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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
From myth to philosophy, the cradle of evolving medical thought and ethics in the classical antiquity
No full textBackground
At the beginning, medicine in the Western world was based on a theocratic-magical doctrine with religious beliefs and mythical conflicts. Subsequently, in the Greek world begins the relationship between rhetoric, philosophy and medicine with mutual influences and contributions. This relationship is due to the assumption that, as the philosophical logos acts on the soul, so the medicine with its techniques and its remedies acts on the body. However, the relationship between philosophy and medicine will begin with the pre-socratics as they try to find standard patterns/rules that can be successfully applied for the explanation of the whole. To achieve this, they cannot resort to the use of reasoned production methods or to complete and perfect induction.
Methodology
We performed an extensive bibliographical research to investigate the evolutionary process of medical thought from late antiquity to modern age. For this purpose we extracted data from electronic data banks and ancient books from public libraries and private collections.
Results/Discussion
Despite the individual differences of the representatives of the philosophical currents, their unity is verified by a common component in their way of thinking. Thus, they initiate a change in the way they look at and interpret the world, a change characterized by a persistent search for universal truth and knowledge per se with a distinct intention of rationality. This knowledge now meets the doctors at that era and Hippocrates is the first to take away the part of the theocratic medical doctrine, making it rational and therefore science.
Conclusion
There is an extremely interesting aspect of Aristotle's relationship with medicine. In his attempt to construct the method of his ethical philosophy, Aristotle took medicine as his model. However, this correlation of Medicine with Philosophy had occurred before Aristotle with Plato. In fact, we perceive the analogy between the work of the doctor who takes care of the body and that of the philosopher whose work is the care of the soul in Gorgias and Phaedrus. The philosopher Plato as an idealist puts the idea of good, like all other ideas, in a transcendental world instead Aristotle builds his moral philosophy on his interest in man, and consequently on “human good”. Thus, medicine reborn as a science from philosophy and therefore the physician must be at first a philosopher to be an epistemologist
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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