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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
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
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
State-and-transition model of ñire forest in NW Patagonia as a tool for sustainable silvopastoral management
Full text linkFil: Rusch, Verónica. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Patagonia Norte. Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Carlos de Bariloche; ArgentinaFil: López, Dardo R. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Córdoba. Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Manfredi. Estación Forestal Villa Dolores; ArgentinaFil: Cavallero, Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Rusch, Graciela M. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; NoruegaFil: Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; Argentina.Fil: Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro. Sede Andina; ArgentinaFil: Grosfeld, Javier E. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; ArgentinaFil: Peri, Pablo L. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia de Santa Cruz; ArgentinaFil: Peri, Pablo L. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Cruz; ArgentinaFil: Peri, Pablo L. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia de Santa Cruz; Argentina.Fil: Peri, Pablo L. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria; Argentina.We built a state and transition model (S&TM) for the ñire forest system under silvopastoral use in northwestern Patagonia, with the aim to identify management effects on the vegetation. The model can help design practices that maintain the system within ‘desired' conditions in the long term. Based on a review of published and unpublished literature, an expert workshop and consultation, and field surveys we proposed alternative states and their response to natural disturbances and current management practices. We defined seven states, 13 degradation and four restoration transitions, and the factors and levels that trigger the transitions (i.e., grazing, frewood extraction, fire and/or dispersal of invasive plants). The best-conserved forest is dominated by ñire (Nothofagus antarctica) and cane (Chusquea couleou), while the most degraded state corresponds to subshrubby steppes dominated by Acaena splendens (cadillo). The intermediate states are likely to be the most suitable for silvopastoral use (open ñire and cane forest, and ñire forest with grassland) but are highly unstable. Therefore, with the common current practices, the tree component and cane cover are lost with time. Invasion of exotic species, competition with the herbaceous vegetation, mortality of trees and cane, and soil erosion are the processes that trigger transitions. Most degradation transitions are difficult to revert because they require highcost practices and/or have a long recovery time. Building the S & TM brought together scattered information about longterm changes in the vegetation. The identification of risk phases enables early warning of degradation.trueDesarrollamos un modelo de estados y transiciones (MEyT) para el bosque de ñire (Nothofagus antarctica) en el norte de la Patagonia, con el fin de sintetizar el conocimiento disperso sobre las repuestas de este sistema al manejo silvopastoril. En base a una recopilación bibliográfica, a un taller de expertos seguido por sesiones de consulta y a relevamientos de campo propusimos los estados alternativos e identificamos los disturbios naturales y las prácticas de manejo más comunes que disparan cambios entre estados. Definimos siete estados, 13 transiciones de degradación y cuatro de restauración. Los bosques más íntegros están dominados por ñire y caña (Chusquea culeou) y el estado más degradado lo componen estepas sub-arbustivas de cadillo (Acaena splendens). Los estados intermedios serían los más aptos para el uso silvopastoril (bosque abierto de ñire con caña y pastizal, y bosque de ñire con pastizal), pero tienen una alta inestabilidad con las prácticas de manejo actuales, ya que, a causa de dicho manejo, con el paso del tiempo perderían el componente arbóreo y la cobertura de caña. El pastoreo, la extracción forestal, los incendios y las especies invasoras son los principales factores que disparan las transiciones de degradación. Estos efectos están agravados por la competencia del componente herbáceo con la vegetación arbórea, la mortandad de árboles y de caña, y por la erosión del suelo. La reversión de las transiciones de degradación no se produce de forma natural en el horizonte productivo del predio (40 años) y requiere del uso de tecnologías como plantación, protección de los plantines de árboles y desarbustado. La identificación de las fases de riesgo en cada estado permite contar con alertas tempranas de deterioro, visualizar los efectos del manejo y orientar las prácticas para mantener la composición y estructura del bosque dentro de los límites que contemplan los aspectos productivo y ambiental
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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