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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
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
Investigations on Nonlinear and Radiative Properties of Certain Phatonic Materials
No full textLight in its physical and philosophical sense has captured the imagination of human
mind right from the dawn of civilization. The invention of lasers in the 60’s caused
a renaissance in the field of optics. This intense, monochromatic, highly directional
radiation created new frontiers in science and technology. The strong oscillating electric
field of laser radiation creates a. polarisation response that is nonlinear in character in
the medium through which it passes and the medium acts as a new source of optical
field with alternate properties. It was in this context, that the field of optoelectronics
which encompasses the generation, modulation, transmission etc. of optical radiation
has gained tremendous importance. Organic molecules and polymeric systems have
emerged as a class of promising materials of optoelectronics because they offer the
flexibility, both at the molecular and bulk levels, to optimize the nonlinearity and
other suitable properties for device applications. Organic nonlinear optical media,
which yield large third-order nonlinearities, have been widely studied to develop optical
devices like high speed switches, optical limiters etc.
Transparent polymeric materials have found one of their most promising applicationsin
lasers, in which they can be used as active elements with suitable laser dyes
doped in it. The solid-matrix dye lasers make possible combination of the advantages
of solid state lasers with the possibility of tuning the radiation over a broad spectral
range. The polymeric matrices impregnated with organic dyes have not yet widely
used because of the low resistance of the polymeric matrices to laser damage, their low
dye photostability, and low dye stability over longer time of operation and storage.
In this thesis we investigate the nonlinear and radiative properties of certain organic
materials and doped polymeric matrix and their possible role in device developmentCochin University of Science & TechnologyInternational School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science & Technolog
Investigations on Nonlinear and Radiative Properties of Certain Photonic Materials
No full textInternational School of Photonics,
Cochin University of Science & Technolog
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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