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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
A 2-D porous SWE model for flood simulation in urban areas
No full textModelling urban floods is a challenging task because different spatial scales are involved. In current porosity models, space averaging of the urban fabric leads to the concept of porosity. Ordinary Single Porosity (SP) Shallow water Equations (SWE) consider smooth porosity. The Binary Single Porosity (BSP) model generalizes SP models to consider discontinuous porosit
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
On integral and differential porosity models for urban flooding simulation
No full textA novel differential porosity model for urban flooding, namely the Binary Single Porosity model (BSP), is proposed in the present paper. The BSP model, which is derived from the Single Porosity (SP) model by constraining the porosity to attain only the values zero inside the buildings and one in the voids among the buildings, is local and independent on the existence of a Representative Elementary Volume (REV). The BSP model satisfies the Galilean invariance, while the corresponding wave speeds are identical to those of the Shallow water Equations model, and its integral formulation coincides with the original integral model by Sanders et al. (2008). The structure of the BSP model implies that the solution of the SP Riemann problem is the numerical building block for the construction of the corresponding Finite Volume schemes. This observation prompts a further study of the SP model and its solutions, demonstrating that the exact SP Riemann problem solution has the potential to take into account the transient energy losses due to wave reflections through the urban fabric in BSP models. Nonetheless, a further comparison with the two-dimensional SWE results demonstrates that additional stationary energy dissipations must be accurately taken into account through porosity reductions in the case of supercritical flow. The numerical experiments show that available approximate SP Riemann solvers may cause a systematic underestimation of the energy dissipation through the urban fabric and an overestimation of the flood celerity. The improvement of SP Riemann solvers could limit the resort to additional drag and momentum dissipation terms that are frequently added in numerical models. Finally, the investigation of the differential porosity models where different definitions are used for storage and conveyance porosity shows that these models suffer from a fundamental lack of physical congruence, implying that they cannot be used for the analysis of flood wave propagation through the urban fabric
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