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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
SEX TRAFFICKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR US & INTERNATIONAL POLICY
No full textThere are an estimated 24.9 million people being trafficked around the world (Human Trafficking, 2020). This project explores discourse and framing around trafficked individuals, particularly those trafficked for sex work, and how this influences approaches and frameworks for policy development, with the goal of making policy and service recommendations. The analysis begins with definitions, followed by general overviews of US and international policies relating to prevention, policy, and prosecution. It then turns to look at sex trafficking and relevant frameworks. Using trauma-informed language and human and feminist rights, the project advocates for increased education and public awareness on signs of sex trafficking, cohesive policy to criminalize involved perpetrators of sexual exploitation and protect victims and survivors
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
MAKING SENSE OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: VIOLENCE, AGENCY, AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN POLICY, PAST AND PRESENT
No full textSince President Trump took office in 2017, he has implemented dozens of restrictive immigration laws at the expense of women and people of color. The rapid barrage of policies has confounded international and domestic commentators alike, prompting outrage and a sense of powerlessness. In this thesis, I interrogate the historical underpinnings of Trump-era immigration policies to demonstrate the deep-seated racism and sexism that have informed American immigration policy dating back to the nineteenth century. I apply an intersectional framework to the 2020 birth tourism regulation, which discriminates against women from non-Western countries, and well as interviews with two women resettling as refugees in Oklahoma City who navigate the U.S. resettlement program’s emphasis on employment at the expense of language. In doing so, I present immigration policy as a political tool that disproportionately impacts women of color and whose structural violences continue long past a migrant’s arrival in a new location. In centering intersectionality and agency alongside structural violence, I contribute to literature on “borderscapes,” which seeks to amplify the possibilities for hope, opposition, and counter-hegemonic political agency in the context of exclusionary globalization
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Private developers and splintered ecological security in north Jakarta: producing difference in Singapore
No full textJakarta, Indonesia, has gained much attention in recent years owing to its vulnerability to tidal flooding, its fragmented water supply, and unsustainable practices of groundwater extraction. In this paper, I ask: how does Jakarta’s water crisis shape the feasibility, profitability, success, or failure of property development? How does the real estate industry understand, and respond to this crisis? To answer these questions, I draw on in-depth interviews with consultants and bureaucrats, as well as an analysis of secondary sources relating to water and property to present two preliminary findings from research conducted thus far. First, property buyers (investors and end users) and private developers appear to understand and evaluate environmental and financial risk very differently. Second, while state efforts to secure water supply and flood protection for the urban majority have been hampered for various political, economic, and financial reasons, private developers have the capacity to insulate their developments from environmental (and therefore financial) risk and promise ecological security to property buyers. In examining developers’ responses to the water crisis, this paper provides insights into “splintering ecological security”, which is actively created in tandem with acts of financial and environmental speculation, with implications for residents well beyond the walls of these bounded enclaves
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