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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
When Reconversion doesn’t meet Sustainability: The Case of an abandoned Market In Casablanca.
No full textArchitecture and urban planning in African cities
took a new turn during the colonial era, creating
shared histories of urban development. However,
this heritage remains underrated, especially in
previously colonised countries. Some, such as
Morocco, began to roll out initiatives to prevent
demolition and inappropriate transformation.
This research focuses on a number of buildings
featuring distinctive typologies of buildings.
Among the sample are industrial buildings and
markets, which have been marginalised in cities
such as Casablanca. The research examines how
technologies such as Hbim and photoscan can
be used to identify, record and design recovery
strategies for disavowed heritage buildings.
Interviews with urban residents showed that heritage buildings affected urban development,
and evolved into deeper research into the
abandoned Crio Market located in the formerly
industrial zone of Roches Noires in Casablanca.
The case study draws an historical timeline
of the building, showing its progression from
expressing modernism with its ‘thin concrete
shell’ architecture, to becoming subject of several
reconversions for private profit, resulting in a
distortion of the building’s original architecture.
The market offers proof that not demolishing
a building does not necessarily guarantee
successful and sustainable maintenance of
modern heritage. The research culminated in the
making of a 3D model alongside a set of recovery
guidelines offered as a first step towards a
sustainable reconversion project
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Fragility and recovery of colonial architecture: toward a sustainable approach in Morocco.
No full textIn many ex-colonial countries, the built heritage during the dominant regimes is underlooked.
Some countries, such as Morocco-the subject of the current research-have recently begun to take initiatives
by launching inventories to classify buildings from that period, with the aim of preventing their
demolition. The paper focuses on some specialised building types (industrial buildings, commercial, etc.)
that are briefly mentioned in these technical inventories, as opposed to other types (residential,
administrative, school buildings, etc.). The research is deepened by studying the now-abandoned covered
market in the city of Casablanca, by observing the evolution of its original state alongside with its
surrounding environment leading to the current state of the market today. The study adopts different
methods from the graphic-semantic analysis, thanks to archival research and site surveys, a type-
technological framing, and a parametric reconstruction using H.B.I.M. Recovery design reflections
showing how many parameters are required for a hypothetical redevelopment, from respecting the original
history of the building to meeting changing human needs
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