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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
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
The role of environmental non-governmental organizations in policy-making
No full textOkoljske nevladne organizacije so postale ključni akterji v prizadevanjih za reševanje okoljskih izzivov, zlasti v kontekstu podnebnih sprememb. Zavzemajo se predvsem za trajnostni razvoj, zaščito naravnih virov, zmanjšanje emisij toplogrednih plinov in zaščito biotske raznovrstnosti. Njihova prizadevanja so pogosto usmerjena v mobilizacijo javnosti, izobraževanje in vplivanje na oblikovalce politik, da sprejmejo ukrepe, ki so potrebni za preprečevanje katastrofalnih posledic globalnega segrevanja. Učinkovite okoljske politike so namreč ključnega pomena za preprečevanje vse bolj intenzivnih podnebnih sprememb. V diplomski nalogi sem raziskovala, kakšna je vloga okoljskih nevladnih organizacij pri oblikovanju okoljskih politik v Sloveniji in kakšen vpliv imajo pri reševanju problematike energetske revščine. Preučevala sem Focus, društvo za sonaraven razvoj, ki je ena večjih nevladnih okoljskih organizacij pri nas, in analizirala učinkovitost njihovih projektov. Analiza je pokazala, da je društvo zelo dejavno in pogosto uspešno pri svojih prizadevanjih, a se kljub temu pri svojem delu in zavzemanju za varstvo okolja sooča z določenimi izzivi in ovirami, ki mu ne omogoča popolne izpeljave zastavljenih ciljev.Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGO) have become key actors in addressing environmental challenges, particularly in the context of climate change. They primarily advocate for sustainable development, the protection of natural resources, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and the preservation of biodiversity. Their efforts are often focused on mobilizing the public, educating communities, and influencing policymakers to adopt measures necessary to prevent the catastrophic consequences of global warming. Effective environmental policies are indeed crucial for mitigating the increasingly severe impacts of climate change. In this thesis, I explored the role of environmental NGOs in shaping environmental policies in Slovenia and their impact on addressing energy poverty. I analysed Focus, an association for sustainable development, which is one of the larger environmental NGOs in Slovenia, and analyzed the effectiveness of their projects. The analysis revealed that the organization is very active and often successful in its efforts, yet it still faces certain challenges and obstacles in its work and advocacy for environmental protection, which prevents the complete achievement of its goals
Trust in political parties and the success of new political parties
Full text linkJavnomnenjske raziskave v Sloveniji zadnja leta kažejo nizko zaupanje v politične institucije, med najnižjim zaupanjem pa zasledimo prav zaupanje v politične stranke. Zaupanje v politične institucije je povezano z udeležbo na parlamentarnih volitvah. Zaznamo lahko, da višja kot je volilna udeležba, večje je zaupanje v politične institucije in posledično politične stranke v državi. V nalogi najprej razlagamo nastanek političnih strank, podrobneje pa nastanek političnih strank v Sloveniji. Osredotočamo se na analizo parlamentarnih volitev v Sloveniji leta 2008, 2011 in 2014 ter ugotavljamo uspešnost novonastalih političnih strank na omenjenih volitvah. Uspeh novonastalih strank primerjamo z uspehom novonastalih strank v izbranih državah: Estoniji, na Češkem, Poljskem in Madžarskem. Ugotavljamo, da je uspešnost novih političnih strank odvisna od več dejavnikov, najbolj od volilnega sistema in višine volilnega praga. Slovenija ima ugoden volilni sistem za vstop novih političnih strank v parlament, primerjalno z izbranimi državami pa je v časovnem obdobju od leta 2008 do 2018 največ novih političnih strank preseglo volilni prag in vstopilo v parlament.Opinion surveys in Slovenia have shown low levels of trust in political institutions during the recent years, especially low levels of trust in political parties. Levels of trust in political parties in correlated with voters turn out at the parliamentarian elections. In the master thesis, we first focus on the process of establishment of political parties in general and specifically in Slovenia. A detailed analysis of parliamentary elections in Slovenia in 2008, in 2011 in 2014 shows that newly established political parties in Slovenia are entering the parliament. The success of newcomers is compared with the success of newcomers in selected countries: Estonia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. The success of new political parties depends on several factors, the most important ones are electoral system and the electoral threshold. Slovenia has an electoral system that is friendly to new political parties, also the threshold is low and it shows that Slovenia is in comparison to selected countries, a country with the highest number of new political parties that entered the parliament
