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The effect of collaborators on institutions’ scientific impact
(Springer, 2016-11)
The effect of collaborators on institutions scientific impact was examined for 81 institutions
with different degrees of impact and collaboration. Not only collaborators including both core and
peripheral collaborators ...
Characterization, description, and considerations for the use of funding acknowledgement data in Web of Science
(Springer, 2016-04-22)
Funding acknowledgements found in scientific publications have been used to study the impact of funding on research since the 1970s. However, no broad scale indexation of that paratextual element was done until 2008, when ...
Return and Volatility performance comparison of Ethical and Non-ethical publicly-listed financial services companies
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2016-01-07)
This study compares return and volatility performance of ethical and non-ethical publicly- listed financial companies through their long-memory and volatility asymmetry properties. The paper finds that the volatility of ...
Grand challenges in altmetrics : heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies
(Springer, 2016-03-14)
With increasing uptake among researchers, social media are finding their way into
scholarly communication and, under the umbrella term altmetrics, are starting to be utilized in
research evaluation. Fueled by technological ...
Inequality, Poverty, Two Invariance Conditions, and a Product Rule
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2016-10-25)
Two axioms in the measurement of inequality and poverty which are widely perceived to be innocuous and unexceptionable - although they have both been challenged in the literature - are the Scale Invariance Axiom and the ...
Age stratification and cohort effects in scholarly communication : a study of social sciences
(Springer, 2016-07-29)
Aging is considered to be an important factor in a scholar’s propensity to
innovate, produce, and collaborate on high quality work. Yet, empirical studies in the area
are rare and plagued with several limitations. As a ...
Population Ethics, Social Choice Theory, and Two problems in the Measurement of Economic Poverty
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2016-01-07)
The headcount ratio and the aggregate headcount are alternative headcount measures of money-metric poverty, of which the first is by far and away the more widely employed index in the poverty measurement literature. The ...
Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production
(SAGE, 2016-06-21)
Scientific authorship has been increasingly complemented with contributorship statements. While such statements are said to ensure more equitable credit and responsibility attribution, they also provide an opportunity to ...
Punishing Local Incumbents for the Local Economy
Economic Voting in the 2012 Belgian Municipal Elections
(2016-03)
After decennia of research on economic voting, it is now established that the state of the economy affects voting behaviour. Nevertheless, this conclusion is the result of a focus on predominantly national-level economies ...
De episcopis Hispaniarum : agents of continuity in the long fifth century
(2016-03-23)
En année 408 après J.-C., l’Espagne, malgré sa position péninsulaire à la fin de l’Europe, était intégrée à une culture pan-Méditerranéenne qui s’étendait du Portugal jusqu’à la Syrie. Trois décennies n’étaient pas encore ...