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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    A machine learning technique for predicting the productivity of practitioners from individually developed software projects

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    A new species of the stenopodid shrimp Odontozona is described from deep-water off the west coast of Mexico. It is dis-tinguished from the three other species of the genus known in the area, from O. rubra Wicksten, 1982, and O. foresti Hen-drickx, 2002, by the absence of a series of spines on the posterior half of the carapace, behind the post-cervical groove, and from O. spongicola (Alcock & Anderson, 1899) by the presence of spines on the ventral margin of somites 1-5 (smooth in O. spongicola) and by the much slender third pair of pereiopods in the new species. A new record is provided for O. foresti, and the first male specimen, the third specimen on record, is compared with the female holotype. Copyright " 2014 Magnolia Press.",,,,,,"10.11646/zootaxa.3835.3.3",,,"http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/39040","http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84904309010&partnerID=40&md5=4fcc434b5a2d4ee5d259f2c952a8d40

    Two-dimensional imaginary lobachevsky space. Separation of variables and contractions

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    Two new deep-water species of the genus Caprella are described from the central Gulf of California, Pacific coast of Mexico. Caprella calderoni new species is distinguished from the 32 previously recorded species of Caprella from the eastern Pacific by its smooth forehead and pereonites, body not particularly slender, gnathopod 2 inserted at about mid-length of the second pereonite, elongated gills and gnathopod 1, the relative length of antenna 2 articles, length of the flagellum of antenna 1, the lack of an antero-lateral projection on pereonites 2 and 3, and the length-height proportion of pereonite 1. It is close to C. striata Mayer, 1903, recorded from Alaska. Caprella striata, however, features a different number of articles in the antenna 1 flagellum, two latero-posterior spines on pereonites 6, a small dorsal tubercle on pereonites 5 and 6, and a poison spine on the propodus of gnathopod 2 (all lacking in the new species). The buccal appendages also present significant differences. Caprella mercedesae new species, belongs to a group of eastern Pacific species with a sharp spine on the forehead. It is distinguished from all these species by a combination of characters, including the general shape of the body (not robust), the insertion level of gnathopod 2, its general shape, and the relative length of its dactylus, the relative length of antennae 1 and 2, the shape and relative length of the gills, the proportionally shorter or longer pereonites, and the presence of dorsal tubercles on at least pereonites 5-7 (absent in the new species). " Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.",,,,,,"10.1163/15685403-00003277",,,"http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/45512","http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896784206&partnerID=40&md5=11a8b009ffbb4ac4d60ee076d3eec86f",,,,,,"1",,"Crustaceana",,"4

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    A new species of munidopsis (Anomura, Galatheoidea, Munidopsidae) from the gulf of California, Western Mexico

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    A new species of Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 is described from the SW Gulf of California, western Mexico. The new species differs from all other known species of Munidopsis of the East Pacific by the presence of numerous antero-posteriorly compressed processes on the carapace, many of which are truncate and with crenulated anterior margin, by its oval-shaped carapace, wider in its posterior half, and by the short, subrectangular, narrow rostrum with an upturned distal portion. It also differs from the East Pacific species and other species of Munidopsis by the densely pitted carapace and appendages. © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
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