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Studium als Balanceakt
Full text linkThis open access book sheds light on study-related experiences of First-in-Family students in Austria. For the first time, this book comprehensively illuminates those areas of life in which students are embedded outside of the university environment. The analysis focuses on the reconstruction of first-in-family students’ agency and capitals
First-in-Family students’ roots and routes into higher education: Familial dynamics as drivers for breaking intergenerational cycles of educational attainment
Full text linkThis study fills significant gaps in knowledge around how familial dynamics shape First-in-Family students’ educational pathways, inform how they engage with the higher education setting, and drive them to break intergenerational cycles of educational attainment. Twenty-seven interviews with First-in-Family students in four public universities in Austria revealed three drivers: aligning with familial expectations, leaving one’s social milieu and emancipation from familial orientations. The paper argues that these drivers inform not only the why but also the how they organise their social contacts during their university education (e.g. different forms of engagement and connection to their family milieu and community outside of university). The findings suggest that we need to take these subjective dimensions into account if we aim to improve targeted support and to enhance the quality of learning experiences for all higher education students. Furthermore, we need to acknowledge that a growing diversity in the student population might also mean a greater diversity in the reasons to pursue a higher education, which should be accompanied with critical reflections on how the needs of these students can be met in the post-pandemic university to foster student retention and success
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
Does Combining Work and Study ‘Pay Off’? Investigating Intersectional Effects of Term-Time Employment, First-Generation Status and Gender on Graduate Outcomes
Full text linkDespite globally increasing numbers of university students participating in paid employment during their studies, there is limited evidence on whether working during the lecture period (i.e., term-time) is beneficial for graduate outcomes, especially from an intersectional perspective. Using Austrian national administrative data on all university graduates between 2009 and 2018 (N = 90,026), we examine how student employment is associated with graduate outcomes for university graduates taking intersectional effects of ‘first-generation status’ and ‘gender’ into account. Our results extend existing research by showing that First-Generation graduate men and women tend to benefit differently from engaging in term-time employment. This accentuates the need for further research in higher education studies investigating graduate outcomes by taking intersectionality into account. Based on the results of this study, we discuss implications for policy and practice of employability-related activities at higher education institutions
An international comparison of graduate outcome survey instruments: a critical reflection
Full text linkAs national budgets shrink and the debate over the role of higher education intensifies, there is increased interest in the ways in which universities not only educate students but prepare them for the labour market. Underpinning this discussion is often the data that arises from national or international graduate outcomes surveys, which speak to both the performance of specific universities and the system at large. In this paper, we explore the differences in three graduate outcome instruments from Australia, the UK, and Europe. In doing so, we seek to highlight the unique approach that each instrument takes towards the measurement of graduate outcomes and how these design choices represent what aspects are deemed important in each context. Through our research, we hope to inform future discussions over the various approaches to measure graduate outcomes and illuminate the methodological assumptions that accompany these choices
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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