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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 Challenge of Directing and Controlling Suburban Growth in Metropolitan Areas in Indonesia: The Case of Surabaya
No full textIn the Global South, the phenomenon of rapid urbanisation has accelerated leading to expansion in
suburban areas. Previous studies on urban growth management have had mixed results. However,
the lessons learnt show that formal rules are not the only factor that plays a part in the success of
implementing these policies. Actors should abide by formal rules, but they also use their logic that is
based on human cognition, unwritten norms, and shared understandings. This is because institutions
are often vague, leaving room for interpretation.
This study argues that key actors play an important part in urban expansion, regardless of the formal
regulations that have been set. However, few studies have explored the parts that actors play in
managing suburban growth. Therefore, using the lens of Actor-centred institutionalism, this study
assumes actors are not passive players. They can enable or disable new development in the suburbs
by implementing their own strategies. This study explores how actors use strategies within a
hierarchical institutional landscape in a metropolitan area, to advance their interests. This results in
the difficulty in managing (sub)urban growth.
Using a case study approach, regencies in the vicinity of the urban core of the Surabaya metropolitan
areas were identified as case studies and villages as embedded case studies. By adopting qualitative
methods, the research investigated how the key actors, at every administration level in the
metropolitan area dealt with the ambiguity and inconsistency between regulations, as well as the
difference between formal regulations and local norms when it came to land use management.
The study showed that in metropolitan areas, with multiple tiers of administration, the key actors, at
every tier, can find opportunities to implement their strategies because of the ambiguity of top-down
regulations, incoherent plans within or between tiers, or even a gap between rules and local norms.
Cumulatively their decisions result in both formal and informal suburban development.
This research suggests that rigid hierarchical zoning regulations are not an effective tool for
controlling development in a metropolitan area with layers of administration and compromising
culture. With formal suburbanisation, the hierarchical governance culture drives discretionary
decision-making in land use plan-making and planning permissions challenge the implementation of
the regulatory planning system thus resulting in urban expansion. With informal suburbanisation, the
power of key actors at the neighbourhood level, who hold considerable customary and political power
needs to be recognised by the planning system and be involved in governing suburbs.
Key words: actors, suburban development, urban sprawl, fragmented institutions, metropolitan
area
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
Institutionalising Urban Design Control to Enhance Built Environment Quality: A Case Study of Shanghai's Huangpu River Waterfront
No full textThe Management of Street Vending in Public Spaces in Indonesia: How Do Regulations Facilitate Self-Organising Communities?
No full textStreet vending is a common practice in virtually all cities, particularly in the Global South, where it primarily operates informally and accounts for a higher proportion of economic activity compared to the Global North. Hence, in the Global South, public policy often views street vending as a form of disorder and has primarily sought to ban it due to its unregulated nature.
Among the contemporary debates in planning literature is the type of spatial regulations for managing urban space, with scholars exploring the use of flexible land use instruments, developed based on qualitative principles applicable to all places and agents, as an alternative to conventional land use instruments, which are considered too rigid. This idea aligns with the growing understanding of self-organisation as a fundamental driving force behind urban transformation.
This research aims to understand how different types of regulations interact with the selforganising behaviour of street vendors to produce better public spaces. For this reason, this study examines two cities in Indonesia where municipalities adopt different policies to regulate
street vending. The municipality of Bandar Lampung adopts rigid land use instruments that predetermine street vending as illegal and seeks to move street vendors to the public market. On the other hand, the municipality of Bandung adopts some forms of flexible rules, allowing people to transform and manage street vending sites as long as they align with the municipality’s restrictions. The study is based on evidence derived from national and local laws
and regulations, official and media reports, as well as semi-structured interviews with 30 informants from diverse groups, including government officials, community representatives, and street vendors, also followed by field observations.
The study found that the management of street vending works better when flexible regulations are adopted, as they facilitate the self-organising capacity of street vendors, thereby allowing the municipality not only to achieve the objective of securing public order for a long period but also to empower street vendors. However, flexible regulations are not a panacea and only work
when the fundamental needs of street vendors are addressed, also when both the municipality and street vendors trust each other and are willing to share their interests. Furthermore, the two cases being examined draw on the street vendors’ self-organising mechanisms, which are driven by street vendors’ economic interests and by collective ideas that integrate both economic and public interests
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
Shared–interest Communities in the Redevelopment of Existing Residential Areas in China: Resolving Equal Rights and Interests of Stakeholders
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