Este trabajo realiza una investigación del tipo Meta Análisis (MA) y analiza, pormenorizadamente, las distintas categorías partiendo de una taxonomía establecida previamente para ofrecer una ...radiografía del estado metodológico de las tesis doctorales relacionadas con la enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE) defendidas en universidades españolas a lo largo de 2017. Para ello, abordamos el estado de la cuestión mediante estudios precedentes que nos permiten contextualizar y situar la trayectoria investigadora de ELE. Posteriormente, establecemos las definiciones de lo que se entiende en cada categoría, y se conduce el MA mediante los datos primarios que aportan las 65 Tesis doctorales disponibles en cuatro bases de datos: Dialnet, TESEO, TDX y Portal del Hispanismo. Tras el análisis de dichos datos, presentamos las conclusiones donde, por un lado, se observa la trayectoria investigadora en ELE en 2017 y, por otro lado, se perfilan las posibles líneas de investigación futuras.
This paper presents an analysis of the introductory sections of a corpus of 20 doctoral theses on computing written in Spanish and in English. Our aim was to ascertain whether the theses, produced ...within the same scientific-technological area but by authors from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, employed the same rhetorical strategies to introduce the work presented. The analysis follows the Swalesian approach and is based on a move/step/sub-step model proposed for PhD introductions in Spanish (
Carbonell-Olivares, Gil-Salom, & Soler-Monreal, 2009). The Spanish academic conventions appear to be that move 1 (M1-
Establishing the Territory) and move 3 (M3-
Occupying the Niche) are obligatory moves in PhD thesis introductions in Spanish, while move 2 (M2-
Establishing the Niche) is optional. The structure of English thesis introductions reveals that they conform more closely to the M1–M2–M3 arrangement. Moreover, combinations of moves and patterns, cyclicity and embedding make their organisation more complex. The step analysis suggests that introductions in both languages rely mainly on the presentation of background information and the work carried out. However, the English introductions tend to stress the writer’s own work, its originality and its contribution to the field of study. They also present more embedding and overlapping of steps and sub-steps than the Spanish texts.
This study explores the views of doctoral students and supervisors about two doctoral thesis-writing models: the traditional monograph and the thesis that includes published articles in its body. ...Doctoral theses in biological and health sciences usually follow one of these two common models. Doctoral theses with publications are increasingly utilised in Australian and New Zealand universities. This article provides insights into the factors that doctoral students and supervisors in Australia and New Zealand consider when deciding how to format a student's thesis. A cross-sectional survey was conducted of supervisors and doctoral students in biological and health sciences at The University of Auckland (UoA) and The Australian National University (ANU). Basic descriptive quantitative data analysis was undertaken. Qualitative data from open-ended survey questions were analysed using a general purpose thematic approach. Overall, 144 completed surveys were returned with a total response rate of 22.9%. More than half of the respondents identified as doctoral students (UoA 54.4%, ANU 73.3%). Respondents' primary consideration when weighing up the risks and benefits of each thesis model was the impact of publications on furthering aims of both the student and the supervisor. Other points included quality and style of writing, extent of peer review, development of skills, and time management. If they were to embark on another doctorate, most respondents indicated that they would do a doctorate that included published articles in its body. Based on findings, we recommend supervisors of students who are including articles in their thesis should be clear with students from the outset about what their own contributions will be in the writing process, as well as their expectations concerning publication processes and outputs. We argue for a move towards multimodal theses formats.
There is an underlying continuity between Marx's doctoral thesis and Engels' Dialectics of Nature. Although the two works are far apart in terms of time, style of writing, and specific topics, an ...exegesis of the core arguments reveals similar underlying interests: a focus on the materiality of motion; an identification of repulsion (and attraction) as the main dialectical feature of motion; and the philosophical implications of this dialectical interaction. The results of this exegesis raise once again the question of how we may understand the division of labor between Marx's main concern with human history and Engels' later concern with natural history and the hard sciences.
