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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
Analysis and Landscape Planning. The Landscape Project of Taburno-Camposauro.
No full textThis work focuses on the development of the Landscape Analysis in a purposeful way to identify a new strategy in the planning process. An approach in which the cognitive analysis, at the base of the study of the landscape, do use a methodological paradigm that does not only consider the data and information from different disciplines, but also their proper aggregation oriented towards the identification of Areas of Landscape from which to assess the more appropriate type of action or intervention. The National Legislation in Italy applies the Legislative Decree no. 42/2004 which, on the one hand, considers the landscape as the result of historical and anthropogenic transformations and their interaction with the natural environment, on the other hand, seems to constrain the possible future transformations only to their compatibility with the needs of conservation and protection of landscapes already established (constraint-protection-preservation). The aim of this work, is to recognize to the landscape an evolutionary character: landscape project for the enhancement and restoration of existing landscapes, but also for creating new landscapes by using compatible transformations with the existing values consolidated. It’s about overcoming the constrained vision of landscape plans and to reach that of the transformability limits of the territory; in this way the Landscape Planning becomes a tool for the management of the Landscape
Structural failures due to anthropogenic sinkholes in the urban area of Naples
No full textThe heritage in masonry fits in any type of intervention both from the point of view of morphology than from the point of view of the material. The ability to find a new equilibrium configuration after each variation corresponds to a real capacity for adaptation. In current terms it could be said that masonry buildings embody the prototype of resilient structures. As known, the only problematic able to put in crisis a huge masonry building is the failure of the subsoil. In this sense the work aims to analyze, by relating the planimetric layout of the underground cavities of Naples with some recent collapses of structures that occurred in the city, highlighting collapse mechanisms in static terms. By analyzing the structure per macro elements, starting from individual structural components that constitute it, it is possible to trace to the global mechanism of the entire collapse and to attribute, with certainty, the cause to the corresponding existing empty. Another aspect of the problem concerns the triggering joint cause of these structural failures which generate the fragility of the subsoil. In other words, the accidental cause that induces the collapse of the structure, the same structure which has been standing for decades on the same cavity. This work intends to bring to light an already known issue to which a solution is not immediate (unless filling the cavity) but the awareness of the existence of these cavities should lead to more attention to future planning
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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