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Saulwick AGB McNair Poll, 7, January 1992
No full textThis is one of a deposit of 29 opinion polls, intending to explore public attitudes to social and political questions, conducted by Saulwick Research in conjunction with ABG McNair between January 1992 and November 1994. This study description applies to all polls in that deposit. It covers the following datasets: 1990-1999: Saulwick AGB McNair Polls, Study IDs 00905-00933. The polls in this group vary in their purpose and sampling scope. The collection includes regular national polls, but also includes polls which focussed on New South Wales or Victoria (sometimes just including the capitals Sydney and Melbourne), and a few polls which focussed on particular political issues as they arose, such as the by-election in the electorate of The Entrance, attitudes in the Bligh electorate, and attitudes to the airport in Sydney. Sample sizes vary from small specialised samples (for example 300 cases) to large samples (for example 50,000 cases). To check the purpose, location and number of cases of this particular poll, users should check the questionnaire (see Other Study Description Materials > Related Materials) and Variable Description for this data file. Topics covered in this group of polls include voting intentions, attitudes to political parties and leaders, policies such as "Fightback" and the Goods and Services Tax, the economy, industrial relations, trade unions, strikes, republicanism and the monarchy, domestic violence, sexual assault, working hours, family, life and future, women, world problems, Australian society, United Nations, Daylight Saving, the Grand Prix, homosexuality, aircraft noise, law, immigration and racism
Saulwick Age Poll, 30 January 1992: A
No full textThis is a one of a deposit of 75 opinion polls, intending to explore public attitudes to social and political questions, conducted by Saulwick Research in conjunction with The Age newspaper between January 1992 and November 1994. This study description applies to all polls in that deposit. It covers the following datasets: 1990-1999: Saulwick Age Polls, Study IDs 00828-00860, 00863-00904. The collection includes regular national polls, interspersed with polls which focussed on New South Wales and Victoria, and a few polls which focussed on particular political issues as they arose, such as by-elections in the electorates of Wills and Davidson, the federal budget, the Victorian budget, and attitudes in marginal federal seats. To check the purpose, location and number of cases of this particular poll, users should check the questionnaire (see Other Study Description Materials > Related Materials) and Variable Description for this data file. Topics covered in this group of polls include voting intentions, attitudes to parties and party leaders, republicanism and monarchy, rape, the economy and budget, aborigines, travel, policies, women and work, industrial relations, trade unions, strikes, unemployment, corruption, overseas aid and investment, holidays, life, housing, education, immigration, Olympic games, smoking, law, sexual harrassment, environment, police, museum (Melbourne), safety, disadvantaged people, Australians, investment, uranium and nuclear power, family, religion, church, football, Christmas Day and the Grand Prix. Where two polls were conducted on the same day, one of them has a title ending in "A" and the other has the same title ending in "B". Those marked "A" are typically national polls. Those marked "B" typically include region-specific questions for different regions (such as NSW and Victoria), but may include some national questions as well
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
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
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