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Dan Tschirgi Oral History
No full textDan Tschirgi was a political science faculty member at the American University in Cairo from the mid-1980s though 2017. An American (born in Puerto Rico), he tells of Swiss family origins and recalls his childhood and young adult years, higher education, and early academic career in Latin America, North America, and the Middle East. Tschirgi tells of coming to AUC in 1980. He describes the Political Science Department throughout his years at AUC (including its earlier combination with Economics and Mass Communications), with a focus on the personalities and contributions of departmental colleagues in various periods. The curriculum of and enrollment in the Political Science program are covered, with the development of related programs at AUC over the years. Tschirgi traces changes in AUC students over the years, including in their political consciousness and expression. The style of various AUC Presidents, Provosts, and Deans of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences are addressed throughout, along with the role of the Board of Trustees. Attention is given to the assignment of Political Science Department Chairmen from outside AUC from 2009-2014, and the impact of the emergence of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Tschirgi discusses faculty issues, like their changing role in university governance, compensation and retention issues, and a controversial Political Science tenure case. Tschirgi sketches the evolution of his research interests, and the personality and vocation of his wife Conchita Añorve-Tschirgi as an artist, architect, and librarian at AUC. He also relates their experiences living in various Cairo neighborhoods, in apartments provided by the AUC Housing Office. In speaking of major developments at AUC, like the the move to its new campus, Tschirgi offers a critique of the changes in AUC’s mission in culture
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
The Context of Israeli-Palestinian “Final Negotiations”
No full textEste artículo constituye un intento preliminar de retomar la atención sobre el asunto político central de larga duración en Oriente Medio -el conflicto palestino-israelí y el rápido límite de plazo del Presidente Obama para terminar las "negociaciones finales" sobre una solución política- y, por otra parte, un esfuerzo por determinar la relevancia de la agitación regional para la perspectiva de una paz entre israelíes y palestinos. El artículo argumenta que los factores contextuales han sido históricamente determinantes del curso del conflicto y sugiere que continuarán desempeñando el mismo rol. Concluye, primero, al sugerir que la propuesta de Barak Obama de un año de "conversaciones finales" ha sido probablemente diseñada sólo para fines políticos que sin embargo aumentarán probablemente las probabilidades de una eventual solución basada en dos Estados, pero además especula con una "revolución joven" en Israel similar a la manifestada en Gaza que pueda llevar a un acuerdo pacífico en las mismas líneas
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Resolving the Palestinian Refugee Problem: Edward A. Norman’s Unintended Contribution to Relevant Lessons in Perspectives, Values, and Consequences
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