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    Low Energy Electron Point Source Microscopy of Two-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures

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    Vieker H, Beyer A, Blank H, Weber DH, Gerthsen D, Gölzhäuser A. Low Energy Electron Point Source Microscopy of Two-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie. 2011;225(11-12):1433-1445

    Electron Microscopical Investigations of Doped and Undoped Ba_0.5Sr_0.5Co_0.8Fe_0.2O_3-d for Oxygen Separation Membranes

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    Secondary phases and microstructure of Ba_0.5Sr_0.5Co_0.8Fe_0.2O_3-d (BSCF) were investigated by electron microscopy (TEM, SEM, EDXS, EELS) after annealing for 100 h at 700-1000 °C. Beside the cubic phase a hexagonal and a BaCoO phase were observed at grain boundaries and plate-like regions. A new evaluation method probing the Co-valence state based on EELS is described and was applied to determine the Co-valence in secondary phases. Furthermore CaCuO_2 thin-films were investigated

    Electron microscopy study of pure and Sr-substituted LaCoO3

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    Two related perovskite material systems were investigated using transmission electron microscopy. La0.6Sr0.4CoO3-d was studied with emphasis on phase stability and its suitability as cathode material for solid oxide fuel cells. The high efficiency of the investigated cells is attributed to an optimized microstructure and the formation of Co3O4 precipitates during fabrication. Furthermore, the microstructure and its effect on the magnetic properties of epitaxial strained LaCoO3 were studied

    MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations

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    Information overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    "Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"

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    Both spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.

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    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

    Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund

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    At the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
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