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Climate adaption in Ishøj Municipality: Planning conditions and challenges for holistic planning
No full textGoing 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
Feminist city planning in Barcelona - a fieldstudy of 'Superilles'
No full textThe following paper aims to explore an alternative to mainstream urban planning through feminist city-planning, to examine how the feminist value of “care” is actualized in the city of Barcelona. This examination is based on an ethnographic case study of the ambitious city-planning project, “Superilles”, as well as an exploration of the ideas, values and methods of feminist city planning through the Barcelona-based feminist city planning collective, Col•lectiu punt 6. A combination of qualitative methods, as well as a choice to use Col•lectiu Punt 6’s guide to feminist city planning, leads this paper to an analytical discussion of the feminist values, and lack thereof, in the Superilla project. Throughout the paper, there is an emphasis on the process of including and empowering citizens, with a focus on women, in city-planning. The Superilla project may have many values that align with feminist city planning, but a question arises of how inclusive and “caring” a city can be if the planning process does not include all of it’s citizens, especially those who often are forgotten
Train travel as a practice
No full textThis paper investigates train tourism, exploring how knowledge of Danish train travellers’ experiences can contribute to the understanding hereof as an alternative, more environmentally sustainable form of travel. Nine interviews are conducted and analysed using the theoretical framework of practice theory and general understandings of slow tourism. The interviews reveal the practical and experiential aspects of train tourism, highlighting the skills required, the meaning attributed to the journey, and the physical and material conditions influencing it. The analytical findings are discussed in relation to quantitative data on general travel patterns among Danes as well as their views on sustainability related to tourism. Finally, this paper concludes that while climate concerns are influential, it's a dynamic practice influenced by various factors. This recognition highlights train tourism as an alternative way of travelling, demonstrating the value of this approach in understanding the complexities of travel choices
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
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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