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Preface
No full textBorders are often regarded as the very basis for establishing a modern and territorial logic legitimating an essentialised view of the world as a mosaic of Nation-States. Transnationalism seems to challenge this long-standing logic by introducing a new inclination to think in terms of flows, mobility, and networks. By living in-between sending and receiving societies and maintaining strong ties to both, Migrants are shaping transnational spaces encompassing several countries in a process that challenges territorial separations and national borders. However, migration challenges borders, but is still regulated by borders. It may overcome some borders, but it does not in itself prevent the creation of other borders that recreate divisions along other lines. Accordingly, borders have not been disappearing but they are moving themselves everywhere. This dis-placement of borders can be conceived as a paradoxical movement from the ‘edge’ to the ‘centre’ of public space. Following this, what is worth exploring is how such b-ordering processes are in the very heart of European identity and citizenship that are defined in the complex interplay between moving, dis-located external borders and the multiplication of internal ones. Both external and internal borders point to a set of relevant issues: the former are related to (im)migration policies, diasporas as well as transnationalism; the latter focus instead on different forms of ethnicisation, old and new racisms, citizenship, as well as the idea of nation and the processes of social differentiation it implies. The attention to the complex relationship between internal and external borders, still largely ignored by social studies, is a relevant starting point for reconceptualising borders and their connections with transnational migration. Indeed, it has empirical reasons, due to the involvement of the same actors and of the same forms of power that are implied in both cases, and theoretical reasons, because the changes affecting both these kinds of borders reveal deep changes in the national space borders, in the forms of social identification, in the politics and in the practices concerning migrants
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
Transnational migration, cosmopolitanism and dis-located borders
No full textIn recent years, a growing number of scholars in the social sciences are working on migration with a transnational and cosmopolitan perspective as well as on borders. This volume is the outcome of the international seminar called “Transnational Migrations and Dis-Located Borders”, held at the Doctoral School in Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity of the University of Bergamo in June 2008. The seminar aimed at bringing together some internationally well-known scholars in different research fields and at encouraging discussion on such themes within a cross-disciplinary conversation. Apparently, borders are often regarded as the very basis of an essentialised view of the world like a mosaic of Nation-States. Some authors have talked about ‘methodological nationalism’, which assumes that the nation/state/society is the natural socio-political form of contemporary world. Transnational perspectives seem to challenge this long-standing logic by introducing a new inclination to think in terms of flows, mobility, and networks. Migrants, living in-between sending and receiving societies and maintaining strong ties to both, are shaping transnational spaces encompassing several countries in a process that challenges territorial separations and national borders. This process does not in itself prevent the creation of other borders that recreate divisions along other lines. Borders have not been disappearing but they are moving themselves everywhere. This dis-placement of borders can be conceived as a paradoxical movement from the ‘edge’ to the ‘centre’ of public space. The dialectics between contemporary modes to organize the migration experience on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the transformation of borders can be regarded as a viewpoint to investigate contemporary mobile networks highlighting, at the same time, the variety of their meanings and practices
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
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