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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
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
Extending a German Aphasia Rehabilitation BCI into Dutch and English Domains
No full textBrain-computer interfaces provide a way for brain-controlled devices, eliminating
the need for limb control. Auditory BCIs further give rise to possibility
for motor-impaired patients, specifically since some auditory BCIs do not
require eye-gaze control. German native post-stroke aphasic patients suffering
from damage in language-specific neural correlates have been shown to
regain a higher level of communicative capabilities and increased scores in
clinical aphasia assessments after training with a novel auditory ERP-based
BCI paradigm for aphasia rehabilitation. This BCI paradigm utilizes a spatial
speaker set-up, effectively introducing a spatial component to stimuli,
which was shown to increase classification on target versus nontarget stimuli
based on the classic oddball paradigm. Stimuli are comprised of a preceding
cueing sentence, with the last word missing. The present study aims
to gather apt stimuli sets in Dutch and English domains, and setting up
the experiment such that pilot studies can be held shortly after. Stimuli
sets were found in both Dutch and English, and recordings of these have
been made with native speakers. Furthermore, organizational requirements
to commence an EEG study have been fulfilled, and a detailed description
of future steps for conducting a pilot study in Dutch has been provided
Optimal Stimulus Conditions to Improve User Experience in Brain Computer Interfaces
No full textCurrent Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) used for spelling are quite fatiguing
and uncomfortable for the participant to use. It is proposed that
certain stimulus adaptions, such as implementing coloured stimuli, can inhibit
this. This thesis studied the effect of adapting the colour and structure
of checkerboard pattern stimuli on the user’s fatigue and comfort, using a
code-modulated visual evoked potential (c-VEP) based BCI speller interface.
The main focus was on improving this comfort while maintaining a
good system performance. Using five different conditions, it was found that
there is a trade-off between system performance and comfort, and that a
choice needs to be made according to the purpose of the system. It was concluded
that a black-white solid flashing condition was the best performing
stimulus in terms of accuracy of the system, while a violet-grey checkerboard
appeared to be the best condition in terms of user-comfort
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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