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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
Cosmologie avec des gravitons massifs et leurs propriétés
No full textLa cosmologie en général et plus particulièrement le problème de la constante cosmologique sont d'une extrême importance et une ouverture vers une nouvelle physique. En effet grâce à la découverte de l’accélération de l’expansion de l’Univers, un tout nouveau groupe de théories est apparu. Jusqu’à présent la théorie utilisée pour décrire l’Univers à grande échelle était la Relativité Générale, mais maintenant plusieurs théories alternatives sont de bons candidats pour décrire et étudier le comportement de notre Univers à grande échelle. Parmi ces théories, la gravité massive sans fantôme (dRGT), propose d’ajouter une masse au graviton dans le but de simuler une constante cosmologique au lieu d’utiliser ce que l’on appelle l’énergie noire. Il a été prouvé que cette théorie est cohérente, mais aujourd’hui l’existence de cosmologies viables fournies par cette dernière est toujours une question ouverte. Au début de ma thèse, j’ai obtenu une procédure permettant d’obtenir toutes les solutions du type de Sitter dans la théorie dROT, en utilisant l’espace de Sitter comme espace physique et une métrique de référence plate dépendante d’un champ de Stuckelberg noté T(t,r). Une autre partie de ma thèse a été consacrée à l’analyse des perturbations anisotropes autour d’une des solutions mentionnées précédemment, pour pouvoir étudier la stabilité des solutions cosmologiques au sein de cette théorie. J’ai aussi exploré la possibilité de répondre à une question de longue date, qui est l’origine de la matière noire en utilisant la théorie dRGT. En effet l’idée est de partir de cette dernière pour obtenir une théorie mathématiquement et physiquement cohérente d’un champ massif de spin-2 sur un fond arbitraire, Ainsi, à la place de décrire l’énergie noire, j’ai conjecturé que le champ maintenant décrit pouvait faire partie de la matière noire, dont la nature est une des grandes questions de la physique moderne.Cosmology in general and the cosmological constant problem are highly important as an insight on new physics. Indeed thanks to the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe a whole bunch of new theories appeared. Until then, the General Relativity was the theory describing the Universe at large scale, but now several alternatives are good candidates to provide a better description about the large scale behaviour of our Universe. Among these theories, there is one called ghost-free Massive Gravity which gives the graviton a mass in order to mimic the cosmological constant instead of using the so-called dark energy. This theory was proved to be consistent but, until nowadays, the existence of viable cosmologies is still an on-going issue. In the first part of this thesis, we investigated a procedure to obtain all de Sitter solutions in dRGT theory, using de Sitter space as the physical space, with at reference metric depending on a St\u7fuckelberg field T(t; r). The second part is devoted to the analysis of the anistropic perturbations around one of this solution, to investigate the stability of the cosmology of the theory. In the last part, we explore the posibility to answer a long-standing question, using the ghost-free Massive Gravity as a starting point in order to obtain a consistent theory of a massive spin-2 field on an arbitrary background. This time, instead of describing the dark energy, we conjecture that this field can be a part of dark matter, which is one of the substantial question for modern physics
Superconducting vortices in Weinberg - Salam theory
No full textNous présentons ici, l’analyse détaillée et l’étude de la stabilité de nouvelles solutions de type vortex dans le secteur bosonique de la théorie électrofaible. Les nouvelles solutions généralisent le plongement des solutions d’Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen dans la théorie électrofaible et reproduisent les résultats précédemment connus. Les vortex, génériquement porteurs d’un courant électrique, sont constitués d’un coeur massif de bosons chargés Wentouré d’une superposition non-linéaire de champs Z et Higgs. Au loin la solution est purement électromagnétique avec un potentiel de Biot et Savart. Les solutions sont génériques de la théorie et existent en particulier pour les valeurs expérimentales des constantes de couplage. Il est en particulier démontré que le courant dont l’échelle typique est le milliard d’Ampères peut être arbitrairement grand. Dans un second temps la stabilité linéaire des vortex supraconducteurs vis-à-vis des perturbations génériques est considérée. Le spectre de l’opérateur de fluctuations est étudié qualitativement. Lorsque des modes instables sont détectés, ils sont explicitement construits ainsi que leurs relations de dispersion. La plupart des modes instables sont supprimés par une périodisation du vortex. Il subsiste cependant un unique mode instable homogène. On peut espérer qu’un tel mode puisse être supprimé par des effets de courbure si une portionde vortex est refermée afin de former une boucle stabilisée par le courant électrique.In this dissertation, we analyze in detail the properties of new string-like solutions of the bosonic sector of the electroweak theory. The new solutions are current carrying generalizations of embedded Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen vortices. We were also able to reproduce all previously known features of vortices in the electroweak theory. Generically vortices are current carrying. They are made of a compact conducting core of charged Wbosons surrounded by a nonlinear superposition of Z and Higgs field. Faraway from the core, the solution is described by purely electromagnetic Biot and Savart field. Solutions exist for generic parameter values including experimental values of the coupling constants. We show that the current whose typical scale is the billion of Ampères can be arbitrarily large.In the second part the linear stability with respect to generic perturbations is studied. The fluctuation spectrum is qualitatively investigated. When negative modes are detected, they are explicitly constructed and their dispersion relation is determined. Most of the unstable modes can be eliminated by imposing periodic boundary conditions along the vortex. However there remains a unique negative mode which is homogeneous. This mode can probably be eliminated by curvature effects if a small piece of vortex is bent into aloop, stabilized against contraction by the electric current
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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