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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
Le prove non distruttive sul calcestruzzo indurito
Le prove non distruttive sul calcestruzzo hanno generalmente l’obiettivo di valutare la classe di resistenza del calcestruzzo sulle strutture esistenti. Ciò può rendersi necessario sia nel caso di strutture che debbano subire cambi di destinazione, sopraelevazioni, adeguamento antisismico, installazione di macchinari pesanti, sia per strutture di nuova costruzione dove, in fase di collaudo, le prove standard su cubetti non soddisfino le prescrizioni di progetto, o qualora sorgano dubbi sull'effettiva rappresentatività dei campioni di prova.
Il metodo universalmente riconosciuto per queste finalità è il carotaggio, che porta ad una determinazione diretta della resistenza a compressione del calcestruzzo in una struttura esistente, quella che viene correntemente definita attuale. Con questo aggettivo si definisce la resistenza di un calcestruzzo in opera, riferita al momento delle prove, che differisce da quella, definita potenziale, che risulterebbe da prove a 28 giorni su provini confezionati e maturati con le modalità prescritte dalle norme.
La resistenza attuale risulta di norma inferiore a quella potenziale per la minor cura nell’esecuzione dei getti e per le condizioni di maturazione meno favorevoli.
I metodi non distruttivi rappresentano una parziale alternativa al carotaggio per la stima della resistenza attuale di un calcestruzzo. Si tratta di metodi indiretti, che mirano a stimare le proprietà meccaniche del calcestruzzo in opera a partire dalla misura di altre grandezze fisiche, attraverso l’applicazione di leggi di correlazione per la trasformazione di tali grandezze in valori di resistenza
Variations on the Author
“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
We 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
We 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
We 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.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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