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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
HISTORICAL HERITAGE OF SLAVIC PEOPLES AS A FIELD OF ACADEMIC AND APPLIED STUDIES
Get PDFThanks to the initiatives of the UNESCO, historical heritage is now a subject of a thorough scientific study and the responsibility of states and the international community. To date, the phenomenon of a heritage is learned well at the global level and in some cases at the level of individual countries. Unfortunately, this is not the heritage of the Slavs, one of the largest ethnic groups in the world. Such a situation is contrary to the interests of individual Slavic peoples and their common interests. Heritage studies are a factor of its preservation and efficiency of use. Therefore, it is urgent to put a point of the common historical heritage of the Slavic peoples to the academic and applied agenda. The desire to protect one’s heritage manifests preservation instinct at all the levels. However, this instinct has been seen to fail more and more often recently. As a result, heritage losses have assumed unprecedented proportions. Their consequences place our planet and its civilization in a real jeopardy. Scholars and experts have provided ample evidence that we are passing through the last historical moment when it is still possible to save our priceless heritage and pass it on to future generations. Threats to heritage are both overt and covert and they constantly increase in number and scope. But the spiritual traditions of the Slavic peoples help oppose these imminent dangers and counter this perilous process with confident creative work to safeguard the heritage and ensure its safe future
Experience of creating an atlas of hazards and emergencies in the Russian Federation
No full textThe specialists of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia together
with scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted an analysis of
possible crises and threats that are relevant to Russia at the beginning of
the XXI century: natural hazards, man-made hazards, environmental risks,
social risks, risks arising from the military operations, as well as
terrorist threats. As the result an atlas of hazards and emergency situations
in Russia was created, which allows the assessment of the risks and extent of
emergencies in specific areas. The appearance of the atlas was preceded by
the release of individual maps on the territory of Russia: the maps of fires,
floods, earthquakes and other hazards. In Russia in the natural area the most
dangerous are floods, hurricanes, typhoons, storms, earthquakes and droughts;
in the man-made area - large fires , accidents at potentially hazardous
facilities and electric power systems. The situation is complicated by the
significant depreciation of productive assets and a reduction of the
technological discipline in large industrial plants
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