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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
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
Prospective studies on coronary heart disease in the elderly. The role of classical and new risk factors.
No full textIn this thesis associations between biological risk factors and the occurrence of coronary heart disease in elderly persons are described. The focus is on classical (i.e. total and high density lipoprotein cholesterol and blood pressure) and some new (i.e. homocysteine, white blood cell count and serum albumin) biological risk factors. The studies are based on two Dutch cohorts. One is a cohort of 292 men and women, aged 64 to 87 years in 1971, from a general practice in Rotterdam, with a mortality follow-up of 17 years. The other is the Dutch cohort of the Seven Countries Study which consists of 939 men aged 64 to 84 years in 1985 from the town of Zutphen. The morbidity and mortality follow- up embraced five years.In general, the classical risk factors were important predictors of coronary heart disease occurrence in elderly people. Systolic blood pressure was a strong independent long-term predictor of coronary heart disease mortality in elderly women, but the long-term association was less clear in elderly men. Total cholesterol was also significantly associated with long-term mortality from coronary heart disease in elderly women, but in men the association tended to be inverted U -shaped, i.e. men with cholesterol levels in the median tertile of the cholesterol distribution had a higher risk than those with levels in the first and third tertile. Regarding the Zutphen study, the short-term associations with incidence of coronary heart disease were usually weaker than with mortality from the disease. Elevated systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and especially isolated systolic hypertension, were important short-term predictors of sudden cardiac death in elderly men. For mortality from coronary heart disease, which was not additionally recorded as sudden, U -shaped associations with systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels were observed, i.e. men with the lowest blood pressure levels and those with the highest blood pressure levels and using antihypertensive medication had the highest risk. Serum total cholesterol was related to short-term coronary heart disease mortality in elderly men. For incidence of the disease, an association was only observed in a subgroup of the population with serum albumin levels below the median. High density lipoprotein cholesterol was not predictive of mortality from coronary heart disease, but there appeared to be an association with the incidence of the disease.Concerning the new risk factors, serum homocysteine appeared to be associated with mortality from coronary heart disease in elderly men in the first one-and-a-half years of follow-up only. A strong association with mortality from cerebrovascular disease was observed in normotensive men. In addition, an association with an increased risk of cognitive impairment was suggested. Both white blood cell count and serum albumin were important predictors of coronary heart disease independent of the classical risk factors for coronary heart disease. The association with serum albumin could only partly be explained by baseline health status indicators.The experience obtained from the studies described in this thesis has made clear that elderly people are a heterogenous group with respect to risk factor levels as well as coronary heart disease risk. It would therefore be desirable to have a measure of susceptibility for coronary heart disease to identify elderly people who are at increased risk of the disease. Our studies suggest that white blood cell count and serum albumin, routine clinical blood chemistry values, may be useful in this respect in addition to the classical risk factors. Future studies should aim at assessing the effectiveness of a multifactorial approach of risk factor management on coronary heart disease and all-cause mortality as well as on quality of life in older men and women
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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