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Replication Data for: Symbolic effects of representative bureaucracy in policing: An experimental replication in a Korean context
No full textReplication Data for the paper titled Symbolic Effect of Representative Bureaucracy in Policing: A Replication of Experimental Study in a Korean Contex
Replication Data for "Gender Representation in Police Organizations: How Do Upper-level and Street-level Female Bureaucrats Differ in Their Roles?"
No full textThis is the replication data for "Gender Representation in Police Organizations: How Do Upper-level and Street-level Female Bureaucrats Differ in Their Roles?
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Understanding the adoption and implementation of body worn camera policies in state and local governments and their effects on police behavior
Get PDFThe body worn camera (BWC) policy in the United States was introduced as a response to public demand for governmental action to decrease police use of deadly force after several highly-visible police shooting incidents involving Black residents occurred. Given the recent introduction of BWC technology, past studies on BWCs have primarily focused on examining whether BWC implementation influences the desired outcomes including a decrease in police use of force and citizen complaints. However, a deeper analysis of why BWCs were adopted and implemented and how their implementation influences everyday police work activity can provide a more comprehensive understanding on the overall BWC policy process. These topics on BWCs were explored in the three individual papers. The first paper uses qualitative comparative analysis to assess how U.S. states address diverse issues regarding BWCs within their legislation and examines the factors explaining the variation in states’ actions in adopting BWC legislation. This paper shows that the existence of political or societal motivations to address the issue of police use of force leads to state adoption of BWC legislation, within the certain contexts of the absence of a strong obstacle from the opponents to BWC policy, existence of state resources, or both. The second paper uses an event history analysis to examine what organizational and environmental factors explain the implementation of BWCs among local police departments. It shows that the severity of the problem of fatal police shooting incidents against Black residents or the pressure that is expected to be placed on the police department by Black residents to address such a problem does not have significant impact on the decision of police departments to implement BWCs; rather, external support from the municipal administrative leader and financial support from the federal agency is critical to explain BWC implementation. The third paper uses the difference-in-differences quasi-experimental design to estimate the causal influence of BWC implementation on police officers’ discretionary decision-making in arrests and examine whether its influence differs according to the race of the offenders and the types of offenses. The finding shows that officers’ arrests for misdemeanor offenses decrease by a small extent after they start wearing BWCs, but the decrease in misdemeanor arrests through the influence of BWCs is not relevant to the differing treatment toward Black and White suspects by officers. By enhancing our substantive understanding of BWC policy implementation, findings provide actionable insights for police practice such as that police practitioners may have to consider a measure to ensure BWCs’ positive influence on police-public relationship through major improvements in the public’s perceptions or behaviors toward officers; this is because the current finding implies that BWC implementation may not effective in changing officers’ behavior. In addition, these papers contribute to the theoretical literature of state and local policy adoption by suggesting the importance of examining interactive effects of the explanatory variables in explaining policy adoption
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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