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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
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Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Joe Scates on Undated
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Scates family establishes Double Dawg scholarship
No full textThe family of alumnus Ryan Scates has established a new scholarship at the University of Georgia School of Law. The scholarship will benefit those intending to become Double Dawgs (i.e., those who have earned at least one degree from UGA before entering UGA Law).
The scholarship will also support those who are married and/or have children or dependents and those with an exceptional commitment to and passion for UGA as demonstrated by leadership, volunteerism, mentorship and service.
Ryan and his wife, Kiel, are both Double Dawgs. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 2010 and his Juris Doctor in 2013, while Kiel earned her Bachelor of Science in Education in 2010 and her Master of Education in 2012.
They partnered with the UGA Foundation, which provided matching funds, to create the Scates Family Endowment to support future legal leaders.
The University of Georgia has made a transformational impact on the life of our family, Ryan said. Kiel and I are honored to be able to give back to UGA in a way that can hopefully help make a similar impact on other families in the UGA community.
School of Law Dean Peter B. Bo Rutledge said, I want to take this opportunity to thank Ryan and Kiel for their ongoing commitment and dedication to the law school and university. This scholarship will provide UGA undergrads an added incentive to remain in Athens for three more years and stay immersed in all things red and black.
He added that a special thanks also goes to the UGA Foundation and its chair, Allison C. Ausband, for multiplying the impact of gifts such as the Scates family’s to the law school.
This ongoing collaboration is changing lives and helping the School of Law to redefine what it means to be a great national public law school – one that offers a world-class, hands-on, purpose-driven educational experience while never surrendering our commitment to affordability, Rutledge said
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Joe F. Scates on 1960-02-12
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Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Joe F. Scates on 1959-11-15
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Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Joe F. Scates on 1957-11-16
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Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Joe F. Scates on 1957-07-20
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Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Joe Scates on 1961-04-03
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Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Joe F. Scates on 1957-10-02
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