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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
Epidemiology of IgA Vasculitis : incidence, etiology
No full textLe purpura rhumatoïde, récemment renommé vascularite à IgA (IgAV) est, en Occident, la vascularite systémique la plus fréquente de l’enfant. Cette vascularite leucocytoclasique IgA-médiée des petits vaisseaux touche principalement la peau, les articulations, le tube digestif et les reins. L’évolution est le plus souvent favorable mais certains patients peuvent développer une pathologie rénale chronique. L’étiologie de l’IgAV étant inconnue, les études épidémiologiques sont importantes afin de générer des hypothèses étiologiques. La première partie de cette thèse consacrée à l’épidémiologie de l’IgAV, consiste en une revue de la littérature résumant l’ensemble des connaissances actuelles d’épidémiologie descriptive de l’IgAV ainsi que les facteurs de risque génétiques ou environnementaux rapportés. La seconde partie est une étude prospective sur 3 ans décrivant les caractéristiques épidémiologiques des cas incidents d’IgAV survenus chez les enfants habitant le département du Val de Marne, localisé au sud-est de Paris. Grâce à une analyse capture–recapture à 4 sources, nous avons estimé l’incidence annuelle de l’IgAV à 30/100 000 enfants < 15 ans. La faible variation de l’incidence de l’IgAV dans le temps et dans l’espace et l’existence d’une saisonnalité de la maladie suggèrent un facteur déclenchant infectieux ubiquitaire et non émergent. La troisième partie de cette thèse, s’intéresse à la question du rôle de la vaccination dans le déclenchement de l’IgAV. En l’absence d’études pharmaco-épidémiologiques robustes, nous avons réalisé une étude en case-crossover, qui est une variante d’une étude cas–témoin traditionnelle afin d’étudier l’effet de la vaccination sur le risque à court terme d’IgAV. Nos résultats indiquent que les vaccins communément réalisés chez l’enfant n’augmentent pas significativement le risque d’IgAV dans les 3 mois suivant la vaccination. Les résultats de cette thèse améliorent nos connaissances de l’épidémiologie de l’IgAV et suggèrent que les infections, mais pas les vaccins, jouent un rôle dans l’étiologie de la maladie. D’autres études épidémiologiques sont toutefois nécessaires, en particulier dans les populations non étudiées et multi-ethniques, afin de mieux cerner le rôle des facteurs génétiques dans la survenue de la maladie.Henoch-Schönlein purpura, recently renamed immunoglobulin A vasculitis (IgAV), is the most common systemic vasculitis in childhood in Western countries. The sites predominantly affected by this IgA-mediated, leukocytoclastic, small-vessel vasculitis are the skin, joints, gastrointestinal tract and kidneys. IgAV is often self-limiting, although chronic kidney disease can develop in some patients. Because the cause of IgAV is unknown, epidemiological studies are important to provide clues to understanding its etiology. The first part of this thesis, devoted to the epidemiology of IgAV, is a literature review summarizing the currently available knowledge on descriptive epidemiological aspects of IgAV and environmental and genetic risk determinants. The second part is a prospective survey describing the epidemiological characteristics of IgAV in Val de Marne, located in the southeast suburbs of Paris, France. With a 3-year study and 4-source capture–recapture analysis, we estimated the annual incidence of IgAV at 30/100,000 children (age ≤ 15 years). The few secular and geospatial variations in IgAV incidence and the observation of a seasonal pattern in IgAV incidence lend support to a role for a ubiquitous and communicable infectious trigger. The third part of the thesis addresses the concern suggested mainly by case reports of vaccination as a potential trigger of IgAV. In light of the lack of robust pharmacoepidemiological studies, we performed a case–crossover study, a variant of a traditional case–control study, to investigate the effect of vaccination on short-term risk of IgAV. The results indicated that vaccines commonly administered to children do not significantly increase the risk of IgAV in the 3 months after vaccine exposure. The results of this thesis enhance our knowledge of IgAV epidemiology and suggest that infections but not vaccines may play a role in the etiology of the disease. More epidemiological investigation is required, particularly in understudied areas and multiethnic populations, to gain insight in the burden of genetics in IgAV etiology
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
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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