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A key factor in modern protection of historic buildings: the assessment of penetratoion of water repellent polymers into porous stone materials
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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
Micro-Raman identification of the palette of a precious XVI century illuminated Persian codex
No full textA remarkable, richly decorated Persian manuscript dating from 1537 was investigated by Raman microscopy in order to assess the nature of the pigments used. Although the decorated area measures just a few tens of cm2 and doesn't include any anthropomorphic motif, but consists in a very geometric, lacework-like decoration, it contains very elaborate and precious details. A very rich palette was revealed, showing extensive use of the extremely valuable and costly pigment lapis-lazuli, gold and orpiment, besides malachite, vermilion and red lead. With the exception of the choice for an expensive pigment such as lapis-lazuli even for the background, the experimental data confirm that the art of miniature making, as well as the painting materials used in the Middle East, didn't actually differ much from what is considered to be the acknowledged practice for western art in the same period
Identification of pigments on a XV century illuminated parchment by Raman and FTIR microspectroscopies
No full textThe pigments used to illuminate a precious, richly decorated XV century document on parchment, the property of the State Archives of Milan, have been thoroughly investigated by the complementary use of Raman and reflectance Fourier transform infra red (FTIR) microspectroscopies, both performed non-destructively and in situ. The palette has been determined and the pigments used unambiguously characterised. These were all natural mineral pigments: azurite, ultramarine blue, malachite, vermilion and minium. The advantages and disadvantages of each technique, with respect to the identification of single pigments, are discussed, especially in the cases of malachite and ultramarine blue
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
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