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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
Pneumonia in under 5 children in low or low-to-middle income countries : description of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes, study of the burden of influenza virus and role of bacteria/viruses co-detection in a large multicenter case-control study
No full textLes pneumonies chez l’enfant de moins de 5 ans restent à l’heure actuelle un enjeu majeur de santé publique. Afin d’étudier les agents étiologiques des pneumonies chez les enfants de moins de 5 ans dans les pays à revenu faible ou intermédiaire, une étude cas-témoins a été réalisée entre 2010 et 2014 dans cette population par le réseau Global Approach for Biological Research on Infectious Epidemics in Low Income Countries (GABRIEL). Notre travail s’est attaché à décrire la distribution des sérotypes de Streptococcus pneumoniae retrouvés dans la population de l’étude, d’évaluer la prévalence du virus infuenza et d’évaluer l’effet du virus sur la gravité de la pneumonie, et enfin d’étudier la fréquence des co-détections bactériennes et virales au niveau nasopharyngé ainsi que leur effet sur le risque de pneumonie. Les résultats montraient que la majorité des sérotypes pneumococciques retrouvés étaient inclus dans le vaccin pneumococcique conjugué 13-valent (PCV13) et suggèraient que les souches de S. pneumoniae retrouvées au niveau nasopharyngé et au niveau sanguin étaient identiques chez un même individu atteint de pneumonie. L’importance du virus influenza, et particulièrement d’influenza A H1N1 a été soulignée. Enfin, de nombreuses co-détections nasopharyngées de microorganismes étaient observées chez les cas mais aussi chez les témoins. Leur pathogénicité semblait différer selon les espèces et pourrait dépendre des interactions avec le microbiome du tractus respiratoire. Les résultats suggèraient que la mise en œuvre de campagnes de vaccination par PCV13 pourrait être efficace dans les pays étudiés. Néanmoins, de nouvelles études précisant le rôle des co-détections entre bactéries et virus dans la physiopathologie de la pneumonie sont nécessaires pour guider les décisions de santé publique de façon optimalePneumonia remains a public health issue in children under 5 years old. In order to study the etiological agents of pneumonia in this population, a case-control study was carried out between 2010 and 2014 by the Global Approach for Biological Research on Infectious Epidemics in Low Income Countries (GABRIEL) Network in 9 study sites located in 8 low or middle-income countries. The objectives of the present work were to describe the distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes, to assess the burden of influenza virus and its effect on the severity of pneumonia, and to study bacterial/viral co-detection in nasopharyngeal samples and their effect on the risk of pneumonia. Results showed that most of S. pneumoniae serotypes detected were included in the pneumococcal 13-Valent conjugate vaccine (PCV13) and confirmed the assumption that the isolate carrying or causing disease in an individual were of the same serotype. The importance of the burden of influenza virus in pneumonia cases, and particularly A H1N1 influenza, was highlighted. Finally, numerous nasopharyngeal co-detections were found both in pneumonia cases and in control subjects. Pathogenicity of microorganisms differs between species and might depend of the interactions with the microbiome of the respiratory tract. Results suggested that the implementation of PCV13 vaccination policies might be effective in the study population. Nevertheless, further studies focused on the most important co-detections of micro-organisms are needed to improve the understanding of their role in the pathogenesis of pneumonia and to guide appropriate public health intervention
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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