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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Investigating the Relationships Between SNS Usage, Personal Information Disclosure, and Cybersecurity
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2025As social networking sites (SNSs) become ubiquitous for daily activities, users and regulators have raised concerns with the state of digital privacy and security. Cyberattacks on SNSs have exposed private data of millions of users, and cybersecurity threats propagate through social engineering over SNSs. To determine whether frequent SNS users who disclose personal information are at greater risk of cyberattacks, I conducted a hybrid survey-interview study measuring the correlations between personal information disclosure, SNS usage, cybersecurity practices, and past experiences with cybersecurity threats. The survey findings (n = 275) suggest that SNS usage frequency and usage for MNPS (meeting new people and socializing) or MEPO (make, express, or present more popular oneself) purposes have positive correlations to personal information disclosure. SNS usage frequency and personal information disclosure also had positive correlations with experienced cybersecurity threats, but little correlation with cybersecurity behavior. Interview responses highlighted how subjects experienced cybersecurity threats within SNSs
A Study of Correlations Between Trait Affect and Phishing Susceptibility
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2020Although phishing emails have been in use for decades, these social engineering attacks are still prevalent because they keep working; in fact, they are a leading cause of data breaches. In this research, I attempt to discern how an individual’s trait affect levels are related to their susceptibility to clicking on links in phishing emails, with particular attention on how this relationship may vary based on the type of phishing email employed. Trait Affect is a term from psychology that references a subset of one’s disposition and tendency towards certain moods and emotions. Trait Affect is further broken down into positive affect and negative affect, which are largely independent. Positive Affect reflects one’s tendency to act, while Negative Affect reflects one’s tendency towards experiencing negative emotions. Trait Affect has been shown to influence user’s behaviors and risk perception. Additionally, it is generally stable over an individual’s lifetime, making it a useful metric with which to model behavior. Being able to model an individual’s behavior in response to phishing is important to lowering the rates of phishing. While the creation of such models is outside the scope of this paper, the relationships examined will prove useful in future attempts to model such behaviors. To obtain data as close to a real-world scenario as possible, phishing susceptibility was measured on a click-through basis of emails sent to participant’s personal emails. This process caused some difficulty in managing to make emails that were both compelling and capable of passing automated email filtering. The process was further complicated by legal concerns surrounding the real-world approach to phishing. It is important to note, however, that no user data was taken – all measurements were based around a user clicking on a link rather than entering any information
Effects of Peer Feedback on Password Strength
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-06This thesis is a study on the effects of peer-feedback on a user’s password strength. Passwords are a common sight in everyday use of an average end user. Text-based passwords are heavily relied upon when it comes to user authentication employed in various account management scenarios. Most users do not pay attention to or understand the importance of creating a secure password. Lack of strong passwords means that it is the single most vulnerable point to gain unauthorized access to the resource as prior studies have uncovered that most passwords are significantly weak and hence, easy to crack. Consequently, exploring mechanisms which improve password security has been the main focus of a significant body of research. To this end, we introduced a peer-feedback password meter which shows how the strength of the user’s password compares to the strength of passwords used by other users. To achieve this goal, we conducted a user study where we asked users to create an account on a hypothetical website. The users were either shown a traditional password meter or a peer-feedback meter. Our findings suggest that when told to create a unique password, the peer-feedback password meter significantly increased the strength of the password as compared to a traditional password meter. This approach could potentially be one of the methods to encourage end users to create a stronger password
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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