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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Thermodynamics of amalgam cells [M-Amalgam|MCl2 (m)|AgCl|Ag] (M = Sr, Ba) and primary medium effects in (methanol+water) and (ethanol+water) solvent mixtures
No full textFor the amalgam cell {MxHg1 - x|MCl2 (m)|AgCl |Ag} (with M = Sr, Ba) the potential difference E has been measured as a function of the mole fraction xM of the metal M in amalgams and of the molality m of MCl2 in {methanol + water} and {ethanol + water} solvent mixtures Z = {A + W} with mass fractions of alcohol wA ≤ 0.50 of alcohol, at temperature 298.15 K. The respective molal-scale standard potential differences Em° have been determined together with the relevant activity coefficients γ± as functions of the MCl2 molality. The Em° dependence on the alcohol mole fraction in the solvent mixture within the ranges explored turns out to be linear for both of these two metals M in the amalgams studied. Of course, also the molal-scale standard Gibbs free energy change (ΔG W→Z°)m=2F(WEm°- ZEm°), which constitutes the "primary medium effect" upon transferring MCl2 from pure water to the (alcohol + water) mixture, is linear in xA. In the same context, following Feakins and French's treatment, which implies volume fraction statistics, the relevant primary medium effects upon MCl2 on the mol • dm -3 scale have been analysed in terms of the expected linear relation of (ΔGW→Z°)c=2F(WE c°-ZEc°) against the logarithm of water volume fraction, leading to primary hydration numbers for SrCl2 and BaCl2, respectively, in acceptable agreement with Bockris' data based on different methods
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe 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
Thermodynamics of the amalgam cells (M-Amalgam|MCl or MCl2 (m)|AgCl|Ag) (M = Rb, Cs, Sr, Ba) and primary medium effects in (acetonitrile+water)
No full textThe potential difference E of the amalgam cell {MxHg 1-x|MCl or MCl2 (m)| AgCl |Ag} (M = Rb, Cs, Sr, Ba) has been measured as a function of the mole fraction xM of M metal in amalgams and of the molality m of MCl (or MCl2) in (acetonitrile [A] + water [W]) solvent mixtures containing up to acetonitrile mass fraction w A = 0.50, at T = 298.15 K. The respective molal-scale standard potential differences Em° have been determined together with the relevant activity coefficients y= functions of the MCl (or MCl2) molality. The Em° dependence on the mole fraction xA of acetonitrile in the solvent mixture within the range explored turns out to be linear for all the four metals M in the amalgams considered. Of course, also the difference ([Em°]w - [Em°] A), which is a measure of the primary medium effect upon transferring MCl (or MCl2) from pure water [W] to the acetonitrile [A] mixture, is linear in xA. In this context, following Feakins and French's scheme, which implies volume fraction statistics, analysis of the relevant mol·dm-3 scale primary medium effects, i.e., (E c°]w - [Ec°]A upon MCl (or MCl2), as a linear function of the logarithm of water volume fraction, would lead to primary hydration numbers of 4.2 for RbCl, 4.0 for CsCl, 10.7 for SrCl2, and 10.3 for BaCl2, respectively, in acceptable agreement with literature data by Bockris based on different methods
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