1,721,009 research outputs found
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
Recent developments in odour modelling and assessment in five provinces in Austria
No full textIt can safely be stated that odour assessment is amongst the least harmonised environmental issues within the European Union. Even on a national level, local authorities sometimes use different approaches. In an effort to harmonise odour assessment in Austria, five provinces—Styria, Salzburg, Carinthia, Burgenland and Vorarlberg—issued a new guideline setting thresholds for odour hour frequencies dependent on the annoyance potential. The limit values were derived from examinations of complaint rates by neighbours of various odour sources and existing exposure–response relationships published in literature. For odours, where no such relationships were available, comprehensive tests using the polarity profile method have been carried out. Unfortunately, the polarity profile method did not provide useful results. Moreover, the corresponding modelling technique for odour hours has been improved, too. Furthermore, odour emission factors from animal husbandry have been investigated by olfactometric measurements and finally been updated, because the emission factors listed in the comprehensive German guideline VDI3894-1 seem not to be representative at least for Austrian conditions
Recent developments in odour modelling and assessment in Styria and Salzburg, Austria
No full textIt can safely be stated that odour assessment is among the least harmonized issues within the EU. Even on a national level, local authorities sometimes use different approaches. In Austria, most regulations concerning odour are determined on a national level. However, neither common modelling techniques nor assessment methods are defined in the corresponding laws. In an effort to harmonize odour assessment in Austria, two provinces – Styria and Salzburg – issued a new guideline setting thresholds for odour-hour frequencies in dependence on the annoyance potential. The limit values were derived from examinations of complaint rates by neighbours of various odorous sources (pig and broiler sheds, compost facilities) and existing dose-response relationships published in literature. Indeed, odour frequency and odour type were sufficient to predict complaint frequencies with high accuracy in a logistic regression model. Recently, the corresponding modelling technique for odour hours has been improved, too. By definition, an odour hour requires 6 minutes of odour recognition by a qualified panel. Dispersion models typically provide hourly-mean concentration values. Therefore, further methods are necessary to obtain the 90th percentile of the odour concentration distribution for odour-hour assessment. For regulatory purposes often a constant value is used (e.g. 4.0 in Germany, or 2.3 in Lombardy, Italy). It can be demonstrated that such a simple approach is not valid in most applications, while the newly developed concentration-variance method, which has been implemented in the Lagrangian dispersion model GRAL, is better suited for odour-hour estimations. A comparison of observed odour-hour frequencies based on EN16841-1 and modelled frequencies using GRAL showed good agreement close and farther away from the odour source. Furthermore, odour emission factors from animal husbandry have been investigated by olfactometric measurements (EN13725) and finally be updated, because the emission factors listed in the comprehensive German guideline VDI3894-1 seem to be much too low, at least for pigs and chicken
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
- …
