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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
Luteolytic effects of prostaglandin F2a on day 8 to 19 corpora lutea in the bitch.
No full textLuteolysis was induced in 5 experimental Beagle (8 cycles) and 7 client-owned bitches treated with 150 to 200 mu g/kg, sc of prostaglandin F2 alpha administered twice daily for 4 d, starting on Days 8 to 19 after the onset of cytological diestrus. Five experimental Beagle bitches had been mated during the estrus preceding treatment, and copulation had been confirmed in 2/7 client-owned bitches presented for termination of unwanted pregnancy. Serum progesterone concentration (mean+/-SD) declined from 26.1 +/- 6.6 ng/ml before treatment to 0.3 +/- 0.4 ng/ml on the fourth day of treatment. One of the 7 client-owned bitches maintained her pregnancy even though serum progesterone concentrations were less than 0.5 ng/ml on the third and fourth day of treatment. Mean (+/- SEM) interestrous intervals before and following prostaglandin-induced luteolysis were 207.3 +/- 12.4 (n = 11 cycles in 6 bitches) and 95.5 +/- 20.0 d (n = 6 cycles in the same 6 bitches; P < 0.0001), respectively. These results suggest that effective prostaglandin-induced luteolysis can be achieved with administration of 180 mu g/kg during the third week of diestrus in pregnant and nonpregnant bitches
CLINICAL USE OF PROSTAGLANDIN F(2)ALPHA TO INDUCE EARLY ABORTION IN BITCHES - SERUM PROGESTERONE, TREATMENT OUTCOME AND INTERVAL TO SUBSEQUENT ESTRUS
No full textRecords of elective abortion in 27 bitches presented to the Veterinary Surgery and Reproduction Clinic of the University of Pisa were reviewed. Treatment consisted of twice-daily subcutaneous injections of 150-270 mug natural prostaglandin F2alpha kg-1 for 4 consecutive days starting between cytological dioestrous days 5 and 19. None of the treated bitches whelped. Luteolysis appeared to be complete (serum progesterone < 3.2 nmol l-1) at the end of treatment in 22 of 25 bitches in which progesterone was assayed in serum obtained daily during therapy. Serum progesterone rose after treatment to a concentration consistent with pregnancy in four of 17 bitches in which progesterone was measured once between dioestrous days 23 and 51. The mean intercycle interval (pro-oestrus-pro-oestrus) of the cycle in which abortion was induced was 134 +/- 45 days for 15 dogs for which the interval could be determined, and was significantly shorter than the average preceding interoestrous intervals (210 +/- 40.0 days) for the same dogs (P < 0.001)
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
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
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