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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
The impact of globalisation on the traditional concept of nation state
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to look at a few of the ways that the globalisation process has affected the institution of the nation-state, in particular its ability to autonomously manage its own social and economic policies. Although the nationstate as an institution will not die out in the near future because of globalisation process but its control of power has been greatly undermined, and its hold on populations has been significantly minimized.The nation-state has become just one of several world organisational structures.Sovereignty - presuming such a thing ever really existed in the past.I shall attempt to place globalisational impacts upon the nation-state, national sovereignty, and culture, and the
implications of these impacts upon the nation-state of the future
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
Cyber-attack as inevitable kinetic war
Full text linkThis paper poses the question as to whether a “cyber-attack” by a state against another state might breach of Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter. Although this question is not new, and the answers to it are either by no means consistent or far too clear for the uncertainty of a military field, this paper expresses significant concerns that some of the basic military issues may have been overlooked in contextualizing cyber-attack in United Nations Charter jurisprudence. Its methodology is delimited to discussing the nature of cyber-attack, but only on a basis between one sovereign state and another sovereign state. The paper is further delimited by reference to Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, and how that article might be considered breached. Interwoven throughout the paper is a proposition that cyber-attack is intended to be a military action in the nature of maneuver warfare as an instance of Aristotelian ethical deliberation and action, and further, it is always intended to have military consequences.The inference from this is that a cyber-attack is intended to have kinetic effects in the same way as fraud and deception infer physical effects, and therefore, is intended to have effects similar to those of conventional warfare.The paper begins with an examination of kinetic precepts underlying cyber warfare. Then, the paper looks at how attacks on information might represent a kind of warfare. With an abiding concern to include practical military thought, to represent the uncertainty of war, the paper discusses the nature of maneuver warfare, based on Lind's practical military discussion of the term. The next phase of the paper surveys the relevant international law and international law precepts, followed by a brief look at relevant case law. The paper concludes with a suggestion that the information operations inherent in cyber-attacks are essentially and necessarily a priori to a kinetic consequence
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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