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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
PROCEEDINGS of the 4:th CEAS conference in Linköping, 2013
No full textEurope has a strong and proud tradition in aerospace and astronautics, which indeed is a very important area for Europe. It represents a substantial business domain, but maybe equally important, it is also a driver for technology development and innovation that benefits the society as a whole. One of Europe’s greatest challenges is about independence, in order to keep and maintain capabilities within the complete set of technologies needed as a foundation for a sustainable aerospace industry in Europe. This is important when Europe has to look at the next generation of Air Power. It is also fundamental for Europe to be an attractive partner in international projects conducted with global collaboration. CEAS – Council of European Aerospace Societies – is an organisation bringing European national aerospace organisations together for increased international strength. Today, CEAS comprises sixteen member organisations with roughly 35,000 individual members. CEAS hosts biennial conferences on aeronautics in Europe where CEAS 2013 in Linköping is the fourth after Venice 2011, Manchester 2009 and Berlin 2007
PROCEEDINGS of the 4:th CEAS conference in Linköping, 2013
No full textEurope has a strong and proud tradition in aerospace and astronautics, which indeed is a very important area for Europe. It represents a substantial business domain, but maybe equally important, it is also a driver for technology development and innovation that benefits the society as a whole. One of Europe’s greatest challenges is about independence, in order to keep and maintain capabilities within the complete set of technologies needed as a foundation for a sustainable aerospace industry in Europe. This is important when Europe has to look at the next generation of Air Power. It is also fundamental for Europe to be an attractive partner in international projects conducted with global collaboration. CEAS – Council of European Aerospace Societies – is an organisation bringing European national aerospace organisations together for increased international strength. Today, CEAS comprises sixteen member organisations with roughly 35,000 individual members. CEAS hosts biennial conferences on aeronautics in Europe where CEAS 2013 in Linköping is the fourth after Venice 2011, Manchester 2009 and Berlin 2007
Ad hoc Collaborative Design with Focus on Iterative Multidisciplinary Process Chain Development applied to Thermal Management of Spacecraft
No full textIn multidisciplinary design optimization, different experts from different disciplines located often at different sites solve a problem in common. Effi�cient and effective collaboration is essential. This paper describes an approach how software technologies enable ad hoc collaboration during the development of process chains used in multidisciplinary design optimization. The German Aerospace Center develops a framework that supports this kind of ad hoc collaboration. It is used for optimizing the thermal management of spacecraft. As a result, the development phase of the process chain gets more effi�cient, because the technical effort of collaboration is reduced
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
Script based software for ground station and mission support operations for the Swedish small satellite Odin
No full textThe small satellite Odin is a three-axis stabilised, high pointing accuracy, sub-millimetre, space observatory. One mean to attain as high efficiency as possible, which the Odin operations depend on, is the ability to quickly react to new input from the science users as well as platform and payload behaviour. Both the teams involved in the satellite operations are equipped with an easily accessible and modifiable set of software tools for monitoring telemetry and command generation. The software package is to a large extent based on scripts that have the advantage of being legible to the user and not only to the developer. Matlab scripts are used in most steps in the operations cycle, save the actual execution of commands onboard the spacecraft. Small and efficient teams of s/c operators and mission controllers together with easily accessible software, based on COTS components, facilitate in rapidly meeting new demands on spacecraft performance from the users.</p
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