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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
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
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With a Heart of Oak: John Quincy Adams, Scientific Farmer and Landscape Gardener
No full textThis thesis explores the work of John Quincy Adams as a scientific farmer and gardener. The details of his study of botany and his accomplishments in horticulture and landscape gardening have been overlooked. I studied Adams's diaries and a select group of his letters to explore why he gardened and why he grew his own trees from seed. Here we learn what gardening meant to him. Adams promoted scientific research among American farmers to benefit agriculture. He sought to fulfill George Washington's plan for a national university and botanic garden in the federal city. As a member of numerous scientific societies, Adams contributed to the progress of horticulture and landscape gardening during the early national period in America. His efforts to unite scientific work among various states contributed to the emergence of an American science
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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Gender and Domestic Medicine: Analysis of a Seventeenth-Century Receipt Book
No full textResearch into how men and women participated in domestic medicine, or medicine in the home, has typically focused on the female experience. Indeed, early modern historians have often dichotomized medicine in the early modern period into two domains: male professional medicine and female domestic medicine. While some overlap between the domains is generally acknowledged, the broad generalizations remain standard in current research. In this thesis I build upon new research and examine the ways that men actively participated in domestic medicine and compare this with female participation. A medical recipe book compiled by one woman in the mid- to late-seventeenth-century provides the basis of this research. I examine similarities and differences in ways that men and women shared knowledge and participated in experimentation via their recipes, methods each used to assign credibility to the contributed recipes, and the diseases that were considered important. The results show that men did participate in medicine in each of the ways mentioned above, albeit at different rates than women.recipes; seventeenth century; domestic medicine
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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