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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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

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    “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

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    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

    On orthogonal coding-based modulation

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    In this letter, we propose a new orthogonal coding-based modulation (OCBM) scheme, in which all available transmitting subcarriers and antennas are activated at a time instant to transmit the data constellation symbols, and the indices of the activated subcarriers and antennas are also harnessed to carry information bits. Our OCBM especially addresses a novel scheme in spatial modulation (SM) domain via employing virtual subarray, and improves the spectral efficiency compared with the existing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-spread spectrum (SS), index modulation (IM)-OFDM-SS and IM-OFDM based SM (the number of transmit antennas is more than 2). In addition, our investigated detection scheme of the OCBM reduces the complexity of the receiver design by using the unique behavior of the orthogonal code, especially for the detection of the transmitted antenna index bits. Our simulated experiments have been carried out to test the performance of the proposed scheme, and demonstrate the benefits of our suggested approach

    Doppler shift estimation for space-based AIS signals over satellite-to-ship links

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    As a communication system for maritime monitoring and navigation, automatic identification system (AIS) has been employed for many years, but its service range is limited in 40 nautical miles. Fortunately, an updated service navigation system named as space-based AIS has been presented in recent years, which can provide global coverage service. However, it encounters frequency offset issue caused by the relative satellites/ships motion. To cope with it, in this paper, a novel Doppler shift estimation algorithm is proposed for space-based AIS signals over satellite-to-ship wireless fading channels and non-Gaussian noise. In the estimation stage, the signals including the Doppler shift information are firstly separated from the received ones, but they are also disturbed by the noise. Then, Doppler shift is extracted from the above detached signals via the higher moments which cancel some excrescent parameters by using several flexible algebra operations, and its estimated expression is presented. Finally, numerical simulations are carried out to verify the performance of the proposed method, and simulation results demonstrate the benefits of the suggested scheme

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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