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    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

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

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    We 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

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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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Räumliche Methoden zur Analyse von Hot-Spots durch Abdrift-bedingte Pflanzenschutzmitteleinträge

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    Mit dieser Arbeit wurde ein Verfahren für ein Hot-Spot Management entwickelt, welches erstmals deutschlandweit räumlich explizit die Exposition und das Risikos von terrestrischen und aquatischen Nichtzielflächen in Folge von Pflanzenschutzmittel-Abdrift auf der Ebene einzelner Nichtzielsegmente modelliert. Die Stärken des Verfahrens liegen in der umfassenden Einbeziehung expositions- und risikorelevanter Parameter. Hierfür wurden Methoden entwickelt und Datenquellen erschlossen, um diese Parameter möglichst realitätsnah, d.h. hier in der Gesamtheit der möglichen Ausprägungen, in das Verfahren einzubeziehen. Dies wird insbesondere ermöglicht durch die zeitliche und räumliche Modellierung der Beziehungen von Zielflächen, Nichtzielflächen und Refugien und die Verwendung von zeitlich und räumlich hochaufgelösten Daten. Die vorliegende Arbeit unterstützt die Anstrengungen, welche aktuell für eine realitätsnähere Risikoabschätzung von PSM durch die Einbeziehung der Landschaftsebene unternommen werden.In this work a spatially explicit method for a hot-spot management was developed, which assesses the exposure and the risk of terrestrial and aquatic non-target areas due to pesticide drift at the spatial scale of single non-target segments. The calculations were carried out for the whole of Germany. The advantage of the method lies in the comprehensive inclusion of parameters, which determine the risk and exposure of non-target areas. In order to keep these parameters as realistic as possible, various data sources were made accessible and appropriate analysis methods were developed. This was achieved in particular by modeling the temporal and spatial relationships between target areas, non-target areas and refuges as well as by the use of temporally and spatially high-resolution data. The present work supports the efforts currently being undertaken for a more realistic risk assessment of pesticides through the incorporation of the landscape-level.vorgelegt von Burkhard Goll

    Geoinformationen rund um die Kulturpflanze

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