Dividing Discipline: Structures of Communication in International Relations

Kristensen, Peter Marcus

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01101.x

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“…In order to observe the latent similarity structures in the data, the number of co-occurrences must be normalized." 11 Ahlgren, Jarneving, and Rousseau (2003) proposed the cosine as similarity criterion. 12 According to Leydesdorff, cosine normalization is preferable has been the subject of increasing consensus among scientometricians over the past two decades.…”

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Shifting Policies in Conflict Arenas: A Cosine Similarity and Text Mining Analysis of Turkey’s Syria Policy, 2012-2016

Cannon

Nakayama

Sasaki³

et al. 2019

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shifting Policies in Conflict Arenas: A Cosine Similarity and Text Mining Analysis of Turkey’s Syria Policy, 2012-2016

Cannon

Nakayama

Sasaki³

et al. 2019

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“…Political scientists have followed this trend. Studies directed at examining the politics of journal publications now predominantly employ citationbased indicators including the Journal Impact Factor, the Journal Influence, the Invariant Method for the Measurement of Intellectual Influence, the Journal Status, the Eigenfactor, the Scimago Journal Rank and h-Index (ALTMAN, 2012;BROOKS et al, 2014;KRISTENSEN, 2012;MONTPETIT et al, 2008).…”

Section: How Should One Measure a Journal's Relevance?mentioning

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Expert-Driven and Citational Approaches to Assessing Journal Publications of Brazilian Political Scientists

Barberia

Barboza

Godoy

2018

Bras. Political Sci. Rev.

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In this study, we seek to contribute to discussions on how the quality of academic production in the field of political science should be evaluated using Brazil as a case study. We contrast the 'expert-driven approach' that is followed by CAPES, an agency of the Brazilian federal government with the 'citational' approach, which is based on the ranking of journals by mainstream indices of scientific research impact. With data provided by CAPES from 2010 to 2014, we examine to what extent journals that are ranked as having high quality by CAPES also have high impact indexes in the SCImago Journal rank index (SJR), the Hirsch index (h-index) calculated by SCImago, the h5-index and h5median (based on the h-index period 05 years, calculated by Google Scholar Metrics), and the SNIP indicator (calculated by the CWTS Journal Indicators, included in the Scopus database). Our findings show that there is a positive, but weak correlation between citational criteria and the Qualis evaluation of the same journals. In ordered logistic regressions, we show that a journal's past Qualis scores are the most important factor for explaining its grades in the next evaluation. We show that once a journal's past Qualis score is considered, a journal's citational ranking does not influence its Qualis score with the exception of the SJR in the 2013-4 evaluation. Moreover, a journal's Qualis score is not influenced by the country of publication, language, or social science focus, all else equal.

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“…This idea of the American prevalence among the discipline of International Relations is reinforced by cyclical production in the literature (Hoffman, 1977;Alker & Bierstekerr, 1984;Holsti, 1985;Waever, 1998;Smith, 2000;Aydinli & Matthews, 2000;Kristensen, 2012) into account is the fact that the acquisition of theory in the developing countries may be filtered due to the inequality among local academic groups and also by the commitment to the theory of these groups. Aydinli and Matthews (2009) have called attention to the fact that in Turkey there is the division between one core group and one "non-elite" group and that this division "operated like a domestic core and periphery.…”

Section: The American Influence On the Discipline In Latin Americamentioning

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“…Much of the academic community is heard of in the 'great journals' only when the topic of the day in the United States is specifically about a country or a region, as Kristensen (2012) addresses. South American academics only tend to be heard when the matter being dealt with is South America itself.…”

Section: Is International Relations Still An American Social Science mentioning

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Is International Relations still an American social science discipline in Latin America?

Villa

Pimenta²

2017

Opin. Publica

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Over the last 40 years, investigations have shown the discipline of International Relations to reproduce the American influence on its methods, paradigms, and institutional dynamics. This article explores the case for the Latin American community, based on the survey data from the Teaching, Research, and International Politics project (TRIP) 2014 developed by the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations of the College of William and Mary, Virginia (USA). TRIP evaluated International Relations communities in 32 countries around the world. The article aims to answer two main questions: (i) is American influence still dominant over epistemological, methodological, paradigmatic, and institutional representative terms in Latin American International Relations communities, as has been considered in the past? (ii) Is there in the region any contestation to this supposed influence? Primarily, the present article shows an affirmative answer for the first issue. Therefore, and most importantly, the data analysis shows upcoming local pressures rooted in American influence, especially on its epistemic and paradigmatic terms. The data strengthens the miscegenation tendency on its epistemological and paradigmatic aspects, which underlines a lack of consensus over the structure of American dominance over the discipline of International Relations in Latin America, especially if one observes the most numerous and structured group in the region: the Brazilian International Relations community.

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Dividing Discipline: Structures of Communication in International Relations

Cited by 48 publications

References 58 publications

Shifting Policies in Conflict Arenas: A Cosine Similarity and Text Mining Analysis of Turkey’s Syria Policy, 2012-2016

Shifting Policies in Conflict Arenas: A Cosine Similarity and Text Mining Analysis of Turkey’s Syria Policy, 2012-2016

Expert-Driven and Citational Approaches to Assessing Journal Publications of Brazilian Political Scientists

Is International Relations still an American social science discipline in Latin America?

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