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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
A agroecologia e agricultura familiar no Brasil e na França: história e dinâmica comparada.
No full textResumo: Na década de 70 na França e no Brasil emergem novos estilos de produção ecológicos, em oposição ao modelo de agricultura convencional, apoiados por ONGs e por profissionais especialmente das ciências agrárias. No Brasil evolui progressivamente sob a influência do guia conceitual da agroecologia, contudo essa evolução é mais tardia na França. O objetivo deste trabalho é o de descrever as características, os elementos históricos e determinantes da dinâmica de desenvolvimento da agroecologia no Brasil, e na França. Visa também desvendar suas diferentes concepções e analisar as controvérsias atuais. Mostramos o lugar central que a agroecologia ocupa nas controvérsias, onde a questão alimentar, a relação ao meio ambiente (funcionalidades agroecosistemicas) e o modelo social é crucial e, provoca a redefinição do sistema de ecologização da agricultura. Complementamos com análise das trajetórias e interações entre cientistas, movimento social e a construção de políticas públicas. Essas trajetórias geram interpretações concorrentes da agroecologia que podem ser classificadas e diferenciadas em três aspectos principais: concepções sobre processos de transição da agricultura; público alvo e, por último, a visão sobre a inserção da produção no mercado. Concluímos que as diferenças de entendimento da agroecologia estão diretamente relacionadas a distintas formações teóricas e trajetórias socioprofissionais específicas, ao papel desempenhado pelas redes profissionais na construção de políticas públicas
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
Wavelength-flexible thulium-doped fiber laser employing a digital micro-mirror device tuning element
No full textWe demonstrate a cladding-pumped thulium-doped fiber laser using a digital micromirror device based wavelength selection element. Tunability over 121nm was achieved with up to 8.4W of output power as well as multi-wavelength operatio
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