Scholarly Venue Research Articles

Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman

Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman

CLAVER: An integrated framework of convolutional layer, bidirectional LSTM with attention mechanism based scholarly venue recommendation

Scholarly venue recommendation is an emerging field due to a rapid surge in the number of scholarly venues concomitant with exponential growth in interdisciplinary research and cross collaboration among researchers. Finding appropriate publication venues is confronted as one of the most challenging aspects in paper publication as a larger proportion of manuscripts face rejection due to a disjunction between the scope of the venue and the field of research pursued by the research article. We present CLAVER--an integrated framework of Convolutional Layer, bi-directional LSTM with an Attention mechanism-based scholarly VEnue Recommender system. The system is the first of its kind to integrate multiple deep learning-based concepts, that requires only the abstract and the title of a manuscript to identify academic venues. An extensive and exhaustive set of experiments conducted on the DBLP dataset certify that the postulated model CLAVER performs better than most of the modern techniques as entrenched by standard metrics such as stability, accuracy, MRR, average venue quality, precision@k, nDCG@k and diversity.

HASVRec: A modularized Hierarchical Attention-based Scholarly Venue Recommender system

Manually selecting appropriate scholarly venues is becoming a tedious and time-consuming task for researchers due to many reasons that include relevance, scientific impact, and research visibility. Sometimes, high-quality papers get rejected due to mismatch between the area of the paper and the scope of the journal. Recommending appropriate academic venues can, therefore, enable researchers to identify and take part in relevant conferences and publish in journals that matter the most. A researcher may certainly know of a few leading venues for her specific field of interest. However, a venue recommendation system becomes particularly helpful when exploring a new domain or when more options are needed. Due to high dimensionality and sparsity of text data, and complex semantics of the natural language, journal identification presents difficult challenges. We propose a novel and unified architecture that contains a Bi-directional LSTM (Bi-LSTM) and a Hierarchical Attention Network (HAN) to address the above problems. We call the proposed architecture modularized Hierarchical Attention-based Scholarly Venue Recommender system (HASVRec), which only requires the abstract, title, keywords, field of study, and author of a new paper along with its past publication record to recommend scholarly venues. Experiments on the DBLP-Citation-Network V11 dataset exhibit that our proposed approach outperforms several state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy, F1, nDCG, MRR, average venue quality, and stability.

Unexpected and Habit Driven: Perspectives of Working from Home during the Covid-19 Pandemic

No one in the world are expecting this Covid-19 pandemic, impacting mostly on the healthy issue, economic issue, social issue and much more that human being never thought about it. In the white cellar worker, working from home now is a necessity, not just about bringing work to home but many issues raise during this working condition. One of the issues raises is about productivity. For workers that used to work remotely using technology they don’t feel any issues, however, on the others hand for those just enter this new work style, it might be a problem. Telecommuting work have been getting popularity in the late 1980s, mostly this way of work is in respond to many issues in the develop country. As it may too early to conclude where telecommuting and work from home is an apple to apple comparison, as far as the research done in the past, it may can be concluded that the essence is the same. However, little research have been done in the past decade for looking at the telecommuting productivity especially the developing countries. This unexpected event (Covid-19) forces white cellar worker working from home, regardless what type of organization they work for. It may create new work habit, perhaps promote work life balance better for some, or maybe on the other hand bring new productivity issues. It is important in this occasion, that APMBA will open special issue for August 2020 issue to encourage scholars around the world to submit their paper consist of ideas regarding working from home issues. With this editorial note, I would like also to congratulate four paper that addressing marketing, entrepreneurship, operation and finance issue resulted from the 3rd AICMBS conference which was held in October 2019 that coloring the research dissemination through this scholarly venue.

