Cial Sciences Research Articles

Contribution to Research on Securitization: Assessment of SCI and SSCI Articles from 1996 To 2012

We conducted a study to gauge trends and to the broad field of securitization. This article reviews 365 academic articles on that were published in 47 Social Sciences Citation Index journals from 1996 to June 2012. We identified keywords and searched and determined related articles in the ISI Web of Science database. Our findings included the number of publications per year, categories of article types, main academic journals and authors, and most-cited articles. The citation counts for authors, journals, and articles were also analyzed. Results indicated that the number of articles related to the keyword securitization increased from 1996 to 2012, which suggests an upward trend in the influence of securitization. We also determined that securitization research fascinated numerous scholars during the 16-year period. In particular, researchers from the USA, Europe, Canada, and Asia contributed most to this field. This literature review provides evidence that the securitization concept has attracted academic researchers, which results in significant to the field of entrepreneurial research. The findings in this study can help authors in future development of securitization.Keywords: Securitization, Literature Review, Contribution to Research1 IntroductionSecuritization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt, such as commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, credit card debt obligations, or auto loans, and selling the said consolidated debts as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) to various investors. Securitization also en- compasses the principal and interest on the debt underlying the security and is common- ly paid back to the diverse investors. Securi- ties backed by mortgage receivables are called mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and those backed by other types of receiva- bles are asset-backed securities (ABS). Alt- hough numerous studies focus on securitiza- tion research, little is known on the stream of research. This study attempts to examine the trends and contribution in the field by surveying 365 securiti- zation articles that appeared in 47 journals from 1996 to 2012.In recent years, the academe has observed the increasing significance of indices, such as the Sciences Citation Index (SCI) and So- cial Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). There- fore, the assessment of the researchers' and individual publications' effect factors on their individual fields is possible. SCI and SSCI contain collective bibliography sec- tions of selected prestigious academic jour- nals. Each time a reference found in the bib- liography of an SCI- or SSCI- weighted journal is cited by another author, its impact factor is calculated. This study aims to distinguish the active players in the study of securitization. It also aims to evaluate their contributions and the number of times that they have published and has been cited by other authors, as declared by the ISI Web of Science (WOS) database.In the field of academic inquiry, Zou [15] ex- amined the literature related to advertise- ment. Latchem [11] adopted content analysis to quantify the foci and occurrence of topics published in the British Journal of Educa- tional Technology between 2000 and No- vember 2005. Luor et al. [12] assessed the literature on computer-assisted learning, and and MacArthur et al. [13] traced the use of technology in teaching disabled students.Pertinent literature in the field is also elicited considerable research atten- tion. Cooley and Heck [4] published an arti- cle entitled Significant Contributions to Fi- nance Literature, Financial Management (pre-1986). Heck, Cooley, and Hubbard [10] also carried out a survey on the contributing authors and institutions in the Journal of Fi- nance from 1946 to 1985. Graves, Randall, and Marchand [9] published an article enti- tled Economics Departmental Rankings: Research Incentives, Constraints, and Effi- ciency. …

Colaboración científica de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y su política institucional

The aim of the present study is to analyze the patterns of research co- llaboration of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in mainstream li- terature in relation to its science policy. Sixty percent of the collaborative stu- dies in science of the UNAM registered in the Web of Science from 1999 to 2002 involved only national institutions; the corresponding figure for the so- cial sciences, arts and humanities was 87%. In both cases articles published in international collaboration received more citations on average than those in- volving only national institutions. Significant levels of coauthorship were found between the UNAM research centres and local institutions in those areas of the country where the UNAM has implemented a policy of decentralization of research activity. Little collaboration was found between institutes of the UNAM in the different research areas, as well as few publications in journals outside their own research areas. Both findings suggest a low level of partici- pation in multi and interdisciplinary projects. Keywords: National University of Mexico (UNAM), Collaboration, Impact, Science policy, Decentralization, Interdisciplinary research.

