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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
Bohmian Mechanics and Bouncing Universes
No full textInternational audienceQuoting James Cushing (1994): '... most will never have heard of Bohm's theory. Those who have are certain it must be wrong, although they are not sure exactly why...Those few who still remain to listen to a description of Bohm's theory are usually surprised when they learn that they can, if they wish, consistently believe in actual particle trajectories in a space-time background.'In this talk we present the main features of the de Broglie-Bohm quantum mechanics from a perspective where it could provide a path to new physics, where the orthodox approach to quantum mechanics would be an effective description of a more fundamental underlying theory
Standard Model singlets and hard susy breaking in N=1 Supergravity
No full textInternational audienceThe standard lore has it that supersymmetry breaking in the visible sector is always soft when mediated by gravity from a hidden sector of Supergravity.Correspondingly, the associated generic forms of the superpotential and Kahler potential have long been the basis for the construction of consistent low energy susy models. In this talk we report on the existence of a whole class of new forms, equally consistent for low energy susy model building, but exhibiting hard susy breaking on top of the usual soft one. Moreover, these new forms require Standard Model gauge singlet chiral superfields displaying specific structures and flat directions. We discuss briefly the possible phenomenological spin-offs regarding the 125GeV Higgs fine-tuning issues and the (so far) non-discovery of susy particles, as well as next-to-minimal susy inflationary model-building. (based on G. Moultaka, M.R. de Traubenberg & D. Tant, Int.J.Mod.Phys. A34 (2019) no.01, 1950004, and work in progress)
Bohmian Quantum Mechanics or what comes before the Standard Model
No full textContains articles by different authors presented at the 13th Workshop 'What Comes Beyond the Standard Models', 12. - 22. July 2010, Bled, Slovenia. Editors were N.S. Mankoc Borstnik, H.B. Nielsen, D. Lukman, x + 233 pp Journal: Bled Workshops in Physics, Vol.11, No. 2, DMFA-Zaloznistvo, Ljubljana, Dec. 2010International audienceWe give a short account of an old and somewhat unfashionable approach to quantum mechanics, arguing though for its potential to provide a new kind of Higgsless physics beyond the Standard Model
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