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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
James Mark / Paul Betts (eds.): Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 384 pp.
Full text linkVariations 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
Risks and Opportunities: How East German Economists Reflected on Decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s
Full text linkFritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2022), 400 pp.
Full text linkDie Genese des ostdeutschen Mittelstands nach der Wiedervereinigung
Full text linkMit dem Beitritt der DDR in den Geltungsbereich des Grundgesetzes wurde auch das System der "sozialen Marktwirtschaft" übernommen. Doch woher sollten in einem vormals sozialistischen Land die Unternehmer kommen? Die Akzeptanz des neuen politischen und ökonomischen Systems hing entscheidend von seiner regionalen Verankerung ab. "Mittelstand" war das Zauberwort, das für die Stärke der westdeutschen Volkswirtschaft stand. Mit der Privatisierung der ostdeutschen Staatsbetriebe durch die Treuhandanstalt bot sich die einmalige Chance, das vermeintliche Erfolgsmodell in Rekordzeit auf Ostdeutschland zu übertragen. Es handelte sich um ein soziales Experiment par excellence, das Max Trecker an der Schnittstelle von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft genau analysiert
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
Julian Germann: Unwitting Architect: German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism, (Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy), Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021, 304 pp.
Full text linkNeoliberalismus: Über ein intellektuelles Missverständnis
No full textThe term neoliberalism is a faithful companion of current public debates. It often serves as a proxy for what is allegedly wrong with society. The term is used to criticize a perceived commodification of spheres of human existence that used to be shielded from a purely economic logic. Recently, the term neoliberalism has become the object of historical research. Its roots have been traced back as far as 1947 or 1918. I argue in this paper that historians have taken a methodologically questionable approach, by departing from the blurry concept of neoliberalism as it is perceived today and trying to trace it back in time as far as possible. Such an approach leads to severe contradictions as economists labelled ex-post as neoliberals were often opposed to neoliberalism as it is currently defined. It is methodologically more sound and analytically more rewarding to start the conception of the term with the economists who self-identified as neoliberals. This approach leads to a more coherent concept of neoliberalism that is better suited for further research and provides a clearer understanding of the history of economic thought in the interwar period and the first postwar years
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