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Data for: Well-managed grassland heterogeneity promotes butterfly conservation in a corridor network
No full textThis file contains species data for butterflies and dominant plant assemblages, as well as environmental variables at each of the 37 sites
Fig 2 from: Joubert-Van der Merwe L, Pryke JS (2018) Is cattle grazing more important than landscape heterogeneity for grasshoppers in Afromontane grassland? Journal of Orthoptera Research 27(1): 13-21. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.27.15027
No full textFig 3 from: Joubert-Van der Merwe L, Pryke JS (2018) Is cattle grazing more important than landscape heterogeneity for grasshoppers in Afromontane grassland? Journal of Orthoptera Research 27(1): 13-21. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.27.15027
No full textFig 1 from: Joubert-Van der Merwe L, Pryke JS (2018) Is cattle grazing more important than landscape heterogeneity for grasshoppers in Afromontane grassland? Journal of Orthoptera Research 27(1): 13-21. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.27.15027
No full textQuest Volume 13 Number 2 2017
Get PDFCite: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2017). Quest: Science for South Africa, 13(2). [Online] Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11911/64Contents: Our cosmic time machine: Rosalind Skelton explains how SALT is our cosmic time machine; A global JIGSAW puzzle: Geoffrey Grantham and Michael Knoper tell us how our planet is an evolving jigsaw puzzle; Hominin neighbours: new discoveries at Wits University suggest that Homo sapiens was not alone; Sea squirt city – Port Elizabeth’s tunicate treasure trove: Mike Davies-Coleman, Shirley Parker-Nance and Jodie Watt explain how sea squirts survive in polluted marine environments; Bernoulli’s Law: Jan Smit and Ashleigh Pieterse explain how one of the fundamental laws of physics is important in our everyday life; Astronomy and sustainable development: Karabo Makola shows how development-centred astronomy can lead to sustainable development; Midlands magic: Megan Jooste describes the excitement of doing research, with Lize Joubert-van der Merwe; Decolonising social sciences: Jess Auerbach shows us what a new university in Africa is doing to decolonise social sciences; SANSA's Eye in the sky; Researchers use ‘Fitbits’ to track elephant sleep in the wild; A kiss of death: mammals were the first to produce venom.Department of Science and Technolog
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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