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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
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
Mid infrared colors of early type galaxies
No full textWe compare the mid infrared colors of early type galaxies with isochrones that suitably account for the effects of dust in the circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars. We show that these stars affect significantly the integrated colors in the ISO bands. The excess at 10 mum observed in some early type galaxies combined with the optical spectrum, is compatible with a 100% old metal rich population. Limits on the additional young components are: age 0.2 Gyr, mass=0.5% and E(B-V)greater than or equal to0.5 or age 3 Gyr, mass 10% and E(B-V)greater than or equal to0.2
Theoretical predictions on the clustering of SCUBA galaxies and implications for small-scale fluctuations at submillimetre wavelengths
No full textThis paper investigates the clustering properties of Submillimetre Common User Bolometric Array (SCUBA) selected galaxies within the framework of a unifying scheme relating the formation of quasi-stellar objects and spheroids. The theoretical angular correlation function is derived for different bias functions, corresponding to different values of the ratio Mh(alo)/M-sph between the mass of the dark halo and the final mass in stars. SCUBA sources are predicted to be strongly clustered, with a clustering strength increasing with mass. We show that the model accounts for the clustering of Lyman-break galaxies, seen as the optical counterpart of low- to intermediate-mass primeval spheroidal galaxies, and is also consistent with the observed angular correlation function of extremely red objects. Best agreement is obtained for M-halo/M-sph = 100. We also consider the implications for small-scale fluctuations observed at submillimetre wavelengths by current or forthcoming experiments aimed at mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The predicted amplitude of the clustering signal in the 350-GHz channel of the Planck mission strongly depends on the halo-to-bulge mass ratio and may be of comparable amplitude to primary CMB anisotropies for multipole numbers 1 greater than or similar to 50
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
The evolution of actively star-forming galaxies in the mid-infrared
No full textIn this paper we analyze the evolution of actively star forming galaxies in the mid-infrared (MIR). This spectral region, characterized by continuum emission by hot dust and by the presence of strong emission features generally ascribed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules, is the most strongly affected by the heating processes associated with star formation and/or active galactic nuclei (AGN). Following the detailed observational characterization of galaxies in the MIR by ISO, we have updated the modelling of this spectral region in our spectro-photometric model GRASIL (Silva et al. 1998). In the diffuse component we have updated the treatment of PAHs according to the model by Li & Draine (2001). As for the dense phase of the ISM associated with the star forming regions, the molecular clouds, we strongly decrease the abundance of PAHs as compared to that in the cirrus, basing on the observational evidences of the lack or weakness of PAH bands close to the newly formed stars, possibly due to the destruction of the molecules in strong UV fields. The robustness of the model is checked by fitting near infrared to radio broad band spectra and the corresponding detailed MIR spectra of a large sample of galaxies (Lu et al. 2003), at once. With this model, we have analyzed the larger sample of actively star forming galaxies by Dale et al. (2000). We show that the observed trends of galaxies in the ISO-IRAS-Radio color-color plots can be interpreted in terms of different evolutionary phases of star formation activity, and the consequent different dominance in the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the diffuse or dense phase of the ISM
The mid-infrared colour-magnitude relation of early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster as measured by Spitzer-IRS
Full text linkWe use 16μm, Spitzer-Infrared Spectrograph, blue peak-up photometry of 50 early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster to define the mid-infrared colour-magnitude relation. We compare with recent simple stellar population models that include the mid-infrared emission from the extended, dusty envelopes of evolved stars. The Ks-[16] colour in these models is very sensitive to the relative population of dusty asymptotic giant branch stars. We find that the passively evolving early-type galaxies define a sequence of approximately constant age (~10 Gyr) with varying metallicity. Several galaxies that lie on the optical/near-infrared colour-magnitude relation do not lie on the mid-infrared relation. This illustrates the sensitivity of the Ks-[16] colour to age. The fact that a colour-magnitude relation is seen in the mid-infrared underlines the extremely passive nature of the majority (68 per cent) of early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster. The corollary of this is that 32 per cent of the early-type galaxies in our sample are not `passive', insofar as they are either significantly younger than 10 Gyr or they have had some rejuvenation episode within the last few Gyr
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