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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
Résolution de problème inverse et propagation d'incertitudes : application à la dynamique des gaz compressibles
No full textThis thesis deals with uncertainty propagation and the resolution of inverse problems together with their respective acceleration via Polynomial Chaos. The object of this work is to present a state of the art and a numerical analysis of this stochastic spectral method, in order to understand its pros and cons when tackling the probabilistic study of hydrodynamical instabilities in Richtmyer-Meshkov shock tube experiments. The first chapter is introductory and allows understanding the stakes of being able to accurately take into account uncertainties in compressible gas dynamics simulations. The second chapter is both an illustrative state of the art on generalized Polynomial Chaos and a full numerical analysis of the method keeping in mind the final application on hydrodynamical problems developping shocks and discontinuous solutions. In this chapter, we introduce a new method, naming iterative generalized Polynomial Chaos, which ensures a gain with respect to generalized Polynomial Chaos, especially with non smooth solutions. Chapter three is closely related to an accepted publication in Communication in Computational Physics. It deals with stochastic inverse problems and introduces bayesian inference. It also emphasizes the possibility of accelerating the bayesian inference thanks to iterative generalized Polynomial Chaos described in the previous chapter. Theoretical convergence is established and illustrated on several test-cases. The last chapter consists in the application of the above materials to a complex and ambitious compressible gas dynamics problem (Richtmyer-Meshkov shock tube configuration) together with a deepened study of the physico-numerical phenomenon at stake. Finally, in the appendix, we also present some interesting research paths we quickly tackled during this thesis.Cette thèse porte sur la propagation d'incertitudes et la résolution de problème inverse et leur accélération par Chaos Polynomial. L'objectif est de faire un état de l'art et une analyse numérique des méthodes spectrales de type Chaos Polynomial, d'en comprendre les avantages et les inconvénients afin de l'appliquer à l'étude probabiliste d'instabilités hydrodynamiques dans des expériences de tubes à choc de type Richtmyer-Meshkov. Le second chapitre fait un état de l'art illustré sur plusieurs exemples des méthodes de type Chaos Polynomial. Nous y effectuons son analyse numérique et mettons en évidence la possibilité d'améliorer la méthode, notamment sur des solutions irrégulières (en ayant en tête les difficultés liées aux problèmes hydrodynamiques), en introduisant le Chaos Polynomial généralisé itératif. Ce chapitre comporte également l'analyse numérique complète de cette nouvelle méthode. Le chapitre 3 a fait l'objet d'une publication dans Communication in Computational Physics, celle-ci a récemment été acceptée. Il fait l'état de l'art des méthodes d'inversion probabilistes et focalise sur l'inférence bayesienne. Il traite enfin de la possibilité d'accélérer la convergence de cette inférence en utilisant les méthodes spectrales décrites au chapitre précédent. La convergence théorique de la méthode d'accélération est démontrée et illustrée sur différents cas-test. Nous appliquons les méthodes et algorithmes des deux chapitres précédents à un problème complexe et ambitieux, un écoulement de gaz compressible physiquement instable (configuration tube à choc de Richtmyer-Meshkov) avec une analyse poussée des phénomènes physico-numériques en jeu. Enfin en annexe, nous présentons quelques pistes de recherche supplémentaires rapidement abordées au cours de cette thèse
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
Inverse problem and uncertainty quantification : application to compressible gas dynamics
No full textCette thèse porte sur la propagation d'incertitudes et la résolution de problème inverse et leur accélération par Chaos Polynomial. L'objectif est de faire un état de l'art et une analyse numérique des méthodes spectrales de type Chaos Polynomial, d'en comprendre les avantages et les inconvénients afin de l'appliquer à l'étude probabiliste d'instabilités hydrodynamiques dans des expériences de tubes à choc de type Richtmyer-Meshkov. Le second chapitre fait un état de l'art illustré sur plusieurs exemples des méthodes de type Chaos Polynomial. Nous y effectuons son analyse numérique et mettons en évidence la possibilité d'améliorer la méthode, notamment sur des solutions irrégulières (en ayant en tête les difficultés liées aux problèmes hydrodynamiques), en introduisant le Chaos Polynomial généralisé itératif. Ce chapitre comporte également l'analyse numérique complète de cette nouvelle méthode. Le chapitre 3 a fait l'objet d'une publication dans Communication in Computational Physics, celle-ci a récemment été acceptée. Il fait l'état de l'art des méthodes d'inversion probabilistes et focalise sur l'inférence bayesienne. Il traite enfin de la possibilité d'accélérer la convergence de cette inférence en utilisant les méthodes spectrales décrites au chapitre précédent. La convergence théorique de la méthode d'accélération est démontrée et illustrée sur différents cas-test. Nous appliquons les méthodes et algorithmes des deux chapitres précédents à un problème complexe et ambitieux, un écoulement de gaz compressible physiquement instable (configuration tube à choc de Richtmyer-Meshkov) avec une analyse poussée des phénomènes physico-numériques en jeu. Enfin en annexe, nous présentons quelques pistes de recherche supplémentaires rapidement abordées au cours de cette thèse.This thesis deals with uncertainty propagation and the resolution of inverse problems together with their respective acceleration via Polynomial Chaos. The object of this work is to present a state of the art and a numerical analysis of this stochastic spectral method, in order to understand its pros and cons when tackling the probabilistic study of hydrodynamical instabilities in Richtmyer-Meshkov shock tube experiments. The first chapter is introductory and allows understanding the stakes of being able to accurately take into account uncertainties in compressible gas dynamics simulations. The second chapter is both an illustrative state of the art on generalized Polynomial Chaos and a full numerical analysis of the method keeping in mind the final application on hydrodynamical problems developping shocks and discontinuous solutions. In this chapter, we introduce a new method, naming iterative generalized Polynomial Chaos, which ensures a gain with respect to generalized Polynomial Chaos, especially with non smooth solutions. Chapter three is closely related to an accepted publication in Communication in Computational Physics. It deals with stochastic inverse problems and introduces bayesian inference. It also emphasizes the possibility of accelerating the bayesian inference thanks to iterative generalized Polynomial Chaos described in the previous chapter. Theoretical convergence is established and illustrated on several test-cases. The last chapter consists in the application of the above materials to a complex and ambitious compressible gas dynamics problem (Richtmyer-Meshkov shock tube configuration) together with a deepened study of the physico-numerical phenomenon at stake. Finally, in the appendix, we also present some interesting research paths we quickly tackled during this thesis
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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