did not spare his views: of course he would say yes every time he was asked to contribute but every time, he was left with the burning doubt as to whether these expressions of affection and gratitude really accomplished their goal. This is why, when approached by Ellen Vos and Monica Claes to be part of his own Liber Amicarum, I was immediately relieved to learn that those invited to contribute had mostly been selected from the close circle of female academic friends Bruno has actively cultivated throughout his academic career
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
The human rights clause in the international agreements of the European Community : selected issues under public international law, the law of the European Community, and the law of the World Trade Organization
Full text linkDefence date: 29 November 2002Examining Board: Prof. Philip Alston, European University Insitute (Supervisor); Prof. Bruno de Witte, European University Insitute; Prof. Petros Mavroidis, University of Neuchâtel; Prof. Pieter Jan Kuijper, University of AmsterdamFirst made available online on 10 April 201
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