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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
Analysis of multilingual online survey tools
Get PDFPodročje komparativnega družboslovnega raziskovanja se večinoma nanaša na vidike, ki se izvajajo v različnih državah oziroma kulturah. V tem okviru nastanejo določeni izzivi tudi pri spletnem anketiranju, ki je eden najpogostejših načinov zbiranja anketnih podatkov. Ko se lotimo anketnega raziskovanja v več državah oziroma kulturah, pa se pogosto srečamo tudi z uporabo večjezičnih anket. V tem okviru osrednji del diplomskega dela obravnava vmesnike, ki jih uporabljajo orodja za spletno anketiranje pri večjezičnih anketah. Najprej se osredotočamo na splošne probleme in izzive, ki se pojavljajo pri prevajanju spletnih anket v komparativnem raziskovanju. Neredko se namreč zgodi, da orodja za spletno anketiranje ne izpolnjujejo uporabniških zahtev, kar lahko podaljša čas izdelave ankete in analize podatkov, poveča pa lahko tudi možnost napak. V empiričnem delu diplomskega dela je obravnavan nabor ključnih funkcionalnosti, za katere je sistematično evalviran prevajalski vmesnik pri sedmih izbranih orodjih za spletno anketiranje. Analiza je pokazala znatne razlike tako glede izdelave obravnavanih funkcionalnosti kot glede zmogljivosti izbranih orodij.The field of comparative research mostly refers to aspects of social science research conducted in different countries or cultures. In this context, certain challenges also arise in web surveying, which is one of the most popular mode of collecting survey data. When conducting a survey research across countries or cultures, we often face multilingual surveys. Within this context, this diploma thesis refers to the interfaces developed in web survey tools to support multilingual surveys. First, general problems and challenges that arise when translating web surveys in comparative research are discussed. It is not uncommon that web survey tools do not meet user requirements, which can, therefore, extend the time it takes to create and analyse a survey or may also increase the possibility of errors. In the empirical part, key functionalities of translation interfaces are identified and then systematically evaluated for seven web survey tools. The analysis showed notable differences, both in terms of the design of these functionalities and also in terms of performance of the selected tools
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
The project of reinforced concrete business-commercial residential building
Get PDFThe project of reinforced concrete business-commercial residential building in accordance with Eurocode Standards is a thesis based on an ideal project made by an architect. The building consists of three underground floors for parking purposes, three floors for commercial activities, five floors for business activities and thirteen residential floors. The floor plan of the above ground section of the building changes with the change in the intended purpose of use. The building is predicted to be placed in the Municipality of Ljubljana. The load-bearing construction which is entirely made of reinforced concrete consists of solid slabs, frames and walls without openings. Vertical load is transmitted from slabs through columns and walls into the foundation floor. The frames and walls bear the seismic load. The subject of the analysis is the above ground section of the building with the use of the program SAP2000. For the analysis we used different numerical models. We paid special attention to the seismic load which was relevant for the design of the vertical structural elements. First we verified the behaviour of the walls, then the behaviour of the walls together with the frames. The construction was modelled with two different models. All the vertical structural elements were modelled with linear elements. In the second model the walls were modelled with shell elements. In the first model the vertical structural elements were linked with a rigid diaphragm at the level of individual floors. In the second model the slabs were modelled as shell finite elements.\ud
For the design of selected vertical elements we took into account the results of the analysis with the linear elements. The reinforcement in the slabs was determined on the basis of the analysis with shell elements. This was done considering the relevant combination of vertical loads
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