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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Predicted miRNAs in murine dystrophin gene
No full textDuchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a common X-linked disease characterized by frameshift mutations in the dystrophin gene. Among the molecular mechanisms potentially involved in DMD, we focused our attention on microRNAs (miRNAs) a new class of gene-expression regulators. The identification of new predicted miRNAs in dystrophin gene could evidence a molecular network specific for DMD. To predict the presence of pre-miRNA in the dystrophin gene, we analyzed its genomic sequence with three microRNA-gene prediction algorithms (mirEval, mirFinder and MiR-abela) which analyze criteria such as the secondary structure and free-folding energy of their precursors, conservation of part of the miRNA sequence or similarity with other miRNAs and since miRNA are occasionally found in clusters, analysis of genomic regions around already known miRNA. A set of 28 pre-miRNAs were predicted to be encoded within the dystrophin gene. The various predictions were compared considering the localization and the structure of the predicted stem loops; 14 of them were resulted in common to all three algorithms. Sequences of predicted miRNA were checked in miRbase and aligned with known stem-loop precursors and mature miRNAs. This analysis evidenced that five putative pre-miRNA showed significant similarity with known miRNAs thus letting suppose that the dystrophin gene could contain new transcription sites for annotated miRNAs. The remaining 23 predictions did not show any alignment with already validated miRNAs and could represent new miRNA molecules. Validation of these predicted miRNAs within dystrophin gene will add new intrinsic molecular networks to the characterization of DMD pathogenesis and could explain the variability of the DMD clinical phenotypes. However, all these findings raise the opportunity for therapeutic intervention at the miRNA level preventing specific pathways underlying this muscle disease.
This work has been supported by the Associazione Amici del Centro Dino Ferrari, the Association Monégasque contre les Myopathies, Optistem 223098 and the Associazione La Nostra Famiglia Fondo DMD Gli Amici di Emanuele. MiRNA-dysregulation in dystrophic single fiber
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