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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
Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics Applied to Fracture Mechanics
No full textA numerical method commonly referred to as smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is implemented in two dimensions for solid mechanics in general and fracture mechanics in particular. The implementation is tested against a few analytical cases: a vibrating plate, a bending plate, a modus I crack and a modus II crack. A conclusion of these tests is that a better way of treating a shortcoming of SPH called tensile instability is needed. A study is made on the best choice of a vital parameter called the smoothing radius, and it is found that a good choice of the smoothing radius is roughly 1.5 times the initial particle spacing
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
High Order Cut Finite Element Methods for Wave Equations
No full textThis thesis considers wave propagation problems solved using finite element methods where a boundary or interface of the domain is not aligned with the computational mesh. Such methods are usually referred to as cut or immersed methods. The motivation for using immersed methods for wave propagation comes largely from scattering problems when the geometry of the domain is not known a priori. For wave propagation problems, the amount of computational work per dispersion error is generally lower when using a high order method. For this reason, this thesis aims at studying high order immersed methods. Nitsche's method is a common way to assign boundary or interface conditions in immersed finite element methods. Here, penalty terms that are consistent with the boundary/interface conditions are added to the weak form. This requires that special quadrature rules are constructed on the intersected elements, which take the location of the immersed boundary/interface into account. A common problem for all immersed methods is small cuts occurring between the elements in the mesh and the computational domain. A suggested way to remedy this is to add terms penalizing jumps in normal derivatives over the faces of the intersected elements. Paper I and Paper II consider the acoustic wave equation, using first order elements in Paper I, and using higher order elements in Paper II. High order elements are then used for the elastic wave equation in Paper III. Papers I to III all use continuous Galerkin, Nitsche's method, and jump-stabilization. Paper IV compares the errors of this type of cut finite element method with two other numerical methods. One result from Paper II is that the added jump-stabilization results in a mass matrix with a high condition number. This motivates the investigation of alternatives. Paper V considers a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method. This paper investigates to what extent local time stepping in combination with cell-merging can be used to overcome the problem of small cuts
Towards higher order immersed finite elements for the wave equation
No full textWe consider solving the scalar wave equation using immersed finite elements. Such a method might be useful, for instance, in scattering problems when the geometry of the domain is not known a priori. For hyperbolic problems, the amount of computational work per dispersion error is generally lower when using higher order methods. This serves as motivation for considering a higher order immersed method. One problem in immersed methods is how to enforce boundary conditions. In the present work, boundary conditions are enforced weakly using Nitsche's method. This leads to a symmetric weak formulation, which is essential when solving the wave equation. Since the discrete system consists of symmetric matrices, having real eigenvalues, this ensures stability of the semi-discrete problem. In immersed methods, small intersections between the immersed domain and the elements of the background mesh make the system ill-conditioned. This ill-conditioning becomes increasingly worse when using higher order elements. Here, we consider resolving this issue using additional stabilization terms. These terms consist of jumps in higher order derivatives acting on the internal faces of the elements intersected by the boundary.eSSENC
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
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