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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
Tocopherols, fatty acids and sterols in seeds of four Sardinian wild Euphorbia species
No full textSardinian wild Euphorbia pithyusa, E. semiperfoliata, E. dendroides and E. characias seed oils were analyzed for their fatty acids, unsaponifiable and tocopherol content. Total tocopherol content showed a wide variability, ranging from 939 mgykg in E. semiperfoliata seeds to its absence in E. characias. The results on tocopherol content were statistically correlated with both 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging test and the beta-carotene bleaching antioxidant test. All seeds were rich in linolenic acid, while no uncommon fatty acids were detected
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
Image Analysis application on waterlogged archaeological Prunus remains from a medieval context in Sardinia
No full textFruit remains such as cherries, plums, sloes and peaches are frequently recovered from archaeological waterlogged contexts. During an archaeological excavation in the city centre of Sassari (Italy), in 2007, a medieval well, dated at 1330-1360 AD, was discovered. The sediment appeared very rich in waterlogged plant remains and a consistent presence of Prunus endocarps, attributed to different species, was recorded. Thanks to the exceptional state of preservation of the remains, the morphological and morphometric analysis was performed. The discrimination among Prunus species is routinely based on visual evaluations of some traditional morphological characters of the endocarps. Currently, computer vision and image analysis techniques represent a more accurate, reliable and repeatable method to distinguish wild species from cultivated ones. Digital images, acquired with a flatbed scanner, were processed and analysed using the image analysis software KS-400 (Carl Zeiss Vision, Germany). A macro, specifically developed to measure endocarps of the Prunus L. genus, allowed measuring 33 morpho-colorimetric features and 80 elliptic Fourier descriptors (EFDs).
In this work, the results obtained from the comparison between archaeological endocarps and the modern samples of Prunus collected in Sardinia, are presented. A clear statistical discrimination among 17 P. domestica, 111 P. domestica subsp. insistitia and 130 P. spinosa archaeological endocarps, was achieved. Moreover, from the comparison with the modern endocarps samples, the medieval ones were correctly identified with an overall percentage of 98.4 %.
The LDA applied an archaeological Prunus endocarps preserved in waterlogged contexts have allowed us to investigate the taxonomic level of Prunus species present in the medieval period in Sardinia
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