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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
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
Nonlinear dynamics and interactions of tipping elements in the Earth system
No full textWith ongoing anthropogenic global warming, some of the most vulnerable components of the Earth system might become unstable and undergo a critical transition. These subsystems are the so-called tipping elements. They are believed to exhibit threshold behaviour and would, if triggered, result in severe consequences for the biosphere and human societies. Furthermore, it has been shown that climate tipping elements are not isolated entities, but interact across the entire Earth system. Therefore, this thesis aims at mapping out the potential for tipping events and feedbacks in the Earth system mainly by the use of complex dynamical systems and network science approaches, but partially also by more detailed process-based models of the Earth system.
In the first part of this thesis, the theoretical foundations are laid by the investigation of networks of interacting tipping elements. For this purpose, the conditions for the emergence of global cascades are analysed against the structure of paradigmatic network types such as Erdös-Rényi, Barabási-Albert, Watts-Strogatz and explicitly spatially embedded networks. Furthermore, micro-scale structures are detected that are decisive for the transition of local to global cascades. These so-called motifs link the micro- to the macro-scale in the network of tipping elements. Alongside a model description paper, all these results are entered into the Python software package PyCascades, which is publicly available on github.
In the second part of this dissertation, the tipping element framework is first applied to components of the Earth system such as the cryosphere and to parts of the biosphere. Afterwards it is applied to a set of interacting climate tipping elements on a global scale. Using the Earth system Model of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC) CLIMBER-2, the temperature feedbacks are quantified, which would arise if some of the large cryosphere elements disintegrate over a long span of time. The cryosphere components that are investigated are the Arctic summer sea ice, the mountain glaciers, the Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Sheets. The committed temperature increase, in case the ice masses disintegrate, is on the order of an additional half a degree on a global average (0.39-0.46 °C), while local to regional additional temperature increases can exceed 5 °C. This means that, once tipping has begun, additional reinforcing feedbacks are able to increase global warming and with that the risk of further tipping events.
This is also the case in the Amazon rainforest, whose parts are dependent on each other via the so-called moisture-recycling feedback. In this thesis, the importance of drought-induced tipping events in the Amazon rainforest is investigated in detail. Despite the Amazon rainforest is assumed to be adapted to past environmental conditions, it is found that tipping events sharply increase if the drought conditions become too intense in a too short amount of time, outpacing the adaptive capacity of the Amazon rainforest. In these cases, the frequency of tipping cascades also increases to 50% (or above) of all tipping events. In the model that was developed in this study, the southeastern region of the Amazon basin is hit hardest by the simulated drought patterns. This is also the region that already nowadays suffers a lot from extensive human-induced changes due to large-scale deforestation, cattle ranching or infrastructure projects.
Moreover, on the larger Earth system wide scale, a network of conceptualised climate tipping elements is constructed in this dissertation making use of a large literature review, expert knowledge and topological properties of the tipping elements. In global warming scenarios, tipping cascades are detected even under modest scenarios of climate change, limiting global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. In addition, the structural roles of the climate tipping elements in the network are revealed. While the large ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are the initiators of tipping cascades, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) acts as the transmitter of cascades. Furthermore, in our conceptual climate tipping element model, it is found that the ice sheets are of particular importance for the stability of the entire system of investigated climate tipping elements.
In the last part of this thesis, the results from the temperature feedback study with the EMIC CLIMBER-2 are combined with the conceptual model of climate tipping elements. There, it is observed that the likelihood of further tipping events slightly increases due to the temperature feedbacks even if no further CO would be added to the atmosphere.
Although the developed network model is of conceptual nature, it is possible with this work for the first time to quantify the risk of tipping events between interacting components of the Earth system under global warming scenarios, by allowing for dynamic temperature feedbacks at the same time.Bei fortdauerndem anthropogenem Klimawandel, könnten einige der vulnerabelsten Komponenten des Erdsystem instabil werden und in einen anderen Zustand übergehen. Diese Komponenten des Erdsystems sind die sogenannten Kippelemente. Bei ihnen wird angenommen, dass sie einen Kipppunkt besitzen ab dem sie in einen qualitativ anderen Zustand übergehen können. Sollte das passieren, hätte das schwerwiegende Konsequenzen für die Biosphäre und menschliche Gesellschaften. Des Weiteren ist gezeigt worden, dass Kippelemente keine isolierte Reigionen oder Prozesse sind, sondern über das gesamte Erdsystem hinweg interagieren. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es daher, die Wahrscheinlichkeit für Kippereignisse sowie deren Feedbacks im Erdsystem zu quantifizieren. Zu diesem Zweck kommen vor allem Frameworks aus der Wissenschaft komplexer Systeme und Netzwerke zum Einsatz. Für einige Teilaspekte dieser Arbeit wird aber auch ein detaillierteres und prozessbasierteres Erdsystemmodell verwendet.
Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit werden die theoretischen Grundlagen gelegt, indem komplexe Netzwerke bestehend aus interagierenden Kippelementen untersucht werden. Hier werden Voraussetzungen für das Auftreten globaler Kippkaskaden anhand der Struktur paradigmatischer Netzwerktypen analysiert. Diese Typen sind Netzwerke wie Erdös-Rényi, Barabási-Albert, Watts-Strogatz Netzwerke oder auch explizit räumlich eingebettete Netzwerke. Darüber hinaus sind bestimmte Mikrostrukturen in Netzwerken dafür entscheidend, ob sich eine lokale Kaskaden auf das globale Netzwerk ausbreiten kann. Diese Strukturen sind das Bindeglied zwischen der Mikro- und der Makroebene des Netzwerks und werden Motive genannt. Zusammen mit einer Publikation zur Modellbeschreibung, werden alle diese Ergebnisse im Python-Softwarepaket PyCascades veröffentlicht, das auf github öffentlich verfügbar ist.
Im zweiten Teil dieser Dissertation wird das Kippelementframework zunächst auf Kompenenten des Erdsystems angewendet wie der Kryosphäre und Teilen der Biosphäre, und danach auf globaler Skala für interagierende Klimakippelemente. In einem ersten Schritt werden mit dem Erdsystemmodell mittlerer Komplexität CLIMBER-2 die Temperaturfeedbacks ermittelt, die entstehen würden, wenn große Gebiete der Kryosphäre auf lange Sicht eisfrei werden. In dieser Berechnung werden das arktische Sommermeereis, die Gebirgsgletscher, der grönländische und der westantarktische Eisschild berücksichtigt. Die quantifizierte Temperaturerhöhung liegt in der Größenordnung von einem halben Grad zusätzlicher globaler Erwärmung (0.39--0.46°C). Lokale bis regionale Temperaturerhöhungen können allerdings 5°C übersteigen. Wenn also das Kippen einiger Elemente begonnen hat, bedeutet dieses Ergebnis, dass Temperaturfeedbacks in der Lage sind, das Risiko weiterer Kippereignisse zu erhöhen.
Dies ist auch der Fall im Amazonasregenwald, dessen Unterregionen über den sogenannten Feuchtig-keits-Recycling-Feedback miteinander in Beziehung stehen und voneinander abhängen. In dieser Dissertation wird die Bedeutung von Kippereignissen im Detail untersucht, die aufgrund von Dürreperioden zustande kommen. Obwohl man davon ausgehen kann, dass der Regenwald sich an zurückliegende und gegenwärtige Klimabedingungen angepasst hat, kann festgestellt werden, dass die Häu-figkeit von Kippereignissen stark zunimmt, wenn die jeweilige Trockenperiode eine gewisse Intensität übersteigt und damit die Anpassungsfähigkeit des Amazonasregenwalds überschritten wird. In solchen Fällen steigt auch die Häufigkeit von Kippkaskaden unter allen Kippereignissen auf 50% (und mehr) an. In dem Modell, das in dieser Studie entwickelt wurde, zeigt sich, dass der Südosten des Amazonasbeckens am stärksten von den simulierten Trockenheitsmustern betroffen ist. Das ist gleichzeitig die Region, die bereits heute stark unter anthropogener Veränderung leidet, unter anderem aufgrund von großflächiger Abholzung, Viehzucht oder Infrastrukturprojekten.
Zudem wird in dieser Dissertation auf der größeren, erdsystemweiten Skala ein Netzwerk konzeptionalisierter Klimakippelemente aufgebaut. Zu diesem Zweck wird eine umfangreiche Literaturrecherche durchgeführt, die zusammen mit Expertenwissen und den topologischen Eigenschaften der Kippelemente in die Studien mit einfließt. In Klimawandelszenarien können dann Kippkaskaden beobachtet werden, selbst wenn die globale Erderwärmung auf 2°C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau begrenzt werden kann. Außerdem werden die strukturellen Rollen der Klimakippelemente im Netzwerk ermittelt. Während die großen Eisschilde auf Grönland und der Westantarktis viele Kippkaskaden initiieren, ist die Atlantische Umwälzzirkulation für die Weitergabe vieler dieser Kaskaden verantwortlich. In unserem konzeptionellen Modell für Klimakippelemente wird darüber hinaus festgestellt, dass die Eisschilde von besonderer Bedeutung für die Stabilität des Gesamtsystems sind.
Im letzen Teil dieser Dissertation werden die Ergebnisse der Feedbackstudie (CLIMBER-2-Studie) zusammengebracht mit dem konzeptionellen Klimakippelementmodell. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit zusätzlicher Kippereignisse aufgrund der berücksichtigten Temperaturfeedbacks auch ohne das Zuführen eines zusätzlichen CO2-Eintrags in die Atmosphäre leicht ansteigt.
Trotz der konzeptionellen Natur des entwickelten Netzwerkmodells, ist es mit dieser Arbeit erstmals möglich eine Risikoabschätzung über das Auftreten von Kippkaskaden im Erdsystem vorzunehmen. Darüber hinaus können, unter der Annahme globaler Erwärmungsszenarien, auch dynamische Temperaturfeedbacks berücksichtigt werden
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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