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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
Photo Album of Bridges by G. W. Philips
No full text{"value":"Through personal acknowledgement, it appears this collection is of engineering construction inspected by G. W. Philips. The Pennsylvania bridges appear to be located along a route outward from Harrisburg toward Erie or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The bridges named: Hyner Bridge, Irvine Memorial Bridge (Tidioute Bridge), Kettle Creek Bridge, Parade Street Bridge (Erie, PA), Queen\u27s Run Bridge, Ritchey Run Bridge. Some of these bridges are located along what is known as the Bucktail Trail (U.S. Route 120) through Clinton County which was named for the Bucktail Rangers, a Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil War. Originally the Bucktail Trail was known as the Old Sinnemahoning Trail which the Native Americans used to travel between the western branch of the Susquehanna River and the Allegheny River. G. W. Philips is pictured in some of the photographs inspecting construction. Some of the photographs show railroad track realignment (Glen Union) as well as bridge construction. Ten pages of photographs of Pennsylvania bridge construction is of the Hyner Bridge which carried Route 120/105 across the Susquehanna River near Renovo, Pennsylvania, at one time a major railroad town. The Hyner Bridge, a multi-arched concrete bridge, reputed in 1929 to offer a short cut highway route between Philadelphia and Erie was perhaps Mr. Philips largest project possibly performed for the Pennsylvania Department of Highways/Transportation. A chromolithographic postcard of the Hyner Bridge was sent to G. H. Philips in 1930 by "Daddie" (G.W. Philips to his son, "Ham") encouraging a trip to see the bridge. A gelatin postcard to "Friend Philips" of the closing of the arch of the Hell Gate Bridge from Walter J. Parsons in 1915? seems to explain the inclusion of eight pages of construction photographs of the Hell Gate Bridge across the East River in New York City. Mr. Parsons appears to have worked on constructing the Hell Gate Bridge. The Pennsylvania Railroad built the Hell Gate Bridge to facilitate railroad travel to New England. The Hell Gate arch bridge was designed by Gustav Lindenthal as a steel arch 1,017 feet long arch. The whole length of the structure including concrete arch abutments from Long Island to the Bronx is 17,000 feet long. The top of the arch is 280 feet above water. The bridge carried four railroad tracks. It was opened for use in 1917. Henry Kern Photographer of Long Island City took some of the Hell Gate photographs as so acknowledged on the backs of some of the photos. Hell\u27s Gate separates Astoria, Queens from Randalls\u27 (Ward) Island In the East River, New York City.","attr0":"description"
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
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
Letters on the Constitution
Full text linkLetter - Letters written by Ruth Gorman to the Calgary Herald, Ted Byfield, Bonnie Vie, Doug Baxter, Irene Messenger, H. Kober, and W. Philips, Calgary, AB (14 pages)Politics and Government; WomenWC
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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