Achieving European climate goals with public transport in Slovenia
No full textPromet je eden največjih proizvajalcev škodljivih toplogrednih plinov na svetu in je edini sektor, kjer se problematika poglablja in ne razrešuje. V teoriji je najboljša rešitev za nastalo stanje prehod z uporabe osebnega avtomobila na javni potniški promet. Pri tem dodatno vrednost prinese kolektiven odziv držav preko usklajenih politik na ravni mednarodnih igralcev, kot je EU. Ta je z Evropskim zelenim dogovorom vzpostavila vrsto zavezujočih ciljev, ki jih morajo države članice zagotoviti preko lastnih ukrepov. Učinkovitost takšnih ukrepov v slovenskem okolju je glavno vprašanje te naloge. Preko študije monitoringa bo raziskan nivo oblikovanja, izvajanja in izidov le-teh od leta 2018 do danes. Primerjani bodo dejavniki uporabe javnega prometa, na katere ima država vpliv, kot je ustvarjanje pogojev javnega prometa preko finančnih vložkov in aktivnosti za spodbudo uporabe javnega prometa. Na drugi strani so dejavniki, na katere država ne more vplivati, kamor spada vidik, kako ljudje dojemajo javni prevoz. Kljub navidezno dobro oblikovanim ukrepom in implementaciji, ki sledi predvidenemu dolgoročnemu načrtu, se premiki javnega prometa dogajajo prepočasi. Nasprotno, stanje emisij toplogrednih plinov v Sloveniji skozi leta ostaja bolj ali manj enako. Politika bi bila lahko bolj ambiciozna in vzpostavila boljšo konkurenčnost javnega potniškega prometa napram osebnim avtomobilom, čemur bi posledično sledil tudi večji vpliv na ljudi in uporabo javnega prometa.Transport is one of the largest emitters of harmful greenhouse gases in the world and is the only sector where the problem is deepening rather than being resolved. In theory, the best solution to the current situation is to shift from private cars usage to public passenger transportation. In this case, a collective response of countries through coordinated policies at the level of international players such as the EU, brings additional value. The European Green Deal set a series of binding targets that member states must meet through their own measures. The effectiveness of such measures in the Slovenian context is the main question of this assignment. Through the monitoring study, the design, implementation and outcomes level of those measures from 2018 until today will be examined. Compared will be the factors of public transport usage on which the state has influence, such as the creation of public transport conditions through financial inputs and activities to encourage the use of public transport. On the other hand, there are factors that cannot be controlled by the state, which include the aspect of how people perceive public transport. Despite seemingly well-designed measures and implementation that follows the long-term plan, public transport progress is happening too slowly. Quite the opposite, the situation of greenhouse gas emissions in Slovenia remains more or less the same over the years. The policy could be more ambitious and establish a better competitiveness of public passenger transport over private cars, which in turn would have a greater impact on people and the usage of public transport
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
Kartiranje proevropskih stališč v Grčiji: vrednotno utemeljena empirična študija
No full textGreece’s experiences through the financial crisis (2009-14), the migration surge (2015-19) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-22) turned the country into a stress-test for European governance. Bridging European-integration research with normative political theory, this thesis reframes “support for the EU” as Greek citizens’ adherence to three civic norms: law-abidingness, participation and solidarity and asks how those shocks reshaped Greek public attitudes toward the EU. Long-series Eurobarometer data are recast into composite indices that track how each norm rose or fell across the three crises and are interpreted alongside key EU and national policy decisions. The trajectories reveal a differentiated but converging erosion of normative EU support. Law-abidingness collapsed during austerity and never recovered, signaling durable institutional distrust. Participation proved highly reactive, yet retreating when citizens deemed their voice ineffective. Solidarity declined slowly but steadily, reflecting cumulative disappointment in burden-sharing. The patterns confirm