A hybrid personalized scholarly venue recommender system integrating social network analysis and contextual similarity

Rapidly developing academic venues throw a challenge to researchers in identifying the most appropriate ones that are in-line with their scholarly interests and of high relevance. Even a high-quality paper is sometimes rejected due to a mismatch between the area of the paper, and the scope of the journal attempted to. Recommending appropriate academic venues can, therefore, enable researchers to identify and take part in relevant conferences and to publish in impactful journals. Although a researcher may know a few leading high-profile venues for her specific field of interest, a venue recommender system becomes particularly helpful when one explores a new field or when more options are needed. We propose DISCOVER: A Diversified yet Integrated Social network analysis and COntextual similarity-based scholarly VEnue Recommender system. Our work provides an integrated framework incorporating social network analysis, including centrality measure calculation, citation and co-citation analysis, topic modeling based contextual similarity, and key-route identification based main path analysis of a bibliographic citation network. The paper also addresses cold start issues for a new researcher and a new venue along with a considerable reduction in data sparsity, computational costs, diversity, and stability problems. Experiments based on the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) dataset show that the proposed DISCOVER outperforms state-of-the-art recommendation techniques using standard metrics of precision@k, nDCG@k, accuracy, MRR, F−measuremacro, diversity, stability, and average venue quality.

Twelve Years an Editor – Almost. Nordic-Mediterranean Perspectives on Iceland’s International Image

Established in 2005, the scholarly venue entitled Nordicum-Mediterraneum: Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies has been published regularly by the University of Akureyri since 2006. Over the years, its editor and editorial collaborators have received, read, reviewed and released a number of contributions by foreign scholars, in particular Italian ones, dealing with Iceland under a broad variety of scientific and scholarly perspectives. Upon the basis of the published contributions, the conference’s discussion can be enriched by an eminently local, quintessentially academic, yet qualitatively rich account of Iceland’s image among foreign academic circles, especially Italian ones.

Letter From the Editors

We are excited to welcome you the inaugural issue of theJournal of Forensic Social Work. The Journal is a forum for practitioners, scholars, policy makers, advocates, and others interested in social work in the legal system. As editors of the Journal of Forensic Social Work, our goal is for the journal to serve as a guide for social workers practicing in the forensic arena by offering them a clear identity and the knowledge base they need to practice effectively. We envision that the Journal of Forensic Social Work will serve as a primary resource for practitioners in the field of forensic social work. The journal will provide an opportunity for the discussion of important policy and social justice issues within forensic practice as well as the dissemination of empirical research on legal issues, systems of care, and on the management and treatment of victims of crime and criminal offenders. The Journal of Forensic Social Work recognizes that social workers are fundamental stakeholders in the justice system. The Journal articles will offer current theory, cutting edge research, and practice guidelines that will contribute to effective and ethically informed practice for these stakeholders. In this inaugural issue, a broad range of topics are discussed by eminent scholars such as NASW social work pioneer Dr. Carlton Munson’s article on standards of practice and an article on expert witness testimony by the leading authority in the field, Dr. Stanley Brodsky. Dr. Tina Maschi’s article on the evolution of forensic social work anchors the inaugural issue and details therich history of the work. Two articles by forensic scholars, Dr. Wesley Churchand Dr. Susan McCarter, provide a sample of exemplary research and policy articles that we will continue to disseminate though the journal. Finally, we present a review of forensic ethics and a revision of the NOFSW Code of Ethics. The quality of the scholars and articles in this first journal provide a solid foundation for the launch of this highly anticipated journal. Launching a new journal is no easy task and we are indebted to countless individuals along the way. It really does take a village to raise a child, and the same could be said about launching a journal. Over the years, the journal has been the child of many, although three individuals stand out. These three visionaries provided vital service, wisdom, and unwavering faith and without each of them, the journal would still be in its infancy. First, Dr. Ira Neighbors will be honored as the Founding Editor for his passion and grassroots work to transition the journal from an idea to a reality. Next, our consulting editor, Dr. Jon Conte, provided invaluable wisdom and consultation to bring the Journal to publication. Finally, we are indebted to Kathryn Rutz, Acquisitions Editor at Taylor and Francis, for her leadership and belief in the Journal. This is an exciting time for forensic social workers who have been waiting for a peer-reviewed publication that will promote our professional image and provide a scholarly venue for debate and the progression of knowledge. The Journal of Forensic Social Work will disseminate information based on solid research methodology, good multicultural practice, and the advancement of restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence that we know can ameliorate many of the social ills and crime problems in America.

