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No full textThe Paradox of Diversity Initiatives: Structural Disadvantages for Global South Scholars in Academia
No full textThe implementation of diversity initiatives at Western universities serves as proof of institutional dedication to equity programs. These diversity initiatives represent mechanisms that perpetuate colonial power dynamics despite being presented as reform efforts from a critical psychological viewpoint. The article argues that diversity policies convert fundamental epistemic violence into individual problems that divert attention from implementing complete structural changes. The analysis employs decolonial theory, critical psychology, and postcolonial studies to show how diversity programs silence decolonisation movements while maintaining Eurocentric epistemologies and current hiring practices. The inclusion offered through these initiatives centres "Whiteness" and neoliberal logic instead of eliminating coloniality, so they fail to dismantle power structures. The article ends by supporting actual decolonisation processes instead of diversity paradigms, which would acknowledge multiple epistemologies while distributing power in academic institutions
The psychological impact of COVID‐19 on students and academics at a Higher Education Institution in the United Kingdom
No full textThis study investigates the psychological impact of COVID‐19 on students and academics at a Higher Education Institution in the UK. We used critical reflective writing, in which ten students and ten lecturers wrote a short reflection (approximately 200 words) on their experience of the lockdown prior to the study. Secondly, transcriptions were gathered for analysis. Inductive Thematic Analysis was selected as the preferred method of investigation to identify, analyse, and report themes from the dataset. The specific study aims were: (a) to present an empirical investigation into the psychological impact of COVID‐19, (b) to explore the interplay between social isolation and mental health, and (c) to examine how the affected individuals understand their experiences. The health impact of COVID-19 included physiological and mental health aspects and reflected the importance of teacher and student psychological wellbeing for teaching and learning. The paper highlights that there is a need for psycho-social crisis prevention and intervention models tailored to support students\u27 and academics\u27 psychological wellbeing, arguing that considerations should be made to adjust expectations from students in relation to progression, and staff, in relation to workload
Epistemic violence in psychological research: Unveiling bias in methodology, methods, and the peer review process
Full text linkThe concept of epistemic violence, which defines the oppression of knowledge systems and knowers, has become more significant when applied to psychological research. The article interrogates epistemic violence through the examination of research design, as well as methodological paradigms and methods, and the peer review process. This paper examines how mainstream psychological science creates epistemic exclusion by favouring Western positivist approaches over indigenous experiential and non-normative ways of knowing through the lens of postcolonial theory, feminist epistemology, and critical psychology. The methodological gatekeeping together with disciplinary conventions and reviewer biases operate as mechanisms that lead to epistemic marginalisation of research produced by scholars from historically excluded communities. The article suggests strategies for improving research inclusivity and epistemic justice in academic culture, including methodological pluralism, reflexive research approaches, and changes to peer review procedures. The analysis aims to advance existing efforts for psychological knowledge decolonisation and academic publishing equity enhancement
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
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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