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A brief commented history of exergy from the beginnings to 2004
No full textThis paper presents a brief critical and analytical account of the development of the conceptof exergy and of its applications. It is based on a careful and extended (in time)consultation of a very large body of published references taken from archival journals,textbooks and other monographic works, conference proceedings, technical reports andlecture series. We have tried to identify the common thread that runs through all of thereferences, to put different issues into perspective, to clarify dubious points, to suggestlogical and scientific connections and priorities. It was impossible to eliminate ourrespective biases that still affect the “style” of the present paper: luckily, some of ourindividual biases “cancelled out” at the time of writing, and some were corrected by ourReviewers (to whom we owe sincere thanks for the numerous and very relevant correctionsand suggestions).The article is organized chronologically and epistemologically: it turns out that the twocriteria allow for a quite clear systematization of the subject matter, because thedevelopment of the exergy concept was rather “linear”.This work is addressed to our Colleagues who are involved in theoretical research,industrial development, and societal applications of exergy concepts: if they extract fromthis article the idea of an extraordinary epistemological uniformity in the development ofthe concept of exergy, our goal will be achieved. The other addressees of this paper areGraduate Students taking their first steps in this field: in their case, we hope thatconsultation of our paper will prompt them to adopt and maintain throughout their career ascholarly valid method of research, which implies studying and respecting our scientificroots (the sources) but venturing freely and creatively into unknown territory.In the Conclusions we try to forecast future developments: this is the only part of the paperthat is an intentional expression of our own views: the previous historical-scientificexposition is instead based on verifiable facts and accepted opinions
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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