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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
Harmonization of the eu’s electoral law – wishful thinking or realistic plan for the future?
No full textParlament Europejski jest jedyną instytucją systemu politycznego Unii Europejskiej, której
skład wybierany jest bezpośrednio przez wszystkich dorosłych obywateli państw członkowskich.
Od czterech dekad nie udało się wypracować jednolitego systemu wyborczego, a wybory do PE
organizowane są od samego początku, czyli od 1979 roku, na podstawie ordynacji narodowych.
Przedmiotem analizy są wysuwane propozycje reform systemu wyborczego Unii Europejskiej,
wychodząc od przedstawienia modelowych rozwiązań systemów wyborczych stosowanych
w demokracjach sfragmentaryzowanych. Wskazane są różnice w obecnie obowiązujących
krajowych ordynacjach wyborczych do PE oraz przeanalizowane trudności w zakresie ujednolicania
unijnego systemu wyborczego.The European Parliament is the only institution of European Union’ political system, which
is elected directly by the adult citizens of the Member States. After four decades from the first
direct elections (1979) the EP elections are organized on the basis of national law.
The article examines proposals of the EU electoral system’ reforms starting from the analysis
of the model solutions used in fragmented democracies. Author indicated differences in the current
national EP’ electoral laws and examined difficulties of the convergence and harmonization
of the EU voting system
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
Chapter 1 Gender of electoral defeat in the narrative of political parties in Poland, Belgium, and the United Kingdom
Full text linkGender, Politics, Elections, Democracy, LGBT
Compulsory voting as the solution to low electoral turnout – the treatment worse than the disease?
No full textThe objective of the paper is to analyse the issue of compulsory voting, i.e. the electoral system in which voters are obliged by law to participate in elections. The first section provides the landscape of compulsory voting in Europe and sanctions for non-participation. The second part discusses the arguments for and against compulsory voting which are based on different constructions of the same categories as democracy, freedom, equality, representation, civil rights and obligations. The final section examines the impact of compulsory voting on electoral turnout.Uniwersytet WrocławskiAmjahad A., Des abstentionnismes? Révélations typologiques, (w:) A. Amjahad, J-M. De Waele, M. Hastings (red.), Le vote obligatoire. Débats, enjeux et défi s, Paris 2011Bernhagen P., Marsh M., The partisan effect of low turnout: Analyzing vote abstention as a missing data problem, Electoral Studies 2007, t. 26, nr 3Birch S., Full Participation. A Comparative Study of Compulsory Voting, Tokyo-New York-Paris 2009Cześnik M., Partycypacja wyborcza Polaków, Warszawa 2009Delwit P., L’introuvable électeur? La participation électorale en Europe (1945-2005), (w:) A. Amjahad, J-M. De Waele, M. Hastings (red.), Le vote obligatoire. Débats, enjeux et défi s, Paris 2011Downs A., An Economic Theory of Democracy, New York 1957Lacroix J., De suffrage universel à la participation universelle. Pour une obligation libérale de se rendre aux urnes, Raison publique 2008, nr 8Lijphart A., Unequal Participation: democracy’s Unresolved Dilemma, American Political Science Review 1997, t. 91, nr 1Lijphart A., The Problem of Low and Unequal Voter Turnout and What we can do about it, Political Sciences Series 1998, t. 54Sieyès E-J., Qu’est-ce que le tiers-état?, Paris 2009Skarżyńska K., Człowiek a polityka. Zarys psychologii politycznej, Warszawa 2005Wiatr J.J., Socjologia polityki, Warszawa 1999Żołądek Ł, Przymus wyborczy. Geneza, praktyka funkcjonowania, argumenty za i przeciw, Studia Biura Analiz Sejmowych 2011, nr 3(27)27-3
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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