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Salp biology (Salpa thompsoni) at the Chatham Rise, New Zealand
The abundant pelagic tunicate Salpa thompsoni is a major grazer in the Southern Ocean. We report the length-frequency distribution, maturity stage composition, growth, and size-specific diel vertical abundance patterns at one of the northernmost habitats of S. thompsoni (Chatham Rise, east of New Zealand, ~ 44°S 178°E). By observing the in situ growth of distinct size cohorts using integrative krill net tows (upper 200 m, 2 mm mesh size, 3.2 m² mouth opening) and ex situ on-board experiments, relative growth was estimated for small blastozooids to be between 8.8–11.7% d−1 at ambient temperatures of 11 °C. Integrative Bongo tows in the upper 200 m (202 µm mesh size, 0.4 m² mouth opening) showed that S. thompsoni not only have daytime-dependent vertical abundance patterns, but also that these are size-specific, with medium-sized blastozooids and large oozooids contributing most to the elevated values during the night
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
Smoothed chlorophyll a profiles during RV Tangaroa cruise TAN1810 to the Chatham Rise, New Zealand
Between 11 and 21 vertical CTD profiles were recorded in the top 300 m of the water column in five areas over the Chatham Rise, New Zealand in October and November 2018. Raw fluorscence data were converted to chlorophyll a concentrations using calibration curves and subsequently smoothed using modelling tools for every m in each area
Blastozooid growth experiment of Salpa thomsponi during RV Tangaroa cruise TAN1810 to the Chatham Rise, New Zealand
A mature Salpa thompsoni oozooid was collected using a so-called salp-net (1 m diameter ring net with 202 µm mesh fitted with a 30 litre non-filtering cod-end) at the Chatham Rise, New Zealand in October 2018. The growth of new-released blastozooid was studied in an experimental tank on-board for 5 days using image analysis. Growth rates were determined, which fell well within the range of earlier published rates, when temperature was accounted for
Physical oceanography during RV Tangaroa cruise TAN1810 to the Chatham Rise, New Zealand
Between 11 and 21 vertical CTD profiles were recorded in the top 300 m of the water column in five areas over the Chatham Rise, New Zealand in October and November 2018. Temperature, salinity, fluorescence, and dissolved oxygen concentrations were measured. The latter two were converted to final values using calibrations
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
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
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