a bailout-era plunge and mid-migration stabilisation, but refute expectations of a pandemic rebound. By operationalising EU attitudes through citizenship norms, the thesis shows that public trust in integration depends on governance that is simultaneously lawful, participatory and solidaristic.Tri krize, s katerimi se je soočila Grčija: finančna kriza (2009–2014), porast migracij (2015–2019) in pandemija covida-19 (2020–2022), so Grčijo spremenile v preizkusni primer evropskega upravljanja. S povezovanjem raziskav evropske integracije in normativne politične teorije ta magistrska naloga na novo opredeli »podporo EU« kot zavezanost grških državljanov trem državljanskim normam: spoštovanju prava, participaciji in solidarnosti, ter se vpraša, kako so vse tri krize preoblikovale stališča grške javnosti do EU. Podatki javnomnenjske raziskave Eurobarometer so bili uporabljeni za oblikovanje sestavljenih indeksov: spoštovanje prava, participacije in solidarnosti, s katerimi spremljamo vzpone in padce odnosa do EU skozi tri krize, ter so razloženi skupaj s ključnimi odločitvami EU in nacionalnih vlad. Gibanja sestavljenih indeksov razkrivajo različno, a konvergentno erozijo normativne podpore EU. Spoštovanje prava se je med varčevalnimi ukrepi porušilo in se nikoli ni povrnilo, kar kaže na trajno institucionalno nezaupanje. Participacija se je izkazala za močno reaktivno, a je upadla, ko so državljani presodili, da je njihov glas neučinkovit. Solidarnost je upadala počasi, a vztrajno, kar odraža naraščajoče razočaranje nad delitvijo skupnih bremen. Vzorci potrjujejo padec podpore EU v času sanacijskega obdobja in stabilizacijo sredi migrantske krize, a ovržejo pričakovanja o ponovnem vzponu med pandemijo. Z operacionalizacijo stališč do EU skozi državljanske norme naloga pokaže, da javno zaupanje v integracijo temelji na upravljanju, ki je hkrati zakonito, participativno in solidarno
European Union strategies for reducing youth unemployment – case study of Southern and Western Europe
No full textBrezposelnost mladih je težava sodobnih držav, saj se ti uvrščajo med kritične skupine. Prav
populacijo mladih sta zato najbolj prizadeli gospodarska kriza leta 2008 in pandemija covida
19 leta 2020. Zaradi teh dogodkov je Evropska unija sprejela in dopolnila različne strategije za
zmanjševanje brezposelnosti mladih v državah članicah Evropske unije, naloga držav članic pa
je implementacija teh strategij v skladu z nacionalno zakonodajo. Temu področju so veliko
pozornosti posvečale tudi druge mednarodne organizacije, kot sta ILO in OZN. Strategije EU
za zmanjševanje nezaposlenosti mladih po gospodarski krizi so se osredotočale predvsem na
ustvarjanje delovnih mest in blaženje posledic krize, medtem ko se novejše strategije čedalje
bolj osredotočajo na zelene tematike, trajnost, vseživljenjsko učenje, mobilnost mladih,
vključevanje in sodelovanje mladih v političnem in družbenem življenju ter na splošno čim
boljše izkoriščanje potenciala mladih. Strategije so torej zasnovane predvsem na podlagi
aktivne politike zaposlovanja. Poleg stopnje brezposelnosti je za vsebino strategij pomemben
tudi podatek, koliko mladih ni niti zaposlenih niti se ne šolajo, zanimiva pa je tudi primerjava
držav iz različnih regij Evrope.Youth unemployment is a significant issue in contemporary societies, as young people represent
one of the most vulnerable demographic groups. The economic crisis of 2008 and the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 had a particularly severe impact on this population. In response to these events, the European Union adopted and refined various strategies aimed at reducing youth
unemployment across its member states. The implementation of these strategies lies with the
individual member states, which must adapt them in accordance with their national legislation.
This area has also drawn considerable attention from international organisations such as the
ILO and the UN. In the aftermath of the economic crisis, EU strategies primarily focused on
job creation and alleviating the effects of the downturn. More recent approaches increasingly
prioritise green policies, sustainability, lifelong learning, youth mobility, the inclusion and
participation of young people in political and social life, and, more broadly, the full realisation
of young people’s potential. These strategies are thus primarily based on the principles of active
labour market policy. In addition to youth unemployment rates, a key factor in shaping these
strategies is the proportion of young people who are not in employment, education, or training
(NEETs). A comparative analysis of countries from different European regions also provides
valuable insights
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