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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
The Rise of Corporate Landlords: Policy Approaches to Limit Institutional Investment in Maui County’s Single-Family Rental Market
No full textInitial evidence indicates that corporate landlords are not yet widely established in Maui County's single-family rental sector. Given their national expansion and well-documented harms to tenants and communities, and particularly to people of color, this practicum explores proactive strategies to prevent institutional investors from gaining a significant foothold in Maui County's single-family rental (SFR) market. The research examines the growth of corporate landlords across the U.S., explores regulatory efforts, and offers insight into potential market vulnerabilities in Maui County. The regulatory matrix presented in Chapter 2 compiles information about federal, state, and local policy efforts to regulate institutional SFR investors, providing a resource for interested policymakers. The paper concludes by offering targeted policy recommendations for Maui County, including transparency and rental registry requirements for corporate owners, a community right-of-first refusal coupled with establishment of an affordable housing nonprofit, and progressive property taxation on excess property holdingsMaster of Science (MS)School for Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of Michiganhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstreams/705bac0d-77ef-44f4-89c6-85d6a91797e4/downloa
Interpersonal Violence within Environmental Movement Spaces: The impact of met and unmet interpersonal needs during success and challenges
No full textIn this work, I examine met and unmet needs within interpersonal dynamics as they relate to success and challenges within environmental movement spaces and work. Specifically, I analyze these dynamics and the major themes that emerged from survey responses completed by local environmental movement workers in Rhode Island and Southeastern MA. The major themes that emerged were: Time, Transparency, Trust, Respect, Collectivity, and Funding/Sustainability. Additionally, I explore how these themes take shape in the development and execution of three events during my time as a graduate student research assistant. These events were either led or co-led by Indigenous climate activists, scholars, and community members. Alongside the exploration of these themes and how they transform the interpersonal dynamics of the work, I also argue that these themes and whether or not the needs associated with them were met impact the quality and outcomes of that environmental movement/work space. From there, I offer living recommendations on navigating interpersonal dynamics within environmental movement/workspaces successfully and sustainably. How can we work together in a way where we are not perpetuating or enduring interpersonal violence within environmental movement work to get the work done?Master of Science (MS)School for Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of Michiganhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstreams/1aa18865-319f-4270-90f7-e1f47f48e675/downloa
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
DEI in Context: Advancing DEI in Natural Resource Management
No full textIn February 2021, a group of Vermont Natural Resource Conservation Districts (NRCD) and
Vermont Association of Conservation Districts (VACD) staff sought out master’s students
studying at the University of Michigan’s (UM) School for Environment and Sustainability to
conduct research supporting efforts on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the NRCDs.
Over the course of 14 months, this group of staff—referred to here as the Core
Team—worked diligently with the UM Research Team to explore the wants and needs of
the NRCDs pertaining to DEI. Both the Core Team and the UM Research Team sought to
center the voices of NRCD and VACD staff and board members in this DEI work.Master of Science (MS)School for Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/172223/1/2022 NRCD DEI Growth Guide_421.pd
Line 5: Threatening Indigenous Lifeways
No full textUsing theoretical frameworks from Indigenous scholars Dr. Anne Spice and Dr. Kyle Whyte, this paper
seeks to demonstrate how Enbridge’s Line 5 dual oil pipeline and proposed tunnel project are forms of
invasive infrastructure that enact environmental violence against Anishinaabe peoples, particularly in
Michigan, by threatening their collective continuance. This environmental violence is justified and
obfuscated by Enbridge and sanctioned by the settler colonial states of Canada and the United States by
framing fossil fuel infrastructure as a critical public good that serves the national security, economic
growth, and energy independence of the nation states. Despite this settler capitalist framing, the
environmental violence of Line 5 and other fossil fuel infrastructure against tribal nations and Indigenous
peoples occurs at each stage in the lifecycle of fossil fuel infrastructure, from siting to decommissioning.
Situated within a long history of Indigenous resistance to invasive infrastructure, Anishinaabe tribal
nations and communities have been asserting their right to a self-determined future free of oil snaking
through the land and waters of Turtle Island. In collaboration with the Anishinaabek Caucus of the
Democratic Party, the authors of this paper conducted several interviews at the 2022 Water is Life Festival
to create a short documentary-style video centering visions for water protection and energy futures as told
by Anishnaabe persons. Although not representative of the diverse tribes and peoples of the Anishinaabe,
these voices illustrate some important perspectives, lived experiences, philosophies and cosmologies of
the Anishinaabe. The visions for the future they shared align with concepts of collective continuance and
assert a futurity that is sustainable for all–humans and non-humans, alike.Master of Science (MS)School for Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/176186/1/Research Paper - Decommissioning Violence in the Great Lakes .pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/176186/2/Executive Summary for Policy-Makers on Line 5.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/176186/3/Project Overview -Line 5.pdfDescription of Research Paper - Decommissioning Violence in the Great Lakes .pdf : Research Paper - Decommissioning Violence in the Great LakesDescription of Executive Summary for Policy-Makers on Line 5.pdf : Executive Summary for Policy-Makers on Line 5Description of Project Overview -Line 5.pdf : Project Overvie
Ruptured Membranes: Brahmanical Bharatanatyam as a Site of Embodied Environmental Casteism
No full textIn this work, I ask how purity as a value is materially enacted on the land through the bodies of upper-caste women dancers in India. I specifically focus on how the dance form of Bharatanatyam as it is practiced by upper-caste women captures embodied purity politics that are foundational to an analysis of environmental casteism. Embodied purity politics are the ways that upper-caste people measure themselves, other humans, and non-human beings in proximity to ‘purity’ and determine their relations based on this metric. Drawing from the historical and contemporary practices by which Bharatanatyam was and continues to be appropriated from hereditary dancers and ‘sanitized’ by Brahmin elites, I articulate casteist ecologies that emerge from the extraction and aesthetic control over womens’ bodies and the land. Based on the body of literature on caste and ‘classical’ dance in India, I situate Bharatanatyam as an ongoing product and producer of caste and gender relations. I argue that Bharatanatyam as a cultural-political symbol of Brahminism in India constitutes an important site of cultural production that serves environmental casteism. The Brahmanical pedagogy of the form controls women’s bodies and relationship to the land and teaches them embodied technologies of using purity as a metric in their land relations. These land relations become naturalized through Bharatanatyam, which serves the State as a symbol of Indian culture. My research seeks to illuminate the question of dancing humanness for upper-caste women, to provide an embodied question of what would happen if we committed to healing through movement as resistance against the State and the constructed Hindu land. What would emerge from the body if we danced for life and not purity, given our historical conditioning?Master of Science (MS)School for Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196928/1/Narayanan_Gayatri_Thesis_Uploaded.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196928/3/Narayanan_Gayatri_Thesis.pdfd0a18e86-7d9e-4669-812b-ead353cc4899Description of Narayanan_Gayatri_Thesis_Uploaded.pdf : Full Thesis Articl
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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