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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
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
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
Transporte atômico e reação química em nanoestruturas TiN e TiN/Ti em aço nitretado a plasma
Full text linkA utilização cada vez mais severa de ferramentas de corte pela indústria metal-mecânica e a exigência de aumentar a vida útil dessas frente a atrito, desgaste e corrosão em altas temperaturas, fez com que técnicas de tratamentos de superfície ganhassem um papel preponderante, com destaque para os revestimentos protetores. Um dos tratamentos utilizados mais modernos é o duplex, que consiste em nitretação a plasma seguido de deposição de um revestimento duro, como o TiN. Nesse tipo de estrutura, verifica-se um aumento significativo da adesão do revestimento ao substrato de aço. Uma das hipóteses sobre a causa deste efeito é a migração de nitrogênio através das interfaces das estruturas formadas, aumentando a adesão pelo relaxamento das tensões de interface, as quais são originadas em mudanças abruptas da composição, defeitos de rede cristalina e ligações incompletas. Para a avaliação dessa hipótese foram construídas estruturas do tipo TiN/aço nitretado a plasma e TiN/Ti/aço nitretado a plasma. Para investigar a mobilidade das espécies envolvidas, foi utilizado um traçador isotópico para o nitrogênio (15N) e técnicas de perfilometria de alta resolução e análise de superfícies e interfaces. Nos resultados obtidos constatou-se migração de nitrogênio através das interfaces TiN/aço nitretado, TiN/Ti e Ti/aço nitretado, bem como migração de Ti para o aço utilizado. Outras espécies químicas existentes na região nitretada do aço, tais como Fe, Cr e Si, migraram para a superfície do filme de TiN. A presença de uma camada intermediária de Ti entre o revestimento protetor de TiN e o aço nitretado parece ser uma contribuição adicional para o aumento da adesão porque aumenta a migração de átomos através das interfaces, sem aumentar as tensões de interface. Isto é comprovado pelo fato de, durante o processo de deposição, todo Ti da camada intermediária (nanoscópica) ter sido convertido em compostos de nitretos e oxinitretos.The use of cutting tools in progressively more severe conditions in the metal-mechanics industry and the requirement to increase tool life against friction, wear and high temperature corrosion made of surface treatments an important protection method. One of the most modern treatments is the so-called duplex, that consists of plasma nitriding and deposition of hard coatings, as TiN. In duplex coatings, the adhesion is increased, probably due to the diffusion of nitrogen through the interface of these structures, most probably by decreasing interface stresses originated in abrupt composition changes in this region. To investigate this hypothesis, structures like TiN/Ti/nitrided steel and TiN/nitrided were produced. Samples of high speed steel M2 were plasma nitrided and thin films were deposited by magnetron sputtering. An isotopic tracer (15N) was used to observe eventual nitrogen migration. The results revealed effectively nitrogen migration through the TiN/nitrided steel and TiN/Ti/nitrided steel interfaces, as well as migration of Ti to steel. Other chemical species existing in the nitrided region of the steel, such as, Fe, Cr, Si, migrated to the surface of the films. The presence of an intermediate layer of Ti between the protective coating of TiN and the nitrided steel seems to be an additional contribution to adhesion, because it increases the migration of atoms through the interface, without increasing the interface stress. This is proven by the fact that during the deposition process, all the intermediate layer of Ti has been converted into nitride and oxynitrides
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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