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SCYP Salem Compilation Report
No full text34 pagesThis compilation report details the collaborative efforts of the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) partnership with the City of Salem during the 2021-2022 academic year. This partnership involved over 20 projects across five schools and colleges, 14 faculty members, and over 350 students addressing key strategic priority areas identified by the Salem City Council. Projects ranged from public budgeting and climate action public relations campaigns to transportation policy and urban planning. The report summarizes the SCYP partnership to provide the City of Salem practical recommendations and innovative solutions to help the community tackle its challenges, leveraging the latest academic insights and the energy of university students to drive forward a more sustainable future.This SCYP and City of Salem partnership is possible in part due to support from U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, as well as former Congressman Peter DeFazio, who secured federal funding for SCYP through Congressionally Directed Spending. With additional funding from the city, the partnership will allow UO students and faculty to study and make recommendations on city-identified projects and issues
SCYP LTD Compilation Report
No full text131 pagesThis compilation report details the collaborative efforts of the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) partnership with Lane Transit District (LTD) during the 2019-2020 academic year. Faculty and students from over 20 courses across five schools and colleges studied and made recommendations focused on high priority projects for LTD. The report summarizes student work and media coverage about projects that explored several questions around LTD’s strategic planning efforts, including how to face key uncertainties over the next 20-30 years, the emerging mobility landscape, and strategic choices to adapt to transit and transportation challenges ahead. Student recommendations focused around enhancing LTD’s performance and sustainability through strategic assessments and corridor studies. Students analyzed key performance indicators and proposed recommendations for improving fleet operations, service planning, and risk management. The report also highlights the development of a dynamic financial projection tool to support LTD’s long-term planning and adaptability
Sustainable City Year Program Annual Report 2025
No full text55 pagesThis compilation report celebrates 15 years of collaborative efforts of the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) and details the partnership with the City of Oakridge. The City of Oakridge and SCYP are partnering over two years to match resources from existing university courses with priority city projects. The 2024-25 academic year partnership involved over nine projects across four schools and colleges, eight faculty members, and over 250 students addressing key strategic priority areas identified by the Oakridge City Council. In year one of the partnership, students and faculty undertook projects to include marketing and development for the Oakridge Industrial Park, operational and fundraising strategies for the Willamette Activity Center, promoting tourism with local businesses, middle housing planning and design, community service program options, affordable GIS alternatives for the city, and a GIS-based environmental assessment and geological field study of the TV Butte area. The report summarizes the SCYP partnerships to provide practical recommendations and innovative solutions to help the community tackle its challenges, leveraging the latest academic insights and the energy of university students to drive forward a more sustainable future.Community partnerships are possible in part due to support from U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, as well as former Congressman Peter DeFazio, who secured federal funding for SCYP through Congressionally Directed Spending
SCYP Hermiston Compilation Report
No full text65 pagesThis compilation report details the collaborative efforts of the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) partnership with the City of Hermiston during the 2021-2022 academic year. SCYP’s first partnership in eastern Oregon, the City of Hermiston sits at the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Classes from the University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Eastern Oregon University proposed solutions to the challenges that the City of Hermiston faces managing significant population growth and in its role as the region’s trade center. The report summarizes student work across six projects and includes a press book highlighting media coverage from the year
SCYP Troutdale Compilation Report
No full text97 pagesThis compilation report details the collaborative efforts of the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) partnership with the City of Troutdale during the 2020-2021 academic year. Troutdale is proud of maintaining its small town feel while advancing opportunities for sustainable growth in a beautiful natural setting. Students from fully remote courses worked on projects from affordable housing research and design to cottage cluster design standards to video production that encouraged tourism. The report includes a high-level summary of 16 projects across six schools and colleges, faculty list, and press book
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
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