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    Spectrophotometric Scanner for Imaging of Paintings and Other Works of Art

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    A spectrophotometric scanner has been assembled for applications concerning the conservation of paintings and of other works of art with plane surface. Its optical components, that are a lens, a spectrometer and a monochrome matrix CCD digital camera, are arranged in axial configuration. A frame of the camera allows the image acquisition of a strip of the scene collecting the reflectance spectra of its pixels. The full image is saved as ordered collection of the reflectance spectra of subsequent strips. The scanner needs only optical geometrical alignment and the usual wavelength calibration. Evaluation of the fidelity of the color reproduction gives very good results. Measurements of the scanner contrast transfer function (CTF) has been carried out for the estimation of its spatial resolution

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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
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