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Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
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
Structure and floristic composition of P. rhizophorae mangrove stands from Estero Guarumal, Río sierpe, Costa Rica
Tesis (Mag.Sc.) - CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1995Pelliciera rhizophorae ha sido señalada frecuentemente como una especie de mangle de interés forestal. No obstante, no se dispone aún de conocimientos básicos sobre sus patrones de distribución y abundancia. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue determinar la estructura y la composición florística de rodales con P. rhizophorae en el Estero Guarumal del Río Sierpe, y establecer su relación con la posición en el estero, altura de inundación, compactación del sedimento y salinidad intersticial. Se utilizó un diseño de muestreo de conglomerados en dos etapas. En la primera etapa se establecieron conglomerados a partir del mapa de vegetación de la Reserva Forestal de Térraba-Sierpe y en la segunda, se muestrearon variables de la vegetación y del ambiente por medio de transectos perpendiculares al estero y de parcelas establecidas al azar sobre los mismos. Pelliciera rhizophorae está ampliamente distribuída a lo largo del Estero Guarumal. Las discontinuidades estructurales y florísticas de los rodales con esta especie permiten identificar 12 comunidades boscosas cuyo desarrollo estructural y riqueza florística disminuyen desde la zona superior a la zona inferior del mismo. Las variables ambientales que mejor discriminaron entre comunidades boscosas fueron distancia a la boca, salinidad intersticial, altura de inundación y compactación del sedimento. De estas, las de mayor poder de discriminación fueron distancia a la boca y salinidad intersticial. Los bosques puros de P. rhizophorae se sitúan en los extremos del estero. En la zona intermedia del mismo, P. rhizophorae es desplazada por R. racemosa. Respecto al gradiente de inundación de las mareas, los bosques puros de P. rhizophorae del extremo superior del estero se ubican en la parte baja mientras los bosques puros del extremo inferior del estero se ubican en la parte alta del mismo
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
This video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Author Rights and Scholarly Publishing
Originally posted at
http://blog.library.gsu.edu/2014/10/24/author-rights-and-scholarly-publishing/</p
Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis
The authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
Supplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
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