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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
Competitive chemisorption of bifunctional carboxylic acids on H : Si(100): A first-principles study
No full textWe investigate competitive chemisorption processes of bifunctional alpha-carboxy omega-alkenes and omega-alkynes on fully hydrogenated H:Si(100), using first-principles density functional theory, in extended surface simulations. We study the structural properties and quantify the energetics and activation barriers, analyzing the reaction paths. Our results reveal that, if the plain, unactivated chemisorption reaction is always achieved through high barriers, once realized the configurations are very stable, ensuring robustness and reliability of the functionalized interface. We identify the conditions where disordered configurations are more likely to arise, with both functionalities offered at the free surface. For all stable configurations, a thorough analysis of the electronic properties and the extent of hybridization in the functionalized interface allows us to identify promising candidates for applications in molecular electronics
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
First principles simulations of SiC-based interfaces
No full textWe review some recent investigations on prototypical SiC-based interfaces, as obtained from first-principles molecular dynamics. We discuss the interface with vacuum, and the role played by surface reconstruction in SiC homoepitaxy, and adatom diffusion. Then we move to the description of a buried, highly mismatched semiconductor interface, the one which occurs between SiC and Si, its natural substrate for growth: in this case, the mechanism governing the creation of a network of dislocations at the SiC/Si interface is presented, along with a microscopic description of the dislocation core. Finally, we describe a template solid/liquid interface, water on SiC: based on the predicted structure of SiC surfaces covered with water molecules, we propose (i) a way of nanopatterning cubic SiC(001) for the attachment of biomolecules and (ii) experiments to reveal the local geometry of adsorbed water
Ab initio Simulations of Homoepitaxial SiC Growth
No full textAn ab initio simulation study of SiC homoepitaxial growth is presented. It is shown that the nonstoichiometric reconstruction plays a relevant role in favoring the attainment of high-quality films. It is observed that the energy gain upon surface stability can induce the reorganization of the deposited material into the crystalline structure, thus revealing that a surface-driven mechanism is able to stabilize defect-free layer deposition on Si-rich surfaces
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
Does rotational melting make molecular crystal surfaces more slippery?
No full textThe surface of a crystal made of roughly spherical molecules exposes, above its bulk rotational phase transition at T = T-r, a carpet of freely rotating molecules, possibly functioning as " nanobearings" in sliding friction. We explored by extensive molecular dynamics simulations the frictional and adhesion changes experienced by a sliding C-60 flake on the surface of the prototype system C-60 fullerite. At fixed flake orientation both quantities exhibit only a modest frictional drop of order 20% across the transition. However, adhesion and friction drop by a factor of similar to 2 as the flake breaks its perfect angular alignment with the C-60 surface lattice suggesting an entropy-driven aligned-misaligned switch during pull-off at T-r. The results can be of relevance for sliding Kr islands, where very little frictional differences were observed at T-r, but also to the sliding of C-60-coated tip, where a remarkable factor similar to 2 drop has been reported
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