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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
Boundary conditions for the high order homogenized equation: laminated rods, plates and composites
Full text linkInternational audienceThe high order homogenization technique generates the so called infinite order homogenized equation. Its coefficients were widely discussed in composite mechanics literature because they are closely related to the so called high order strain gradients theories. However, it was not clear what is the correct mathematical setting for this equation and what are the asymptotically exact boundary conditions. In the present Note we give a variational formulation for the high order homogenized equation by the projection of the initial problem on the "ansatz subspace". This formulation generates the appropriate boundary conditions for the high order homogenized equation. The error estimates for the solution of the original problem and the homogenized one are obtained
Stokes-Brinkman equations with diffusion and convection in thin tube structures
No full textThe steady state Stokes-Brinkman equations coupled with a system of diffusion-convection equations in a thin tube structure is considered. The Brinkman term differs from zero only in small balls near the ends of the tubes. The boundary conditions are: given pressure and concentrations at the inflow and outflow of the tube structure, the no slip boundary condition on the lateral boundary for the fluid, and Neumann type condition on the lateral boundary for the diffusion-convection equations. In this paper, the existence, uniqueness, and stability of the solution to such a problem are proved. Moreover, some a priori norm-estimates depending on the small thickness of the tubes are also provided. This model is well suited to describing thrombosis in blood vessels
Method of asymptotic partial domain decomposition for non-steady problems: heat equation on a thin structure
Full text linkThe non-steady heat equation is considered in thin structures. The asymptotic expansion of the solution is constructed. The error estimates for high order asymptotic approximations are proved. The method of asymptotic partial domain decomposition is justified for the non-steady heat equation
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