Entwicklungen im Feld der foucaultschen Diskursanalyse

This article reviews some new international re leases in the field of in the tradition of Michel FOUCAULT. This kind of Foucauldian is related to other forms in the wider interdiscipli nary field of analysis. Nonetheless, it can be dem onstrated that the Foucauldian form of is the most relevant one for contemporary in the so cial sciences. It is argued that in the German social sciences the term discourse analysis is primarily used for theoreti cal social research or is used for empirical social research,

FINDING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF L CAL PTIMA IN THE đ .PROBLEM FOR TWO-WAY CONTINGENCY TABLES

The aim f this paper is t discuss the problem f c mputing a new index f r c n- tingency tables.The s called đ .index is getting m re and m re known and used in s cial sciences,h wever,the problem f c mputing this index is still uns lved.Su .cient and necessary conditions are given for l cal optimality and structure f l cal optima is investigated.

Report on the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting

REPORT ON THE FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING Sonoma, California June 14-17, 1995 Unable to persuade a more polarly located department to host the 1995 meetings, APCG awarded the Geography Departm ent at Sonoma State University (SSU) the honor. (In the general APCG scheme of things, this year’s meeting was to be hosted by a “north­ ern” institution.) Assisted by the university’s Center for Pan-Pacific Exchange and a generous grant from the Dean of the School of So­ cial Sciences, the on-campus event welcomed 172 participants, 148 of them paid (77 full registrants, 55 students, and 16 spouses). Members presented 62 papers on a wide range of subjects. The meetings opened on Wednesday evening with a powerful presenta­ tion on California’s Central Valley by noted author and Sonoma State English professor Gerry Haslam. The highlight of Friday’s full day of paper sessions was an interdisciplinary plenary round table on “Navigating Between Disciplines in the Pacific World/Rim,” orga­ nized by Tim Bell and SSU Anthropologist M argie Purser. On Saturday morning, President Betsy Bums put together a stimulating plenary session on “Innovations in Applied Urban Geography.” Betsy also presented her presidential address, “Life in the Fast Lane: Travel, Gender, and Community in Metropolitan Phoenix,” at the Friday Banquet. Two Wednesday afternoon workshops on GPS and ArcView, led by Sam Shaw and Bryan Baker, respectively, sold out. Field trips included Sharon Johnson’s foray into the Coast Range in Mendocino County, Mike Hearty’s look at Historical Landscapes in Sonoma County, a visit to Mare Island Naval Shipyard hosted by the local museum staff, Teresa Bulman’s and Debbie Elliott-Fisk’s Women and Wine in Sonoma County, and Doug Powell’sjaunt to Point Reyes. Our special field feature, the flying tours of the North Bay, led by 198 Annual Meeting Report 199 Art Hayssen of Santa Rosa Junior College, were reduced in number because of uncooperative weather (see Bar-B-Q below). No meeting in Sonoma County would be complete without a wine reception, which got things going on Wednesday evening. Thursday’s Bar-B-Q became an indoor event when unseasonal and unusual thun­ derstorms rolled through the area, dousing any outdoor prospects. Over 80 persons attended the banquet, and other events included the W omen’s Network breakfast and a department chairs’ lunch. Attendance at the meetings continued to produce some interest­ ing patterns. To no one’s surprise, Californians dominated— 111 of them. Arizona provided 24 representatives; Oregon 13; and Nevada 9. Somewhat more wondrous is the fact that as many folks came from Ohio as came from Washington! The distance records were set by Simon Zhao from Hong Kong Baptist University (who came to the meetings direct from Hong Kong) and Tatyana Sapozhnikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences (who was visiting at UC-Davis). Continuing a trend in recent years, several major research uni­ versities were notable by their absences. The U niversity of Washington maintained its perfect record of recent years with a goose egg all around (but if none of them could make it to Bellingham, it is not too surprising that they could not venture as far as Sonoma State). UCLA was represented only by an emeritus professor; UC-Berkeley only by one undergraduate, two grad students, and one emeritus pro­ fessor; UCSB by one faculty member. Summer meetings may be difficult for these colleagues. Let’s hope we see more of them when we return to fall meetings in 1997. Financially, the conference went very well and fattened APCG coffers by $4,051 (preliminary figure), which I suspect is a record profit for APCG meetings. We at Sonoma were happy to have all our APCG fellow mem­ bers here this year. Thanks to all of you who attended. Bill Crowley Sonoma State University ...

