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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
Towards a global scale representation of forest microclimate in the ORCHIDEE Land Surface Model
No full textLes dynamiques temporelles et spatiales des échanges entre les surfaces continentales et l'atmosphère sont en grande partie contrôlées par la végétation. Dans un contexte de changement climatique, la précision de la modélisation des bilans d'énergie, d'eau et de dioxyde de carbone des écosystèmes dans les modèles de surfaces continentales revêt ainsi d'un double enjeu : elle permet d'améliorer la représentation des échanges entre les surfaces et l'atmosphère et, par conséquent, d'améliorer la fiabilité des modèles de climats ; et elle permet également de comprendre et de quantifier l'impact du changement climatique sur le fonctionnement des écosystèmes végétaux. Dans la majorité des modèles, la structure de la végétation est simplifiée, considérée équivalente à une surface d'épaisseur infinitésimale échangeant de l'eau, de l'énergie et des composés avec l'atmosphère (modèle de type "grosse-feuille"). La dynamique complexe des échanges au sein des écosystèmes végétaux, et particulièrement des forêts, incluant le microclimat intra-canopée, reste très mal ou pas représentée dans les modèles actuels. Ce microclimat joue cependant un rôle important dans la régulation des échanges d'énergie et de masse entre la végétation et l'atmosphère et son évolution dans un contexte de changement climatiques est méconnue. Cette étude présente les premières étapes effectuées dans le modèle ORCHIDEE (composante de surface du modèle de climat de l'IPSL) pour l'étude de ce microclimat intra-canopée à l'échelle globale. La représentation simpliste de type "grosse-feuille" utilisée dans ORCHIDEE est remplacée par un modèle d'échanges d'eau et d'énergie au sein de la canopée (suivant une discrétisation verticale). L'intégration de ce modèle est effectuée en deux étapes. La première s'attache à la représentation du transport de l'eau dans le continuum sol-plante-atmosphère et a pour objectif de contraindre les échanges feuille-atmosphère grâce à l'état hydrique de la végétation. Ce travail s'appuie sur une représentation du potentiel hydrique dans les différents compartiments de la plante (i.e. architecture hydraulique). Cette intégration est étudiées de manière détaillée à l'échelle du site avant une étude d'impact globale. La seconde étape consiste à la mise à jour, la mise à niveau et l'amélioration d'un modèle d'échanges d'eau et d'énergie multi-couches entre la végétation et l'atmosphère précédemment implémenté dans une branche d'ORCHIDEE. L'évaluation de ce modèle est effectuée à l'échelle des sites forestiers en comparaison du modèle d'écosystèmes MuSICA sur une base de données crée à cet effet. La comparaison des gradients de température intra-canopée simulés et observés est très encourageante. Elle a aussi permis d'identifier des pistes pour l'amélioration globale du modèle. Enfin, des perspectives sont discutées pour une utilisation de ces modèles à l'échelle globale et notamment pour simuler l'évolution du microclimat sous une canopée forestière en fonction du changement climatique et des pratiques forestières.The temporal and spatial dynamics of exchanges between continental surfaces and the atmosphere are largely controlled by vegetation. In the context of climate change, accurately modeling the energy, water, and carbon dioxide balances of ecosystems in land surface models presents a dual challenge: it improves the representation of exchanges between surfaces and the atmosphere, thereby enhancing the reliability of climate models; and it also helps to understand and quantify the impact of climate change on the functioning of plant ecosystems. In most models, the structure of vegetation is simplified, treated as equivalent to an infinitesimal thickness surface exchanging water, energy, and compounds with the atmosphere (a "big-leaf" model). The complex dynamics of exchanges within plant ecosystems, particularly forests, including the intra-canopy microclimate, remain poorly represented or not represented at all in current models. However, this microclimate plays a crucial role in regulating energy and mass exchanges between vegetation and the atmosphere, and its evolution in the context of climate change is not well understood. This study presents the first steps taken in the ORCHIDEE model (the land surface component of the IPSL climate model) to study this intra-canopy microclimate at a global scale. The simplistic "big-leaf" representation used in ORCHIDEE is replaced by a model of water and energy exchanges within the canopy (following vertical discretization). The integration of this model is carried out in two stages. The first focuses on representing water transport in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and aims to constrain leaf-atmosphere exchanges based on the water status of the vegetation. This work relies on a representation of water potential in the different compartments of the plant (i.e., hydraulic architecture). This integration is studied in detail at the site scale before conducting a global impact study. The second step involves updating, upgrading, and improving a multi-layer model of water and energy exchanges between vegetation and the atmosphere previously implemented in a branch of ORCHIDEE. The evaluation of this model is conducted at the scale of forest sites in comparison to the MuSICA ecosystem model based on a database created for this purpose. The comparison of simulated and observed intra-canopy temperature gradients is very encouraging. It has also helped to identify avenues for the overall improvement of the model. Finally, prospects are discussed for using these models at a global scale, particularly to simulate the evolution of microclimate under a forest canopy in relation to climate change and forestry practices
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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