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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
Tools and Algorithms for Coping with Uncertainty in Application Scheduling on Distributed Platforms
No full textCette thèse traite de l'ordonnancement dans les systèmes distribués. L'objectif est d'étudier l'impact de l'incertitude sur les ordonnancements et de proposer des techniques pour en réduire les effets sur les critères à optimiser. Nous distinguons plusieurs aspects de l'incertitude en considérant celle liée aux limites des méthodes employées (e.g., modèle imparfait) et celle concernant la variabilité aléatoire qui est inhérente aux phénomènes physiques (e.g., panne matérielle). Nous considérons aussi les incertitudes qui se rapportent à l'ignorance portée sur les mécanismes en jeu dans un système donné (e.g., soumission de tâches en ligne dans une machine parallèle). En toute généralité, l'ordonnancement est l'étape qui réalise une association ordonnée entre des requêtes (dans notre cas, des tâches) et des ressources (dans notre cas, des processeurs). L'objectif est de réaliser cette association de manière à optimiser des critères d'efficacité (e.g., temps total consacré à l'exécution d'un application) tout en respectant les contraintes définies. Examiner l'effet de l'incertitude sur les ordonnancements nous amène à considérer les aspects probabilistes et multicritères qui sont traités dans la première partie. La seconde partie repose sur l'analyse de problèmes représentatifs de différentes modalités en terme d'ordonnancement et d'incertitude (comme l'étude de la robustesse ou de la fiabilité des ordonnancements)This thesis consists in revisiting traditional scheduling problematics in computational environments, and considering the adjunction of uncertainty in the models. We adopt here a wide definition of uncertainty that encompasses the intrinsic stochastic nature of some phenomena (e.g., processor failures that follow a Poissonian distribution) and the imperfection of model characteristics (e.g., inaccuracy of the costs in a model due to a bias in measurements). We also consider uncertainties that stem from indeterminations such as the user behaviors that are uncontrolled although being deterministic. Scheduling, in its general form, is the operation that assigns requests to resources in some specific way. In distributed environments, we are concerned by a workload (i.e., a set of tasks) that needs to be executed onto a computational platform (i.e., a set of processors). Therefore, our objective is to specify how tasks are mapped onto processors. Produced schedules can be evaluated through many different metrics (e.g., processing time of the workload, resource usage, etc) and finding an optimal schedule relatively to some metric constitutes a challenging issue. Probabilistic tools and multi-objectives optimization techniques are first proposed for tackling new metrics that arise from the uncertainty. In a second part, we study several uncertainty-related criteria such as the robustness (stability in presence of input variations) or the reliability (probability of success) of a schedul
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS 2015) Krakow, Poland
Full text linkProceedings of: Second International Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS 2015). Krakow (Poland), September 10-11, 2015
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