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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
Water dynamics modeling in small dams
Get PDFPequenos reservatórios desempenham um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento agrícola na região do Cerrado brasileiro, contribuindo para melhorar a distribuição temporal da água, e aumentando a disponibilidade hídrica nos meses secos, reduzindo a vulnerabilidade das comunidades rurais à seca. O principal objetivo deste estudo foi desenvolver um modelo de simulação dinâmica, baseado no método da dinâmica do sistema (SD), para avaliar, ao longo do tempo a dinâmica de água em uma pequena barragem e o risco de não atendimento da demanda hídrica prevista. Os dados diários de vazão afluente ao reservatório foram obtidos da base de dados da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa Cerrados) para o período de outubro de 2009 a setembro de 2011 e estendido, por meio de modelagem, a junho de 2015. O modelo desenvolvido foi calibrado e validado com dados históricos. As principais variáveis que influenciam na variação no volume de água do reservatório foram avaliadas por meio de análise de sensibilidade. Os resultados indicaram que a vazão afluente é variável que mais influenciou na variação do volume de água no reservatório, seguida da área do espelho d’água e das perdas por evaporação e infiltração, que, juntas, representaram uma retirada de água da barragem equivalente a 14,4% da vazão afluente. De acordo com os resultados da análise de risco de não atendimento da demanda hídrica prevista, em 85,9% do tempo o nível da água no reservatório esteve acima do nível crítico, e 81,6% da água estava disponível para atender a demanda hídrica. A pequena barragem oferece um risco de não atender a demanda hídrica da comunidade em pelo menos 18% do tempo. Palavras-chave: Sistema Dinâmico. Pequenas barragens. Recursos hídricos. Análise sensitiva. Pequenos irrigantes. Hidrologia. Simulação.Small reservoirs play a key role in agricultural development in the Brazilian Cerrado region, contributing to improve the temporal distribution of water, and increasing water availability in the dry months, reducing the vulnerability of rural communities to drought. The main objective of this study was to develop a dynamic simulation model, based on the system dynamics (SD) method, to evaluate, over time, the water dynamics in a small dam and the risk of not meeting the predicted water demand. Daily data on inflow into the reservoir were obtained from the database of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa Cerrados) for the period from October 2009 to September 2011 and extended, through modeling, to June 2015. The model developed has been calibrated and validated with historical data. The main variables that influence the variation in the volume of water in the reservoir were evaluated through sensitivity analysis. The results indicated that the inflow is the variable that most influenced the variation of the volume of water in the reservoir, followed by the area of the water mirror and the losses by evaporation and infiltration, which together represented a withdrawal of water from the dam equivalent to 14.4% of the influent flow. According to the results of the risk analysis of not meeting the predicted water demand, in 85.9% of the time the water level in the reservoir was above the critical level, and 81.6% of the water was available to meet the water demand. The small dam poses a risk of not meeting the community's water demand at least 18% of the time. Keywords: Dynamic System. Small dams. Water resources. Sensitive analysis. Small irrigants. Hydrology. Simulation.Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superio
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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