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    Ab initio calculations on water-peroxovanadium clusters, VO(O-2)(H2O)(n)(+) (n=1-5). Implications for the structure in aqueous solution

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    The lack of information on the structure of peroxovanadium complexes in aqueous solution, together with the difficulty to obtain clearcut experimental evidence, prompted us to approach the problem by carrying out ab initio calculations (HF/3-21G(*) and BSLYP/LANL2DZ). To the naked oxoperoxocation [VO(O-2)](+), whose preferred structure has been determined to be the ''cisoid'' one, water molecules have been subsequently added and the resulting geometries optimized. The maximum stabilization due to complexation of the aqua ligands is obtained when three molecules of water are coordinated to vanadium. Further coordination to the metal is characterized by a lower hydration energy, similar to that pertaining to the formation of the second solvation shell. Accordingly, the preferred coordination number is six [VO(O-2)(H2O)(3)(+)] with a distorted octahedral geometry and a readily exchangeable fourth water molecule. These results should be compared with those obtained by diffractometric analysis for several monoperoxovanadium complexes in the solid state which exhibit a pentagonal bipyramid geometry and hence a coordination number of seven

    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
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