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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
EXURBAN DEVELOPMENT: QUANTIFICATION, FORECAST, AND EFFECTS ON BIRD COMMUNITIES
Get PDFRural landscapes in the United States have changed dramatically in recent decades due to the rapid development of private rural lands into low-density residential exurban development. This land conversion is a rising cause of concern due to its potential effects on biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Although exurbanized area is thought to have a significant increase in eastern deciduous forests, a rigorous assessment of exurban trends, drivers, and ecological consequences has yet to be undertaken. First, I develop a novel analytic approach to identify exurban areas and assess how much land has been converted to exurban development in the Mid-Atlantic region. The approach describes mixed pixels containing exurban development as a combination of land covers and uses decision-tree classification and morphological spatial pattern analysis to further separate exurban development from other forest disturbing events. The results indicate that exurban development is a pervasive and fast-growing form of land use in the region. Second, I evaluate the effectiveness of two contrasting modeling approaches in capturing exurban growth at a local and county scale. Exurban growth was effectively captured by the spatially-explicit econometric model at both scales and the pattern-based model only performed well at the county scale. Thus, pattern-based models like SLEUTH can forewarn potential coarse-scale losses of natural resources in exurban areas, but are less useful at finer scale or for assessing potential impacts of implementing land-use policies. Third, I assess whether exurban development degrades avian breeding territories over time and forest birds' response to those changes. I conclude that exurban development is degrading breeding habitats by reducing forest cover and increasing habitat fragmentation. Forest birds exhibited a threshold response to deteriorating breeding habitats in the vicinity of breeding territories and adjacent foraging areas being forest specialists the most sensitive group. To avoid the likelihood of sudden bird population declines amongst further habitat loss and fragmentation, a synergy among land managers, planners, and decision-makers will become increasingly important to mitigate the impacts of exurban development in the Mid-Atlantic region
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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