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    Escape time characterization of pendular Fabry-Perot

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    In a pendular Fabry-Perot interferometer the system placed inside one of the minimum of the optomechanical potential undergoes an escape if it crosses the point of sudden change of reflectivity near the top of the potential well. We demonstrate that the loss of information that occurs retaining only the sequence of escapes, rather than the full trajectory, is mild if suitable signal processing techniques are applied to reveal the noise intensity or the presence of a coherent signal

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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