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    The World Social Forum as a Portal of Globalization:: Complex Spatialities in Social Movement Studies

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    Anhand des Konzeptes „Portale der Globalisierung“ soll die Bedeutung des Weltsozialforums (WSF) für die globalisierungskritische Bewegung aufgezeigt werden. Seit 200 bringt das Forum soziale Bewegungen und andere zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure aus verschiedensten Regionen der Welt zusammen, die zudem oft von einem unterschiedlichen ideologischen Hintergrund geprägt sind. Das Forum bietet dieser heterogenen Teilnehmerschaft einen transnationalen Ort für den Erfahrungs- und Ideenaustausch über Globalisierungsprozesse und wie diese beeinlusst werden können. Dieser Artikel analysiert die politischen Dimensionen von Raum, Netzwerk, Ort und räumliche Maßstabsebenen im WSF und zeigt, dass das Konzept „Portale der Globalisierung“ nützlich ist, die Komplexität des Forums zu erfassen. Zudem zeigt der Artikel, dass das WSF ein Portal der Globalisierung ist, in welchem verschiedene Akteure um die Anerkennung ihrer Interpretation des Wesens der Globalisierung ringen.Applying the concept of portals of globalization, the goal of this paper is to capture the signiicance of the World Social Forum (WSF) for the alter-globalization movement. Since 200, the WSF brings together social movements and other civil-society actors that are ideologically or geographically disconnected. It ofers a transnational space for sharing experiences about globalization processes and for facilitating the lows of ideas on how to inluence the course of globalization. Analysing the politics of space, place, network, and scale in the WSF, the paper shows that the concept of portals of globalization helps to capture the spatial complexity of the forum. I argue that the WSF is not simply a place of anti-neoliberalism but a portal of globalization that inhabits diferent actors competing for the recognition of their interpretation of the nature of globalization

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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