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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
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
Dynamiques de peuplement et transformations institutionnelles. Une mesure de l'urbanisation en Europe de 1800 à 2010
Get PDFA new approach for the measure of urbanization in Europe allows to redefine urban features that are often being put forward to characterize the continent. The original data used to this purpose are drawn from the Europolis database, which lists 10 000 urban population agglomerations identified from a broader database that includes 250 000 population units representative of the population of Europe, including Russia and Turkey. For each country and each urban population agglomeration, population estimates are given for 22 dates at the beginning of each decade from 1800 to 2010. The set of statistical indicators extracted from the database shows a clear long-term tendency to population dispersion: This trend explains various urban features such as the high number of small urban population agglomerations, the absence of very large urban population agglomerations (compared to other parts of the world), as well as Europe's recent urbanization. Large urban areas develop from coalescence of several existing urban population agglomerations, a trend that is reinforced by a continuous scattering of populated places or 'sprawl'. The model that forms the core of the analysis establishes a link between three main population patterns dynamics as finage, maillage, and treillage and three historical regimes of land control implemented by the three types of political institutions that flourished in Europe during the course of its history. These political institutions are: the Church, the modern State and the Empire. The three spatial structures identified are seen in various combinations across geographical areas and across time. The model provides thus a new understanding of population's spatial distribution in Europe as inherited from historical patterns. Second, it helps comprehend why Europe has urbanized so unevenly during the last 200 years, albeit in a period of both fast demographic growth and rapid urbanization. Former population spatial discontinuities persist whether or not they adhere to national political boundaries. The regime instituted by the modern State tends to increase urban concentration, however counterbalanced by the general tendency to population dispersion as well as frequent political instability and wars. Europe displays three supra-national structures of urbanization: The North-South and East-West axis, which have high densities of urban areas, contrast with a population pool founded on a thin urban network and an oriental space anchored in a few large urban areas.La mesure de l'urbanisation en Europe de 1800 à 2010 permet de préciser les caractères du monde urbain souvent avancés pour identifier le continent. Les données inédites de la base Europolis portent sur 10 000 agglomérations urbaines de plus de 10 000 habitants issues de l'exploitation de 250 000 unités locales qui rendent compte de l'ensemble du peuplement en Europe (Russie et Turquie comprises). L'évolution de la population est retracée pour 22 séries décennales de 1800 à 2010. L'analyse d'un grand nombre d'indicateurs met en évidence la tendance à la dispersion de la population dont rendent compte le grand nombre de petites agglomérations, l'absence de très grandes agglomérations, le caractère récent de l'urbanisation, ou la réunion d'agglomérations dans de vastes entités urbaines que conforte encore l'expansion spatiale actuelle. Le morcellement du phénomène urbain fait écho à la division politique du continent. Dans le modèle proposé, trois dynamiques de peuplement, finage, maillage et treillage, sont associées à trois modes d'appropriation et de contrôle de l'espace relatifs à trois formes d'institutions qui se sont épanouies en Europe au cours de l'histoire, l'Église, l'État moderne, l'empire. Les trois structures de l'espace se combinent à travers les échelles et le temps. Elles permettent ainsi de comprendre l'impact des formes de peuplement héritées sur la répartition de la population ainsi que les décalages dans l'évolution de l'urbanisation en Europe alors que le continent connaît une croissance démographique et urbaine inédite au cours des deux derniers siècles. Les discontinuités du peuplement sont confortées, tandis qu'elles coïncident ou au contraire défient les frontières nationales. La concentration urbaine favorisée par l'État a été nuancée par cette tendance à la dispersion, l'instabilité politique et les guerres. Trois structures supranationales se distinguent : la dorsale et la transversale Est-Ouest se fondent sur des régions de fortes densités de villes, et oppose un foyer de peuplement fondé sur un réseau ténu d'agglomérations urbaines à un espace oriental polarisé par quelques grandes concentrations urbaines
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