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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
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
Evolutionary Genetics of the Innate Immune System in the Genus Drosophila
Get PDFHost-parasite interactions are ubiquitous in nature: all organisms, from bacteria to humans, must defend themselves against parasites and pathogens that seek to use them as a substrate for growth, reproduction, and survival. This coevolutionary dynamic has important implications for genetic architecture of host defense genes, as well as the molecular evolution of pathogenic defense systems. In the first part of my dissertation, I focus on characterizing the underlying genetic architecture of variation for Drosophila immune function. Using a candidate gene association testing approach, I identify genetic markers in several genes (principally encoding recognition proteins) that statistically associate with differences in resistance to bacterial infection. I also characterize the transcriptional response to infection at over 300 infection-regulated genes, and show that differences in the overall level of transcription of genes encoding effector proteins significantly correlates with differences in bacterial load. Understanding the genetic architecture of immune function provides insight into the puzzle of why extensive genetic variation for an important fitness trait persists in natural populations.
In the second part of my dissertation, I take advantage of complete genome sequence available for twelve species of the genus Drosophila to study patterns of gene family evolution and positive selection on protein coding genes in the Drosophila immune system. I show that genes encoding proteins involved in recognition of invading microorganisms, specifically those involved in phagocytosis and cellular immunity, are much more likely to have experienced positive selection than either other immune system genes or non-immune genes. Furthermore, I show that rates of gene duplication and loss are extremely high among genes that encode the effector proteins that kill bacteria, suggesting flexibility in acquiring novel downstream components of the pathway during evolution, despite the very strong conservation of orthology among the signaling cascades that initiate the immune response. Taken together, the two parts of my dissertation demonstrate the importance of the structure of gene networks in evolution, and suggest a model where small differences in upstream components can have large phenotypic and evolutionary consequences, whereas even large differences in downstream components can be evolutionarily and phenotypically masked by redundancies among effectors
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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