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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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

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    “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

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    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

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    CAPACITÀ DI MISURA E TARATURA DEL LABORATORIO PRIMARIO DI IGROMETRIA DELL’INRIM

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    Il laboratorio primario di igrometria dell’INRIM sviluppa e mantiene i campioni primari e secondari delle grandezze termo-igrometriche: umidità relativa, temperatura di rugiada/brina e temperatura dell’aria. Le capacità di misura e taratura del laboratorio - pubblicate sul database KCDB del Bureau International des Poids et Mesures e riconosciute a livello internazionale - sono: • Misura dell’umidità relativa tra 10 % e 95 % con temperatura dell’aria inclusa tra -10 °C e 70 °C e incertezza da 0.2 % a 0.5 % • Misura della temperatura di rugiada/brina tra -70 °C e 80 °C e incertezza da 0.08 °C a 0.04 °C. • Misura della temperatura dell’aria tra -20 °C e 80 °C e incertezza da 0.03 °C a 0.04 °C. I campioni del laboratorio primario che verranno discussi, impiegati sia per attività scientifiche sia per servizi metrologici, includono un insieme di apparati volte ad assicurare la riferibilità delle misure termo-igrometriche in Italia. In particolare sono a disposizione: • Un generatore primario di gas umido INRIM-01 che genera un gas a temperatura di rugiada costante tra -20 °C e +95 °C. Il generatore è basato su un sistema a ricircolo a singola pressione. • Un generatore primario di gas umido INRIM-02 che genera un gas a temperatura di brina costante tra 0 °C e -85 °C. Il generatore è basato su un sistema a ricircolo a singola pressione. • Un generatore di umidità relativa TS2500. Il generatore è basato sul principio delle 2 Pressioni –2 Temperature e copre il campo delle CMC di umidità relativa. Può anche essere impiegato come generatore secondario di gas umido con temperatura di rugiada/brina compresa tra -36 °C e +70 °C e per la misura della temperatura dell’aria tra -10 °C e +70 °C. • Sistema di riferimento per la misura della temperatura dell’aria costituito da una camera termostatica, una sottocamera e un termometro campione nell’intervallo tra 70 °C e +180 °C. L’attività di sviluppo e validazione dei campioni poggia su numerosi progetti di ricerca nazionali e internazionali per la misura dell’umidità dei gas e, più recentemente, per la misura dell’umidità nei solidi. Il laboratorio offre servizi di disseminazione delle grandezze termo-igrometriche quali: • Taratura di misuratori di temperatura di rugiada/brina • Taratura di sensori per la misura dell’umidità relativa • Taratura di termometri per la misura della temperatura dell’aria • Confronti interlaboratorio (ILC) in termo-igrometria • ILC per gli ambienti climatici e termostatici • Collaborazioni di ricerca con l’industria per lo sviluppo di nuovi sensori/metodi di misura
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