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Editorial: PBRF changes
Full text linkOver the last 18 years successive governments have tried various schemes to reward and encourage good research, without actually conducting much research into the effectiveness of the rewards and discouragements inherent in their schemes. Universities have been very quick to analyse where the weaknesses in the successive formats gave them opportunities to promote their stronger players, and hide their weaker ones, to the point where the focus of universities seems to have become playing the rules, rather than actually supporting good research
Editorial: Ethics and Teacher Vaccinations during COVID-19
Full text linkWhen the call for papers for this special issue of Teachers’ Work was sent out,
vaccinations for COVID-19 were not yet available in New Zealand and the Delta
variant was not yet in the community. While New Zealand went through an early
lockdown, and particularly Auckland had seen some further restrictions on
occasion until that time, much of the impact of the pandemic on everyday life in
New Zealand was still relatively low compared with what other parts of the world
were experiencing, including parts of Australia and the UK, for example. Since
then, the picture has changed dramatically. Delta has arrived and vaccines have
been rolled out, slowly at first and more quickly and forcefully over time. On
November the 15th of this year, vaccinations became mandatory for the majority
of the educational workforce, including teachers in early childhood, primary and
secondary schools. While the Government vaccine mandate has not been
extended to those in the tertiary sector, the requirements of vaccinations for
certain professions, such as health workers, teachers and others, have created
a complexity for affected programmes. This includes exploring how to support
students who might not be eligible to work in their chosen profession without
vaccination, as well as figuring out which staff members need to be vaccinated
before visiting students on placements in organisations, centres and schools that
fall under the vaccination requirements mandated by the government
Editorial: Ethics and Teacher Vaccinations during COVID-19
No full textWhen the call for papers for this special issue of Teachers’ Work was sent out,
vaccinations for COVID-19 were not yet available in New Zealand and the Delta
variant was not yet in the community. While New Zealand went through an early
lockdown, and particularly Auckland had seen some further restrictions on
occasion until that time, much of the impact of the pandemic on everyday life in
New Zealand was still relatively low compared with what other parts of the world
were experiencing, including parts of Australia and the UK, for example. Since
then, the picture has changed dramatically. Delta has arrived and vaccines have
been rolled out, slowly at first and more quickly and forcefully over time. On
November the 15th of this year, vaccinations became mandatory for the majority
of the educational workforce, including teachers in early childhood, primary and
secondary schools. While the Government vaccine mandate has not been
extended to those in the tertiary sector, the requirements of vaccinations for
certain professions, such as health workers, teachers and others, have created
a complexity for affected programmes. This includes exploring how to support
students who might not be eligible to work in their chosen profession without
vaccination, as well as figuring out which staff members need to be vaccinated
before visiting students on placements in organisations, centres and schools that
fall under the vaccination requirements mandated by the government
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
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
University 'Values' and Neoliberal Marketisation
Full text linkThis editorial evaluates the potential impact of neoliberal marketisation on university values and culture drawing on the example of current bargaining between unions and university management in Aotearoa New Zealand.</jats:p
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
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