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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
We 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
Domanda di calcio e violenza negli stadi: Un’analisi panel sulla Serie A
Il presente lavoro analizza l’impatto della violenza nell’ambito calcistico sulle presenze allo stadio insieme all’effetto prodotto da alcune politiche di contrasto a questi fenomeni introdotte dal governo italiano a partire dal 2007. I risultati confermano l’idea di un break strutturale che ha interessato il numero medio dei biglietti venduti a partire dalla stagione 1979/80. Un’analisi empirica di lungo periodo, incentrata sui biglietti venduti per la singola partita, suggerisce come la violenza negli stadi e la ridotta credibilità del fenomeno calcistico determinino una riduzione nel numero di spettatori negli stadi di serie A. A partire da questi risultati, si è cercato di valutare l’impatto prodotto dalle nuove disposizioni relative al contrasto dei fenomeni di violenza introdotte dal D.L. 41 del febbraio 2007. Queste misure, fondate sull’idea di fidelizzare i tifosi attraverso una tessera, avevano l’obiettivo di ridurre da un lato la dimensione della violenza associata alle partite di calcio e, attraverso questa riduzione, di coinvolgere nuove categorie di consumatori in precedenza scoraggiate dalla presenza di tali fenomeni. L’analisi rivela che la tessera del tifoso ha avuto un ruolo significativo nel riuscire a compensare le restrizioni all’accesso negli impianti sportivi imposte dall’Osservatorio Nazionale per le Manifestazioni Sportive e dal Comitato per la Sicurezza delle Manifestazioni Sportive. I numeri dimostrano, però, come tale strumento sia stato incapace di introdurre una svolta sulle presenze allo stadio, spostando i termini della questione su altri aspetti che coinvolgono la credibilità delle competizioni, la necessità di investimenti sugli stadi e una più intelligente copertura televisiva delle singole partite
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We 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.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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