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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

    SYNTHESIS OF TUNGSTEN SILICIDE BY PULSED LASER IRRADIATION OF SPUTTERED ALLOY LAYERS

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    Tungstensilicide was synthesized by multipulse XeCl laserirradiation of co-sputtered WSi mixtures 140 and 460 nm thick on single-crystal silicon wafers. It is shown that at certain equilibria between contradictory influences of the depth of melting, stress generation, intermixing and crystallization it is possible to grow good quality tungstensilicide. Silicidelayers with only one crystalline phase (WSi2) and with a resistivity of 170 μω cm were obtained after irradiation of a WSi film 140 nm thick with 10 laser pulses at a fluence of 0.9 J cm−2
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