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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
Corbynism without Corbyn? The UK Labour Party after the electoral defeat of December 2019
Full text linkDie Wahlniederlage der britischen Labour Party wirft die Fragen auf, ob sich nach den bisherigen Erfolgen des Corbynismus die politische Konjunktur wieder dreht. Der Corbynismus ist als (widersprüchlicher) Versuch zu sehen, die Krise von britischem Staat und Gesellschaft durch eine Strategie der Reorganisierung der britischen Klassenverhältnisse zu bearbeiten. Er ist weniger eine politische Position, die in der Wahl zurückgewiesen wurde, als vielmehr eine politische Bewegung, der es gelungen ist, Teile der britischen Linken zu einen, um die Labour Party zu gruppieren und zu einem relevanten politischen Anziehungspunkt zu machen. Dadurch ist die Linke zu einem relevanten politischen Faktor geworden, der auch nach der Wahlniederlage über politische Potentiale verfügt.The electoral defeat of the UK Labour Party prompts questions on whether the political conjuncture has changed again after first successes of Corbynism. Corbynism is analysed as a (contradictory) attempt to address the crisis of British state and society via a strategy of reorganising British class relations. It is less a political position that was rejected in the election but rather a political movement that was capable of uniting parts of the British left, regrouping them around the Labour Party and establishing the left as a relevant political factor. Despite the demoralisation that the election result has produced and despite the left\u27s weakness in the party\u27s recent leadership election, it remains such a factor with political potential
Momentum Quarterly: Zeitschrift für sozialen Fortschritt / Mit linksautoritärem Kommunitarismus wieder zur Arbeiterpartei? Kontexte, Ideologeme und Fehlschlüsse eines aufkommenden rechtssozialdemokratischen Parteiprojekts am Beispiel der britischen Labour Party
Full text linkIn vielen sozialdemokratischen Parteien polarisieren sich gegenwärtig die politischen Strategien einer sozialliberalen Wertehaltung und eines linksautoritären Kommunitarismus. Der Beitrag widmet sich der zweiten Strategie am Beispiel der britischen Labour Party, wo diese eine eigenständige Strömung begründet, die zwischen 2010 und 2015 sowie seit dem Führungswechsel unter Keir Starmer einigen Einfluss gewinnen konnte. Sie basiert auf einer Zurückweisung von wirtschafts- sowie gesellschaftspolitischem Liberalismus und strebt die Orientierung auf Arbeiter:innenmilieus vermittels sozialkonservativer Positionen und insbesondere Migrationskritik an. Nach einer Darstellung der Kontexte dieser Strategie innerhalb der Labour Party zeichnet der zweite Teil den Diskurs des linksautoritären Kommunitarismus in seinen politischen Positionen wie ideologischen Bezugspunkten sowie seinen Bemühungen um ein neues Narrativ über die Geschichte der Sozialdemokratie nach. In einem dritten Teil werden analytische Fehlschlüsse und Fallstricke der Strategie aufgezeigt, die in eine retrotopisch konstruierte und sozialkonservativ bestimmte Gemeinwohlkonzeption münden, die für eine Allianz der Linken und eine Einheit der Arbeiter:innenklasse hinderliche Effekte erzeugt und sich an einer Kulturalisierung und Entpolitisierung sozialer Missstände beteiligt.Many social-democratic parties are currently characterised by a polarisation of the political strategies of a social-liberal value orientation and a left-authoritarian communitarianism. The article analyses the second strategy by using the example of the British Labour Party, where this strategy has formed a tendency that has gained some influence between 2010 and 2015 as well as since the change of leadership under Keir Starmer. It rests upon a rejection of economic and cultural liberalism and aims to win back working-class milieus by advocating social conservatism and challenging migration. After presenting the contexts of this strategy within Labour, the second part draws on the discourse of left-authoritarian communitarianism and its political positions, ideological references as well as attempts to construct a new narrative of Labour's history and the labour movement. The third part highlights analytical fallacies and dangers of this strategy resulting in a retrotopian and conservative conceptualisation of the common good producing the effects of obstructing an alliance of the left and unity of the working class as well as depoliticising social injustices by displacing them as issues of culture
Limits of the Post-Blairist Constellation: The case of Austrian Social Democracy
No full textDer Beitrag betrachtet die aktuelle Lage der Sozialdemokratie aus Perspektive der politischen Strategie und zeichnet die Entwicklung der österreichischen Sozialdemokratie (SPÖ) nach. Aus dieser theoretischen Problematik erscheint das Aufkommen des Blairismus nicht nur als Ergebnis der exogen generierten Schwächung der Identität der traditionellen Sozialdemokratie, sondern als Versuch, die sozialdemokratischen Parteien hinter einem neuen Parteiprojekt zu einen, das die Defensive der 1980er und 1990er Jahre beendete und Parteiführungen taktischen Manövrierraum ermöglichte. Nach dem Scheitern des Blairismus erneuerten sich die sozialdemokratischen Parteien Europas in Richtung einer postblairistischen Strategie, die Kernelemente des Blairismus mit neuen vagen Bezugnahmen auf soziale Gerechtigkeit und ambivalenten Ansätzen zur Wiedergewinnung von ArbeiterInnenmilieus kombiniert. Wie schon die blairistischen Parteienprojekte bietet der Postblairismus jedoch weder ideologische Kohärenz noch innerparteiliche Stabilität. Diese Probleme zeigen sich auch am Beispiel der SPÖ, die basierend auf einer verschobenen politökonomischen Dynamik des Landes einen doppelten Sonderfall des Übergangs vom Blairismus zum Postblairismus bildet.The article analyses the current situation of social democracy from the perspective of political strategy and explicates the development of Austrian social democracy (SPÖ). According to this theoretical problematic, the emergence of Blairism is not conceived as the mere result of exogenous processes weakening traditional social democracy’s identity but as an attempt to unite social democratic parties behind a party project capable of resolving the crisis of the 1980s and 1990s and allowing party leaderships tactical flexibility and room for manoeuvre. After the defeat of Blairism, social democratic parties initiated a renewal in the direction of post-Blairism. It combined core elements of Blairism with vague references to social justice and ambivalent approaches to reconnect to the working class. As with Blairism, post-Blairism proved to be incapable of establishing ideological coherence nor intra-party stability. Although being a double exceptional case of the transition from Blairismus to post-Blairism (connected to a displaced dynamic of Austria’s political economy), these are problems also characterising the development of the SPÖ
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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