125,275 research outputs found

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

    No full text
    The 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

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

    No full text
    We 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

    INFLUENCE OF MN DOPING ON THE SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES OF THE YBA2CU3-XMNXOY SYSTEM

    No full text
    Mn is substituted at Cu site in YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) compound and its effect on superconductivity of YBa2Cu3-xMnxOy (x = 0.0, 0.03, 0.09, 0.15, 0.21, 0.30) system has been studied. It is discussed that the resistivity upturn at low temperature in heavily doped samples may be due to the presence of Mn derived impurity phase. Mn appeared to reduce hole density without affecting the 1/T behavior of the Hall coefficient (R(H)). An attempt has been made to correlate the results of susceptibility with resistivity, hole density and structural changes with the Mn content

    Study of Normal State Behaviour and Microstructure in YBa2Cu3-xCoxOy System

    No full text
    The effect of Co in the system has been studied. It is found that the normalstate resistive and magnetic properties change with the microstructure of the samples. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations show that the morphology of the grains changes with Co concentration. Resistivity, a.c. susceptibility and X-ray diffraction (XRD) results are discussed together with SEM observations

    QT dispersion: a predictor of coronary artery disease

    No full text
    Also cited as: Heart, Lung and Circulation, 2013; 22(Suppl 1):S25B. Raman, R. Tavella, V. Shekar, C. Zhuang, A. Som, E. Ong, J. Beltramehttp://www.csanz2013.com

    sj-docx-1-jic-10.1177_08850666221100408 - Supplemental material for 90-day Case-Fatality in Critically ill Patients with Chronic Liver Disease Influenced by Presence of Portal Hypertension, Results from a Multicentre Retrospective Cohort Study

    No full text
    Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jic-10.1177_08850666221100408 for 90-day Case-Fatality in Critically ill Patients with Chronic Liver Disease Influenced by Presence of Portal Hypertension, Results from a Multicentre Retrospective Cohort Study by Kyle White, Alexis Tabah, Mahesh Ramanan, Kiran Shekar, Felicity Edwards and Kevin B. Laupland in Journal of Intensive Care Medicine</p

    Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology

    No full text
    To unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe

    Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown

    No full text
    Notes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

    No full text
    We 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
    corecore