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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
Variations 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
Groups, Actions and von Neumann algebras
No full textDans cette thèse, on s'intéresse à la théorie mesurée des groupes, à l'entropie sofique et aux algèbres d'opérateurs ; plus précisément, on étudie les actions des groupes sur des espaces de probabilités, des propriétés fondamentales de leur entropie sofique (pour des groupes discrets), leurs groupes pleins (pour des groupes Polonais), et les algèbres de von Neumann et leurs sous-algèbres moyennables (pour des groupes à caractère hyperbolique et des réseaux de groupes de Lie). Cette thèse est constituée de trois parties.Dans une première partie j'étudie l'entropie sofique des actions profinies. L'entropie sofique est un invariant des actions mesurées des groupes sofiques défini par L. Bowen qui généralise la notion d'entropie introduite par Kolmogorov. La définition d'entropie sofique nécessite de fixer une approximation sofique du groupe. Nous montrons que l'entropie sofique des actions profinies est effectivement dépendante de l'approximation sofique choisie dans le cas des groupes libres et certains réseaux de groupes de Lie.La deuxième partie est un travail en collaboration avec François Le Maître. Elle est constituée d'un article prépublié dans lequel nous généralisons la notion de groupe plein aux actions préservant une mesure de probabilité des groupes polonais, et en particulier, des groupes localement compacts. On définit une topologie polonaise sur ces groupes pleins et on étudie leurs propriétés topologiques fondamentales, notamment leur rang topologique et la densité des éléments apériodiques.La troisième partie est un travail en collaboration avec Rémi Boutonnet. Elle est constituée de deux articles prépubliés dans lesquels nous considérons la question de la maximalité de la sous-algèbre de von Neumann d'un sous-groupe moyennable maximal, dans celle du groupe ambiant. Nous résolvons la question dans le cas des groupes à caractère hyperbolique en utilisant les techniques de Sorin Popa. Puis, nous introduisons un critère dynamique à la Furstenberg, permettant de résoudre la question pour des sous-groupes moyennables de réseaux des groupes de Lie en rang supérieur.This dissertation is about measured group theory, sofic entropy and operator algebras. More precisely, we will study actions of groups on probability spaces, some fundamental properties of their sofic entropy (for countable groups), their full groups (for Polish groups) and the amenable subalgebras of von Neumann algebras associated with hyperbolic groups and lattices of Lie groups. This dissertation is composed of three parts.The first part is devoted to the study of sofic entropy of profinite actions. Sofic entropy is an invariant for actions of sofic groups defined by L. Bowen that generalize Kolmogorov's entropy. The definition of sofic entropy makes use of a fixed sofic approximation of the group. We will show that the sofic entropy of profinite actions does depend on the chosen sofic approximation for free groups and some lattices of Lie groups. The second part is based on a joint work with François Le Maître. The content of this part is based on a prepublication in which we generalize the notion of full group to probability measure preserving actions of Polish groups, and in particular, of locally compact groups. We define a Polish topology on these full groups and we study their basic topological properties, such as the topological rank and the density of aperiodic elements. The third part is based on a joint work with Rémi Boutonnet. The content of this part is based on two prepublications in which we try to understand when the von Neumann algebra of a maximal amenable subgroup of a countable group is itself maximal amenable. We solve the question for hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups using techniques due to Popa. With different techniques, we will then present a dynamical criterion which allow us to answer the question for some amenable subgroups of lattices of Lie groups of higher rank
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
Théorie ergodique des actions de groupes et algèbres de von Neumann
No full textThis dissertation is about measured group theory, sofic entropy and operator algebras. More precisely, we will study actions of groups on probability spaces, some fundamental properties of their sofic entropy (for countable groups), their full groups (for Polish groups) and the amenable subalgebras of von Neumann algebras associated with hyperbolic groups and lattices of Lie groups. This dissertation is composed of three parts.The first part is devoted to the study of sofic entropy of profinite actions. Sofic entropy is an invariant for actions of sofic groups defined by L. Bowen that generalize Kolmogorov's entropy. The definition of sofic entropy makes use of a fixed sofic approximation of the group. We will show that the sofic entropy of profinite actions does depend on the chosen sofic approximation for free groups and some lattices of Lie groups. The second part is based on a joint work with François Le Maître. The content of this part is based on a prepublication in which we generalize the notion of full group to probability measure preserving actions of Polish groups, and in particular, of locally compact groups. We define a Polish topology on these full groups and we study their basic topological properties, such as the topological rank and the density of aperiodic elements. The third part is based on a joint work with Rémi Boutonnet. The content of this part is based on two prepublications in which we try to understand when the von Neumann algebra of a maximal amenable subgroup of a countable group is itself maximal amenable. We solve the question for hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups using techniques due to Popa. With different techniques, we will then present a dynamical criterion which allow us to answer the question for some amenable subgroups of lattices of Lie groups of higher rank.Dans cette thèse, on s'intéresse à la théorie mesurée des groupes, à l'entropie sofique et aux algèbres d'opérateurs ; plus précisément, on étudie les actions des groupes sur des espaces de probabilités, des propriétés fondamentales de leur entropie sofique (pour des groupes discrets), leurs groupes pleins (pour des groupes Polonais), et les algèbres de von Neumann et leurs sous-algèbres moyennables (pour des groupes à caractère hyperbolique et des réseaux de groupes de Lie). Cette thèse est constituée de trois parties.Dans une première partie j'étudie l'entropie sofique des actions profinies. L'entropie sofique est un invariant des actions mesurées des groupes sofiques défini par L. Bowen qui généralise la notion d'entropie introduite par Kolmogorov. La définition d'entropie sofique nécessite de fixer une approximation sofique du groupe. Nous montrons que l'entropie sofique des actions profinies est effectivement dépendante de l'approximation sofique choisie dans le cas des groupes libres et certains réseaux de groupes de Lie.La deuxième partie est un travail en collaboration avec François Le Maître. Elle est constituée d'un article prépublié dans lequel nous généralisons la notion de groupe plein aux actions préservant une mesure de probabilité des groupes polonais, et en particulier, des groupes localement compacts. On définit une topologie polonaise sur ces groupes pleins et on étudie leurs propriétés topologiques fondamentales, notamment leur rang topologique et la densité des éléments apériodiques.La troisième partie est un travail en collaboration avec Rémi Boutonnet. Elle est constituée de deux articles prépubliés dans lesquels nous considérons la question de la maximalité de la sous-algèbre de von Neumann d'un sous-groupe moyennable maximal, dans celle du groupe ambiant. Nous résolvons la question dans le cas des groupes à caractère hyperbolique en utilisant les techniques de Sorin Popa. Puis, nous introduisons un critère dynamique à la Furstenberg, permettant de résoudre la question pour des sous-groupes moyennables de réseaux des groupes de Lie en rang supérieur
Asymptotic invariants of lattices in locally compact groups
Get PDFThe aim of this work is to understand some of the asymptotic properties of sequences of lattices in a fixed locally compact group. In particular we will study the asymptotic growth of the Betti numbers of the lattices renormalized by the covolume and the rank gradient, the minimal number of generators also renormalized by the covolume. For doing so we will consider the ultraproduct of the sequence of actions of the locally compact group on the coset spaces and we will show how the properties of one of its cross sections are related to the asymptotic properties of the lattices
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
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