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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
Polveri fini” project:atmospheric pollution from natural and anthropogenic sources in the lazio region
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Inorganic constituents of urban air pollution in the Lazio region (Central Italy)
No full textA field study was carried out at six locations
in the Lazio region (Central Italy) aimed at characterising
atmospheric particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5)
from the point of viewof the chemical composition and
grain size distribution of the particles, the mixing properties
of the atmosphere, the frequency and relevance
of natural events. The combination of four different
analytical techniques (ion chromatography, X-ray fluorescence
and ICP for inorganic components, thermooptical
analysis for carbon compounds) yielded sound
results in terms of characterisation of the air masses.
During the first three months of the study (October-
December 2004), many pollution events of natural (seasalt
or desert dust episodes) or anthropogenic nature
were identified and characterised. More than 90% of
the collected mass was identified by chemical analysis.
The central role played by the mixing properties of the
lower atmosphere when pollution events occurred was
highlighted. The results show a major impact of primary
anthropogenic pollutants on traffic stations and a
homogeneous distribution of secondary pollutants over
the regional area. An evaluation of the sources of PM and an identification of possible reliable tracers were
obtained using a chemical fractionation procedure
Separazione e determinazione di Sb (III), Sb (V) e Sb nanoparticellare in campioni di particolato atmosferico mediante IC-ICP-MS
No full textVariations 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
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