Discourse and Performance: Involvement, Visualization and "Presence" in Homeric Poetry

W ITHIN THE CHANGING CLIMATE of folklore studies, anthropology, the so cial sciences, and linguistics, the study of oral is gradually increasing in depth, scope, and variety. To the line of research initiated by Milman Parry and Albert Lord that has been known for decades as oral-formulaic theory, a number of new approaches have been added, not necessarily supplanting Parry's original insights, but adding new dimensions to them and placing them in novel perspectives. In particular, current thought tends to focus on what it means for verbal art to be traditional, which in a sense entails a return to Parry's earliest ideas on traditional poetry and a relative shift in the thinking about the function of formulas: from metrical utility to traditional situatedness and from structure

The limits of synthesis: Some comments on Habermas' recent sociological writings

There is a growing schism in the ranks of critical theory. The division has become serious enough that we now find it necessary to dis? tinguish between the "classical critical theory" of the Frankfurt School and those revisions of critical thought which presently abound in the so? cial sciences. This revisionism is characterized by its rejection of the clas? sical paradigm's commitment to the premises of Western Marxism. It replaces the materialism and dialectical method of classical critical theory with a variety of theoretical alternatives such as language theory, an upgraded form of hermeneutic interpretation, or a recrudescent neo functionalism. In turning to these idealist conceptions this revisionism seems bent on constructing a sociological parody of that "critical criticism" which Marx and Engels dispatched in The German Ideology (1976; 23-31) more than a century ago. This paper discusses this revisionist trend as it has developed in the works of J?rgen Habermas. It begins by first tracing Habermas' theoreti? cal Odyssey from its origins in Western Marxism, to its current terminus in a neo-functionalist systems theory. Once having charted this trek, we will then critically evaluate the adequacy of the political economy that grounds Habermas' mature sociological theory. Finally, on the basis of that critique, we will take up the central theme of this paper: a con? sideration of the synthetic limits of Habermas' systems theory and the possibilities which recent advances in the theory of dissipative systems offer critical theory.

Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination in the Library Profession (Book Review)

College & Research Libraries to which citation analysis has long been applied, Bulick examines the degree to which disciplines use their own literatures or borrow extensively from others. Those which rely heavily on endogenous litera- tures are considered to be analytical disciplines whose paradigms, in Kuhn's sense, are well developed; those which borrow heavily from other fields are '' syn- thetic'' and have less full and mature para- digms. Using his measures this way, Bulick ar- gues that economists' focused, or ethno- centric'' use of materials shows a degree of consensus on basic issues of theory and technique not matched by the other social sciences. Geography, with its notoriously unfavorable balance of trade with other disciplines, is ranked lowest on these measures, leaving sociology, anthropol- ogy, and political science somewhere in between. Bulick' s discussion of the individual so- cial sciences incorporates a skilled and in- formed interleaving of the history both of the several disciplines themselves and of their treatment by the LC classification scheme. We too often think of the latter as received from above, but Bulick reminds us that in its developmental stages, LC was an emerging commentary on and at- tempt to organize emerging disciplines. Bulick' s most interesting conclusion, based both on patterns of cross- disciplinary use and on various measures of association which assess the conjoint reading between pairs of disciplines, is that the boundaries of the individual so- cial sciences .may never become as clear as those of the physical sciences. But the so- cial sciences as a whole, with their com- munal interests in literatures within social science and its special cousin, history, may be blending into a unified social sci- ence. This is not a perfect book. It is somewhat specialized, in that the structure of branch libraries at Pittsburgh necessarily ex- cluded the sciences from consideration, and Bulick chooses not to discuss the hu- manities. One might ask for more consid- eration of use patterns between specific pairs of disciplines and of what this means. One can quibble with the misuse November 1984 of the term sociology of knowledge or argue that the Bradford/Zip£ distribution t€lls us little of interest to librarians that a simple J-curve of use does not convey and that it does not merit the attention Bulick gives it. One can definitely become upset, as I imagine Bulick himself is, that an im- portant table is mislabelled-readers should bring themselves to note in their li- brary copies that the column headings of Table 6.23 should all slide one place to the right. Imperfect? Of course, and fascinating. The only serious flaw with this book is that we are ignoring it. Reviews have been few and only some 120 OCLC libraries have cataloged it. Either librarians are unsure that an understanding of the disciplines they serve has anything to say about how they should conduct their business, or there is something wrong with the system of gatekeepers that is supposed to help us sort out the big books from the little books.-Paul Metz, Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute. Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination in the Library Profession. Prepared by Kathleen Heim and Leigh S. Estabrook. Chicago: American Library Assn., 1983. 82p. $15. LC 83-3838. ISBN 0-8389-3282- Results of statistical surveys frequently pose more interesting questions than those which prompted the survey in the first place. Heim and Estabrook's project is no exception. The task that Heim, Esta- brook, and the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL) set for themselves was a com- prehensive career study of librarians, ex- amining in particular the differences in status (salary, administrative responsibil- ity, career advancement) between female and male members of the American Li- brary Association. Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination reports the results of their research but, in a mere 46 pages of text, ac- complishes much more. As principle investigators Heim and Es- tabrook are quite explicit about the dual purpose and goal of their research, this study was designed not only to provide data useful for analyzing and evaluating

