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Replication Data for: Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality
No full textRepresentation of women in the field of legislative politics is remarkably small and the absence of women has wide-ranging ramifications. In fall 2019, we surveyed 361 women who we identified as studying legislative politics within political science to understand why women’s representation in legislative studies so low and what we can do about it. We found that many women study legislatures, but they do not always identify as scholars of legislative studies, often do not join the Legislative Studies Section, and tend to prioritize other journals over Legislative Studies Quarterly, the official journal of the section. We discuss several solutions to the problem of women’s underrepresentation in legislative studies, including the new Women in Legislative Studies initiative
Replication Data for Little is Known about Party System Volatility in Post-Communist Europe, but We Have Interesting New Methods and Data for Studying It
No full textOur article is a response to a response to: Powell, Eleanor Neff, and Joshua A. Tucker. 2014. Revisiting Electoral Volatility in Post-Communist Countries: New Data, New Results and New Approaches. British Journal of Political Science 44(1):123–47
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
Como não Mentir sem a Estatística
Full text linkNeste artigo realçamos e sugerimos formas de evitar uma grande quantidade de equívocos comuns na literatura acerca das melhores práticas na pesquisa qualitativa. Discutimos estas questões em quatro áreas: teoria e dados, estratégias qualitativas e quantitativas, causalidade e explicação, e viés de seleção. Alguns dos equívocos envolvem debates incendiários dentro de nossa disciplina, que são prontamente resolvidos ou diretamente ou com resultados conhecidos em áreas de pesquisa que podem ser desconhecidos dos cientistas políticos. Muitos destes equívocos podem também ser encontrados na pesquisa quantitativa, geralmente com nomes diferentes, e alguns dos quais podem ser fixados com referência a ideias mais bem compreendidas na literatura de métodos qualitativos. O nosso objetivo é melhorar a habilidade de estudiosos com orientação quantitativa e qualitativa, para apreciarem as vantagens de \textit{insights} de ambas as áreas. Assim, no todo, tentamos construir orientações práticas específicas que possam ser usadas para melhorar desenhos reais de pesquisa qualitativa, e não somente as literaturas de métodos qualitativos que tratam acerca deles
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
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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