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International Higher Education for Whom? Expatriate Students, Choice-making and International (Im)mobility in the Northern United Arab Emirates
No full textThe author would like to thank the students who generously offered their time and candor, the staff at participating institutions for their help and hospitality, and to everyone at the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation in Ras Al Khaimah for their unceasing, unrivaled support and encouragement.This article identifies a research gap on expatriate students attending international branch campuses in their country of residence, and presents evidence that they are insufficiently distinguished from international students in research on student mobility and choice-making. It finds that the priorities and enrollment choices of expatriates are often understood using the same analytical language as for students who migrate for the purpose of education, particularly through the use of rationalist "push-pull" models and agent-centric frameworks that approach choice and mobility as inherent to all international students. The study suggests that the enrollment choices of expatriates studying at fee-charging international institutions are better understood through research discourses typically applied to non-mobile, domestic students, such as access, affordability and opportunity. Using a mixed-methods research design combining questionnaires and interviews, the author examines the pathways and obstacles experienced by expatriate residents studying at international institutions in the Northern Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. It finds that expatriate student choices are often constrained by structural factors that limit their mobility, including costs and family commitments, and are informed by senses of belonging and familiarity in their adoptive country of residence. Findings are contextualized through a discussion of an international education market which capitalizes on immobility and commercializes access to expressions of global citizenship. It concludes with implications for mobility research and calls for greater nuance in discussions on students attending international institutions of higher education
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
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
International Branch Campuses in the Arabian Gulf: Building Up or Undermining Local Capacity?
Full text linkInternational branch campuses (IBCs) are neither a new or homogenous phenomenon; they are, however, developing in familiar forms and appearing in startling numbers throughout the oil-rich monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the Arabian Peninsula. Seen as part of a “third wave” of cross-border higher education provision worldwide (Reilly, 2005, p.533), the expansion began in the region with independent arrangements between various high-profile Australian and American institutions and Gulf host governments. As this trend accelerated over the 1990s and early 2000s (Reilly, 2005; Rupp, 2009), specialized learning ‘cities’ which consolidate swaths of higher education institutions (HEIs) began to appear as an instrument of wider modernization projects throughout the region (Khodr, 2012; Knight, 2011). The two most visible of these educational ‘hubs’ – Education City (EC) in Qatar, and Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), UAE – attempt to integrate not only globally diverse HEIs within a single site, but also internationally-recognized K-12 providers, human resources agencies, and corporate and industrial partners to link education with research and development. The scale and scope of these HEI hubs pose important questions for policymakers and stakeholders on both sides of the home-host divide. As a new and arguably experimental foray into cross-border provision, the rationales, strategic planning and sustainability of these IBC hubs warrant careful attention and timely research to ensure the outcomes, however defined by stakeholders, are realized
Between Being and Becoming European Universities: Tensions and Challenges at the Midway Point
No full textThe European Universities Initiative (EUIs) is exactly halfway through its five-year pilot phase running through 2024. As a policy development which aims to fundamentally transform higher education in Europe, EUIs are saddled with high expectations to deliver on broad and expanding remits in teaching, research and civic engagement across sites and scales. Given the distance between their current and proposed provisions, how do these nascent supranational organisations represent both their operational and aspirational states of being? What tensions become apparent in communicating the multifaceted aims of EUIs to their multiple stakeholders through singular platforms like their websites? This paper complements discussions of broader EUI policy aims by critically examining the digital self-representations of EUIs. It presents the findings from a case study of three contrastive EUIs, drawing on a visual documentary analysis of EUI web pages, social media and other organisational documents
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