W. Reid Hastie: A Visionary for Research in Art Education

W. Reid Hastie, the fifth president (1957-1959) of the National Art Education Association, promoted the need for a scholarly venue devoted entirely to issues and research in art education and a place where related research results could be presented on a regular basis to the field of art education, as well as the larger field of education. His vision led to the initiation of Studies in Art Education, a journal of issues and research in art education. The first issue was published in the Fall of 1959. Hasties vision, practice, and support of research are examined within the context of the history of research in art education and the rapidly changing world of higher education following World War II.When Studies in Art Education was introduced to the field of art education in 1959 as a journal for professional and critical dialogue about issues and research related to art and art education, it was a landmark. For die first time ever, there was a scholarly venue devoted entirely to issues and research related to art education. The fact that it has survived and flourished is a testament to the vision of W. Reid Hastie, the National Art Education Association (NAEA) president (1957-1959) under whose leadership Studies in Art Education was established. It is also a testament to the need for a forum where art education researchers could share the results of their work and engage in a dialogue with professional colleagues throughout the world (Beelke, 1972).Research Trends in Art EducationWhile there is an established history of research in art education predating the beginning of Studies, most related research prior to 1 940 was conducted by individuals outside the discipline. Those few individuals, both art educators and non-art educators, who published their work did so in a variety of educational, psychological, and sociological journals (Davis, 1967). The earliest known piece of published research with a relationship to art education was a study conducted by the legendary leader of the child study movement, G. Stanley Hall. In May of 1883, he published a report on a study of the contents of children's minds on entering schools in the Princeton Review (Hall, 1883).In her thesis, A Summary ofScientific Investigations Relatingto Art, Mary Strange (1940) presented a systematic look at scientific research in art and art education prior to that time, identifying all published research that she could locate. She reported that during the 57-year period between 1883 and 1939, 162 studies were published in books and in a wide variety of educational and psychological journals such as Pedagogical Seminary, American Journal ofPsychohgy, and the British Journal of Psychology. These publications grouped themselves into four general categories: (a) color and color vision, (b) drawing and/or graphic ability, (c) picture preference and appreciation, and (d) tests and measurements. An examination of this work reveals that most of it was conducted by individuals outside the field of art education, primarily by psychologists and sociologists. In many cases, it appears that art was being used as a means to an end, without any foundational basis in aesthetics, creativity, or artistic processes (Davis, 1967). For example, the focus of many of the studies was not on art but on other topics such as mental development, intelligence, special talents and defects, differences in males and females on various traits, and school success. Art was simply used as a vehicle to examine the phenomenon being investigated.Following World War II, the United States experienced unprecedented growth in higher education with the returning veterans and support of their education by the G.I. Bill. Art education was not excluded, and educational opportunities in die field were characterized by phenomenal growth, especially at the graduate level. More researchers who were art educators emetged, bringing about more research in art education. The field of art education was developing to a point that more research was necessary if continued growth were to occur. …

Mexican Americans and Sports: A Reader on Athletics and Barrio Life (review)

