1,720,964 research outputs found
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
Another Turn of the Screw: The COVID-19 Crisis and the Reinforced Separation of Capital and Care
Get PDFIn most Latin American countries, the upper and middle classes tend to meet their care needs through the market, resorting to options such as private schools and care centres, as well as the labour of domestic workers. However, these practices were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures. Drawing on a series of interviews with employers of domestic workers in Paraguay, this paper analyses the changes in convivial relations and arrangements regarding the distribution of care within households that outsource domestic chores and had to adapt to lockdown measures. By doing so, I seek to highlight not only changes in the routine of family members but also the exacerbation of inequalities regarding the social organisation of care, and the discourses provided for justifying and naturalising these inequalities. I argue that while at first glance, lockdown measures seemed to have contested the separation of the world of work and family, they produced a rebound effect that translated into a reinforced separation of capital and care, expressed through a deepening of the privatisation, feminisation and commodification of care
Entre la tradición y el afecto : la identificación partidaria en Paraguay
Get PDFLa Asociación Nacional Republicana (ANR) y el Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico (PLRA) han dominado la vida política e institucional del Paraguay de manera ininterrumpida e incontestada desde su creación a finales del siglo XIX. Y aunque el descontento ciudadano no sea menor, los niveles de afiliación en el país -afiliación casi exclusiva a estos dos partidos- lejos de disminuir, se mantiene estable o inclusive va en aumento.
Pero ¿cómo se explica esta situación contradictoria? Con esa pregunta en mente, este artículo analiza el concepto de identificación partidaria, surgido en las ciencias políticas anglosajonas a mitad del siglo XX, y lo aplica al caso paraguayo, apoyándose en bases empíricas. A través de información generada a partir de la aplicación de entrevistas, encuestas y grupos focales a ciudadanos, activistas políticos y dirigentes partidarios, se discute cómo este sentimiento de identificación, basado en la tradición y el afecto, incide en los altísimos niveles de afiliación partidaria característicos en el país.The two traditional political parties in Paraguay, the National Republican Association (ANR) and the Authentic Liberal Radical Party (PLRA) have maintained their hegemony in a practically uninterrupted and uncontested manner since their creation at the end of the 19th century, determining a markedly stable and predictable political system. And although the citizen discontent seems to be growing, the level of affiliation in the country remains stable or even increases. But how is this contradictory situation possible? With this question in mind, this article analyzes the concept of party identification, which emerged in the Anglo-Saxon political sciences in the middle of the 20th century, and applies it to the Paraguayan case, relying on empirical bases. Through information generated from the application of interviews, surveys and focus groups to citizens, political activists and party leaders, the article discusses how this feeling of identification, based on tradition and affection, has a bearing on the high level of party affiliation that distinguishes Paraguay from other countries in the region.Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologíaPrograma Paraguayo para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y Tecnología. Proyectos de investigación y desarroll
Paraguay como eslabón en la cadena de valor mundial Construcción de un marco analítico para estudiar relaciones laborales en tiempos globalizados.
Get PDFPara estudiar las relaciones laborales, es decir, las interacciones entre emplea dores y trabajadores, se debe necesariamente incluir al gobierno, en cuanto éste diseña, implementa y controla el cumplimiento de las normas que regulan los comportamientos de empleados y empleadores. Pero la lista de actores involucrados no acaba allí, ya que relaciones entabladas con instituciones y organismos que operan por fuera de las fronteras nacionales también influyen en la manera en que se institucionalizan y desarrollan las relaciones laborales al interior de un país. Este artículo propone un marco analítico para analizar las relaciones laborales en el Paraguay actual – enfocándose en el sector industrial – argumentando que esta tarea deberá necesariamente ser emprendida de una manera que supere el nacionalismo metodológico, teniendo en cuenta la importancia de actores transnacionales en el sistema de relaciones laborales a nivel local y nacional.Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologíaPROCIENCI
Physically Close, Socially Distant. Paid Domestic Work and (Dis-)Encounters in Latin America’s Private Households
Get PDFHouseholds that hire domestic workers are a space of compulsive encounters where people of different origins and social class meet, experiencing physical proximity that makes the social distance that prevails between them even more noticeable. Drawing on current research and scholarship on paid domestic work in Latin America, this paper explores the different ways of analysing the encounters of women from highly unequal social positions in the narrowness of the private household, arguing that the combination of physical proximity and affective ties fosters the (re)production of social inequalities and asymmetries of power. But while it is within the convivial relations of these households that inequality becomes evident, it is also there where it can be negotiated, fought, or mitigated
Articulating Differences and Inequalities: Paid Domestic Workers’ and Housewives’ Struggles for Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay
Get PDFHousewives and paid domestic workers perform – to a certain extent – the same kinds of tasks. They also tend to share interest in the valorisation of domestic work: If this activity were recognised as such – as work – housewives could claim retirement rights, while domestic workers should be granted the same labour rights as any other worker. But even when sharing the historical burden of house and care work, there are other social hierarchies that interrupt the common experience of these women and hinder the creation of alliances between them. This paper analyses the relationship between paid domestic workers’ and housewives’ organisations in Uruguay and Paraguay, two Latin American countries that share many similarities in terms of territorial extension, population and economy size, but show contrasts regarding the organisation of domestic workers, particularly their relation to housewives’ organisations
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
- …
