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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
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
The political economy of administrative policy harmonization in the EMU : a discourse network analysis of the EPSAS project
No full textThe European Union’s response to the financial and sovereign debt crisis has been broadly discussed in the literature, but only few contributions acknowledge the importance of the European statistical agency EUROSTAT as an actor within that process. This is surprising, given that the European Government Finance Statistics (GFS) regulatory regime is central when it comes to the implementation of effective fiscal surveillance (Gandrud & Hallerberg, 2016). Fiscal surveillance in the economic and monetary union (EMU) essentially builds on GFS data, which in turn is compiled from accounting information. Because EU member states elaborate their accounting policies independently, heterogeneity in accounting practices arises, which adversely affects GFS data quality (Jesus & Jorge, 2015). In response, EUROSTAT as a directorate of the European Commission has engaged in developing European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS), aimed at introducing binding accrual based governmental accounting practices across the member states. However, beyond the issuance of consultation and reflection papers, ongoing discussions between government officials, EUROSTAT, practitioners and academia, the EPSAS project did not progress much in recent years.
This paper aims to explain this stalemate by drawing on a political economy account of integration. In particular, it argues that electoral incentives at the level of the member states hinder integrative progress in this area. This theory will be tested by analysing publicly available consultation papers, which are used to identify the reasons for the stalling of the supranational harmonization efforts. In contrast to previous research (Aggestam & Brusca, 2016) this paper focusses less on the process and the extent of participation, but rather on the substance of the feedback given. In particular, it deploys discourse network analysis to debunk the main arguments and preferences issued in the consultation process. Reaching beyond previous work on the process of “glocalization” of public sector accounting standards (Baskerville & Grossi, 2018), it provides insights into Europeanization of governmental accounting practices and the dynamics of supranational administrative policy harmonization at the interface of political economy
No end without clear means and ends : explaining ten years of non-success in the development of European public sector accounting standards
No full textDispelling 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
The political economy of administrative policy harmonization in the EMU : a discourse network analysis of the EPSAS project
No full textThe European Union’s response to the financial and sovereign debt crisis has been broadly discussed in the literature, but only few contributions acknowledge the importance of the European statistical agency EUROSTAT as an actor within that process. This is surprising, given that the European Government Finance Statistics (GFS) regulatory regime is central when it comes to the implementation of effective fiscal surveillance (Gandrud & Hallerberg, 2016). Fiscal surveillance in the economic and monetary union (EMU) essentially builds on GFS data, which in turn is compiled from accounting information. Because EU member states elaborate their accounting policies independently, heterogeneity in accounting practices arises, which adversely affects GFS data quality (Jesus & Jorge, 2015). In response, EUROSTAT as a directorate of the European Commission has engaged in developing European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS), aimed at introducing binding accrual based governmental accounting practices across the member states. However, beyond the issuance of consultation and reflection papers, ongoing discussions between government officials, EUROSTAT, practitioners and academia, the EPSAS project did not progress much in recent years.
This paper aims to explain this stalemate by drawing on a political economy account of integration. In particular, it argues that electoral incentives at the level of the member states hinder integrative progress in this area. This theory will be tested by analysing publicly available consultation papers, which are used to identify the reasons for the stalling of the supranational harmonization efforts. In contrast to previous research (Aggestam & Brusca, 2016) this paper focusses less on the process and the extent of participation, but rather on the substance of the feedback given. In particular, it deploys discourse network analysis to debunk the main arguments and preferences issued in the consultation process. Reaching beyond previous work on the process of “glocalization” of public sector accounting standards (Baskerville & Grossi, 2018), it provides insights into Europeanization of governmental accounting practices and the dynamics of supranational administrative policy harmonization at the interface of political economy
When expertise is not enough : explaining the European Commission's non-success in the integration of public sector accounting
No full textThe European Commission crucially relies on expertise and advice to fulfil its focal role in drafting policies. For this reason, it maintains numerous expert groups. When handling technical complex cases, expert groups engage in deliberative supranationalist problem-solving that is driven by logic and knowledge. Based on the Commission's policy initiative to develop European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS) for the integration of European Union member states' government accounting practices, this study investigates how and under what conditions policy incentives translate via expert group deliberations into draft policies. Drawing on policy design literature and using process tracing, this study finds that pre-existing policy instruments or design choices on higher order policy elements could lead to challenges in achieving the integrity and superiority of solutions at the level of calibration and street-level requirements, thus failing to produce the necessary expert consensus
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