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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
Paracoccus denitrificans cytochrome c oxidase: a kinetic study on the two-and four-subunit complexes
No full textCytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans has been purified in two different forms differing in polypeptide composition. An enzyme containing polypeptides I–IV is obtained when the purification procedure is performed in β-d-dodecylmaltoside. If, however, Triton X-100 is used to purify the enzyme under otherwise identical conditions, an enzyme is obtained containing only subunits I–II. The two enzymes are undistinguishable by optical spectroscopy but show significant differences in the transient and steady-state time regimes, as studied by stopped-flow spectroscopy. The observed differences, however, are not due to removal of subunits III and IV, but rather to a specific effect of Triton X-100 which appears to affect cytochrome c binding. From these results it is not expected that subunits III and IV play any significant role in cytochrome c binding and, possibly, in the subsequent electron transfer processes. The results also suggest that both electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions may be important in the initial electron transfer process from cytochrome c
Tryptophan 121 of subunit II is the electron entry site to cytochrome-c oxidase in Paracoccus denitrificans. Involvement of a hydrophobic patch in the docking reaction.
No full textTo investigate the contribution of hydrophobic residues to the molecular recognition of cytochrome c with cytochrome oxidase, we mutated several hydrophobic amino acids exposed on subunit II of the Paracoccus denitrificans oxidase.K M and k cat values and the bimolecular rate constant were determined under steady- or presteady-state conditions, respectively. We present evidence that Trp-121 which is surrounded by a hydrophobic patch is the electron entry site to oxidase. Mutations in this cluster do not affect the binding of cytochrome c as the K Mremains largely unchanged. Rather, the k cat is reduced, proposing that these hydrophobic residues are required for a fine tuning of the redox partners in the initial collisional complex to obtain a configuration optimal for electron transfer
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