Promises and Problems of Quantitative Research in Central European History

T T~NLIKE scholars dealing with other areas of the European or j American past, Central European historians have been slow V.y to interest themselves in quantitative methods. Despite an undercurrent of statistical work, the diplomatic and intellectual preoccupation of the German tradition of has mitigated against the development of questions which might involve quantifiable answers.1 Many colleagues still share the notion that history is linguistic, not numerical and resent statistics as dehumanizing, like one respondent to a recent survey: I have always admired Livy because his figures are invariably wrong. figure that, if cannot work out the mathematics longhand, my readers won't be able to understand it either, so why bother.2 Hence it is no accident that none ofthe Europeanist pioneers of quantitative methods, such as Lawrence Stone or Charles Tilly, work in German history. But the impressive results ofthe new tools in other fields,3 the impetus of comparative studies involving Central European materials,4 the renewal of interest in social or structural history, the in? creasing preoccupation with theories, and the opening towards the so? cial sciences have gradually attracted younger scholars to quantification.5

Terra incognita: the future of the profession

Paul Abels, Ph.D., is Associate Dean and Professor, School of Applied So cial Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. A version of this article was presented at the 100th Annual Forum, National' Con ference on Social Welfare, Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 1973. In days of old, when mapmakers recall, a unified code for reporting were not certain of the exact typogdata was only established in 1980. raphy of the areas they were mapping, The unified code recluires that the rather than leave them blank-or diagnostic category, the type of service . . . i , , i i offered, the length of service, the tech make up a shape—they would label . , , . r . niques used, and the relative success the area terra incognita. i The of the service ^ fed int0 computers. analogy is appropriate to this article, Not only has this provided ongoing because we are about to enter unrecords of service to the individual, charted territory, and any forecasts but it has enabled the field to assess of the future are at best thoughtful which types of treatment seem most hunches. successful for which types of clients.

Scientific Method and Social Problems

SCIENTIFIC cial sciences methodology has, somewhat in the decepsoS IENTIFIC cial sciences has, somewhat d cep tively, an appearance of definiteness. There is an intellectual unity of aim and procedure in all science ; but to discuss this with any clarity requires definition of terms. Men have long tried to fix science within a rigid definition, and have not agreed. Much unnecessary and unhelpful debate about the scientific standing of the social disciplines has been based on uncertain and divergent premises as to what constitutes science. To Francis Bacon science was unbiased observation of nature and inductive reasoning to generalizations. This was a good start. Some positivists have wished to limit science to ob-