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Strategic Convergences: Philippines’ Emerging Ties Amid Power Rivalries in the Indo-Pacific Region
No full textResearch Article Purpose—To examine how the Philippines leverages relationships with the United States, China, and India, while engaging middle powers like Japan and South Korea, to ensure maritime security and promote national interests in the Indo-Pacific.
Methodology—This study employs discourse analysis of joint statements, defense agreements, and maritime dialogues, combined with thematic analysis of elite narratives, to situate Manila’s decisions within the evolving security landscape of the Indo-Pacific.
Findings—The Philippines employs a layered approach—strengthening defense ties with the United States as its primary security partner, maintaining pragmatic economic relations with China despite maritime disputes, and cooperating with India to boost naval capacity and technological resilience. Engagements with Japan and South Korea diversify security and financial options, forming a broad support network.
Practical Implications—The study demonstrates how smaller states can mitigate vulnerability and maintain strategic autonomy by diversifying their alliances and institutionalizing multipolar engagements. These insights are valuable for policymakers exploring middle-power strategies amid great-power rivalry.
Originality/Value—This article adds to the Indo-Pacific security diplomacy literature by highlighting the Philippines’ active role in balancing major and middle powers, offering insights into maritime security practices among smaller states
Port-Led Diplomacy of India: A Case Study of Paradip Port as a Gateway to the Indo-Pacific
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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
Navigating Change: Examining the Intersectionality of Women in Environmental Challenges, Maritime and Governance in Global South Oceania
No full textThe environmental challenges have affected the coastal community and oceanic ecosystems in the Global South Oceanic region substantially. According to the Pacific Community, 80% of Oceania's population depends on coastal resources for their livelihoods. As environmental issues exacerbate, women are advocating for gender-inclusive approaches to enhance climate-change resilience and the sustainability of marine resources within the community. Similarly, in the maritime sector, the growth of women as seafarers is proportionate to their increased participation in maritime leadership roles compared to ‘softer’ roles, such as stewardesses. The policies needed to encourage more participation are, hence, possible through stronger representation of women in the governance of a country. The informal economy is also a crucial sector where women are involved in small-scale businesses and market jobs. The chapter highlights women's role and their potential in facing environmental challenges, the maritime sector, and the interdependence of governance and the informal economy in strengthening the region of Global South Oceania. Through delving into the intersectionality of gender, indigeneity, and maritime governance, this chapter aims to (a) explain the present role of women in Global South Oceania; (b) discuss how they are contributing to the maritime governance and climate change; and (c) shaping the women's role in the future of Global South Oceania and contributing to policy making. This chapter argues that strengthening women's threshold at the ground level is critical for ensuring gender-responsive policies and steady overall development in the Oceanic region
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
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