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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
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
High accuracy Yb optical lattice clock: frequency comparisons and contributions to International Atomic Time
No full text<p>Irene Goti Ph.D thesis. Politecnico di Torino, Doctoral Program in Metrology (35thcycle)</p>
<p>ABSTRACT: During my PhD at the Politecnico di Torino, I worked at the Italian National Institute of Metrological Research (INRiM) in the field of frequency standards. In particular, in these three years, my research activity has been focused on the improvement and characterization of IT-Yb1, a Ytterbium optical lattice clock developed at INRiM. In the last decades, a great effort has been made to develop optical clocks, which are considered the most promising candidates for the redefinition of the second in the International System of Units (SI). Indeed, optical clocks have the potential to improve by several orders of magnitude the accuracy of the current definition of the second, which is based on the hyperfine transition of the ground state of the Caesium atom. During these three years, I have succeeded in improving both the accuracy of IT-Yb1 and its robustness. In particular, I have characterized IT-Yb1, achieving a fractional frequency systematic uncertainty of 2×10−17, the smallest uncertainty ever reported for our clock. To reach this goal, I worked on the implementation of an upgraded optical setup for the realization of a vertical optical lattice and on the characterization of several systematic shifts affecting the clock frequency, such as the lattice shift and the DC Stark shift. Moreover, I worked on the robustness and the clock’s reliability, trying to make its operation as continuous as possible. Significantly, in the last two years, IT-Yb1 has proven to be very reliable, operating almost continually for 14 months with an uptime of up to 75% in some weeks. The highlights of my PhD are summarized in the following. First, an absolute frequency of IT-Yb1 was performed against the primary frequency standard developed at INRiM, the Caesium fountain clock IT-CsF2. In addition, in the last few years, IT-Yb1 has participated in several international comparison campaigns in collaboration with other European and Asian National Metrology Institutes. Furthermore, IT-Yb1 is among the eight optical clocks that have ever submitted data to the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) to contribute to the calibration of the International Atomic Time (TAI). Remarkably, in the last year, IT-Yb1 has regularly contributed to the steering of TAI for 14 consecutive months, showing impressive continuity and robustness. All these results are a clear demonstration of the importance of IT-Yb1 in the international scenario of optical clocks and represent a significant contribution to the future redefinition of the SI second based on an optical standard. Finally, during the third year of the Ph.D., I spent four months with an Erasmus+Traineeship fellowship at the Laboratoire Charles Fabry in Palaiseau (France), where I worked on the Cyclopix project. In this experiment, the light-scattering of a Rb atomic sample trapped in an optical dipole trap is studied to observe the collective effects in the light emitted by the atoms. This internship was a great opportunity to learn new cooling and trapping techniques, such as optical tweezers, that can be useful for the realization of a new generation of optical clocks.</p>This work is supported by: the European Metrology Program for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) Projects 18SIB05 ROCIT and 20FUN08 Nextlasers, which have received funding from the EMPIR programme co-financed by the Participating States and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
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