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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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

    Visible light driven oxidation of arsenite to arsenate in aqueous solution using Cu-doped ZnO supported on polystyrene pellets

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    The performances of a visible light active structured photocatalyst in the oxidation of arsenite to arsenate in aqueous solution were investigated. In particular, the photocatalytic active phase was Cu-doped ZnO, while polystyrene (PS) pellets were used as support. The Cu-doped ZnO photocatalyst was immobilized on polystyrene pellets surface by “solvent casting method” and characterized by different techniques. The photocatalytic tests were performed in a floating bed reactor using a visible LEDs strip as light source. The complete As(III) oxidation was achieved after 120 min of visible irradiation at a Cu-doped ZnO loading on polystyrene pellets equal to 5 wt%. Furthermore, the optimized photocatalyst was reused for several cycles without any substantial decrease of photocatalytic performances. In order to determine which reactive species plays a more significant role in the oxidation of As(III), the effects of different radical scavengers were tested. The results evidenced that OH[rad] and O2[rad]− seem not to be the main oxidant for the direct As(III) oxidation, whereas the oxidation mechanism of As(III) using Cu-doped ZnO structure photocatalyst seems to be related to the h+ holes generated under visible light irradiation
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