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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Shkodra's "Heng" and Its Preservation by Gjakova's "Aheng"
No full textAt least 300 of 393 “Heng's” songs were recorded during 1955-56 years today anyone can find, hear and record in city of Gjakova. This is a reason why Gjakova and gjakovars considered a big and strong guardians of Shkodra's "Heng" songs. All our tradition, not just Gjakova's, is very lucky because Shkodra's "Heng" songs arrived in Gjakova before year 1955, because after, all these songs was Recorded in cleaning variants, without barbarisms. Today, we have a priceless value, the complete – Shkodra's "Heng", cleaned and recorded, but we lack "Heng's" songs in their original version - the first version until 1955, almost all the songs of Shkodra's "Heng" not only that had already "arrived" in Gjakova, but they have been regularly played over 30 years by the band of Ymer Riza. So, today, you can hear only in Gjakova, for example the song, "Lulja prej lules ban ferk" ("Not two flowers are the same”) and absolutely not in any other Albanian cities. Based on the archival documentary research, the analysis of songs creation time and musical activities of Shkodra and Gjakova's music bands and the data collected in the field, the first song carried from Shkodra's "Heng" and inserted in Gjakova's music (there was no organized "heng" at that time) was brought from Shkodra around the beginning of the 19th century by Hamëz Kovaçi – Çarkaxhiu, who is also considered as the leader of the first Gjakova taif, in the first half of the 19th century, and a close friend to Kolë Qorri
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
FIGURE 2. Rubia siamensis. A. Fruiting branch. B in A new species of Rubia (Rubiaceae) from western Yunnan, China
No full textFIGURE 2. Rubia siamensis. A. Fruiting branch. B. Stipule. Drawn by Rongmei Zhang. Voucher: Gaoligong Shan Biodiversity Survey 21831 (KUN).Published as part of Li, Rong & Li, Heng, 2013, A new species of Rubia (Rubiaceae) from western Yunnan, China, pp. 51-55 in Phytotaxa 140 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.140.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/509981
Agent-Based Modeling of the Prediction Markets
No full textWe propose a simple agent-based model of the political election prediction market which reflects the intrinsic feature of the prediction market as an information aggregation mechanism. Each agent has a vote, and all agents’ votes determine the election result. Some of the agents participate in the prediction market. Agents form their beliefs by observing their neighbors’ voting disposition, and trade with these beliefs by following some forms of the zero-intelligence strategy. In this model, the mean price of the market is used as a forecast of the election result. We study the effect of the radius of agents’ neighborhood and the geographical distribution of information on the prediction accuracy. In addition, we also identify one of the mechanisms which can replicate the favorite-longshot bias, a stylized fact in the prediction market. This model can then provide a framework for further analysis on the prediction market when market participants have more sophisticated trading behavior.Prediction market, Agent-based simulation, Information aggregation mechanism, Prediction accuracy, Zero-intelligence agents, Favorite-longshot bias
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Class invariants from a new kind of Weber-like modular equation
No full textA technique is described for explicitly evaluating quotients of the Dedekind eta function at quadratic integers. These evaluations do not make use of complex approximations but are found by an entirely `algebraic' method. They are obtained by means of specialising certain modular equations related to Weber's modular equations of `irrational type'. The technique works for certain eta quotients evaluated at points in an imaginary quadratic field with discriminant d1 (mod 8)
FIGURE 1. Rubia pianmaensis. A. Flowering branch. B. Node with leaves and stipules. C. Stipule. D in A new species of Rubia (Rubiaceae) from western Yunnan, China
No full textFIGURE 1. Rubia pianmaensis. A. Flowering branch. B. Node with leaves and stipules. C. Stipule. D. Flower (5-merous). E. Flower (6-merous). F. Dissected corolla showing stamens. G. Ovary and style. Drawn by Rongmei Zhang from the holotype.Published as part of Li, Rong & Li, Heng, 2013, A new species of Rubia (Rubiaceae) from western Yunnan, China, pp. 51-55 in Phytotaxa 140 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.140.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/509981
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