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Foreword: A more socially just and sustainable recovery for the European Union
No full textThis 2010 edition of Social developments in the European Union examines the ways in which the EU has dealt with the main challenges related to the fiscal crisis, the first implementation of the Lisbon Treaty and the launch of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The forword sheds light on the risks for the European social model and the EU project, the state of the debate on the revision of the Stability and Growth Pact, the impact of the economic and financial crisis in the field of pensions, the new EU roadmap for employment policy and the broad tensions , risks and opportunities originated by Europe 2020
Future Prospects
No full textIn this chapter we do refer to the main features of the debt crisis that has touched many EU countries. We then focus on the way the EU - also through the innovations mentioned above – has reacted to the huge challenge of boosting recovery. Key risks and tensions are still present on the EU agenda and decisions on delicate issues should be taken in the next months to let EU finds its way
Social Developments in the European Union 2010
Full text linkThe volume examines the ways in which the EU has handled the challenges related to the fiscal crisi, the initial implementation of the Lisbon Treaty and the launch of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The volume sheds light on the risks for teh European social model and teh EU project, the state of the debate on teh revision of the Stability and Growth Pact, the impact of the economic and financial crisis in respect of pensions, the new EU roadmap for employment policy and teh overall tensions, risks and opportunities generated by Europe 2020
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
The European Union and Pensions: Recent Steps in ‘Hard’ Legislation and ‘Soft’ Co-ordination
No full textVariations 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
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