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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
An exact algorithm for the unidirectional quay crane scheduling problem with vessel stability
No full textThis paper addresses the quay crane scheduling problem (QCSP) with vessel stability constraints. Vessel stability is essential to improve quay crane operations in container terminals, but it significantly com- plicates the basic QCSP and the corresponding solutions methods. We describe a novel mathematical formulation for the unidirectional QCSP with vessel stability, and we propose an exact algorithm based on logic-based Benders decomposition to solve the problem efficiently. The problem is decomposed into two subproblems, e.g., a task-assignment master problem without vessel stability constraints, and a time- allocation problem, aimed at determining the operation time of each task under the premise of the vessel stability requirements. The proposed algorithm is tested on benchmark instances derived from the litera- ture, and the effectiveness of the proposed model and solution approach is demonstrated
Calibration of Distributionally Robust Empirical Optimization Models
No full text10.1287/opre.2020.2041Operations Researc
A Benders Decomposition Approach for the Multivehicle Production Routing Problem with Order-up-to-Level Policy
Full text linkThe production routing problem (PRP) arises in the applications of integrated
supply chain which jointly optimize the production, inventory, distribution, and routing
decisions. The literature on this problem is quite rare due to its complexity. In this paper,
we consider the multivehicle PRP (MVPRP) with order-up-to-level inventory replenishment
policy, where every time a customer is visited, the quantity delivered is such that the
maximum inventory level is reached. We propose an exact Benders’ decomposition approach
to solve the MVPRP, which decomposes the problem as a master problem and a
slave problem. The master problem decides whether to produce the product, the quantity
to be produced, and the customers to be replenished for every period of the planning
horizon. The resulting slave problem decomposes into a capacitated vehicle routing
problem for each period of the planning horizon where each problem is solved using an
exact algorithm based on the set partitioning model, and the identified feasibility and
optimality cuts are added to the master problem to guide the solution process. Valid inequalities
and initial optimality cuts are used to strengthen the linear programming relaxation
of the master formulation. The exact method is tested on MVPRP instances and on
instances of the multivehicle vendor-managed inventory routing problem, a special case of
the MVPRP, and the good performance of the proposed approach is demonstrated
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