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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
Projective limits and balanced topological groups☆☆This research was funded in part by the PSC-CUNY Research Awards Program during the year 1998–99, Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367, USA.
No full textAbstractThe purpose of these notes is to provide background material for a Workshop in Topological Groups given at the Summer Topology Conference at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University during the period August 4–7, 1999. We will be looking at the two concepts of ‘balanced groups’ and ‘functionally balanced groups’. In 1992 a paper was published by the author in conjunction with S. Rothman, H. Strassberg, and T.S. Wu where it was shown that the two concepts are equivalent for locally compact groups.A “balanced group” is one in which the left and right uniform structures are equivalent and a “functionally balanced group” is one on which the classes of left uniformly continuous bounded real valued functions and those that are right uniformly continuous coincide. In our paper we were able to use projective limits of Lie groups to establish the desired result. This endeavor together with a classical theorem of Graev suggested that this result might be extended to those groups that are projective limits of metric groups.The notes consist of four sections: 1.Projective limits of topological groups.2.Functionally balanced groups.3.Projective limits of groups.4.Postscript, the work of Protasov and Saryev and the state of the problem.
Section 1 is a quick introduction with proofs to the concept of a projective limit of topological groups. Section 2 introduces the concept of a functionally balanced group. It describes an important characterization of such groups due to Protasov and Saryev and an important corollary of this characterization. Section 3 has a complete proof of Graev's motivating theorem and obtains a number of theorems, which to my knowledge are new, concerning projective limits of metric groups. Finally, Section 4 contains an account of a miniconference held at C.W. Post after the workshop ended and includes a proof of the Protasov–Saryev characterization which has not been available previously in English and also a result of Protasov that reduces the whole problem of ‘functional balance’ versus ‘balance’ to the solution of a simply stated question
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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