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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
Reshaping the political arena in Latin America : from resisting Neoliberalism to the second incorporation
No full textNeoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as wages declined and unemployment increased. The backlash to neoliberalism in the form of popular protest and electoral mobilization opened space for leftist governments to emerge. The turn to left governments raised popular expectations for a second wave of incorporation. Although a growing literature has analyzed many aspects of left governments, there is no study of how the redefinition of the organized popular sectors, their allies, and their struggles have reshaped the political arena to include their interests--until now. This volume examines the role played in the second wave of incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The cases shed new light on a subject critical to understanding the change in the distribution of political power related to popular sectors and their interests--a key issue in the study of postneoliberalism.-- Acknowledgments xi
-- Chapter 1. Introduction: Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America 3, Federico M. Rossi and Eduardo Silva
-- Part I: Social Movements
-- Chapter 2. Introduction to Part I: Social Movements and the Second Wave of (Territorial) Incorporation in Latin America 23, Federico M. Rossi
-- Chapter 3. Social Movements and the Second Incorporation in Bolivia and Ecuador 32, Eduardo Silva
-- Chapter 4. The Incorporation of Popular Sectors and Social Movements in Venezuelan Twenty-First-Century Socialism 60, María Pilar García-Guadilla
-- Chapter 5. Social Movements, the New “Social Question,” and the Second Incorporation of the Popular Sectors in Argentina and Brazil 78, Federico M. Rossi
-- Part II: Trade Unions
-- Chapter 6. Introduction to Part II: Labor Unions in Latin America: Incorporation and Reincorporation under the New Left 115, Ruth Berins Collier
-- Chapter 7. Socialism without Workers? Trade Unions and the New Left in Bolivia and Ecuador 129, Jorge León Trujillo and Susan Spronk
-- Chapter 8. Conflicting Currents within the Pro-Chávez Labor Movement and the Dynamics of Decision Making 157, Steve Ellner
-- Chapter 9. The Labor Movement and the Erosion of Neoliberal Hegemony: Brazil and Argentina 179, Julián Gindin and Adalberto Cardoso
-- Part III: Political Parties
-- Chapter 10. Introduction to Part III: Political Parties in Latin America’s Second Wave of Incorporation 211, Kenneth M. Roberts
-- Chapter 11. From Movements to Governments: Comparing Bolivia’s MAS, and Ecuador’s PAIS 222, Catherine Conaghan
-- Chapter 12. The Second Wave of Incorporation and Political Parties in the Venezuelan Petrostate 251, Daniel Hellinger
-- Chapter 13. The Politics of Incorporation: Party Systems, Political Leaders,, and the State in Argentina and Brazil 275, Pierre Ostiguy and Aaron Schneider
-- Chapter 14. Conclusion: Reflections on the Second Wave of Popular Incorporation for a Post-Neoliberal Era 309, Eduardo Silva
-- Notes 325
-- References 337
-- About the Contributors 373
-- Index 379Is based on the author's (Rossi) EUI PhD thesis, 201
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
Crisis de la república delegativa. La constitución de nuevos actores políticos en la Argentina (2001-2003): las asambleas vecinales y populares
Get PDFThe 2001-2002 crisis in Argentina produced an increased popular unrest. In Buenos Aires it took thousands of urban middles class persons to organized neighborhood assemblies all around the city. Based on the findings of a 13 months ethnographic comparative two-case study, this article presents a synthesis of the main typical-ideal characteristics of the two flanks that composed the assemblies’ movement in Buenos Aires during it whole existence
La participación de las juventudes hoy: la condición juvenil y la redefinición del involucramiento político y social
No full text¿Qué activa políticamente con más frecuencia a los jóvenes en la actualidad? ¿Cómo participan los jóvenes hoy? ¿Existe algún tipo de organización que los atraiga más? La condición juvenil contemporánea obliga a una redefinición de nuestro entendimiento sobre las formas de participación política. Desde la inclusión de mujeres jóvenes en la estructura internacional de la YWCA hasta la participación en una sociedad rural de clanes en Papúa Nueva Guinea, este libro estudia la complejidad que subyace a las causas de la activación política y las formas de participación que en la actualidad despliegan las juventudes. El autor presenta un análisis de las dimensiones individuales, organizacionales y societales de la participación política de los jóvenes en estudios de casos micro y macro con el fin de encontrar patrones comunes que ayuden a su comprensión teórica y a la generación de políticas públicas. Sin perder rigor académico, se presenta un análisis de las nuevas formas y espacios de participación de, para y con jóvenes en un lenguaje claro para el público no especializado
La traducción nacional de redes globales: ATTAC en la Argentina
No full textThis article presents a brief summary of the work-in-progress of a case-study of the ATTAC network in Argentin
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