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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
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
Sticking Probability and Reactivity of Hyperthermal O2 Molecules Impinging on CO Pre-covered Pd(100): Effect of Rotational States with K > 1
No full textCollisional alignment in the supersonic expansion of oxygen seeded in lighter carriers allows to produce rotationally aligned beams which were used to study the sticking probability, S, and the reactivity, Pco2, of helicoptering and cartwheeling O2 in the lowest rotational state impinging normally onto Pd(100). Molecules with different rotational alignment are thereby chosen by mechanically selecting either the slow or the fast speed tail of the beam velocity distribution. Here we show for O2 reacting with CO pre-covered Pd(100) that even a moderate increase in the nozzle temperature, TN, with respect to room temperature implies significant changes in both S and Pco2 . Since TN affects mainly the rotational state distribution in the formed beam, we conclude that molecules in rotational states with K ≥ 3 behave very differently from those with K = 1. Data are presented for both small and intermediate CO pre-coverage
Public engagement for local development: projects for biodiversity and environmental protection|Public engagement per lo sviluppo locale: progetti per la biodiversità e la tutela dell’ambiente
Full text linkThe paper presents public engagement activities carried out by the interdisciplinary group comprising the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino, together with the group "Urban ecology and green areas" of the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences of the University degli Studi di Torino as part of the scientific support service to the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo in strategic planning on the issues of biodiversity protection and the fight against and adaptation to climate change. The paper illustrates the adopted methodology, the supporting activities, and the results achieved in terms of implementation of interventions (calls for proposals "Percorsi di Sostenibility" 2023 and 2024) monitored through environmental and social indicators
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