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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
Understanding the electronic structure of LiFePO4 and FePO4
Get PDFThis thesis has detailed the extensive analysis of the XAS and RIXS spectra of LiFePO4 and FePO4, with the primary focus on LiFePO4. One of the primary motivations for this study was to understand the electronic structure of the two compounds and, in particular, shed some light on the nature of electron correlation within the samples. Two classes of band structure calculations have come to light. One solution uses the Hubbard U parameter, and this solution exhibits a band gap of about 4 eV. Other solutions that use standard DFT electron correlation functionals yield band gaps between 0 and 1.0 eV. The RIXS spectra of LiFePO4 and FePO4 were analyzed using Voigt function fitting, an uncommon practice for RIXS spectra. Each of the spectra was fit to a series of Voigt functions in an attempt to localize the peaks within the spectra. These peaks were determined to be RIXS events, and the energetic centers of these peaks were compared to a small band gap band structure calculation. The results of the RIXS analysis strongly indicate that the small gap solution is correct. This was a surprising result, given that LiFePO4 is an ionic, insulating transition metal oxide, showing all of the usual traits of a Mott-type insulator. This contradiction was explained in terms of polaron formation. Polarons can severely distort the lattice, which changes the local charge density. This changes the local DOS such that the DOS probed by XAS or RIXS experiments is not necessarily in the ground state. In particular, polaron formation can reduce the band gap. Thus,
the agreement between the small gap solution and experiment is false, in the sense that the physical assumptions that formed the basis of the small gap calculations do not reflect reality. Polaronic distortion was also tentatively put forward as an explanation for the discrepancy between partial fluorescence yield, total fluorescence yield, and total electron yield measurements of the XAS spectra of LiFePO4 and
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Electronic structure of DNA and related biomaterials
Get PDFThe electronic structures of the nucleobases, 5-fluorouracil compounds, DNA, metallic
DNA, and samples of boron nitride are investigated. Soft X-ray absorption (XAS) and
emission (XES) spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation are used to probe the
unoccupied and occupied partial densities of electronic states, respectively. Hartree-Fock
and density functional theory calculations have been included to compare with
experimental results.
A systematic approach to understanding the complicated electronic structure of DNA
and metallic DNA systems is to initially examine smaller components. Detailed
experiment and theory for both absorption and emission spectroscopy was performed
for the nucleobases and 5-fluorouracil compounds. Main transitions in the XAS and
XES spectra are identified. X-ray spectroscopy has proven to be extremely sensitive to
changes in the environment of various DNA samples. The local chemical environment
plays an important role in determining the electronic structure of DNA. In agreement
with previous results indicating metallic DNA is more efficient at the transfer of
electrons than DNA, XES measurements reveal that there are a higher number of
charge carriers in the metallic system. Both liquid and powder samples of (Ni)·M-DNA
are found to have a high spin Ni(II) configuration. The drying process
significantly alters the electronic structure of the metallic DNA sample. A comparison
of high quality single crystals and thin films of boron nitride found that differences
between the electronic structures of the nanocrystalline films and the single crystal
samples exist, and the surface roughness of the substrate plays an important role in
determining the structure of the resulting deposited film
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
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