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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
On the Coating of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate with Stearic Acid in Aqueous Medium
No full textA series of experimental precipitated calcium carbonates (PCCs) coated with commercial stearic acid (stearin), with the coating amount of stearin added to the PCC particles ranging from 3 to 13.5 wt %, were prepared in aqueous medium and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). FTIR and TGA results indicated that only calcium stearate is present without any free stearic acid left on the surface of the produced PCCs. It was also found that the calcium stearate formed on the coated surface is partially chemisorbed and partially physisorbed. Interestingly, the surface coverage oldie chemisorbed stearate, determined by the DSC technique in about 3.25 set %, was much lower than the theoretical run monolayer coverage (4.17 wt %) for the same set of particles. This result was confirmed by determining the amount necessary to cover the filler with a full monolayer of surfactant by means of a dissolution method where the amount of dissolved surface agent, after the coating reaction, was measured by gas chromatography (GC). In other words, a complete chemisorbed monolayer on the surface cannot be reached, even in the presence of an amount of stearate ions far in excess compared to those required by the stoichiometry. This can be explained by considering that the coating in aqueous medium is quite different from solvent or dry coating, since the process is controlled by micelle adsorption, followed by the collapse of micelles into double or multiple layers during the drying stage
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Aralia lihengiana J. Wen, L. Deng & X. Shi, a new species of Araliaceae from China
No full textWen, Jun, Deng, Lilan, Shi, Xiaochun (2002): Aralia lihengiana J. Wen, L. Deng & X. Shi, a new species of Araliaceae from China. Adansonia (3) 24 (2): 217-220, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.460515
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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