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    National Qualification Frameworks for Aerospace Engineering Education in Western Europe and in The Russian Federation: the Airqual Project 2009-11

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    As one of the Bologna Process countries, Russia committed herself to a number of reforms carried out within the Bologna Action Lines, amomg which are the introduction of 3 cycle system of higher education, National Qualifications Frameworks development, mobility issues, ECTS implementation and Quality Assurance. The AIRQUAL project (a TEMPUS project funded by the EU Commission) attempted to develop a common qualifications language for Aerospace Engineering academic courses as well as to ensure international comparability among the Russian Federation and three West European countries. These were France, Italy and Sweden, all represented by academic institutions belonging to the PEGASUS Network. In doing this AIRQUAL provided a benchmark for the application in a broader geographical context of a Quality Assurance method based on the comparison of functions / competences and learning outcomes

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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