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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used

    Refined InSAR derived fault model for the Mw=6.3, June 15, 1995 Aigion EQ (Greece)

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    The detectability of the deformation pattern produced by the June 15, 1995 Aigion Earthquake with DInSAR techniques is ensured by its magnitude (MW = 6.3), shallow depth and dip-slip mechanism. In this paper, stacking procedures are applied to a series of ERS interferograms in order to filter out from the differential phase field the atmospheric signal, and an a posteriori test is used to check the statistical properties of the atmospheric signal both in time and space. Based on the DInSARderived deformation pattern, a new fault model is proposed that takes into account the crustal layering of the western part of the Gulf of Corinth

    Rilevamento di deformazioni del suolo in Daunia (Puglia) per mezzo di tecniche interferometriche SAR

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    Il lavoro presenta un’attività di ricerca condotta nell’ambito di un programma finanziato dalla Regione Puglia e finalizzata all’impiego di tecniche interferometriche SAR per lo studio delle deformazioni al suolo nel sub-appennino Dauno (Puglia). Tale area risulta di notevole interesse per la Protezione Civile – Regione Puglia, che è uno dei potenziali utenti dei prodotti di deformazione ottenuti dall’analisi multi-temporale interferometrica di immagini SAR acquisite da satellite. I risultati sono ottenuti per mezzo della catena interferometrica SPINUA (Bovenga et al., 2004) che implementa un approccio di tipo Riflettori Permanenti e rappresenta uno strumento efficace per ispezionare periodicamente, su archi temporali di diversi anni, un vasto territorio al fine di rilevare movimenti deformativi sub-verticali con cinematiche lente e con la precisione di pochi millimetri all’anno per la velocità media. La catena di elaborazione è stata aggiornata negli ultimi anni per consentire l’utilizzo di dati SAR di ultima generazione che, grazie all’alta risoluzione spaziale, aprono nuove opportunità applicative. Nell’articolo verranno presentati i primi risultati ottenuti elaborando dati acquisiti tra il 2002 ed il 2010 dal satellite ENVISAT dell’Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA) in banda C a media risoluzioneIn this paper we present the research activity carried out in the framework of a project funded by Puglia Region and aimed at using SAR Interferometry for measuring deformations induced by landslides in the Daunia region (Puglia). The area is of particular interest for the Civil Protection – Regione Puglia Authority which is one of the potential end users of the deformation map derived by multi-temporal interferometric analysis of satellite data. The results have been obtained through the SPINUA processing chain (Bovenga et al., 2004) which performs a multi-temporal InSAR Persistent Scatterer-like analysis. These approaches are able to inspect periodically a wide area on the ground measuring sub-vertical displacements with a precision of few millimetres per year for the mean velocity. The algorithm is also able to process the new generation of X-band high resolution SAR data. In the paper we present first results obtained by processing SAR data acquired between 2002 and 2010 by the ENVISAT ESA satellite which works at and medium spatial resolution
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