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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
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
Treaty Rights to Carbon Offsets within the Proposed Cap-and-Trade Regime in Ontario
Get PDFThe Government of Ontario has announced that it will join the Western Climate Initiative's cap-and-trade program, with the first compliance period starting as soon as January 1, 2017. The program will include the use of carbon offsets and establish an offset registry. This paper examines the question of whether Ontario's treaties with First Nations in Northern Ontario create a right to ownership and control of carbon offsets situated on traditional territories. First, I discuss the cap-and-trade regime as a whole, and the criteria for carbon offsets specifically. Then I explore some of the overarching obligations of the Crown in relation to aboriginal communities generally and the more specific rights of First Nations communities in Northern Ontario. Finally, I provide three arguments that First Nations could use to assert a right to a sui generis ownership of the carbon sequestration capabilities of their traditional territories. The first argument relies on an incidental right to the enumerated treaty rights, the second is framed as a right to harvest carbon offsets, and the third deals with the expansion of the interpretation of the treaties to include sharing in the benefits of the land. Though tenuous, these arguments provide some tools for First Nations to use in negotiations with the Crown during the development of offset protocols and regulations surrounding the offset market
A study in executive branch noncompliance with law : government secrecy, endangered species protection, and the whitebark pine
No full textThe Access to Information Act, Canada’s law for the public accessibility and secrecy of government records, came into force in 1983. The Species at Risk Act, Canada’s law for endangered species protection came into force in 2003. Neither of the two laws have fulfilled their intended goals. This thesis investigates the causes of the ‘slippage’ between these laws as written and as implemented.
This thesis compares the decades of implementation of these two laws to the texts of the laws and the intentions of the legislators who wrote them and finds deliberate and routine executive branch noncompliance has been a major cause of the failures of the laws to achieve their intended goals.
The research methodology includes the use of records obtained using a request filed under the Access to Information Act relating to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s long delay in preparing a final Recovery Strategy for the endangered Whitebark Pine. These records are used to illustrate the problem of executive branch noncompliance with law.
The thesis analyzes why neither the judicial branch nor Canada’s democratic system are able to prevent or stop executive branch noncompliance and argues that Canada’s traditional system of cabinet confidentiality and secret bureaucratic advice to ministers undermines the rule of law and democracy. The thesis calls for recognition of executive branch secrecy and executive branch noncompliance with law as major obstacles to the rule of law and democracy in Canada.Law, Peter A. Allard School ofGraduat
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
Hybrid regulation of low-carbon economies
No full textThe full abstract for this thesis is available in the body of the thesis, and will be available when the embargo expires.Law, Peter A. Allard School ofGraduat
Africanization of international investment law : reconciling sustainable development, climate action, and foreign investment in the global south
No full textThe full abstract for this thesis is available in the body of the thesis, and will be available when the embargo expires.Law, Peter A. Allard School ofGraduat
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