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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
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
Un semplice modello reticolare per lo studio qualitativo dell'effetto staffa sulla duttilità di un tronco plasticizzato di calcestruzzo
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
ALTERNATIVE TOOLS FOR DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING IN ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS
No full textHigher university education should offer young people a twofold objective: firsth to fully train their critical thinking; for decades this result has been obtained through the traditional training courses of the various disciplines, it remains an objective to be pursued to face the challenges of the coming decades. At the same time the student would like to become familiar with the specific tools of the work activities to be faced at the end of the training period. The need for this dual-purpose is present principally in technical subjects in which training cannot be limited to proposing the most advanced tools (software) made available today to the world of the profession, but it is not possible not to give support for those who must quickly enter the work world. This need is even stronger for students of architecture schools where technical skills are flanked by humanistic studies. One hypothesis could be to carry on the courses of a more applicative nature with the use of the tools most used today in the various fields, leaving the development of the critical spirit to the historical and generally humanistic courses, but we know that in a few years the tools proposed will be overtaken by ever faster developments. Providing only theory and teaching a general approach does not allow it to be spent in the work world. Can we do something different? We want to propose an approach in which the student has a professional tool at his disposal and can use it, not as a purpose, but only as a self-control tool. The beam theory course can propose the classical methods of solution (graphic or analytical), and at the same time show how to verify the results through automatic tools: spreadsheets such as Excel, symbolic mathematical analysis software such as Mathematica, or even professional finite element (FEM) programs for the analysis of beam systems. In this way, the student who learns to deal the problem with traditional methodologies can be confident in his results through the software, develop more solutions, including numerical ones, and understand the limits of the software themselves by discovering errors (for example, signs) than in the graphic procedure they are self-correcting. Finally, thanks to the speed of nowadays programs, it is possible to introduce optimization criteria, as well as the verification of the hypotheses underlying the calculation model
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