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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
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
Modelling the effects of odours and spying parasitoids on fruit fly population dynamics
No full text The study of the role of chemical information in species interactions has been mostly restricted to studies at the level of individual organisms. The central question in this thesis is how intraspecific chemical information conveyance and exploitation thereof by a natural enemy affects the spatial population dynamics of a species. To answer this question, I developed a spatio-temporal model where both host and parasitoid can respond to infochemicals. Our model system consists of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, and its natural enemy, the larval parasitoid Leptopilina heterotoma. D. melanogaster uses its aggregation pheromone in combination with odours from fermenting fruits to localise suitable resources for reproduction. L. heterotoma uses these same odours to localise its host. For D. melanogaster, aggregation on a resource can be beneficial when a population is small and has to overcome negative effects associated with low population densities. Such negative effects, known as the Allee effect, can for instance be caused by difficulties in resource exploitation or in finding a mate. Aggregation also involves costs. Individuals within an aggregation frequently experience more severe competition for food, space and mates than they would experience when being on their own. Furthermore, I investigated which behavioural decisions enhance the ability to find - and distinguish between – odour sources that differ in their suitability for reproduction. On the individual level, this research showed that, like real fruit flies, the modelled fruit flies need to have a preference for the presence of both aggregation pheromone and food odours, over food odours alone, to be able to distinguish between the two types of odour sources. The results show that this stronger preference does not have to be innate. As long as fruit flies are able to remember and adjust their current preference based on the odour concentrations that they perceive, more fruit flies find the more attractive odour source. On a population level, this thesis shows that the use of chemical information by D. melanogaster affects its population dynamics. In the absence of its natural enemy, and when the Drosphila population is small, the use of food odours and aggregation pheromone has a positive effect on population growth and enhances the fruit fly’s colonization ability. When the population becomes larger, however, the negative effects of larval competition are stronger than the positive effects of reduced mortality due to the Allee effect. The use of chemical information was crucial to colonize an area from the boundaries. A fruit fly population that was unable to use chemical information could not colonize the area and went extinct. When parasitoids can use chemical information, parasitism rates are higher, resulting in a slower population growth of their host. No difference was recorded in fruit fly population size and in larval mortality due to parasitism, when parasitoids exploited the aggregation pheromone of the fruit fly adults as compared with the simulations where the parasitoids could only respond to chemicals emitted by the host habitat. In contrast, the use of chemical information by the host enhanced its population growth and enabled it to survive, even at higher parasitoid densities. This research showed that mortality when the population was small had a greater impact on population size than mortality due to competition or parsitism. Food patches are not always abundant in nature. Thus, the reproductive success of fruit flies is mainly determined by their opportunities of producing clutches (i.e. locating patches) rather than by preventing over-aggregation or parasitism. As a result, the use of chemical information has a net positive effect on fruit fly population dynamics, despite the fact that L. heterotoma is able to exploit it.</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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