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Sovereign wealth global investment announcements by country (2007-2020)
No full textThis dataset contains structured information on sovereign wealth global investment announcements between 2007 and 2020 aggregated from project-level data provided by the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds. Each record includes the year of announcement, the geographic region, and the total investment value. The dataset is accompanied by a Python script that aggregates and visualises investment trends across regions, producing a time‑series plot included in the repository.
The data were transcribed from a spreadsheet of investment announcements and standardised for research use. Regions include Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Northern America, Western Europe, South‑central, South‑east, Oceania, Global, Africa, and others.
The code file provides a fully reproducible workflow for cleaning, aggregating, and visualising the data. The visual output illustrates temporal patterns in investment activity across world regions from 2007 to 2020.
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Semi-structured elite interviews were also conducted however the interview data associated with this project cannot be made accessible due to its sensible nature.
Project Description:
This project asks the research question How does state capital transnationalise? wherein the state is a market actor itself. The transformative potential of state capitalism remains a debated issue. What constitutes state capitalism, specifically Chinese state capitalism, is ambiguous to begin with. More to the point, it is often conflated with statism, which over-privileges the strategic coherency of the state in the face of the conflict-ridden, multi-scalar and multi-actor processes imbricated in the reproduction of state capital. This project contributes to a growing body of literature that emphasises the hybridity of its transnational expansion as simultaneously state-led and convergent on the liberal international order and (neo) liberal capitalism. Using Chinese foreign investment as the empirical lens, I outline three domains in which the legitimation imperatives faced by state-owned entities and sovereign wealth funds shapes their interests and investment behaviour: the party state apparatus, the global financial profession and the investment recipient/host context in Europe
Geoeconomics in a changing global order
Full text linkThis introductory chapter presents an overview and summary of the focus of this edited volume. We first discuss the contribution of the chapters to a more nuanced and novel way of studying geoeconomic dynamics from an IPE perspective as going beyond the classical geopolitical focus on conflict, state-centrism, and security issues. We then embed the volume in broader changes of globalization from the neoliberal era into a more confrontative phase since 2016. The third part of the introduction then interrogates the role of the EU in this changing global order and makes the case for studying this sidelined actor in contemporary discussions about geoeconomics. The fourth and last part introduces the different chapters in detail and lays out the plan of this book
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
Moving Forward:Understanding the Geoeconomic Decade of the 2020s
No full textThis concluding chapter summarizes the insights from the different contributions to the volumes and provides an outlook for future research. Different from the introduction, we focus here on the substantial contributions of each chapter for an emerging research agenda on geoeconomics in a changing global order. We do so in three steps. First, we identify four cross-cutting themes by comparing and contrasting various contributions to this volume: the historicization of geoeconomic phenomena, geoeconomics as a multi-layered phenomenon, the relational aspects of global geoeconomic dynamics, and the relationship between geoeconomics and state transformations, drawing out cross-cutting themes. Second, we formulate an emerging research agenda out of each of the described themes, which seeks to push scholarship on geoeconomics forward in an interdisciplinary manner. Third, we make this research agenda more concrete by extracting a core proposition from each chapter that contributes a building block for future research on geoeconomics and the role of Europe in a change global order. We end by formulating three key insights form this book for policy-and decision-makers
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
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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