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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
Wireless sensor network-based service provision: A three-sided market model
No full textIn order that the Internet of Things (IoT) realize its full potential, it has been claimed for the IoT industry to follow the smartphone recipe of market-creating innovation. Indeed, the main mobile apps platforms derive a significant part of their brand value and pricing power from their reputation to have most innovative apps coming to them. Having witnessed that the same steady stream of developer-driven innovation is already emerging in IoT, demand for IoT-based services will be driven by this growing innovative community of IoT developers. In order to make it possible, main players should focus on building platforms that support third party applications instead of developing applications for their own devices. As a way to materialize the above idea, we propose a business model for IoT-based services where a platform creates a multisided market. The business model comprises a platform that serves as an intermediary between human users, app developers and Wireless Sensor Networks, so that the users use the apps, and the apps process the data supplied by the sensor networks. The platform, acting as a monopolist, posts a fee for each of the three sides so as to maximize its profit. We conduct an analysis of the profit maximization problem faced by the platform. We show that the relative strength of the value that advertisers attach to the users determines the platform price structure. All in all, a high valuation is beneficial for all agents (users, platform, developers, and WSNs)
Maximum-Profit Two-Sided Pricing in Service Platforms Based on Wireless Sensor Networks
Full text link(c) 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.A business model for Internet-of-Things-based services is proposed whereby a platform serves as an intermediary between human users and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The platform, acting as a monopolist, posts both the price paid by each user and the price paid to each WSN so as to maximize its profits. In this setting, we propose, analyze, and compare two alternative payment schemes for the WSN side. We demonstrate that the two payment schemes are equivalent from every stakeholder s point of view. And then we show that there is a user cost ceiling, which depends both on the number of WSNs and the strength of the cross externality that the WSNs creates on the users, below which the take-up is maximum.This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through project TIN2013-47272-C2-1-R.Guijarro, L.; Pla, V.; Vidal Catalá, JR.; Naldi, M. (2016). Maximum-Profit Two-Sided Pricing in Service Platforms Based on Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 5(1):8-11. https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2015.2487259S8115
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
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
Economic analysis of a centralized brokering platform for wireless sensor data
No full textA brokering platform distributing the data collected by a set of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to end customers is considered, where WSNs receive a payment from the broker proportional to the amount of data they provide and pay the network provider a flat fee, while end customers pay a flat fee to access those data. In the case where the broker can set both prices, the optimal pricing strategy, maximizing the broker's profit, is analysed as to its outcomes for all the stakeholders. The attractiveness for end customers is evaluated through the overall amount of data on offer and the service penetration rate (which is quite low for a typical context). The service penetration rate among WSNs (which is instead quite high), as well as their profit, are considered as the variables measuring the platform's success among WSNs. Additionally, the network fee is absorbed by the broker, with a negligible impact on the broker's profit and even a positive impact on the average WSN's profit. Finally, the overall sensing data rate and its impact on the platform's profit are also assessed
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