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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
Laminated Glass Specimens Under Long-Term Push-Out Loads
The paper presents the results of an on-going experimental research on the viscoelastic behaviour of laminated glasses (LG) with PVB interlayers. Push-out tests were performed on LG specimens made of three glass plies, loading PVB layers in pure shear. Tests allowed to investigate the influence of temperature and relative humidity (RH) on the viscoelastic properties of PVB under long-term loads
Long term response of glass-PVB double-lap joints
The paper presents the results of an experimental research on the viscoelastic behavior of laminated
glasses with polyvinyl-butyral interlayers. The problem is investigated with double lap joints under compressive
loadings over a temperature range between 20 C and 50 C. The viscoelastic mechanical
parameters of polyvinyl-butyral play a fundamental role in determining the response of laminated glass
and consequently, their knowledge is required for a reliable design, especially in structural application,
such as beams, plates, fins, columns, walls, façade and roofs. Tests were performed on specimens made
of three glass plies under long-term loads in different conditions of temperature and relative humidity.
Shear stresses and relative displacements among the glass-interlayer interfaces were measured. The
response is presented and discussed. To obtain a long term creep model using time???temperature superposition,
an eight terms Prony series and the shift factors obtained from the Williams, Landel and Ferry
equation were considered
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
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