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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
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
John Adamson 1810-1870 and early photography at St Andrews
Get PDFJohn Adamson
(1809-1870) was the eldest of 10 children
born to Rachel and Alexander Adamson, tenant of Burnside
Farm near
Boarhills, a few miles east of St. Andrews. If
photography had never been invented Adamson would still have
been a
figure of more than passing interest. His medical
studies in Edinburgh took place against a background of Knox
the Anatomist and the Burke and Hare scandal. His student
contemporaries included James Y. Simpson and Charles Darwin;
he studied in Paris around the time of the July revolution;
he was a
ship's surgeon on a voyage to China; he helped
establish the
Literary and Philosophical Society's Museum
and remained its curator from its beginning in 1838 until
his death in 1870. His obituaries are
testimony to his
dedication to medicine and his papers on sanitation are a
similar tribute to his commitment towards
public health.
Within weeks of Talbot's
discovery of Photogenic
Drawing, photography was on the Agenda of the Literary and
Philosophical Society in St. Andrews. Talbot's friendship
with Sir David Brewster gave St. Andrews a major part to
play in the early history of photography with John Adamson
taking a leading role.
Whether medicine or
photography was Adamson's major
interest is a moot
point but one feels very much that
Adamson was a doctor first and foremost and for this reason
it seemed
appropriate to discuss at some length his medical
career. He was also a man of passionate interests however,
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including chemistry and natural history and it would have
been
surprising had he not found photography an irresistible
challenge.
In
looking at Adamson's photographic career the main
source has been the Minute Book of the
Literary and
Philosophical Society which, where appropriate, has been
linked to
photographic developments elsewhere. Photographic
references from this volume are
produced in Appendix 1.
Overall, it is hoped that this dissertation may serve
to
place John Adamson in a clearer context with regard to
both his medical and
photographic career
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