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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
Proactive versus Reactive Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Morocco and Tunisia
Get PDFMorocco and Tunisia, two progressive Muslim-majority countries, took vastly different approaches to women's sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). Sharing a French colonial past and Maliki Islamic tradition, Tunisia is an emerging democracy with a long history of top-down women's rights advances and state-promoted SRHR. Tunisian women have benefitted from SRH education, access to contraception, emergency contraception, and state-funded first trimester abortion. Tunisia targets vulnerable populations, including unmarried, minor, rural, and poor women, with special clinics and subsidies. Finally, Tunisia holds men responsible for children they father outside of wedlock. In contrast, Morocco's bottom-up feminist-driven approach to SRHR, including access to contraception, emergency contraception, and abortion, is circumscribed and exclusionary, targeting married couples. The criminalization of extramarital sexual relations and most abortions force single women with unwanted pregnancies to resort to unsafe abortion. Moroccan men who father children outside of marriage enjoy legal impunity from paternal responsibilities. Nevertheless, the recent rise of Islamic parties in both countries poses a potential threat to Tunisia's proactive laws and policies governing SRHR, while adding another obstacle to adequate SRHR provision in Morocco.Die beiden progressiven Länder Afrikas mit muslimischer Mehrheit, Tunesien und Marokko, zeichnen sich durch enorme Unterschiede in ihren reproduktiven Rechten und Maßnahmen aus. Geprägt von sowohl einer französischen Kolonialherrschaft als auch von einer malikitisch ausgerichteten Tradition des Islams, ist Tunesien heute eine aufstrebende Demokratie mit einer langen Geschichte Top-Down geprägter Fortschritte bei Frauenrechten und staatlich geförderter Reproduktionspolitik. Tunesische Frauen erhalten Bildungsmaßnahmen im Bereich reproduktiver Rechte, Zugang zu Verhütungsmitteln und Notfallverhütung sowie staatlich finanzierte Unterstützung bei Abtreibung im ersten Trimester einer Schwangerschaft. Mit ihrem Angebot spezieller Kliniken und Zuschüsse zielt Tunesien auf gefährdete Gruppen wie unverheiratete, minderjährige, ländlich lebende und arme Frauen. Nicht zuletzt müssen Männer das Sorgerecht für von ihnen außerehelich gezeugte Kinder übernehmen. Im Gegensatz dazu zeichnet sich Marokko durch einen von feministischen Gruppen betriebenen Bottom-Up-Ansatz aus. Zugang zu Verhütungsmitteln, Notfallverhütung und Abtreibung ist begrenzt und nur für verheiratete Frauen möglich. Außereheliche sexuelle Beziehungen werden kriminalisiert und in den meisten Fällen müssen ungewollt schwangere Frauen auf unsachgemäß vorgenommene Abtreibungen zurückgreifen. Marokkanischen Männern, die außereheliche Kinder zeugen, wird hingegen Befreiung von rechtlicher Verantwortung und Straffreiheit zugestanden. Der jüngste Aufstieg islamischer Parteien in beiden Ländern stellt jedoch eine Bedrohung für Tunesiens proaktive Rechte und Maßnahmen dar und ein weiteres Hindernis für die Sicherstellung adäquater reproduktiver Rechte in Marokko
Proactive versus Reactive Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Morocco and Tunisia
Get PDFMorocco and Tunisia, two progressive Muslim-majority countries, took vastly different approaches to women’s sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). Sharing a French colonial past and Maliki Islamic tradition, Tunisia is an emerging democracy with a long history of top-down women’s rights advances and state-promoted SRHR. Tunisian women have benefitted from SRH education, access to contraception, emergency contraception, and state-funded first trimester abortion. Tunisia targets vulnerable populations, including unmarried, minor, rural, and poor women, with special clinics and subsidies. Finally, Tunisia holds men responsible for children they father outside of wedlock. In contrast, Morocco’s bottom-up feminist-driven approach to SRHR, including access to contraception, emergency contraception, and abortion, is circumscribed and exclusionary, targeting married couples. The criminalization of extramarital sexual relations and most abortions force single women with unwanted pregnancies to resort to unsafe abortion. Moroccan men who father children outside of marriage enjoy legal impunity from paternal responsibilities. Nevertheless, the recent rise of Islamic parties in both countries poses a potential threat to Tunisia’s proactive laws and policies governing SRHR, while adding another obstacle to adequate SRHR provision in Morocco
Legal Discrimination and Violence against Women Analyzed through a Feminist Lens Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Get PDFThis article analyzes the impact of discriminatory laws on violence against women (VAW) in Morocco. I utilize the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) from public policy to examine how feminist and religious coalitions compete along core beliefs, but at times may cooperate along policy core and secondary beliefs. My analysis is based on in-depth interviews and focus groups with more than 200 stakeholders across twenty Moroccan cities from 2013-2018. Respondents include women‘s and human rights associations, VAW listening centers, overnight shelters, and violence victims as well as members of the judiciary. The research boasts an inclusive sampling of perspectives from across the Moroccan political spectrum, including secularists, socialists, progressive Muslim feminists,1 and conservative Islamic associations. This amalgam of perspectives mirrors the complex fabric of Moroccan society and contributes valuable and unique insights into the sociocultural challenges to, yet potential for, cooperation and consensus-building to address VAW in Morocco.Keywords: legal discrimination, feminist, domestic violence, rape, conjugal rape, abortio
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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