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    On the role of the J-E constitutive relationship in applied geoelectromagnetism

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    In current applications of the Induced Polarization (IP) method, the Debye and Cole-Cole models are used to study relaxation and dispersion properties of rocks, though it is believed that this type of modelisation is confused and vague, because of the lack of a background physical description. In this paper, we show that the Debye model can physically be deduced as a consequence of the electrodynamic behaviour of a mixture of bound and unbound charged particles immersed in an external electric field. We also clarify that the Cole-Cole model is a synthetic model, which can physically be explained as a continuous distribution of Debye terms.PublishedJCR Journalope

    Modeling electrical dispersion phenomena in Earth materials

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    It is illustrated that IP phenomena in rocks can be described using conductivity dispersion models deduced as solutions to a 2nd-order linear differential equation describing the motion of a charged particle immersed in an external electrical field. Five dispersion laws are discussed, namely: the non-resonant positive IP model, which leads to the classical Debye-type dispersion law and by extension to the Cole-Cole model, largely used in current practice; the non-resonant negative IP model, which allows negative chargeability values, known in metals at high frequencies, to be explained as an intrinsic physical property of earth materials in specific field cases; the resonant flat, positive or negative IP models, which can explain the presence of peak effects at specific frequencies superimposed on flat, positive or negative dispersion spectra.159 - 165JCR Journalope

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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
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