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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
Peeling under large bending deformations: Follower versus fixed loads. A unified approach for concentrated or distributed loads
In the non-dissipative regime, the potential energy is the difference between the strain energy of the deforming solid and the work done by the external forces. For configuration-dependent external forces, whose direction is perpendicular to the deformed shape, we obtain a simple formula for the strain energy release rate of peeled strips experiencing large deformations and prove rigorously that the same formula applies for external forces having fixed direction. We then apply Griffith's criterion for fracture to calculate critical loads for two cases: peeling produced by a uniform follower pressure distributed along the flexible strip and peeling produced by a localized follower shear force applied at the edge of the strip. We found that for these loads, the critical pressure for peeling follows approximately qc∼ΓL−1, where Γ is the solid–solid interface energy and L is the initial peeling length; for the shear force, the corresponding critical value instead follows Q0c∼Γ, independently of the initial length. These formulas are, unexpectedly, independent of the bending stiffness EI of the strips and differ from the ones predicted for small deformations, i.e. qc∝L−2EIΓ and Q0c∝L−1EIΓ. We apply our results to predict the critical hydrodynamic load necessary to exfoliate graphene sheets from graphite, a fluid–structure interaction problem where the load is of the follower type. We find that a follower load peeling model gives significantly improved predictions than fixed load peeling. For the same Γ, L and b, the critical hydrodynamic follower load is always lower than the one with fixed forces: approximately half for the case with uniform pressure, and one third for the case with shear force.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Complex Fluid Processin
Variations on the Author
“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
Una proposta per la riqualificazione paesaggistico architettonica attraverso l'uso del colore nei fondo valle de “I paesaggi vitivinicoli di Langhe-Roero e Monferrato
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
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
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
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