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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
“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
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
[Drowning in Jalisco: 1983-1989]
The objective of this work was to identify which preventive factors are involved in drowning. Files of 895 autopsies from 1983 through 1989 by the coroner site office were reviewed. During this seven year period, the annual mortality for drowning was 2.6 per 100,000 population. Males had a higher annual mortality rate (4.2 per 100,000) than females (1.1 per 100,000). The age group between one and four years old had the highest mortality rate (7.6 per 100,000). Deaths tend to cluster around summer. Most of the deaths occurred in house cisterns (19.3%), dams/lakes (16.9%), rivers/canals (14.3%), water wells (12.5%) and swimming pools (10.1%). A third of the deaths occurred at home. The relationship alcohol-drowning starts to stand out in the age group between 10 and 14 years old but get its highest percentage in the age group 35-39 (74%). There are two important findings that is necessary to point out: drowning occurring at home and the relationship between drowning and alcohol ingestion
Drowning in Jalisco: 1983-1989 [Asfixia por inmersión en Jalisco: 1983-1989.]
The objective of this work was to identify which preventive factors are involved in drowning. Files of 895 autopsies from 1983 through 1989 by the coroner site office were reviewed. During this seven year period, the annual mortality for drowning was 2.6 per 100,000 population. Males had a higher annual mortality rate (4.2 per 100,000) than females (1.1 per 100,000). The age group between one and four years old had the highest mortality rate (7.6 per 100,000). Deaths tend to cluster around summer. Most of the deaths occurred in house cisterns (19.3%), dams/lakes (16.9%), rivers/canals (14.3%), water wells (12.5%) and swimming pools (10.1%). A third of the deaths occurred at home. The relationship alcohol-drowning starts to stand out in the age group between 10 and 14 years old but get its highest percentage in the age group 35-39 (74%). There are two important findings that is necessary to point out: drowning occurring at home and the relationship between drowning and alcohol ingestion
Drowning in Jalisco: 1983-1989 [Asfixia por inmersión en Jalisco: 1983-1989.]
The objective of this work was to identify which preventive factors are involved in drowning. Files of 895 autopsies from 1983 through 1989 by the coroner site office were reviewed. During this seven year period, the annual mortality for drowning was 2.6 per 100,000 population. Males had a higher annual mortality rate (4.2 per 100,000) than females (1.1 per 100,000). The age group between one and four years old had the highest mortality rate (7.6 per 100,000). Deaths tend to cluster around summer. Most of the deaths occurred in house cisterns (19.3%), dams/lakes (16.9%), rivers/canals (14.3%), water wells (12.5%) and swimming pools (10.1%). A third of the deaths occurred at home. The relationship alcohol-drowning starts to stand out in the age group between 10 and 14 years old but get its highest percentage in the age group 35-39 (74%). There are two important findings that is necessary to point out: drowning occurring at home and the relationship between drowning and alcohol ingestion
[Drowning in Jalisco: 1983-1989]
The objective of this work was to identify which preventive factors are involved in drowning. Files of 895 autopsies from 1983 through 1989 by the coroner site office were reviewed. During this seven year period, the annual mortality for drowning was 2.6 per 100,000 population. Males had a higher annual mortality rate (4.2 per 100,000) than females (1.1 per 100,000). The age group between one and four years old had the highest mortality rate (7.6 per 100,000). Deaths tend to cluster around summer. Most of the deaths occurred in house cisterns (19.3%), dams/lakes (16.9%), rivers/canals (14.3%), water wells (12.5%) and swimming pools (10.1%). A third of the deaths occurred at home. The relationship alcohol-drowning starts to stand out in the age group between 10 and 14 years old but get its highest percentage in the age group 35-39 (74%). There are two important findings that is necessary to point out: drowning occurring at home and the relationship between drowning and alcohol ingestion
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
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
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