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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
High resolution magnetic field measurements in high-mass star-forming regions
Get PDFThree different scenarios have been proposed to explain the formation of high-mass stars. In one of these scenarios, core accretion, massive stars form through gravitational collapse, which involves disk-assisted accretion to overcome radiation pressure. This scenario is similar to the favored picture of low-mass star-formation, in which magnetic fields are thought to play an important role by removing excess angular momentum, thereby allowing accretion to continue onto the star. However, the role of magnetic fields during the protostellar phase of high-mass star-formation is still a debated topic. In particular, it is still unclear how magnetic fields influence the formation and dynamics of disks and outflows. Most current information on magnetic fields close to high-mass protostars comes from polarized maser emissions, which allow us to investigate the magnetic field on small scales (10s - 1000s AU) by using interferometers, such as EVN, MERLIN, and VLBA. The aim of my Ph.D. was to investigate the magnetic fields in 7 massive star-forming regions by observing the polarized emission of methanol and water masers at milliarcsecond resolution
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
Astronomical Masers: Polarization Properties Of 22-ghz Water And 6.7-ghz Methanol Masers.
Get PDFBy observing the astronomical masers in the Milky Way we can determine for instance high-accurate distances of the hosting Galactic sources (e.g., Galactic star-forming regions) and the kinematic of the gas where the masers arise (e.g., the kinematic of Keplerian accretion disks and outflows in massive star-forming regions). In addition, the bright and narrow spectral line emissions of water and methanol masers are ideal for measuring the Zeeman splitting as well as for determining the orientation of the magnetic field in 3-dimensions around massive young stellar objects (YSOs). Therefore, water and methanol maser species can help us to answer several crucial questions about massive star-formation. For instance, one of the most debated question is whether magnetic fields are important in the formation of high-mass stars (). The main difficulty in answering this question is related to the fast evolution of the high-mass stars that makes the massive YSOs rare. Furthermore, they are typically found at fairly large distance. Hence, it is very difficult to measure the magnetic fields at distances Astronomical Units from the central protostar by using dust polarized emissions. But fortunately, the direct measurement of magnetic fields at small scale (10-100~Astronomical Units) around massive YSOs is possible by observing the polarized emission of masers.\\
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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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