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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
High performance single stage shaper-preamplifier for optical gated signals
No full textA new single stage, low noise, shaper-preamplifier for opticalgated signals is described. Careful layout and accurate componentselection allow the use of CMOS analogue switches before signalamplification without deterioration of the noise performance ofthe preamplifier. With a silicon photodiode, the minimumdetectable signal is less then 3000 photons for a pulse duration of960 us at l = 810nm
Optical interferometer for gas bubble vibration measurements with Angstrom sensitivity
No full textAn optical interferometer which measures the radial pulsations of gas bubbles in liquids with Angstrom sensitivity is described. The gas-liquid interfaces act as mirrors. The interferometer, intrinsically differential, is insensitive to the overall movement of the bubble and to vibrations of the optical components. Examples of the resonance behavior of oxygen bubbles in water are give
A quasielastic light scattering detector for chromatographic analysis
No full textVery sensitive laser light scattering equipment has been designed to be used in conjunction withchromatographic column separation. The system is prealigned and fully computer controlled. Itgives the hydrodynamic radius of the eluting particles on line during separation. With a He-Nelaser source, the sensitivity is reached with four optical channels and four correlation functionsof the scattered light measured in parallel with a special correlator
A sensitive polarized fluorometer for clinical tests
No full textA fully automated fluorometer which measures fluorescence depolarization is described. The instrument has been designed to work with standard microtiter sample holders normally used in clinical tests. The combination of a hybrid optical system, built with discrete optical elements and fiber bundles, and a digital Fourier analysis of the detected signals make the instrument quite sensitive and precise. The 96 samples are scanned in about 100 s, with a reproducibility of the measurement of the polarization ratio of about 10-3 and a minimum content of fluorescein in the sample well of 20 pmo
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
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