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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
Understanding preferences for autonomous trucks functions in China: Insights from drivers and organizational buyers
No full textThe transportation industry is undergoing a significant transformation as it integrates advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) technologies. This shift is particularly important in the trucking industry. Driver assistance technologies offer a promising solution for improving safety and reducing traffic accidents. However, the trucking industry lags significantly behind passenger vehicles in the maturity and penetration rate of such technologies. This study uses a stated preference survey to explore the purchasing preferences for ADAS functions among truck drivers and organization buyers in China. Our findings show that truck drivers with a safe driving history prioritize reliability and assistance features such as automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, and lane-centering control. In contrast, drivers with a record of unsafe driving favor more advanced ADAS functions, such as city or highway navigation on autopilot, owing to their ability to alleviate driving stress. Buyers from organizations, compared with individual truck drivers, are more averse to the additional costs of ADAS technologies, while larger companies seem more willing to invest in autonomous trucks than are smaller businesses and individuals. However, top management teams remain cautious, reflecting a lack of confidence in the operational and safety benefits of the current technology at Level 2 autonomy. Resistance to adopting autonomous trucks is also stronger among male (vs. female) drivers and older drivers, who comprise a large segment of the domestic market. The study recommends that autonomous vehicle system providers and governments prioritize active safety functions to further improve safety. Furthermore, it is suggested that extensive training and trials be provided to increase trust and confidence in autonomous truck technologies among industry stakeholders.
Artificial neural network-based FCS-MPC for three-level inverters
No full textFinite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) stands out for fast dynamics and easy inclusion of multiple nonlinear control objectives. However, for long horizontal prediction or complex topologies with multiple levels and phases, the required computation burden surges exponentially as the increases of candidate switch states during one control period. This phenomenon leads to longer sample period to guarantee enough time for traverse progress of cost function minimization. In other words, the allowed highest switching frequency is bounded considerably far from the physical limits, especially for wide-band semiconductor applications. To overcome this issue, the parallel computing characteristic of artificial neural network (ANN) motivates the idea of an ANN-based FCS-MPC imitator (ANN-MPC). In this article, ANN-MPC is implemented on a neutral point clamped (NPC) converter using a shallow neural network. The expert (FCS-MPC) is initially designed, and the basic structure, including activation function selection, training data generation, and offline training progress, and online operation of the imitator (ANN-MPC) are then discussed. After the design of the expert and imitator, a comparative analysis is conducted by field programmable gate array (FPGA) in-the-loop implementation in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The verification results of ANN-MPC show highly similarly qualified control performance and considerably reduced computation resource requirement.
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
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