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Advancing New Zealand's computational research capabilities and skills
No full textSupporting research today and tomorrow requires an inclusive partnership with New
Zealand researchers, communities, and Te Ao Māori, underpinned by a specialised and
powerful technology ecosystem. Over the last year, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure
(NeSI) has advanced New Zealand’s computational research capabilities and skills through
training programmes, consultancy in research software engineering, strategic partnerships,
and recruitment of NeSI team members with stronger knowledge of and connection into
research communities. This session will look at how those activities, combined with recent
enhancements to NeSI’s existing platforms and services, are enabling New Zealand’s science
sector to compete and excel globally.ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nick Jones is NeSI’s founding Director, having established and led NeSI alongside a team of
colleagues and peers since inception in mid-2011. Nick is responsible for NeSI’s strategic
directions and performance overall, bringing together a talented and diverse array of
people, and their institutions and interests. Nick has over 20 years’ experience in innovating
in advanced information/computing technology in sectors including education, science and
research. Nick established the eResearch NZ conference series in 2010 to support the sector
coming together in the spirit of community to share experiences and explore directions in
an area so critical to our future prosperity as a nation.</div
NeSI Futures
No full textNeSI is a key feature of the New Zealand investment in science infrastructure. It was first
established in mid-2011 and is now in its 8th year of operations. Currently NeSI is formulating its
long-term strategic plan having completed a successful external evaluation in mid-2016. Over the
last year NeSI has carried out a range of activities to inform its strategic plans, including a research
consultation, an international benchmark study, a survey of its migration to its new infrastructure,
and a review of its training activities. Looking ahead at the key challenges faced by the research
sector, this session outlines what NeSI has learnt at a high-level, and map out the journey ahead. ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) Nick Jones is NeSI’s founding Director, having established and led NeSI alongside a team of
colleagues and peers since inception in mid-2011. Nick is responsible for NeSI’s strategic
directions and performance overall, bringing together a talented and diverse array of people, and
their institutions and interests. Nick has over 20 years’ experience in innovating in advanced
information/computing technology in sectors including education, science and research. Nick
established the eResearch NZ conference series in 2010 to support the sector coming together in
the spirit of community to share experiences and explore directions in an area so critical to our
future prosperity as a nation.</div
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
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
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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