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Post-glacial environmental evolution and ground subsidence in the Como urban area (Northern Italy)
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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
Land subsidence and late glacial environmental evolution of the Como urban area (Northern Italy)
No full textThe Late Glacial and Holocene geological and environmental evolution of the Como lacustrine–palustrine basin has been broadly
reconstructed based on (a) the collection and analysis of more than 100 borehole stratigraphies, (b) the drilling of three new shallow
boreholes and the analysis of a new geological section and (c) several in situ and laboratory analyses (mineralogical, organic and pollen
content, 14C dating). The long-term, natural tendency of the ground surface to sink where the Como urban area has developed has been
verified and assessed. This tendency has resulted clearly controlled by the compaction of young unconsolidated sediments accumulated at
the hydrologically closed SW tip of Lake Como. The definition of a minimum age for the deglaciation of the basin and for a correlated
stratigraphic marker allowed broad quantification of the average velocity of land subsidence during the last ca. 17 000 cal BP, with a
gradient of values close to 2.5 mm/yr along the axial zone of the basin toward the present-day lake. Burial depth of archaeological
remains, related to Roman Age, and levelling monitoring since 1928 are in agreement with this estimate. During 1950–1975, because of
deep water withdrawal, the Como area was affected by a human-induced, accelerated subsidence, with velocity (10–20 mm/yr) one order
of magnitude higher than the natural one. After a period of deceleration (between the end of the 1970s and the end of the 1990s), during
which some benchmarks even reversed their trend, persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) data provided by Tele-Rilevamento Europa
(TRE) for the period 1992–2003, and levelling data obtained by APAT in 2004, show that during the last decade the subsidence rate has
returned to its physiologic long-term trend
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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