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SHORT-LENGTH-SCALE CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT IN A SUPERLATTICE
No full textWe have used far-infrared absorption to probe the optical conductivity of metallic GaAs:Si sheets imbedded in GaAs by molecular-beam epitaxy. An enhancement of the conductivity is observed at short length scales which we attribute to localization and Coulomb-interaction effects. However, the spectra do not appear to be quantitatively described by existing theories for long length scales. © 1986 The American Physical Society
Optical study of interacting donors in semiconductors
No full textDetailed measurements and theoretical analysis are presented of the far-infrared absorption coefficient of phosphorous donors in uncompensated silicon at low temperatures. The study covers over 3 orders of magnitude in doping density, i.e., from the regime of isolated donors to near the insulator-metal transition at 3.7×1018 cm-3. The photon energy was varied from 5% of the isolated donor ionization energy (45.5 meV) to about 25% above it. The spectra are described quantitatively by including pair states (donor excitons), charge-transfer excitations at low densities and energy, and excitation processes in larger random clusters at higher densities. The results indicate that the donors form a nearly ideal, random, three-dimensional system in which there are large-scale potential fluctuations which dominate the approach to the delocalization transition. © 1981 The American Physical Society
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
Observation of the approach to a polarization catastrophe
No full textOptical measurements of phosphorus-doped silicon yield a donor susceptibility which can be fitted with a critical form that extrapolates to a polarization catastrophe at the insulator-metal transition. The exponent is about twice classical predictions and demonstrates the quantum nature of the transition. © 1980 The American Physical Society
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
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