1,721,919 research outputs found
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
Dynamic interaction between long and short wavelength substructures: effective mass and effective damping
No full textStatistical energy analysis modelling of complex structures as coupled sets of oscillators: ensemble mean and variance energy
No full textExpressions are derived for the ensemble means and variances of the subsystem energies of built-up systems comprising two subsystems. The approach is based on the Statistical Energy Analysis of two spring-coupled oscillators and sets of oscillators, or coupled continuous subsystems, described by Mace and Ji [The statistical energy analysis of coupled sets of oscillators, Proceedings of the Royal Society A 1824 (2007)]. The paper focuses on spring coupling, although similar results hold for more general forms of conservative coupling. Randomness is introduced into the system by assuming that the natural frequency spacings in each subsystem conform to certain statistical distributions. A “coupling coefficient parameter” is introduced which, together with the “coupling strength parameter” defined by Mace and Ji (2007), accounts for the statistics of the coupling stiffness. Various approximations and assumptions are made. It is seen that the variance of the excited subsystem depends primarily on the variance of the input power, which in turn depends on the variance of the number of modes of the excited subsystem in the frequency band of excitation and their mode shapes. The variance of the undriven subsystem, on the other hand, depends primarily on the variance of the intermodal coupling coefficients, which in turn depend on the variances of the number of in-band modes of both subsystems and their mode shapes. The cases of Poisson and Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble natural frequency spacing statistics are considered. Numerical examples of two plates coupled by one or a number of springs are presented
- …
