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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
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
Contribution à l'analyse immunogénétique de la susceptibilité aux bilharzioses hépatospléniques
No full textLes bilharzioses hépatospléniques sont des maladies parasitaires provoquées essentiellement par Schistosoma japonicum et Schistosoma mansoni. Ces infections provoquent une fibrose hépatique sévère chez 5 à 20% des sujets infectées vivant en zone endémique. Plusieurs études ont démontré que le développement de cette fibrose était régulé par des cytokines et chemokines et que la susceptibilité génétique à cette maladie dépendait chez l'homme d'un locus majeur sur le chromosome humain 6 en position q23. L'IL-22 est une cytokine produite essentiellement par les lymphocytes T auxiliaires et les cellules NK et qui a été impliqué dans la protection du foie et de l'intestin chez la souris. Le gène IL22RA2 codant pour le récepteur inhibiteur soluble de l'IL-22 (IL-22BP) est localisé dans la région de susceptibilité à la FH (6q23). Nous avons donc étudié l'implication de l'IL-22 dans la pathologie bilharzienne par une approche immunogénétique. Notre étude démontre que la production d'IL-22 est augmentée en réponse aux œufs de S. japonicum et aux antigènes d'œufs de S. mansoni dans des cultures de cellules mononuclées du sang périphérique d'individus chinois et brésiliens vivant dans des zones endémiques. Le traitement par le Praziquantel, qui favorise l'élimination des parasites et la réversion de la fibrose, est associé à une augmentation des taux d'IL-22 en culture. Nous avons observé que dans le sang des patients chinois, l'IL-22 est produit majoritairement par les lymphocytes T CD4+ et des cellules CD3-CD4- ne produisant pas d'IL-17A. Les taux d'IL-22 en culture et la proportion des cellules CD3-CD4-IL22+ sont inversement corrélés à la FH.Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused primarily by Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma mansoni. These infections cause severe hepatic fibrosis (HF) in 5-20% of infected subjects living in endemic areas. Several studies have shown that the development of this fibrosis was regulated by cytokines and chemokines. Our laboratory has shown that genetic susceptibility to HF map to a major locus on human chromosome 6 at position q23. IL-22 is a cytokine produced primarily by T cells and NK cells and has been involved in protecting the liver and intestine in mice. The gene IL22RA2, encoding the soluble inhibitor receptor of IL-22 (IL-22BP), is located in the region of susceptibility to HF (6q23). We therefore examined the involvement of IL-22 in schistosomiasis pathology by an immunogenetic approach. Our study shows that the production of IL-22 is increased in response to eggs of S. japonicum and egg antigens of S. mansoni in cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from Chinese and Brazilian subjects living in endemic areas. Treatment with praziquantel, which helps eliminate parasites and reversion of HF, is associated with increased levels of IL-22 in culture. We observed that in the blood of Chinese patients, IL-22 is produced mainly by CD4+ T cells and CD3-CD4-cells that do not produce IL-17A. The levels of IL-22 in culture and the proportion of CD3+CD4-IL22+ are inversely correlated with HF. These observations suggest that IL-22 may play a protective role in HF. To confirm this implication, we performed association studies between SNPs located in IL22 and IL22RA2 genes and HF
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