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Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of the North Dakota oil boom on agricultural prices
No full textThis repository contains the data and code for the paper "Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of the North Dakota oil boom on agricultural prices" by James Bushnell, Jonathan E. Hughes and Aaron Smith. Please read README.docx for more details on the code
Replication data for: Some Inconvenient Truths about Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
No full textHolland, Stephen P., Hughes, Jonathan E., Knittel, Christopher R., and Parker, Nathan C., (2015) "Some Inconvenient Truths about Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies." Review of Economics and Statistics 97:5, 1052-1069
Replication data for: Some Inconvenient Truths about Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
No full textHolland, Stephen P., Hughes, Jonathan E., Knittel, Christopher R., and Parker, Nathan C., (2015) "Some Inconvenient Truths about Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies." Review of Economics and Statistics 97:5, 1052-1069
Conceptualising equality, equity and differentiation in marketised higher education: fractures and fault-lines in the neoliberal imaginary
No full textIn this book we set out to explore the prospects for equality of opportunity in an English higher education policy context which has been steered towards marketisation. In our introductory chapter we set out three questions which we and the other contributors to this book have addressed in different ways:
• What features of marketisation are most evident in higher education?
• How does institutional differentiation impact on higher education institutions, staff and students?
• By what means are policies, practices and discourses of marketisation and differentiation in higher education reconciled with those of equality of opportunity?
We have attempted a multi-level analysis of the impact of marketisation, focusing initially on the international environment, then drilling down into an analysis of marketisation and differentiation and the implications for access to higher education in the English system, including the prospect of new 'challenger' institutions enabled and encouraged by the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (HM Government 2017). At the level of practice, we have presented the perspectives of academics – a snap-shot of their responses to marketisation, widening participation and the demands of the 'metric tide' of audit and accountability which have accompanied marketisation. We thus present a dynamic picture which helps to explain the protogenesis of global as well as localised market reforms; this allows us to say something about the likely impact of ongoing marketisation on the academy, and particularly for groups underrepresented in higher education. In this concluding chapter we bring the discussion up to date by reviewing some of the developments in higher education policy which have unfolded during the period of preparing this book. We then discuss how the various contributions to the book have addressed the questions which we posed at the outset. Finally, we draw out the lessons from this exploration of marketisation, differentiation and equality in one country
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
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