This special issue of the Criminological Bulletin contains nine of the best contributions presented during the 2nd Meeting of Spanish Early-Career Researchers in Criminology, which took place at the ...Law School of the University of Malaga (Spain) on the 13th and 14th of February 2020. This article presents firstly the nine contributions of the special issue. As well, it discusses the challenge of publishing while being an ear-ly-career researcher. In particular, we briefly review the literature on the “publish or perish” phenomenon to set out its assets, as well as its difficulties. Last, we outline several recom-mendations for publishing successfully, while preserving the ethical and methodological principles of our discipline.
Esta edición especial del Boletín Criminológico recoge nueve de las mejores contribuciones presentadas durante el II Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Criminología, que tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Málaga (España) los días 13 y 14 de febrero de 2020. Tras presentar las nueve contribuciones, este artículo discute el reto que supone publicar siendo joven investigador. En particular, revisaremos de manera breve los escritos relativos al fenómeno “publica o perece” a fin de exponer sus aspectos positivos, así como sus dificultades, y, por último, esbozaremos algunas recomendaciones para publicar de manera exitosa, preservando los principios éticos y metodológicos de nuestra ciencia.
This study aims to identify and analyse all the doctoral theses defended in Spain that refer to the concept of "internal communication" (hereinafter IC) over a period of 34 years from 1986 to 2019 ...(including both). It should be noted that not all of them are specialized in IC, but that some of them refer to the concept in some way. For this purpose, a descriptive and retrospective bibliometric analysis has been used, divided into three phases: 1) Search and identification in Dialnet Plus and TESEO; 2) Analysis of a total of (n= 81) theses; 3) Graphic representation with RStudio of the relationships between advisers and chairmen of the tribunal. For this, 30 variables distributed in three dimensions (work, research team and evaluation team) have been used. 32 universities are present (85,2% of them are state owned), of which the UCM (22,2%) is the most productive, followed by the UNAV, the ULL and the UAB (all with 6,2% each). If we analyse the origin of the theses by autonomous xommunities, Madrid (28,4%), Catalonia (14,8%) and Andalusia (12,3%) are in the lead. The most prolific decade is 2010-2019 (56,8%), especially 2016 with 12,3% and in terms of languages, the theses have been presented mainly in Spanish (92,6%), with English being almost anecdotal (3,7%). Its authorship is divided close to parity with 50,6% of women and 49,4% of men. It should be noted that there is individualism in management with 71,6% of sole advisers and an average of 1.3 advisers per thesis. In addition, there is a strong dispersion of advisers and a minimal relationship with chairpeople, as only 5,1% have repeated in the management and among them, only on one occasion, they have coincided with the same chairman. It is relevant to mention that 70,4% of the first advisers are men and 80% of the professionals who have occupied this function more than once are also men. In terms of the composition of the boards, the chairmen (76,5%), the secretaries (60,5%) and the male members (71%) are the most important, and once again the UCM is the university with the greatest presence. As might be expected, the terms most used in the theses´ titles revolve around "communication" and "internal" with 82,7% and 50,6% respectively. Among the descriptors, "communication" decreases to 49,4% (although it is still the most repeated) but "internal" disappears completely. There is evidence of a great diversity of items in both questions, although it is important to emphasize the use of concepts such as "strategy", "information", "influence" or "behaviour" that demonstrate the direct link between IC and public relations. By way of conclusion, it can be stated that the production of theses on internal communication in Spain has experienced a boom in the last decade thanks to state owned universities and with the UCM as the main creative and evaluative entity. Among the academics of the discipline, the figure of Alfonso-Javier Fernández-del-Moral, professor at the UCM, stands out, with two theses supervised and seven evaluation panels (five presidencies, a secretariat and a membership). Although there are no gender differences in terms of their origin, it is evident both in the management and in the tribunals, where men take especial presence. There is also the almost inexistent connection between advisers and members of the boards, and among the boards themselves. For future research work in this field, it would be interesting to delve into the main sources cited in these theses or to analyse the methodologies and tools most commonly used in them.
