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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
“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
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
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
Radiation damage induced by reactor neutrons in nano-anatase TiO2 thin film
Reactor neutrons damage induced in nanocrystalline anatase TiO2 thin film, deposited by sol-gel on silicon substrate, was investigated by grazing angle X-ray diffraction (GAXRD), Raman spectroscopy, four-point probe and UV–visible spectrophotometry. After irradiation, the crystallinity of TiO2 films improves and the electrical resistivity increases, due to an annealing effect associated with the reduction in oxygen vacancies in material. The observed change in the response of irradiated material at higher fluence, demonstrated by a slight reduction in the degree of crystallinity and electrical resistivity, testifies to the simultaneous presence of an annealing effect and a damaging effect during neutron irradiation. Moreover, the difference in the response of anatase and rutile phases of TiO2 under neutron irradiation is explained by the difference in their crystalline structures and kinetic properties of defects. The optical band gap remains unchanged after irradiation meaning that no energy level has been produced within the forbidden regio
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
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
Proton irradiation-induced defect aggregation and metallic nanoparticles in CaF2 single-crystal
Proton irradiation induced-defects aggregation and metallic nanoparticles in single-crystal CaF2 was investigated by X ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy and UV–Vis spectrophotometry. The structural reports reveal the degradation of material crystallinity after irradiation without amorphization, as a result of generated anion point defects (F- and H-center pairs). Particularly, Raman analysis reveals the colloids formation and even the increase of their size with increasing energy. While confirming this result, the optical measurements show an anticorrelation between the concentration of F-centers and Ca colloids with increasing proton fluence. The blue shift of the colloid band, observed at higher energies, indicates that larger colloids are formed at deeper penetration, resulting in the development of a compressive stress in materia
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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