1,720,972 research outputs found
The EU regional Social Progress Index 2.0
Full text linkThe EU-Social Progress Index (EU-SPI) is a valuable tool for facilitating benchmarking across European Union (EU) regions.
Its purpose is to assist policymakers and stakeholders in evaluating a region's strengths and weaknesses, particularly in
the realms of social and environmental considerations. The Index encompasses crucial aspects integral to EU cohesion
policy-backed investments, spanning basic services (health, education, water, and waste), access to information and
communication technologies, energy efficiency, education and skills, and pollution. In essence, this index serves as a valuable tool for policymakers to refine interventions in regional development programs. For the 2021-2027 funding programming period, Cohesion Policy has outlined distinct policy objectives to guide investments supporting growth
Social progress in cities and rural areas of the EU
Full text linkThis paper presents a novel approach to measuring sustainable and inclusive well being in cities and rural areas of the European Union (EU). By introducing a measure of social progress in cities, towns and suburbs, and rural areas, the study explores – for the very first time – the contribution of social, economic and environmental dimensions to sustainable and inclusive territorial well-being in the EU
EU Regional Competitiveness Index 2.0
Full text linkThis paper presents the fifth edition of the European Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI). Since its first edition, RCI 2010 (Dijkstra et al., 2011), the RCI has grown into a much-cited and widely used index. The focus of the first few editions was on capturing the differences in competitiveness between regions at one point in time. As more editions were published, however, the focus expanded to capturing changes over time in a robust manner. This presented several challenges: the list of indicators has changed over time; some indicators are no longer collected or are no longer relevant; and new indicators have been added to capture new issues. In addition, the changes in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) 2 regions of Croatia, Ireland, Lithuania and Poland have created breaks in the time series
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
Variations 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
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
Both Marshall and Jacobs were Right!
No full textThis article adds to the empirical evidence on the impact of agglomeration externalities on regional growth along three main dimensions. On the basis of data on 259 Europe NUTS2 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) regions and 15 NACE (Nomenclature statistique des Activités économiques dans la Communauté Européenne) 1.1 2-digit industries for the period 1990–2007, we show that agglomeration externalities are stronger in technology-intensive industries, also after controlling for sorting; that specialization externalities are stronger for low density regions, while diversity matters more for denser urban areas; and, finally, that Jacobs externalities comprise a pure diversification effect (related variety) and a portfolio effect (unrelated variety), although evidence of positive effects on regional growth is only found for the latter. An additional contribution of this article is to extend the analysis on the basis of a full geographical coverage of European NUTS2 regions, with the aim to generalize the empirical identification of the impacts of specialization and diversification externalities with respect to the existing literature. Our results are robust to a rich set of consistency checks, including the use of spatial autoregressive models with autoregressive disturbances, used to assess to what extent the effects of agglomeration externalities are localized
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
- …
