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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
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
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
(111)In-pentetreotide SPET/CT in carcinoid tumours: is the role of hybrid systems advantageous in abdominal or thoracic lesions?
No full textOur aim was to evaluate the different clinical value of (111)In-pentetreotide hybrid SPET/CT versus SPET alone in detecting carcinoid tumours located in the thoracic and abdominal region. Twenty-four patients with carcinoid tumours histologically proven (13 of abdominal origin, 11 of thoracic origin) underwent (111)In-pentetreotide SPET/CT with hybrid system (Millennium VG with Hawkeye, G.E.M.S., USA) composed of a dual head gamma camera equipped with a low dose X-ray tube. Single photon emission tomography images were performed 4h and 24h after (111)In-pentetreotide intravenous administration, while SPET/CT co-registered images were performed at 4h. Scintigraphic images were first evaluated alone and then re-interpreted by adding transmission fused data. Nine of the 13 patients with tumours of abdominal origin showed pathological SPET images, while 4/13 were negative. Seven out of the 11 patients with tumour of thoracic origin had pathological SPET findings, while 4/11 were negative. In all, 11/24 subjects disclosed abdominal pathological uptake and 10/24 thoracic. In 6/11 abdominal cases SPET/CT allowed anatomical localization of lesions, while in 2/10 in thoracic cases. Additional data were provided by SPET/CT in 8/24 cases (6 abdominal, 2 thoracic), by transmission images characterized as lesions not expressing somatostatin receptors. Sensitivity of SPET alone in all carcinoids was 72%, negative predictive value (NPV) was 50% and accuracy was 78%. Considering abdominal lesions (independently of the origin) sensitivity of SPET alone was 64.7%, NPV was 40%, accuracy was 71.4%. For thoracic lesions sensitivity of SPET alone was 83.3%, NPV was 66.7% and accuracy was 87.5%. For SPET/CT considering together all carcinoids and also separately lesions of abdominal and of thoracic origin, sensitivity, NPV and accuracy were always 100%. In conclusion, SPET/CT imaging was more useful to anatomically detect carcinoids either in abdomen or in thorax and specifically lesions not expressing somatostatin receptors, as compared to SPET alone
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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