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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Frequency staircases in narrow-gap spherical Couette flow
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.Recent studies of plane parallel flows have emphasised the importance of finite-amplitude self-sustaining processes for the existence of alternative non-trivial solutions. The idea behind these mechanisms is that the motion is composed of distinct structures that interact to self-sustain. These solutions are not unique and their totality form a skeleton about which the actual realised motion is attracted. Related features can be found in spherical Couette flow between two rotating spheres in the limit of narrow-gap width. At lowest order the onset of instability is manifested by Taylor vortices localised in the vicinity of the equator. By approximating the spheres by their tangent cylinders at the equator, a critical Taylor number based on the ensuing cylindrical Couette flow problem would appear to provide a lowest order approximation to the true critical Taylor number. At next order, the latitudinal modulation of their amplitude a satisfies the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLe)
∂a/∂t=(λ+ix)a+∂2a/∂x2−|a|2a,
∂a/∂t=(λ+ix)a+∂2a/∂x2-|a|2a,
where −x-x is latitude scaled on the modulation length scale, t is time and λλ is proportional to the excess Taylor number. The amplitude a governed by our CGLe is linearly stable for all λλ but possesses non-decaying nonlinear solutions at finite λλ, directly analogous to plane Couette flow. Furthermore, whereas the important balance ∂a/∂t=ixa∂a/∂t=ixa suggests that the Taylor vortices ought to propagate as waves towards the equator with frequency proportional to latitude, the realised solutions are found to exist as pulses, each locked to a discrete frequency, of spatially modulated Taylor vortices. Collectively they form a pulse train. Thus the expected continuous spatial variation of the frequency is broken into steps (forming a staircase) on which motion is dominated by the local pulse. A wealth of solutions of our CGLe have been found and some may be stable. Nevertheless, when higher-order terms are reinstated, solutions are modulated on a yet longer length scale and must evolve. So, whereas there is an underlying pulse structure in the small but finite gap limit, motion is likely to be always weakly chaotic. Our CGLe and its solution provides a paradigm for many geophysical and astrophysical flows capturing in minimalistic form interaction of phase mixing ixaixa, diffusion ∂2a/∂x2∂2a/∂x2 and nonlinearity |a|2a|a|2a.This paper was inspired by AMS’ attendance (19–21 March 2014) of the LMS Society Conference “Nonlinear stability theory: from weakly nonlinear theory to the verge of turbulence” to celebrate the 85th birthday of Professor J.T. Stuart. AMS gained further perspectives from attending (24–27 March 2014) the KITP program “Wave-flow interaction in geophysics, climate, astrophysics, and plasmas” at UCSB, where this research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY11-25915. We are grateful to the referees for their helpful comments
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Accurate approximations for planetary and gravity<strong> </strong>waves in a polar basin
Get PDFThe eigenfrequencies of freely propagating divergent barotropic planetary and gravity waves in a sphericalpolar cap are discussed. The key amplitude equation is derived with the full spherical geometry maintainedand leads to a second-order differential equation with coefficients functions of the co-latitude. Previous studyof this problem has derived approximations to the requisite frequencies by evaluating these coefficients atsome chosen fixed value of the co-latitude thereby reducing the problem to that of a constant coefficientdifferential equation solved easily using routine methods. Here, we demonstrate that such a simplification canbe avoided since the full equation can be solved by standard asymptotic methods based on the latitudinallimit of the polar basin as the natural small parameter. Three-term asymptotic series are developed which arein remarkably good accord with numerical solutions of the full equation
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