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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
Prognostic Role of C-Jun Activation in Patients with Areca Quid Chewing- Related Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas in Taiwan
No full textBACKGROUND: Overexpression or activation of c-Jun has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several types of cancer. Treatment of oral cells with areca nut extract in culture can increase c-Jun proto-oncogene mRNA levels . The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible role of c-Jun activation in the pathogenesis and prognosis of areca quid chewing-related oral cancer in Taiwan. METHODS: We immunohistochemically examined c-Jun protein activation in human oral squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) using an anti- phosphospecific c-Jun (pc-Jun) antibody on paraffin-embedded sections. RESULTS: Positive pc-Jun staining was observed in 42 of 70 (60%) cases of oral SCC. No significant correlation was found between pc-Jun expression and patients ' age, gender, oral habit, cancer location, clinical stage, tumor size and lymph node status. Kaplan-Meier curves showed that oral SCC patients with positive pc-Jun staining or positive lymph node metastasis had significantly shorter overall survival (p < 0. 018 and 0.001, respectively, by log- rank test). CONCLUSION: These results indicate that c-Jun activation may play an important role in the carcinogenesis of oral SCC. Positive pc-Jun staining may serve as an adjuvant marker of worse prognosis in patients with oral SCC in Taiwan
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