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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
Z. Barany, Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, 247 pages.
No full textThe dilemmas created by the abrupt collapse of the Soviet military in 1991 and the inefficient defense reforms that followed in post-Soviet Russia have been analyzed from various perspectives. In his book on the decline of the Russian military, Zoltan Barany puts forth two explanations. First, the author argues that the Russian military became increasingly politicized, with a small group of generals influencing important issues in the defense sector. Second, centralization of presidential pow..
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
Modernisation and development in Central Asia
No full textThis chapter provides an overview of three decades of international development initiatives in Central Asia. It starts by outlining the principles of Soviet modernisation, which until now influence development thinking in the region. In turn, it identifies three phases of development cooperation in Central Asia and sketches their main characteristics by paying attention to actors, interventions and associated imaginaries of development. The chapter analyses how the dominant development paradigms shifted from Western donors’ support to democratisation and free market in the region in the 1990s; through a turn to security and differentiating development trajectories in five Central Asian countries in the 2000s; to an arrival of new donors’ and a emergence of a new, heterogenous development landscape in the region in the 2010s. Two case studies of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan demonstrate how donor-funded projects interplay with current state and nation-building processes in Central Asia, and showcase new constellations of power relations emerging between international donors and local actors
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
Oil, capital, and labour around the Caspian
No full textShifting away from conventional approaches focusing on blessings and curses, rents and corruption, this chapter looks instead at oil in Central Asia as being part of a global production network, or complex. In particular, the chapter first outlines some of the strategies employed in order to accumulate capital and power by corporations and elites in the region. Secondly, it relates the accumulation of capital to practices of labour governance and control by looking at two different spaces of extraction, the ‘oil enclave’ and the ‘oil town.’ Tracing old and new approaches to the study of oil, especially in the context of Central Asia, the chapter engages critically with the existing literature and proposes some starting points for further research. The chapter claims that focusing on strategies, spaces and forms of capital accumulation, together with how global and local labour governance practices articulate, constitute an analytical framework which would ‘deprovincialise’ Central Asia by linking it to wider dynamics and processes observable in the oil complex in other locales and sites beyond the region
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia offers the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary overview of key issues in Central Asian Studies. The 30 chapters by leading and emerging scholars summarise major findings in the field and highlight long-term trends, recent observations, and future developments in the region. The handbook features case studies of all five Central Asian republics and is organised thematically in seven sections: History, Politics, Geography, International Relations, Political Economy, Society and Culture, Religion. An essential cross-disciplinary reference work, the handbook offers an accessible and easy to understand guide to the core issues permeating the region to enable readers to grasp the fundamental challenges, transformations and themes in contemporary Central Asia. It will be of interest to researchers, academics and students of the region and those working in the field of Area Studies, History, Anthropology, Politics and International Relations
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