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    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

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

    Colloidal PbTe-Au nanocrystal heterostructures

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    Colloidal PbTe nanocrystals are reacted with AuCl(3) in the presence of dodecylamine and tetraoctylammonium bromide in a toluene solution. At room temperature, only homogenous nucleation of isolated Au nanocrystals in solution is observed. At higher temperatures (i.e. 60 degrees C or higher) the gold ions/atoms are able to diffuse through the PbTe nanocrystals and to form one or more metallic gold regions inside them, while most of the remaining volume of each nanocrystal becomes amorphous. Longer reaction times lead to the growth of a single balloon-shaped Au domain attached via its apex to the surface of each nanocrystal. The structural and compositional quantification of the starting PbTe nanocrystals and of the various reaction products is often complicated by several reactive processes occurring during in situ analysis by electron microscopy. Evidences of the formation of a metastable Au(3)Te compound are presented

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We 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

    Multi-step iterations with errors for common fixed points of a finite family of nonself asymptotically nonexpansive mappings

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    In this paper we established strong and weak convergence theorems for a multi-step iterative scheme with errors for nonself asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in the real uniformly convex Banach space. Our results extend and improve the ones announced by Lin Wang [Lin Wang,Strong and weak convergence theorems for common fixed points of nonself asymptotically nonexpansive mappings, J . Math. Anal. Appl.(2005)]

    Supplement_Figure_1 - The Neuroprotective Effects of Necrostatin-1 on Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Rats are Possibly Mediated by Preventing Blood–Brain Barrier Disruption and RIP3-Mediated Necroptosis

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    Supplement_Figure_1 for The Neuroprotective Effects of Necrostatin-1 on Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Rats are Possibly Mediated by Preventing Blood–Brain Barrier Disruption and RIP3-Mediated Necroptosis by Jingsen Chen, Hanghuang Jin, Hangzhe Xu, Yucong Peng, Liyong Jie, Demin Xu, Lili Chen, Tao Li, Linfeng Fan, Pingyou He, Guangyu Ying, Chi Gu, Chun Wang, Lin Wang and Gao Chen in Cell Transplantation</p

    Burmostrichus brunneus gen. nov., sp. nov. from MidCretaceous Burmese amber, with other taxonomic notes on the family Bostrichidae (Coleoptera)

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    Burmostrichus brunneus gen. nov., sp. nov. from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Myanmar) is described, illustrated and compared with the similar genera Elongatus Wang, Lin & Wang, 2024 and Micrapate Casey, 1898. A list of Bostrichidae known from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is added

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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
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