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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
Herbert Michael Moran: An Australian Life, 1885–1945
No full textHerbert Michael Moran (1885-1945), also known as “Paddy” Moran, was reasonably open about his life, except when it came to his family. There, matters were private. Using his skill as a surgeon and writer, he improved cancer treatment in Australia and published twenty-five medical articles and other works about the disease and its treatment. He also published three autobiographical books and contributed opinion pieces and letters to mainstream Australian and British newspapers and journals.
Cancer treatment and Italy were his key areas of interest, although his sixty-nine written works ranged more widely than this. They illustrated an event-filled life, complete with football, politics, religion, cancer research, and visits to Italy and with Mussolini. In writing about his World War 2 experience as a medical board examiner in Colchester, England, Moran gave people a sense of possibilities and insight into the different world around them. Moran helped modernise Australian cancer treatment using radium and radiology alongside surgery. His medical articles captured the transformation occurring in cancer treatment and he highlighted the importance of working collaboratively with dermatologists and physicists to improve cancer outcomes.
Somewhat opinionated, he was not narrow-minded and had a deep awareness of human frailty. His stories captured moments of technological change, political rupture, public health challenges, social and cultural differences, and showed glimpses of the private lives of otherwise ordinary people who became entangled in behaviours and activities often beyond their control. Australian and British institutional behaviour also came under his gaze, as did Italy, Mussolini, and the League of Nations. As an aspirational and successful post-Federation man, he showed another way of being Australian and encouraged others to think more deeply and broadly about life, culture, nation, and politics
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
Personal Transportation Energy Consumption
No full textThis paper centers on the estimation of the total energy consumption for personal transportation in the United States, to include fossil fuel and/or electricity consumption, depending on vehicle type. The bottom-up sector-based estimation method introduced here contributes to a computational tool under development at The Ohio State University for assisting decision making in energy policy, pricing, and investment. In this work, driving patterns are classified into two categories: commuting to work, and driving for leisure and
shopping. For commuting, distribution of distance data is available in the literature. Leisure/shopping driving durations are estimated using activity patterns for a driving population, modeled using a heterogeneous Markov chain. A backward vehicle dynamic simulator is used to compute energy consumption for different vehicle types. Key findings of the current study include: (i) Independent of the total number of miles driven annually, the higher the vehicle electrification the lower the total primary energy consumption. (ii) With the modeling in this work, the percentage of trips that purely electric vehicles are unable to complete varies from 7% to 13% for driving distances up to 20000 miles per year. The percentage increases significantly for driving distances over that threshold, owing to intrinsic limitations of the battery
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
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