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Conclusions : learning from the Tunisian experience
No full textThe spirit that drove the Tunisian revolution of January 2011 remains alive in the activism of movements around the country that are developing new strategies and finding new hope in the fight for justice. While some of them explicitly seek to mobilize the normative appeal of the transitional justice discourse to further their cause, others do not reference the language of a transitional justice explicitly, even if their claims could logically be framed as demands for transformative justice. This suggests that resistance to standardized transitional justice approaches coexists with a reliance on the language and mechanisms of transitional justice. Transitional and other justice discourses are in constant interaction with each other, and which one is adopted depends, too a large extent, on the intentions, resources, repertoires of action and access of those involved. This dynamic interaction between innovative and standardized transitional justice, and between various kinds of justice discourses and claims-making more generally, offers a dynamic picture of Tunisian’s ongoing struggle for justice. These various initiatives are an example, both for practitioners and scholars, about how the struggle for justice requires activism in a range of spaces, both the formal and those that start from the capacity of citizens to demand change that will improve their lives, rather than from the proceduralism of institutions
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
Legal Empowerment: Between Transition and Transformation
No full textChapter 5 argues for a ‘good enough’ transitional justice which seeks to do more whilst acknowledging both its core strengths and limitations. The chapter explores the potential of linking transitional justice to development and the rule of law through the vehicle of legal empowerment. Building on relationships between transitional justice and development, collective reparations, the rule of law, and access to justice, Waldorf argues that there are four strong reasons to link transitional justice and legal empowerment. 1) They share key goals, notably accountability and building civic trust. 2) There is an increasing convergence in methods, as transitional justice becomes more participatory and bottom-up in orientation. 3) Both approaches contribute to a ‘socialization of a rights culture.’ 4) Transitional justice can help create openings for legal mobilization, claims-making and empowerment. Ultimately, the author argues for legal empowerment as a form of collective legal rehabilitation or reparations
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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