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Laser stripe measurements of near-wall solid fraction in channel flows of liquid-granular mixtures
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
Variations on the Author
“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
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
Regimes of bedforms created by down-slope density currents
Bedforms in rivers have been extensively studied for decades. Turbidite outcrops also display bedforms emplaced subaqueously by turbidity currents. Recent breakthroughs in the attainable resolution of deep underwater bathymetric/seismic mapping have revealed that bedforms in submarine environments may be as widespread and diverse as those associated with fluvial flows. Turbidity currents that emplace subaqueous bedforms run down submarine canyons, traverse and overflow leveed channels on submarine fans, or manifest themselves as sheet turbidity currents along continental margins. Submarine bedforms present features that appear to be analogous to their fluvial counterparts. Submarine bedforms have traditionally been interpreted with the use of tools, and in particular phase diagrams, that were developed solely for fluvial bedforms. The use of such tools is motivated by the fact that simultaneous observation of the bedforms as they evolve in the field and the turbidity currents that create them remains at the edge of present capabilities. We fill this gap in part with a technique that has been successfully implemented for fluvial bedforms, i.e. experimentation. We present observations of bedforms emplaced by saline and turbidity currents in laboratory flumes. The experimental flows span a wide range of densimetric Froude numbers, including both subcritical and supercritical regimes, and produced various bedform types including subcritical and supercritical-regime ripples/dunes, upstream-migrating and downstream-migrating antidunes, and cyclic steps. We have gathered a comprehensive set of fluvial and submarine field bedforms worldwide from multiple environments including submarine canyons, levees, slopes, and fans; some of which include associated flow observations. The data are summarized in a set of bedform dimensions and regime diagrams, which are applicable to saline and/or turbidity currents, and generally to any down-slope moving bottom flow. The regimes for submarine bedforms show both similarities and differences with fluvial regimes. Our diagrams and guidelines constitute a new tool for the interpretation of field-scale bedforms generated by turbidity currents
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We 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.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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