The negative effects of citing with a national orientation in terms of recognition: National and international citations in natural-sciences papers from Germany,the Netherlands,and the UK

Nations can be distinguished in terms of whether domestic or international research is cited. We analyzed the research output in the natural sciences of three leading European research economies (Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK) and ask where their researchers look for the knowledge that underpins their most highly-cited papers. Is one internationally oriented or is citation limited to national resources? Do the citation patterns reflect a growing differentiation between the domestic and international research enterprise? To evaluate change over time, we include natural-sciences papers published in the countries from three publication years: 2004, 2009, and 2014. The results show that articles co-authored by researchers from Germany or the Netherlands are less likely to be among the globally most highly-cited articles if they also cite “domestic” research (i.e. research authored by authors from the same country). To put this another way, less well-cited research is more likely to stand on domestic shoulders and research that becomes more highly-cited is more likely to stand on international shoulders. A possible reason for the results is that researchers “over-cite” the papers from their own country – lacking the focus on quality in citing. However, these differences between domestic and international shoulders are not visible for the UK.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Stephen May (ed), Critical Multiculturalism: Rethinking Multicultural Antiracist Education
Ghazala Bhatti, Asian Children at Home and at School: an ethnographic study
Carl Parsons, Education, Exclusion and Citizenship
Brian Simon, Education and the Social Order 1940–1990
Gill Helsby, Changing Teachers' Work
John Gray, David Hopkins, David Reynolds, Brian Wilcox, Shaun Farrell and David Jeeson, Improving Schools' Performance and Potential
Carl A. Grant (ed), Multicultural Research: a reflective engagement with race, class, gender and sexual orientation
Julie Allen, Actively Seeking Inclusion
Cary McCulloch, Failing the Ordinary Child: the theory and practice of working class secondary education
Naima Browne, Young Children's Literacy Development and the Role of Televisual Texts
Michael Fullan, Change Forces: the sequel
Naz Rassool, Literacy for Sustainable Development in the Age of Information
David Scott and Robin Usher, Researching Education. Data, methods and theory in educational enquiry
Mike Wallace and Lynda Huckman, Senior Management Teams in Primary Schools: the quest for synergy
John White, Do Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Add Up?
Martin Thrupp, Schools Making a Difference: Let's Be Realistic!     

Social learning by doing in sustainable transport innovations: Ex-post analysis of common factors behind successes and failures

This article presents the results of a study into the factors governing success and failure in innovative projects in the area of sustainable transport. This can be regarded as an important example of ‘social learning by doing’. Data obtained through interviews with key players in eight ambitious innovation cases for the Netherlands are analysed. Common factors are identified and a statistical correlation analysis of success and failure factors is performed. We find that it is predominantly the political, process-related, socio-cultural and psychological factors that determine whether a project succeeds or fails. Technical/content-related and economic factors appear to be less important. Administrative/legal factors play an intermediate role.     

荷兰现实主义教师教育实习模式探究

教师的教育实习,作为联系教师教育中的理论学习与未来教学实践的重要纽带,是教师教育课程中的必要组成部分,也是教师的专业社会化与专业发展的关键阶段。荷兰乌特勒支大学的"现实主义"教师教育实习模式,以傅乐的教师关注理论为基础,重视教育实习与理论学习的紧密融合,大学与中小学指导教师的合作督导,以及实习教师的反思能力的培养等,这些对我国的教师教育实习都会有所启示与借鉴。     

荷兰职业教育集团化办学的实践及对我国的启示

实践证明,集团化办学是荷兰发展职业教育的有效方式之一。在案例剖析的基础上,分析和总结荷兰职业教育集团化办学的主要模式与特点,以期对我国职业教育集团化办学提供有益的经验与启示。     

How do these Foreigners Blend in? Migration and Integration in Late Eighteenth-Century Antwerp (1715-92)

Whereas early modern migration history has been traditionally based on citizenship rolls, marriage registers, censuses and myriad other sources, this research explores the value of eyewitness reports before the Antwerp criminal court in the eighteenth century. On the face of things, these proceedings of the hoogere Vierschaer corroborate earlier findings. Due to the economic slump, Antwerp merely drew an endless stream of humble, unskilled labourers from its rural fringe; immigrants who were often relegated to the most menial, dirty and low-paid jobs. Acts of xenophobic violence against these new arrivals, who spoke a (slightly) different language or had different habits, were no exception. Most migrants seemed to have left town after they had saved a penny. Yet, the files of the Vierschaer also shed light on some slow-burn processes of integration, which have been less thoroughly scrutinized in the past. Some migrants blended smoothly into their new environment, by finding a permanent job (mostly as publican, peddler, or unskilled labourer); by mastering new skills (literacy and language); by seizing opportunities for (modest) social rise; or by establishing strong bonds with their new neighbours, friends, colleagues or parishioners. Findings also suggest that this integration process eventually stroke home.     

Adultery and the double standard in a Dutch city in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Abstract

Analyzing Dutch criminal cases of adultery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this article shows that the legal definition of adultery as well as its prosecution changed in this period. Until 1811 both men and women received equally hard punishments and were prosecuted in similar numbers. Only with the introduction of the French Code Pénal in the Netherlands in 1811 did the double standard find its way into laws on adultery. But at the same time, sentences became more lenient and prosecution declined. The changes in the laws, as well as the discrepancies between the law and prosecution practice, show adultery’s constructed character and its differing meanings, the variability of the double standard and the precarious nature of heterosexuality.     

与时俱进的书业物流巨无霸:荷兰中央书局

通过实地参观和面对面访谈,深入了解荷兰最大的图书物流中间商中央书局实体书配送、按需印刷和电子书物流三大核心业务的运作模式和流程,从而揭示积极适应环境变化、利用新技术实现企业升级是传统书业物流企业经历百年发展、长盛不衰的成功秘诀。     

Showing results? An analysis of the perceptions of internal and external stakeholders of the public performance communication by the Belgian and Dutch Railways

Performance measurement and communicating about it with the broader public is not self-evident if one looks at public services organizations (Hernon, P., 1998. The government performance and results act. Government Information Quarterly, 15: 153–156). In Belgium and the Netherlands, one organization that has been under constant surveillance from its stakeholders is the railroad company. Originally a national public service, it has changed through a European directive to operate in a liberalized transportation market. In this paper, we present the results of a qualitative study into what the Belgian and Dutch railway companies measure about their performance towards travelers, how they measure it, and specifically how they communicate it to their employees and stakeholders. Although we might expect the Dutch railway company (NS) to be more transparent than the Belgian railway company (NMBS/SNCB), in reality the two organizations do not differ that much from each other.