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sj-docx-1-asj-10.1177_00016993231198334 - Supplemental material for Criminal justice involvement, transition to fatherhood, and the demographic foundation of the intergenerational transmission of crime
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-asj-10.1177_00016993231198334 for Criminal justice involvement, transition to fatherhood, and the demographic foundation of the intergenerational transmission of crime by Peter Fallesen in Acta Sociologica</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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
Intergenerational persistence of poverty in five high-income countries
No full textChildhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of—and mechanisms underpinning—the intergenerational persistence of poverty. Here the authors investigate differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States, Australia, Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom using administrative- and survey-based panel datasets. Intergenerational poverty is decomposed into family background effects, mediation effects, tax and transfer insurance effects and a residual poverty penalty. The intergenerational persistence of poverty is 0.43 in the United States (95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.40–0.46; P < 0.001), compared with 0.16 in the United Kingdom (95% CI = 0.07–0.25; P < 0.001) and 0.08 in Denmark (95% CI = 0.08–0.08; P < 0.001). The US disadvantage is not channelled through family background, mediators, neighbourhood effects or racial or ethnic discrimination. Instead, the United States has comparatively weak tax and transfer insurance effects and a more severe residual poverty penalty. If the United States were to adopt the tax and transfer insurance effects of its peer countries, its intergenerational poverty persistence could decrease by more than one-third
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
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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Author Rights and Scholarly Publishing
No full textOriginally posted at
http://blog.library.gsu.edu/2014/10/24/author-rights-and-scholarly-publishing/</p
Correction to: Beyond the Economic Gaze: Childbearing During and After Recessions in the Nordic Countries
No full textDuring the 2010s, fertility rates fell across the Nordic region. The onset of these
declines seems linked to the Great Recession of 2008–2009, but their continuation
cannot easily be linked to subsequent economic change. The 1990s, too, brought
episodes of economic crises to the Nordic region that were followed by different
degrees of fertility decline. In this study, we provide an empirical overview of parity-,
age- and education-specific fertility developments in the five Nordic countries
in the wake of the economic recessions in 2008 and the early 1990s, respectively. We
demonstrate a high degree of heterogeneity in fertility developments across countries
after 1990, whereas after 2008, the trends are much more similar across the five
countries. Likewise, the educational differences in birth hazards that characterized
the developments after 1990 were much smaller in the initial years after 2008–2009.
This reversal from heterogeneity to homogeneity in the fertility response to recessions
calls for an expansion of theories on the cyclicality of fertility in relation to
uncertainty and economic and social change. In our discussion, we consider the role
of a set of factors that also incorporates the state, crisis management, and perceptions
of economic and welfare uncertainty
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