Este estudio identifica y analiza las tesis doctorales defendidas en España que aluden al concepto “comunicación interna” en un período de 34 años (1986 y 2019). Para ello se realiza un análisis bibliométrico descriptivo y retrospectivo dividido en tres fases: 1) Búsqueda e identificación en Dialnet Plus y TESEO; 2) Análisis de un total de (n= 81) tesis; 3) Representación gráfica con RStudio de las relaciones entre directores-as y presidentes-as de tribunal. Destacar que están presentes 32 universidades (85,2% de titularidad pública), de las cuales la UCM (22,2%) es la más productiva. La década más prolífera es la de 2010-2019 (56,8%) en la que destaca el año 2016 con el 12,3% de tesis y, en cuanto a idiomas, las tesis se han presentado principalmente en español (92,6%). Su autoría, cercana a la paridad, se distribuye entre un 50,6% de mujeres y un 49,4% de hombres. Existe dirección única en el 71,6% y un promedio de 1,3 directores o directoras por tesis. Además, se observa una dispersión de directores-as y una mínima relación con presidentes-as. En cuanto a la composición de los tribunales, priman los hombres que como presidentes actúan en el 76,5%, como secretarios en el 60,5% y como vocales en el 71% y de nuevo es la UCM es la universidad con mayor presencia. Se concluye que la producción de tesis sobre comunicación interna en España ha vivido un auge en la última década de la mano de las universidades públicas y con la UCM como principal entidad creadora y evaluadora. Sin diferencias de género en cuanto a su origen, sí existe una brecha de género tanto en la dirección como en la participación en los tribunales, donde los hombres adquieren especial protagonismo. Se constata también la casi nula conexión entre directores y miembros de los tribunales.
Cumulative dissertations are doctoral theses comprised of multiple published articles. For studies of publication activity and citation impact of early career researchers, it is important to identify ...these articles and link them to their associated theses. Using a new benchmark data set, this paper reports on experiments of measuring the bilingual textual similarity between, on the one hand, titles and keywords of doctoral theses, and, on the other hand, articles’ titles and abstracts. The tested methods are cosine similarity and
distance in the Vector Space Model (VSM) as baselines, the language-indifferent methods Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and trigram similarity, and the language-aware methods fastText and Random Indexing (RI). LSA and RI, two supervised methods, were trained on a purposively collected bilingual scientific parallel text corpus. The results show that the VSM baselines and the RI method perform best but that the VSM method is unsuitable for cross-language similarity due to its inherent monolingual bias.
Resumen Se presenta un estudio bibliométrico de las tesis doctorales sobre Traducción e Interpretación realizadas en España e indexadas en la base de datos TESEO. Se recuperaron 389 tesis doctorales. ...Se pretende realizar un estudio cuantitativo de las tesis en términos de producción institucional, de dirección y de género, tanto en autoría como en dirección. Los resultados revelan un incremento paulatino de la producción de tesis doctorales, donde destaca la Universidad de Granada como mayor productora. Más de la mitad de los directores son ocasionales, con una única tesis dirigida en el área en cuestión. Existe una ligera tendencia de que la autoría y la dirección tengan el mismo género, que es estadísticamente significativa.
This article presents a cartography of the field of research in adult learning and education (ALE) via a comparative study of academic production at doctoral level in Spain and Portugal based on a ...systematic documentary analysis of the summaries of doctoral theses concluded between 2006 and 2018. The aim is to advance the state of the art of research on ALE in recent doctoral theses in both Countries and highlight trends of contemporary knowledge construction in the field of continuing education of adults. Two analytical strategies are applied: i) a characterisation of the doctoral theses' abstracts by a constructed grid with general and specific categories; and ii) a quantitative strategy of identifying frequencies in the grid for 18 keywords, 6 frameworks and paradigms and 12 associated to concepts. The mapping of priorities and absences in doctoral research at Higher Education Institutions (HEI) demonstrate that in Spain, there is a tendency to present the role of ALE closely related to assisting individuals and groups to adapt to the educational system, to society and to labour demands. In Portugal an unresolved tension between the adaptation of adults to society through ALE and the conscientization of adults by ALE to transform society remains.
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