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Replication Data for: A Signaling Theory of Distributive Policy Choice: Evidence from Senegal
No full textThese datasets and dofiles replicate the empirical results reported in Gottlieb et al. (2018), "A Signaling Theory of Distributive Policy Choice: Evidence from Senegal.
Replication Data for: A Signaling Theory of Distributive Policy Choice: Evidence from Senegal
No full textThese datasets and dofiles replicate the empirical results reported in Gottlieb et al. (2018), "A Signaling Theory of Distributive Policy Choice: Evidence from Senegal.
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
Spinoza’s Critique of Religion and Its Heirs: Marx, Benjamin, Adorno.
Get PDFEspinosa adentra no cânone filosófico ocidental e deixa uma herança no que diz respeito ao modo de pensar a religião, principalmente com o engenho e a condenação do Tratado Teológico-Político (TTP). Com efeito, sua origem religiosa e seu percurso intelectual extremamente crítico e secular são fatores que o marcam ainda mais como uma figura emblemática na história do pensamento, que, por sua vez, influencia diversos pensadores, principalmente no tema da formação do Estado em relação com a religião. Spinoza’s Critique of Religion and Its Heirs, ao enquadrar o autor holandês em uma tradição de pensamento caracterizada por Idit como “aristotélico-materialista”, tem por objetivo guiar o leitor através das conseqüências materiais e históricas do sistema espinosano, muito além da metafísica. A obra é focada na análise de Marx, Benjamin e Adorno com o intuito de mostrar como a crítica radical de Espinosa a religião moldou as criticas materialistas à filosofia da história. Em sua generalidade, a obra procura demonstrar como as noções antagônicas de temporalidade e história são a base para o pensamento desses teóricos críticos
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
The Economics of Slums in the Developing World
Get PDFThe global expansion of urban slums poses questions for economic research as well as problems for policymakers. We provide evidence that the type of poverty observed in contemporary slums of the developing world is characteristic of that described in the literature on poverty traps. We document how human capital threshold effects, investment inertia, and a "policy trap" may prevent slum dwellers from seizing economic opportunities offered by geographic proximity to the city. We test the assumptions of another theory -- that slums are a just transitory phenomenon characteristic of fastgrowing economies -- by examining the relationship between economic growth, urban growth, and slum growth in the developing world, and whether standards of living of slum dwellers are improving over time, both within slums and across generations. Finally, we discuss why standard policy approaches have often failed to mitigate the expansion of slums in the developing world. Our aim is to inform public debate on the essential issues posed by slums in the developing world.Sloan School of Managemen
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
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