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Political Science Faculty Members Huffmon and Kedrowski Receive Fulbright Scholarships
Get PDFDepartment of Political Science faculty Scott Huffmon and Karen Kedrowski have received Fulbright scholarships. Huffmon will teach at the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary. Kedrowski will serve as visiting research chair at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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
WFAE\u27s Public Conversations Series Heads to Winthrop for Election Forum
Get PDFIn a highly interactive format, audience members can express and discuss the issues that are important to them in this election, and how they would like the presidential candidates and the eventual nominees to address those issues. The facilitators for the event are Mike Collins, host of WFAE\u27s Charlotte Talks, and Scott Huffmon, professor of political science and director of the Winthrop Poll
Winthrop Poll Findings = Perfect Record
Get PDFScott Huffmon, a professor of political science, said the primary mission of the Winthrop Poll has always been to measure the opinions, issues of importance and overall well-being of the people of the South, in general, and South Carolina, in particular. Huffmon said the poll’s electoral track record speaks to its commitment to accuracy in sampling and measurement in public opinion research
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
Winthrop Poll: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham Has Support of 45% of Likely Republican Primary Voters
Get PDFWhile U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s level of support is 45%, Poll Director Scott Huffmon noted Graham is not in “real trouble” simply because his share is below the 50% run-off threshold. This Winthrop Poll, which is partially underwritten by the John C. West Forum at Winthrop, contains a significant number of social questions
WFAE\u27s Charlotte Talks Comes to Winthrop Feb. 16 to Discuss Politics
Get PDFAmong the guests are two Winthrop political science professors, Adolphus Belk Jr., also director of the African American Studies program, and Scott Huffmon, also director of the Social and Behavioral Research Lab and Winthrop Poll. South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary is on Feb. 20, while the Democratic primary will be on Feb. 27
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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