364Southwestern Historical QuarterlyJanuary dian 9.1 million third-plus-generation Latinos in 2002, nearly 7 million were Mexican Americans, and they may have called themselves variously by any number of self-referents, among them Hispanic, Latina/o, Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicana/o. The continued legacy of the Chicanismo ethos is alive and well among thirdplus -generation Mexicans in the United States, Macias notes, making it acceptable to claim one's ethnicity and still consider oneselfthoroughly American, a trait shared by many other groups since die ethnic-identity social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Continued Mexican immigration combines to make social integration for U.S. Mexicans distinct and affords reinforcement for the third-plus generations to acquire "a positive sense of Mexican etiinicity through both the consumption of edinic culture and participation in die edinic community" (p. 93). In 2002, 72 percent of all U.S. Mexicans were either first or second generation, and first-generation Mexicans comprised fully 41 percent of die total of more than 25 million counted. Macias concludes that "Mexican etiinicity, and by extension mestizaje [mixing ofraces] , is still a highly contested area ofself- and group identitywidiin the United States" (p. 115). The audior believes the day mestizaje will be accepted in the U.S. approaches. Accepting it means we acknowledge our long shared history of racial and cultural mixing with the Americas. Macias's Mestizo in America is a poignant volume. Its splendid demographic data and stimulating ideas will find use among a wide range of historical fields. University ofNorth TexasRoberto R. Calderón Mexican Americans and Sports: A Reader on Athletics and Barrio Life. Edited byJorge Iber and Samuel O. Regalado. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. 272. Notes, index. ISBN 1585445225. $18.95, paper.) While sports history has gained a measure of acceptance by mainstream scholars and even has its own scholarly venue, theJournal ofSport Hutory, Mexican Americanists have largely ignored the role of sports in barrio history. Now comes a new book designed to challenge that status. In their new book coeditors Jorge Iber and Samuel O. Regalado have produced an important compilation of essays. Presented in chronological fashion, the essays are well written and focus on two central organizing principles: how Mexican Americans used sport to strengthen their communities; and the interpretive value of studying sport history. By studying athletic groups and events from the 1920s to the present across various sports involving bodi sexes, these authors collectively offer the reader a clear, coherent sense of the ways in which participation in organized forms of physical activity have helped empower Mexican Americans to see themselves as citizens capable of participation in mainstream life, even against steep odds. This level of cohesion is often lacking from such assemblages of essays, but the editors managed to identify works by people whose collective research addresses similar issues and questions, while not necessarily duplicating each other in topic, theory, 2??8Book Reviews365 or methodology. Andwhile culture and identity are at the heart ofeach piece, some rely more on oral interviews; others rely more heavily on documentary records. Some are driven by a clearly materialistic perspective, while others are strongly cultural in their interpretations. All diese varying perspectives offer a rich interpretive tapestry diat demonstrates die ways in which sports can raise interesting historical questions. One of the problems in pioneering a new field of research is creating useful , contributory interpretation as opposed to bland superficial stories, or overly theoretical, jargon-driven pieces. This work, despite contributions from nine authors, holds together well. Each article looks at a very different topic, such as Mexican long-distance runners and their impact on Mexican identity and Anglo stereotypes of them; coverage of Hispanic athletes by the mainstream press in Los Angeles; female softball players and their personal as well as on-field obstacles; and many others. Another major contribution of diis work is the rich historiographical discussions that appear in the introduction, conclusion, and several of the essays. Such coverage helps the uninitiated reader understand the nascent field and its contemporary directions. Those who teach sports history, Mexican American history, or edinic history will find the book a useful teaching tool at all levels. The general...

Quality Is Thy Name

In this short exploratory and contemplative essay, the author asks if there is a need in the communication discipline for a scholarly venue for the carefully crafted “short exploratory and contemplative essay.” What is the role of the contemplative forms of scholarship, as compared to research that seeks to prove something? The essay examines the issue of “quality” in “qualitative” research and considers the nature and contributions of qualitative research within the fractionalized communication discipline. Further, the relationship of qualitative research within the Eastern Communication Association is considered.

At the Movies: A Continuing Dialogue on the Challenges of Teaching with Film

As part of ISP’s ongoing effort to provide a scholarly venue for the exchange of ideas on a variety of topics, this issue’s ISP Forum presents one set of reactions to the February 2001 article by Lynn Kuzma and Patrick Haney titled “And Action . . . ! Using Film to Learn About Foreign Policy” (February 2001:33‐50). Vincent Pollard’s comments represent what we hope will be the first in a series of comments on teaching international studies with film. Profs. Kuzma and Haney in their rejoinder urge for an ongoing discussion of the topic, as they see the use of film growing in the field. More broadly, the Editors of ISP invite readers to submit their own comments and reactions on this and other pieces that appear within the pages of ISP. Please note that all submissions undergo a peer review process.

