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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
The interplay of fluvial and marine processes as recorded in the post-LGM Incised Valleys of Tagliamento and Piave rivers (NE Italy)
No full textThe rivers fed by the southern Alps experienced strong entrenching when local deglaciation began, right after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). This erosive phase was induced by the general sediment starvation of the fluvial systems that followed the retreat of the Alpine glaciers, and it affected most of the southern Alpine rivers. The major rivers generated some Incised Valleys (IVs) even in the distal sector of the Venetian-Friulian Plain, but the depositional activity occurred during mid and late Holocene left almost no evidence of these features in the modern landscape. However, their infilling recorded the gradual shift from fluvial to tidal-influenced environments (limans/estuaries).
We focused our analysis on the IVs in the distal portion of the Piave and Tagliamento megafans, in a study area of 800 km2 between these rivers’ present courses. A parallel study is also investigating the fluvial incisions of the inner Northern Adriatic shelf.
The current dataset comprises 3500 shallow stratigraphic cores, DTMs from Lidar altimetry and a considerable number of radiocarbon dates. These data were used to investigate the infilling stratigraphy, planform geometries and networks of the IVs. Thanks to the high density and quality of the subsoil investigations, in some areas it was possible to recognize complex patterns of larger main channel incisions, joined by smaller tributary scours. The latter are interpreted as headward cutting gullies, fed from rainfall and groundwater of the dissected megafan surface.
Five main IVs, with a length of up to 20 km upstream of the present coast, have been analysed. These features have a maximum width of 2 km and they can reach a depth of 30 m below the LGM top. The basal contact is formed by a gravelly fluvial unit, some 5-10 meters thick, that fines upward. It marks width-constrained braided channels fed by post-LGM Alpine melt waters, which continued to function in incised position until the early Holocene. The upper filling, formed in the Middle and Late Holocene during transgression and high stand, is more differentiated and spatially variable. It represents the legacy of shifting fluvial inputs (avulsing channels), differences in relative elevations associated to differences in timing and reach of marine ingression, and variable degrees of sheltering as the barrier-lagoon coastal system developed.
As a result, two main evolutional trajectories can be reconstructed for the upper part of the IV infilling: i) a lagoon/tidal dominated; ii) a fluvial dominated (predominant only in one of the five analysed infillings). The first is characterized by fine and laminated deposits, crossed by coarser sandy tidal channel units and intercalated by peaty beds. The second is marked by a gentler shift from the gravelly bottom to a laminated sandy unit, which eventually shifts to the Holocene lagoon deposits.
Detailed sedimentary study of the IVs network, dimensions and basal infill, provides a rare opportunity to study the river system functioning in the period from ca. 19 to 9 ka BP, which in the rest of the study area marks a depositional hiatus. Detailed palaeogeographical study of the upper infill of the IVs can contribute to improving Holocene relative sea-level rise reconstructions for the Northern Adriatic, besides understanding river mouth response to base level rise
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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