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Empowering Disability: Bridging The Digital Divide Through Constitutional Recognition in India
No full textAbortion and Autonomy: The Struggle for Reproductive Rights in the United States and India
No full textIn June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) ruled that the Constitution of the United States does not recognize the right to abortion, reversing nearly 50 years of protection of women’s access to safe and legal abortion. The decision further empowered states to frame their laws. Nearly 29% of women in the United States who are of reproductive age live in states where abortion is heavily restricted. According to the 2025 Guttmacher Institute fact sheet, as of March 2024, none of the 14 states with complete abortion bans had any abortion clinics, which earlier had a total of 63 clinics providing such health facilities
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
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
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
Automating Exclusion: Facial Recognition and the Erosion of the Right to Food in India
Full text linkThe Supreme Court of India in People’s Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India (2001) has established that the right to food is an integral component of the right to life under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. The National Food Security Act, 2013, also grants pregnant women, lactating mothers and children a statutory entitlement to free nutritious meals for their healthy life. However, in July 2025, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India, mandated facial recognition-based verification for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children to access nutrition benefits such as take-home ration under the POSHAN 2.0 mission, an integrated nutritional support program. This requirement works through a mandatory facial recognition-based electronic Know-Your-Customer (e-KYC) verification. As of August 2025, about 76.9% of the beneficiaries have completed their e-KYC, exposing the remaining quarter of the beneficiaries to the risk of delayed access to the nutrition benefits. Furthermore, Anganwadi workers– frontline nutrition and childcare workers–have also argued that the mandatory facial recognition requirement is impractical in the rural field conditions where compliance is constrained by the lack of mobile phones, outdated Aadhar (India’s national biometric identification system) numbers and photographs, facial scan failures and server disruptions. This shift towards technology-dependent access to nutrition entitlements has converted welfare responsibilities into technological demands at a time when 12 per cent of India’s population continues to be undernourished, as indicated by the Global Hunger Index 2025 report. The facial recognition requirement goes beyond administrative convenience and calls into question the legitimacy of the State placing technological barriers between marginalised groups and the food that is crucial for their survival
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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