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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
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
Lehman's theorem and the directed Steiner tree problem
Full text linkIn the directed Steiner tree problem, we are given a digraph, nonnegative arc weights, a subset of vertices called terminals, and a special terminal called the root. The goal is to compute a minimum weight directed tree that connects each terminal to the root. We study the classical directed cut linear programming (LP) formulation which has a variable for every arc, and a constraint for every cut that separates a terminal from the root. For what instances is the directed cut LP integral? In this paper we demonstrate how the celebrated theorem of Lehman [Math. Program., 17 (1979), pp. 403-417] on minimally nonideal clutters provides a framework for deriving answers to this question. Specifically, we show that this framework yields short proofs of the optimum arborescences theorem and the integrality result for series-parallel digraphs. Furthermore, we use this framework to show that the directed cut linear program is integral for digraphs that are acyclic and have at most two nonterminal vertices
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
Fast Approximation Algorithms for the Generalized Survivable Network Design Problem
Full text linkIn a standard f-connectivity network design problem, we are given an undirected graph G = (V, E), a cut-requirement function f : 2^V to N, and non-negative costs c(e) for all e in E. We are then asked to find a minimum-cost vector x in N^E such that x(delta(S)) geq f (S) for all S subseteq V. We focus on the class of such problems where f is a proper function. This encodes many well-studied NP-hard problems such as the generalized survivable network design problem.
In this paper we present the first strongly polynomial time FPTAS for solving the LP relaxation of the standard IP formulation of the f-connectivity problem with general proper functions f. Implementing Jain’s algorithm, this yields a strongly polynomial time (2 + epsilon)-approximation for the generalized survivable network design problem (where we consider rounding up of rationals an arithmetic operation)
Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraphs with small number of Steiner vertices
No full textTitle: Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraphs with Small Number of Steiner Vertices Author: Tamás Dávid Kemény Department: Department of Applied Mathematics Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Emil Feldmann, Department of Applied Mathematics Abstract: Two well-established methods of dealing with hard optimization problems have been to develop approximation and parameterized algorithms. Recent results have shown that for some problems, it is only by combining these two approaches, into so-called pa- rameterized approximation algorithms, that we are able to efficiently find solutions that are of reasonable quality. This is the viewpoint from which we study the problem known as the Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraph problem, where a set of terminal vertices of an edge-weighted directed graph needs to be strongly-connected in the cheapest way possible. Keywords: Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraphs, Parameterized Algorithms, Approxi- mation Algorithms, Bidirected Graphs ii
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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