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Nature-society interaction: an agenda for STI Research
Get PDF"Im Zuge der Auseinandersetzung um nachhaltigere Naturnutzungsformen werden Flusseinzugsgebiete als Einheiten eines integrierten Managements von Land- und Wasserressourcen auf europäischer und internationaler Ebene propagiert. Der Beitrag wendet Oran Young's institutionalistische Analyse von Umweltregimen auf das Flussgebiete an (institutional fit, scale and interplay, Young 2002), kombiniert mit Einsichten aus der STI-Forschung (science, technology, innovation) zur Kopplung zwischen Wissenschaft und anderen gesellschaftlichen Akteuren. Die empirische Analyse vergleicht 30 Flussgebietsinitiativen in 22 Ländern, die sich an dem UNESCO-Programm 'Hydrology, Life, Environment and Policy' (HELP) beteiligen, mit dem Ziel, die Kommunikation zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik, Verwaltung und Interessengruppen ('Stakeholder Dialogue') im Flussgebietsmanagement effektiver zu gestalten. Die Datengrundlage bilden Selbstdarstellungen in HELP-Anträgen und Websites und ca. 20 Interviews mit regionalen Experten. Die vorläufigen Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das Konzept des Flussgebietsmanagements international breit diffundiert ist, aber der Grad der Institutionalisierung nach Ländern noch große Unterschiede aufweist. Es wird eine Typologie der Flussgebietsinitiativen erstellt und darüber hinaus analysiert, wie das 'boundary-management' zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Stakeholdern gestärkt werden kann." (Autorenreferat
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
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
Implementing Digital Transformation through Development Projects:Comparing Two Digitalisatin Initiatives in Higher Education
No full textThis chapter compares two digitalisation initiatives in higher education in the Netherlands (Npuls) and North Rhine-Westphalia (Digitale Hochschule NRW), focusing on objectives, funding, stakeholder involvement and project structures. The analysis explores how these initiatives drive innovation and organisational change in higher education systems through project-based governance. Npuls emphasises collaboration and diverse projects, while Digitale Hochschule NRW prioritises structured collaboration and consensus between universities, potentially putting innovation at risk. Both programmes aim to improve teaching quality and digital literacy through knowledge transfer mechanisms such as centres for teaching and learning. The balance between flexibility and structure in project development is crucial for effective digital transformation in higher education
Verlässliches Expertenwissen für die Hochschulpolitik?: Aktuelle Befunde zur bibliometrischen Forschungsevaluation in Europa
Get PDFam Beispiel der bibliometrischen Evaluation von Forschungsleistungen. Gegenstand der Analyse ist die bisherige Verwendung und Institutionalisierung bibliometrischer Methoden in der Hochschulevaluation am Beispiel der Niederlande und Italiens. Die Auswahl dieser beiden Länder basiert auf einer umfangreichen Meta-Analyse der bibliometrischen Evaluationspraxis in Europa im Zeitraum 2005 –2019. Wir argumentieren, dass diese beiden Länder entgegengesetzte Pole darstellen, was die Möglichkeiten einer verlässlichen Konstruktion von Expertenwissen angeht. Der Fall der Niederlande (Strategy Evaluation Protocol) lässt sich als ein Modell eines bibliometrischen Professionalismus charakterisieren, das die Autonomie der Universitäten stärkt und im Laufe der Zeit zu einer hohen Akzeptanz bibliometrischer Indikatoren in den betroffenen akademischen Disziplinen beigetragen hat. Demgegenüber stellt der Fall Italiens (Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca) ein zentralisiertes, bürokratisches Modell dar, das zwar akademische Eliten kooptiert, dessen Methoden und Ergebnisse jedoch von Bibliometrikerinnen und Bibliometrikern stark angegriffen wurden. Der Beitrag wendet die professionssoziologische Theorie von Andrew Abbott auf das Feld der Evaluativen Bibliometrie an, um die Unterschiede zwischen beiden Ländern zu analysieren.This paper examines practices of generating reliable evidence for decision-making using the example of bibliometric research assessment. We analyze how bibliometric methods have been implemented in the national evaluations of higher education institutions in the Netherlands and Italy. The selection of these two countries is based on a comprehensive meta-evaluation of bibliometric assessment practices in Europe in the period 2005 –2019. We argue that these two countries represent opposite poles with regard to possible approaches for the construction of reliable expert knowledge. The case of the Netherlands (Strategy Evaluation Protocol) can be characterized as a model of bibliometric professionalism that has had an enhancing effect on university autonomy and has over time led to broad acceptance of bibliometric indicators among academic disciplines. In contrast, the case of Italy (Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca) represents a centralistic bureaucratic model that, while coopting elites from academic disciplines, has met with harsh methodological criticism from bibliometric experts. We apply Andrew Abbott’s sociology of professions to the field of evaluative bibliometrics in order to analyze the differences between the two country cases
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