Publishing (whatever that means) neuroscience in the new millennium

The World Wide Web and other forms of digital communication have led some to predict the demise of printed journals. In my experience, it is clearly demonstrable that scientific articles can be more efficiently reviewed and edited by digital document sharing. Nevertheless, high quality print journals will remain the preferred scholarly venue for authors’s best works for some time to come. However, while innovative means to share raw data, validate observations, and disseminate scientific information are emerging, no system of ‘publishing’ will serve the community optimally unless the ethical behavior of human scientists can be maintained and appropriately rewarded.

The Importance of Reviewers

T he advent of the World Wide Web and other forms of digital information sharing have led to predictions of the imminent demise of printed journals. Indeed, high-quality all-digital publications are being produced by established journals such as Pediatrics and the Journal of Neuroscience , among others. Science fully believes that high-quality print journals will remain the preferred scholarly venue for authors' best works, although it recognizes that even for print-only journals the process of reviewing, revising, and disseminating scientific articles unquestionably benefits from digital documents. However, regardless of the form in which manuscripts are transmitted between authors, editors, and reviewers, the integrity of the scientific review process requires that the performance of reviewers be appropriately rewarded. Authors and readers judge journals on quality of content, breadth of readership, quality of publication, and method of delivery. The speed with which submitted papers are rejected or accepted for eventual publication is certainly an important selection factor. Wise editors select reviewers with great care, recognizing certain critical decisions. Who is a peer of this author, in content area, in technique, and in experience? Which reviewers should be avoided because of competitive conflicts and past disputes? In short, what does the editor need to know in order to decide whether to accept or reject a submittal? To maintain journal quality, editors and grant review committee coordinators seek the “best” reviewers, based on their scientific reputation and past performance as reviewers. Often reviewers in “hot” areas of science may be in great demand by several journals. Reviewers working in other research fields may be in equally intense demand because the pool of qualified reviewers is quite small. Only the most dedicated scholars will agree to review frequently, given the pressures they face from research, grant proposals, and their own papers. So why be a reviewer? Some reasons may include passionate dedication to the scientific process or to the quality of journals one admires, as well as hopes for future authorship there. Reviewing also gives one a chance to take an advance look at new developments in the field. No matter how quickly manuscripts can be digitally exchanged between editors and reviewers, the major temporal sink in the review process remains the delays in the return of useful reviews. Those delays in turn delay decision-making, which affects the journal's aggregate reputation. Prompt high-quality reviewing is the essential element of the scientific manuscript review process, and the one most vulnerable to the vagaries of editor-reviewer interactions. However, promptness without accurate criticism and open-mindedness is the editor's nightmare. As the attractiveness of a journal grows, submittals increase, straining the review process even more as an increasingly smaller fraction of papers is accepted. Given the importance of reviewers in the scientific manuscript review process, how can editors and publishers reward exemplary performance? Some journals provide free subscriptions to reviewers, which is especially effective for expensive journals worthy of the subscription charge, but still underprices the time and effort required to review frequently. At some journals, editors offer reviewers insight into their decision-making process by sending them copies of the decision letters sent to authors after all reviewers' comments were digested. Such sharing in confidence can also help editors shape future reviewer performance. Editors can also offer limited numbers of reviewers the prestige of visible editorial positions or inclusion in long annual lists of reviewers. However, that recognition may be invisible to promotion committees. Rarely do editors have time to write to department chairs to praise a faculty member's performance as a reviewer. Whether any of these possible rewards will be appreciated is an experiment in progress. What is clear is that the reviewer is the most critical and often most undervalued element of the scientific manuscript review process. Rewarding good reviewers for excellent performance is essential for maintaining the quality of the review process, no matter how quickly manuscripts are moved from authors to editors to reviewers. We do thank you.