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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
Preconditioning domain decomposition methods for electromagnetic scattering problems involving a deep cavity
No full textCette thèse est dédiée à la résolution numérique tridimensionnelle des équations de Maxwell harmoniques, par des méthodes de décomposition de domaine couplant des résolutions par équations intégrales entre elles. Pour traiter les problèmes de diffraction d'ondes, la méthode des équations intégrales est un outil précieux. Elle consiste à paramétrer le champ électromagnétique solution par une source définie sur la surface de l'objet diffractant, solution d'une nouvelle équation linéaire (l'équation intégrale). Pour des applications à haute fréquence, le grand nombre d'inconnues (de l'ordre du million) nous oblige à utiliser un solveur itératif pour résoudre l'équation intégrale. Le problème du conditionnement des systèmes linéaires est alors crucial. De récents développements ont permis de construire une équation intégrale performante (la GCSIE) et de conditionnement stable avec la montée en fréquence. Cependant, la présence d'une cavité large et résonnante dans l'objet diffractant (telle que la cavité moteur d'un avion) dégrade le conditionnement de cette équation. Nous proposons deux méthodes de décomposition de domaine (DDM) afin de découpler le problème de la cavité du problème extérieur. La première (DDM en Y) s'exprime en fonction des opérateurs Dirichlet-to-Neumann Y, qui sont synthétisés via la résolution de problèmes métalliques par équations intégrales dans chaque sous-domaine. La seconde (DDM en S) s'exprime en fonction des opérateurs de scattering S, synthétisés par résolution de problèmes de type métal-impédant, donc bien posés à toute fréquence. La DDM en S permet ainsi de se débarrasser des phénomènes de résonance dans les cavités. Nous proposons dans un premier temps un préconditionneur analytique pour la DDM en Y, basé sur l'opérateur électromagnétique de simple couche. Nous calculons ensuite les modes guidés le long d'un cylindre infini tangent à la cavité près de l'interface, et nous diagonalisons les opérateurs Dirichlet-to-Neumann et scattering dans la base des traces de modes guidés sur l'interface. On extrait de cette étude deux préconditionneurs spectraux respectivement pour la DDM en Y et la DDM en S. Les résultats numériques confirment l'efficacité des préconditionneurs proposésThis work is dedicated to the numerical solution of the tridimensional harmonic Maxwell equations, using domain decomposition methods coupling integral equations between them. To deal with scattering problems, integral equations methods are a precious tool. They allow to look for the electromagnetic field by parameterizing it with a source only defined on the boundary of the scattering object, solution of a new linear equation (the integral equation). For applications at high frequency, the great number of unknowns forces the use of iterative methods. To accelerate the solution of integral equations, one moreover has to ensure the good condition number of the linear systems, or to propose well-suited preconditioners. An efficient method, the GCSIE, was developed in Onera. It is an intrinsically well-conditioned integral equation whose condition number remains stable whith the frequency increase. However, the existence of large and resonant cavities (such as air intakes) deteriorates the condition number. In order to circumvent this problem, we propose two domain decomposition methods (DDM) allowing to decouple the exterior problem from the problem of the cavities. The first one (Y-DDM) is based on Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators Y, which are built through the solution of metallic problems using integral equations in each subdomain. The second one (S-DDM) is based on scattering operators S, built through the solution of problems of metallic-impedant type, which are well-posed at any frequency. The S-DDM allows to avoid the resonance phenomena inside the cavities. First, we propose an analytic preconditioner for the Y-DDM, based on the electromagnetic single layer operator. We then calculate the modes guided along an artificial infinite cylinder, that is tangent to the cavity near the interface. We diagonalize the Dirichlet-to-Neumann and scattering operators in the basis of the traces of the guided modes on the interface. We deduce from this study two spectral preconditioners for the Y-DDM and the S-DDM. The numerical results confirm the efficiency of the employed preconditioners
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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