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    Civil Litigation in Belgium : the Reconstruction of the Pyramid of Legal Disputes — a preliminary report

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    The aim of the article is to reconstruct the pyramid of legal disputes in Belgium. The data for the study are gathered by means of a representative sample of 506 households. First, the article explores the theoretical and conceptual aspects of the dispute pyramid model. Then, the pyramid has been reconstructed empirically. We found a pyramid showing high percentages of informal dispute resolution an a high drop-out rate before the stage of the court filing.Le but de cet article est de reconstruire la pyramide des conflits juridiques en Belgique. Les données de cette étude sont tirées d'une enquête réalisée à partir d'un échantillon représentatif de 506 familles. L'article explore d'abord les aspect théoriques et conceptuels de la pyramide juridique. La pyramide a été ensuite reconstruite empiriquement. Nous avons trouvé un pourcentage élevé de solutions informelles des conflits. Le nombre de familles qui se retirent dans la dernière phase, c'est-à-dire juste avant la démarche au tribunal, est également élevé.Wouters Yolande, Van Loon Francis. Civil Litigation in Belgium : the Reconstruction of the Pyramid of Legal Disputes — a preliminary report. In: Droit et société, n°20-21, 1992. Une science sociale pour la pratique juridique ? pp. 199-210

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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