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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
Il Ritratto di Suzanne Henriette d'Elbeuf di Rigaud a Genova: fortuna dei modelli francesi e indagine sulla ritrattistica genovese del Settecento
No full textVariations 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
Metapresence: a tool for accurate species detection in metagenomics based on the genome-wide distribution of mapping reads
Full text linkShotgun metagenomics allows comprehensive sampling of the genomic information of microbes in a given environment and is a tool of choice for studying complex microbial systems. Mapping sequencing reads against a set of reference or metagenome-assembled genomes is in principle a simple and powerful approach to define the species-level composition of the microbial community under investigation. However, despite the widespread use of this approach, there is no established way to properly interpret the alignment results, with arbitrary relative abundance thresholds being routinely used to discriminate between present and absent species. Such an approach can be affected by significant biases, especially in the identification of rare species. Therefore, it is important to develop new metrics to overcome these biases. Here, we present Metapresence, a new tool to perform reliable identification of the species in metagenomic samples based on the distribution of mapped reads on the reference genomes. The analysis is based on two metrics describing the breadth of coverage and the genomic distance between consecutive reads. We demonstrate the high precision and wide applicability of the tool using data from various synthetic communities, a real mock community, and the gut microbiome of healthy individuals and antibiotic-associated-diarrhea patients. Overall, our results suggest that the proposed approach has a robust performance in hard-to-analyze microbial communities containing contaminated or closely related genomes in low abundance
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
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