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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Marches aléatoires branchantes : Cas limites et hypothèses minimales
No full textThe branching random walk is a particle system on the real line starting at time 0 with an initial particle at position 0, then each particle living at time n proceeds to die at time n+1 and give birth, independently from the other particles of generation n, to a random number of particles at random positions. In a first chapter, we define in details the branching random walk model and some key elements of the scientific research on this model, including the study of the additive martingale. This martingale can be stuided through its convergence towards a limit that may be trivial, raising the question of an appropriate scaling, called Seneta-Heyde sclaing, in the case the limit is trivial. The additive martingale can also be studied with stochastic recursive equations lezading to fixed points equations in law. This latter question is adressed in some unpublished works from the first year of PhD, in continuioty with works from the masters thesis. The second chapter is a translation in english of some sections of the preivous chapter so that every reader can grasp the key elements and goals of this manuscript.In a third chapter, we present a new proof developed with Pascal Maillard for Aîdékon and Shi's theorem on the Seneta-Heyde scaling of the critical additive martingale in the finite variance case. This new proof no longer need a peeling lemma and the use of second moment arguments and prefers studying the conditional Laplace transform. the properties of some renewal functions allow a much more general approach without the need to foucs to much on the derivative martingale. This is also illustrated in a fourth chapter where in new works with Pascal Maillard, we find the Seneta-Heyde scaling for the critical additive martingale in the case where the spinal random walk is in the attraction domain of a stable law. We then observe that the renewal functions provide us with a better suited candidate for this study than the derivative artingale, which is no longer always a martingale in this context.Finally, the fifth chapter focus on the question of the optimality of the assumptions made in the preivous chapter concerning the non-triviality of the limit obtained with the Seneta-Heyde scaling.La marche aléatoire branchante est un système de particules sur la droite réelle où partant au temps 0 d’une particule initiale en position 0, chaque particule vivante au temps n meurt au temps n + 1 en donnant indépendemment naissance à un nombre aléatoire de particules se dispersant aléatoirement autour de la position de la particule parente. Dans un premier chapitre introductif, nous définissons en détails le modèle de la marche aléatoire branchante ainsi que certains des enjeux de la recherche autour de ce modèle, notamment l’étude de la martingale additive. Cette martingale peut-être étudié au travers de sa convergence vers une limite triviale ou non ainsi que l’étude d’une renormalisation appropriée, dite de Seneta-Heyde, lorsque cette limite est triviale. Elle peut aussi être étudiée au travers d’équations récursives stochastiques menant à des équations de points fixes en loi. Cette dernière question correspond à des travaux non-publiés effectués en première année de thèse en continuité avec ceux effectués en mémoire de master. Le second chapitre est une traduction en anglais de certaines sections du précédent chapitre pour faciliter la compréhension de certains lecteurs sur les points importants de cette thèse.Dans un troisième chapitre nous présentons une nouvelle méthode de preuve développée avec Pascal Maillard pour le théorème d’Aïdékon et Shi sur la renormalisation de Seneta-Heyde de la martingale additive critique dans le cas où la marche de l’épine admet une variance finie. Cette nouvelle preuve se passe du recours à un lemme d’épluchage et à des calculs de seconds moments pour lui préférer une étude de la transformée de Laplace conditionnée. Les propriétés des fonctions de renouvellements permettent une approche plus générale qui ne demande pas de s’attarder en particulier sur la martingale dérivée. Ceci est d’ailleurs illustré dans le quatrième chapitre où dans de nou veaux travaux avec Pascal Maillard, nous trouvons la renormalisation de Seneta-Heyde de la martingale additive critique dans le cas où la marche de l’épine est dans le domaine d’attraction d’une loi stable. On voit alors que les fonctions de renouvellement nous fournissent un candidat mieux adapté à cette étude que la martingale dérivée, qui n’est plus toujours une martingale dans ce nouveau contexte.Enfin, le cinquième chapitre étudie la question de l’optimalité des hypothèses faites dans le chapitre précédent quant à la trivialité ou non de la limite obtenue après renormalisation de Seneta-Heyde
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
No full textWe 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.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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