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A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from Costa Rican methane seeps
No full textMartin, Joel W., Wall, Adam R., Shank, Tim, Cha, Harim, Seid, Charlotte A., Rouse, Greg W. (2018): A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from Costa Rican methane seeps. Zootaxa 4504 (3): 418-430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.3.
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
Systematics of the order Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa)
Full text linkDissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2007.Systematic position and status of Corallimorpharia in Hexacorallia have been controversial because members of Corallimorpharia have intermediate morphology between Actiniaria and Scleractinia. Inferences concerning monophyly and sister relationships of corallimorpharians using morphological and molecular characters have been inconsistent. The inconsistency may be caused by poor taxon sampling of Corallimorpharia. Doubts about the phylogeny of Corallimorpharia persist.
I conducted phylogenetic analyses using morphological and molecular data to provide a comprehensive investigation of phylogeny of Corallimorpharia. Morphological and molecular data were congruent, and all data sets support monophyly of Corallimorpharia, and sister relationship with Scleractinia. Within Corallimorpharia, two evolutionary lineages, cylindrical body corallimorpharians and discoidal body corallimorpharians, were recovered.
Due to the lack of unique morphological characters defining Corallimorpharia, the scleractinian skeleton, which is the only character to separate Corallimorpharia from Scleractinia, is essential to determine the hierarchical rank of Corallimorpharia in Hexacorallia. One hypothesis is that the scleractinian skeleton is not homologous in all scleractinians, and therefore is not phylogenetically meaningful in defining Scleractinia. The hypothesis is supported by evidence from the fossil record, molecular phylogeny of Scleractinia, and environmental effects on calcification.
Therefore, I propose Corallimorpharia and Scleractinia are suborders of the order Madreporaria, as Schmidt (1974) suggested. In Corallimorpharia, there has been no consensus on the number of valid family and genera. I therefore provide a taxonomic revision at the genus-level based on re-examination of type material. I used five morphological character categories that are phylogenetically meaningful. The type species of each genus is redescribed for those known in less detail and diagnostic keys to genera and families are provided. I conclude that there are three valid families and 11 valid genera in suborder Corallimorpharia.
The revision at the genus level is the first step to revise classification at the species level. There is no consensus in the number of valid species in most corallimorpharians genera. There are 41 nominal species in Corallimorpharia. Taxonomic revision at the species level will provide information about diversity and biogeography of corallimorpharians
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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