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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
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
A Reconciliation of Logical Representations of Space: from Multidimensional Mereotopology to Geometry
Get PDFReasoning about spatial knowledge is an important aspect of computational intelligence. Humans easily switch between high-level and low-level spatial knowledge, while computers have traditionally relied only on low-level spatial information. Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning is concerned with devising high-level, qualitative, representations of certain aspects of space using small sets of intuitive spatial relations that lend themselves to efficient reasoning. Many such representations have been developed over the years, but their use in practical applications seems to be inhibited.
One reason preventing more widespread adoption of qualitative spatial representations may be the gap between simple but inexpressive qualitative representations at one end and geometric or quantitative representations with the expressivity of Euclidean geometry at the other end.
Another factor may be the lack of semantic integration between the various spatial representations ranging from qualitative to geometric ontologies.
We will address both issues in this thesis with a focus on spatial ontologies that involve some kind of mereotopological relations such as contact and parthood.
We design a family of spatial ontologies with varying restrictiveness and increasingly more expressive nonlogical languages, organized into hierarchies of ontologies of equal expressivity.
As the most foundational spatial ontology we propose a multidimensional mereotopology based only on `containment' and `relative dimension' as undefined concepts.
By adding either `boundary containment' or `betweenness' as new concepts, we further extend the expressivity without impairing the qualitative character.
Tools from mathematical logic, such as interpretability and definability, are used to semantically integrate other spatial ontologies into our hierarchies. Moreover, we show how mereotopological theories, incidence geometries, and ordered incidence geometries are formally related to our theories. We thereby better understand differences in expressivity, restrictiveness, and ontological assumptions between a broad range of spatial ontologies.
Throughout the thesis, we utilize automated theorem provers to assist with the verification of all ontologies by constructing nontrivial models and by proving key properties about the axiomatized relations and functions. Theorem provers are also utilized to obtain some of the integration results.Ph
Model-Theoretic Analysis of Asher and Vieu's Mereotopology
Get PDFIn the past little work has been done to characterize the models of various mereotopological systems. This thesis focuses on Asher and Vieu's first-order mereotopology which evolved from Clarke's Calculus of Individuals. Its soundness and completeness proofs with respect to a topological translation of the axioms provide only sparse insights into structural properties of the mereotopological models. To overcome this problem, we characterize these models with respect to mathematical
structures with well-defined properties - topological spaces, lattices, and graphs.
We prove that the models of the subtheory RT− are isomorphic to p-ortholattices
(pseudocomplemented, orthocomplemented). Combining the advantages of lattices
and graphs, we show how Cartesian products of finite p-ortholattices with one multiplicand being not uniquely complemented (unicomplemented) gives finite models of the full mereotopology. Our analysis enables a comparison to other mereotopologies, in particular to the RCC, of which lattice-theoretic characterizations exist.MAS
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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