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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
1,10-Phenanthrolines: Versatile building blocks for luminescent molecules, materials and metal complexes
No full text1,10-Phenanthroline entails several appealing structural and chemical properties: rigidity, planarity, aromaticity, basicity, chelating capability. This makes it a versatile starting material for synthetic organic, inorganic and supramolecular chemistry. In this tutorial review we examine how the chemical versatility of pristine 1,10-phenanthroline, a weakly fluorescent molecule, has been exploited to design many UV-Vis-NIR luminescent organic derivatives and coordination compounds with transition-metal (Ru(ii), Os(ii), Rh(iii), Cr(iii), Pt(ii), Zn(ii), Cu(i), Ag(i)) and rare-earth (Eu(iii), Tb(iii), Yb(iii), Nd(iii), Er(iii)) cations. They are utilized for many analytical and technological applications. © 2009 The Royal Society of Chemistry
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Cap removal and shortening of double-walled and very-thin multi-walled carbon nanotubes under mild oxidative conditions
No full textHomogeneous carbon-based materials were prepared for endohedral functionalization starting from carbon nanotubes (CNT) samples mainly containing double-walled and very-thin multi-walled CNTs. Comprehensive structural characterization of end-opened and shortened CNTs, which were prepared under mild oxidative conditions using dilute aqueous H2O2 solutions, is reported. 90% of the 400 measured nanotubes were shorter than 1 μm with an average value of about 500 nm. TEM observations have confirmed the shortening and opening of the end caps. TGA analysis and Raman spectroscopy showed a reduced impurity content after the oxidation treatment
Wet adsorption of a luminescent Eu-III complex on carbon nanotubes sidewalls
No full textA EuIII complex, tris-dibenzoylmethane mono-1,10-phenanthroline-europium(III) [Eu(DBM)3(Phen)], can be easily adsorbed
in situ via hydrophobic interactions to single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) surfaces from a methanol solution. The EuIIIcontaining
material has been comprehensively characterized via thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), UV-vis-NIR absorption
and luminescence spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), high-resolution transmission electron
microscopy (HR-TEM)), Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) imaging, and energy dispersive X-ray
spectroscopy (EDS). The photophysical investigations revealed that the presence of a SWNT framework does not affect the lanthanide-
centered luminescence stemming from the characteristic electronic transitions within the 4f shell of the EuIII ions. Such straightforward
synthetic route leads to the preparation of luminescent SWNTs without significantly affecting the electronic and structural
properties of the carbon framework, opening new possibilities of designing new classes of CNTs for biomedical applications
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
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