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Corrigendum to “The influence of crustal recycling on the molybdenum isotope composition of the Earth's mantle” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 595 (2022) 117760]
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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
Variations 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
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
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
The influence of crustal recycling on the molybdenum isotope composition of the Earth’s mantle
Full text linkSeveral studies have suggested that the Earth's upper mantle is slightly enriched in light molybdenum isotopes relative to bulk Earth, defined by chondrites, but there is no consensus on the presence of this subtle but potentially notable signature. To establish better whether or not the 98Mo/95Mo of Earth's upper mantle is indeed sub-chondritic, we have analysed hand-picked glasses of depleted (i.e. chondrite normalised La/Sm<1) mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian ocean basins. The mean Mo isotope composition of our depleted MORB relative to reference NIST SRM 3134 (
MoNIST SRM 3134) is −0.22±0.03‰ (95% confidence interval, c.i.) compared to a value of −0.15±0.01‰ (95% c.i.) for bulk Earth. Our high precision analyses of the 234U/238U activity ratios of these samples are within uncertainty of unity, which rules out the effect of possible secondary, sea-floor processes as the dominant cause of their low
MoNIST SRM 3134. We further report experimental data showing that sulphide liquid has
MoNIST SRM 3134 0.25±0.01‰ lower than basaltic silicate liquid at 1400 °C. This fractionation is too small to significantly alter the Mo isotope composition of basalts relative to their sources during melting or differentiation.
Our MORB data show that resolvably sub-chondritic Mo isotope compositions are common in the upper mantle. Moreover, an appropriately weighted average
MoNIST SRM 3134 of depleted and enriched MORB, taken from this study and the literature, yields an estimated mantle value of −0.20±0.01‰, indicating that the upper mantle as a whole is sub-chondritic. Since prior work demonstrates that core formation will not create a residual silicate reservoir with a sub-chondritic
MoNIST SRM 3134, we propose that this feature is a result of recycling oceanic crust with low
MoNIST SRM 3134 because of Mo isotope fractionation during subduction dehydration. Such an origin is in keeping with the sub-chondritic Th/U and low Ce/Pb of the depleted mantle, features which cannot be explained by simple melt extraction. We present mass balance models of the plate tectonic cycle that quantitatively illustrate that the
MoNIST SRM 3134 of the Earth's mantle can be suitably lowered by such oceanic crustal recycling. Our Mo isotope study adds to the notion that the depleted mantle has been substantially modified by geodynamic cycling of subduction-processed oceanic crust
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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