Abstract. Literature on welfare attitudes has reached a stylized scheme in which egalitarian values and self-interest concerns are the two main determinants of welfare attitudes. We aim to bring forward existing research by identifying additional values that people draw on to elaborate opinions on welfare issues. Using data from the European Social Survey 2008 and 26 countries, we find that…

Abstract. This article analyses the gender differences in political knowledge in a rarely studied area: Europe. The results are obtained via two-level hierarchical linear models using the 2009 European Election Studies, Voter Study (EES) and show that men provide more correct answers and less “Don’t Know” (DK) answers than women, whereas gender differences in providing incorrect answers are not…

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In the greater framework of the essential functions of Public Health, our focus is on a systematic, objective, external evaluation of Latin American scientific output, to compare its publications in the area of Public Health with those of other major geographic zones. We aim to describe the regional distribution of output in Public Health, and…

Abstract. This article offers a comparative analysis of the personal profiling capabilities of the two most important free citation-based academic search engines, namely, Microsoft Academic Search (MAS) and Google Scholar Citations (GSC). Author profiles can be useful for evaluation purposes once the advantages and the shortcomings of these services are described and taken into consideration. In…

Abstract. Policy combinations and interactions have received a considerable attention in the climate and energy policy realm. However, virtually no attention has been paid to the analysis of the combination of different deployment instruments for the same …

Abstract. Drawing on social choice theory we derive a rationale in which each reviewer is asked to provide his or her second, third, and fourth choice in addition to his/her first choice recommendation regarding the acceptance/revision/rejection of a given manuscript. All reviewers’ hierarchies of alternatives are collected and combined such that an overall ranking can be computed. Consequently,…

Resumen. Se analiza la investigación española en células madre en el Science Citation Index (SCI) entre 1997 y 2010 con una división temporal en tres sub-perí­odos, mediante técnicas de visualización basadas en redes sociales. Se han utilizado los descriptores KeyWords Plus (KW+) como unidad de análisis, su coocurrencia como unidad de medida, y Pajek…