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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
Permafrost and decadal climate oscillations during Holocene peat accumulation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
No full textAppropriate 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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Interpretation of palaeomonsoon dynamics on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau from a 10 kyr peat record of dust deposition and regional atmospheric model simulations
Full text linkThe Holocene evolution of the Asian monsoon remains poorly constrained due to the lack of information on past wind trajectories and intensities in central Asia. Mineral dust mobilized from aeolian deposits, transported by atmospheric currents and deposited in environmental archives such as peatlands, offers the potential to elucidate past changes in monsoon dynamics. This thesis examines the history of palaeomonsoon circulation in central Asia during the Holocene through the study of the fluxes and sources of dust deposited in a peatland on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, and the use of this record to constrain numerical simulations of dust transport.
Different Asian dust sources capable of providing material to the peat deposit were characterized geochemically to establish a framework of provenance tracers for their identification. Rare earth element-based proxies were shown to be effective geochemical tracers to distinguish between them. These proxies were measured in a 9,500 year old peat core from Hongyuan to reconstruct the history of mineral dust deposition in this region. Results suggest that the deposits of northern and northwestern China dominated dust input to the peat throughout the Holocene and particularly during the last 5 kyr, with earlier deposition also governed by high local contributions. All geochemical proxies indicate that the northern sources dominated between 3.1-2.7 and 1.7-0.9 kyr BP, accompanied by a large increase in dust fluxes. These changes are interpreted as a strengthening of the East Asian winter monsoon, in agreement with other studies in the region. Annual fluxes and sources simulated with a regional atmosphere-chemistry/aerosol climate model show good agreement with the geochemical data.
These results provide the first uninterrupted interpretation of atmospheric circulation patterns in central Asia during the Holocene and confirm the potential of peatlands as reliable repositories of dust deposition and as high-quality datasets against which regional model simulations can be evaluated
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