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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

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

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    We 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

    Caribbean Report 31-07-2001

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    1. Headlines (00:00-00:29)2. Haitian police arrested thirty-five people in connection with the attacks on police stations. Ambassador Sergio Romero is interviewed (00:30-03:10)3. Opposition claims a major election case victory in the Trinidad and Tobago Courts in the Ministers Winston 'Gypsy' Peters and William Chaitan case. Attorney-at-Law Devish Maharaj and Minister William Chaitan are interviewed. Raymond Edwards reports (03:11-06:04)4. Short while ago the Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Basdeo Panday addressed supporters of his UNC and accused the Opposition People's National Movement of trying to sieze power through the Courts and not through the ballot box. Prime Minister Basdeo Panday is interviewed (06:05-06:56)5. American Airlines and other US airlines have resumed normal flights to the North Eastern Caribbean after the eruption of the Soufriere Hills Volcano on Sunday (06:57-07:32)6. Caribbean Tourism Organisation agrees that it needs to do more for its smaller member nations. Jean Holder is interviewed (07:33-10:41).7. Caribbean diplomats in Washington are hopeful that their intense lobbying to prevent changes to American trade legislation will bear some fruit before Congress goes in recess on Friday. Emma Joseph reports (10:42-12:25)8. European Union and the United States have teamed up in a bid to launch a new rounds of trade talks in November. European Commission Director General for Trade Peter Carl and Caricom's Chief Negotiator Sir Shridath Ramphal are interviewed. Emma Jane Kirby reports (12:26-14:42)9. In Antigua, three men who were involved in protest against the expansion of an Irish owned hotel, Carlisle Bay Hotel were granted bail on charges of malicious damage to property (14:43-15:26

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    Caribbean Report 04-04-2001

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    1. Headlines (00:00-00:28)2. United Kingdon-based charter airline JMC says it is leaving the Eastern Caribbean. Minister of Tourism Dwyer Astaphan is interviewed (00:29-03:32)3. French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has accused United States President George W. Bush of being inattentive to other realities, other civilizations unnotably to Europe. Member of the European Parliament Glenys Kinnock is interviewed (03:33-06:35)4. Cost of cutting carbon dioxide emissions that was the justifications given by the Bush adminisration for withdrawing from the Kyoto Agreement last week. Ken Richards reports (06:36-08:09)5. Brazil sides with Caricom as it rejects the United States plans to speed up the creation of the Americas Free Trade Zone. Senior Producer in the BBC Brazilian Service Americo Martins is interviewed (08:10-11:03)6. Caribbean business interest are moving to facilitate trading on a regional stock exchange. Businessman Peter Boos and Wain Iton of the Jamaica Stock Exchange are interviewed. Tony Fraser reports (11:04-13:34)7. Shivnarine Chanderpaul looks set to return to West Indies Cricket. Captain Carl Hooper is interviewed and Barry Wilkinson reports (13:35-15:46

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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