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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
Curation & Preservation Levels: CoreTrustSeal Position Paper
No full text<p>This CoreTrustSeal Board-approved Position Paper is a revised version of a discussion paper shared with the community for comment in 2023. It is published with a view to providing input into future versions of the Requirements. In the future, integrated curation and preservation levels that have been agreed by the community would provide a valuable reference point for communicating the degree of care a digital object receives and which actors take responsibility for that care.</p>
Curation & Preservation Levels: CoreTrustSeal Discussion Paper
No full textGoogle doc for public feedback: CoreTrustSeal-CurationPreservationLevels-DiscussionPaper_v02_00_Public-Version
Applying the appropriate levels of curation and preservation to digital objects maximises the return on investment in data assets over time. Successful curation and long-term preservation services depend on a repository having the rights and taking the responsibility to provide an effective organisational infrastructure, digital object management and technical/security environment. Clearly communicating the levels of curation a repository offers is an essential part of seeking certification against the CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2023-2025. To be in scope for CoreTrustSeal applicants must take responsibility for active long-term digital preservation for a defined (‘designated’) community of users. As the issues of curation, preservation and certification are receiving more attention from a wider range of actors, the need for clearer specification of preservation levels has become clear. The CoreTrustSeal Board sees this as an important issue for the data management community, for defining which applicants are in-scope for certification, and as a step toward the improved definition of all data and metadata services, including those that do not offer active preservation.
Version 1.0 of this discussion paper was published during the 2022 revision of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements. Community feedback was received via direct comments on the public version of the document, via social media and email, as well as in the form of responses from the UK Data Service, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the EOSC Association’s Long-Term Digital Preservation Task Force. Appendix A summarizes the comments received. This version (2.0) addresses the feedback and is made available for further community discussion and comment as we progress towards consensus.
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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
CoreTrustSeal 2020 Annual Report
No full textThis report gives an overview of the CoreTrustSeal's activities, developments, and milestones reached in 2020, including a list of publications and other outputs by the CoreTrustSeal Board and/or individual Board members. It highlights and acknowledges the importance of the community's contributions to the CoreTrustSeal
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
Change file: CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements 2017-2019 to 2020–2022
No full textThis document supplements the CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements 2020-2022 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3638211). It documents the changes made from the 2017-2019 version to the 2020-2022 version of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements
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