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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

    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

    Author Index

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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

    Polycrystalline NbRe superconducting films deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering

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    Nb0.18Re0.82 superconducting thin films are deposited by direct current (dc) magnetron sputtering under different growth conditions. The resulting films are homogeneous and polycrystalline, with grains of small dimensions. The electrical transport measurements, which evidence that the samples are disordered superconductors, are interpreted in the framework of different theoretical models in order to find a correlation between the structural disorder and the superconducting properties. Implications of these results are discussed with respect to both fundamental and applicative research, considering the interest in the possible non-conventional order parameter due to the lack of inversion symmetry and the potential of NbRe-based devices as Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

    Nanoscale characterisation of hybrid photovoltaic cells based on C 61 capped CdSe QDs

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    Hybrid solar cells based on 1,2 methanofullerene (C61) capped CdSe and poly (3- hexylthiophene) (P3HT) were been investigated through a range of techniques. High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) was used to characterize size, morphology and crystal structure of as-grown and C61-capped CdSe quantum dots. Cross sectional lamellar specimens were prepared from full photovoltaic devices using a focused ion beam milling approach. The sections were analysed by high angle annular dark field imaging in scanning TEM mode to determine the morphology of the device, in particular the intermixing of P3HT and capped quantum dots

    CsPbCl3 → CsPbI3 Exchange in Perovskite Nanocrystals Proceeds through a Jump-the-Gap Reaction Mechanism

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    : Halide exchange is a popular strategy to tune the properties of CsPbX3 nanocrystals after synthesis. However, while Cl → Br and Br → I exchanges proceed through the formation of stable mixed-halide nanocrystals, the Cl ⇌ I exchange is more elusive. Indeed, the large size difference between chloride and iodide ions causes a miscibility gap in the CsPbCl3-CsPbI3 system, preventing the isolation of stable CsPb(ClxI1-x)3 nanocrystals. Yet, previous works have claimed that a full CsPbCl3 → CsPbI3 exchange can be achieved. Even more interestingly, interrupting the exchange prematurely yields a mixture of CsPbCl3 and CsPbI3 nanocrystals that coexist without undergoing further transformation. Here, we investigate the reaction mechanism of CsPbCl3 → CsPbI3 exchange in nanocrystals. We show that the reaction proceeds through the early formation of iodide-doped CsPbCl3 nanocrystals covered by a monolayer shell of CsI. These nanocrystals then leap over the miscibility gap between CsPbCl3 and CsPbI3 by briefly transitioning to short-lived and nonrecoverable CsPb(ClxI1-x)3 nanocrystals, which quickly expel the excess chloride and turn into the chloride-doped CsPbI3 nanocrystals found in the final product.Halide exchange is a popular strategy to tune the properties of CsPbX3 nanocrystals after synthesis. However, while Cl ? Br and Br ? I exchanges proceed through the formation of stable mixed-halide nanocrystals, the Cl? I exchange is more elusive. Indeed, the large size difference between chloride and iodide ions causes a miscibility gap in the CsPbCl3-CsPbI3 system, preventing the isolation of stable CsPb(ClxI1-x)(3) nanocrystals. Yet, previous works have claimed that a full CsPbCl3 ? CsPbI3 exchange can be achieved. Even more interestingly, interrupting the exchange prematurely yields a mixture of CsPbCl3 and CsPbI3 nanocrystals that coexist without undergoing further transformation. Here, we investigate the reaction mechanism of CsPbCl3 ? CsPbI3 exchange in nanocrystals. We show that the reaction proceeds through the early formation of iodide-doped CsPbCl3 nanocrystals covered by a monolayer shell of CsI. These nanocrystals then leap over the miscibility gap between CsPbCl(3 )and CsPbI3 by briefly transitioning to short-lived and nonrecoverable CsPb(ClxI1-x)(3) nanocrystals, which quickly expel the excess chloride and turn into the chloride-doped CsPbI3 nanocrystals found in the final product
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