305,274 research outputs found
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Characteristics of problem solving in spectroscopy: Productive and unproductive pathways
No full textSolving spectroscopy problems is a complex challenge. There are many possible approaches to solving such problems however students often believe there is only a single right pathway to reach the correct endpoint. Previously, we generated teaching resources by recording solutions produced by Honours and PhD students, postdocs, senior researchers, and professors (Yuriev, 2018). This presentation will cover the novel analysis of these recordings, that was carried out to identify productive and unproductive pathways in problem solutions and to explore their novice and expert characteristics. Think-aloud interviews revealed that participants with different academic levels demonstrated common problem-solving features, for example assessing completion. However, the feature expression was expertise-dependent. For example, all participants initiated problem solution by interpreting spectral data, however novices did it less productively than the experts. Similarly, unlike novices, experts were able to explicitly verbalise their problem-solving strategies and reflect on the quality and meaning of the solution outcome. Recognising alternative problem-solving pathways highlights the diverse ways a problem can be interpreted and solved. The multiple possible strategies identified during the analysis will inform spectroscopy teaching and learning and will allow students to develop their own strategies to solving spectroscopy problems.
REFERENCE
Yuriev, E., Burton, J., Vo, K., Maher, S., Thompson, C., & Scanlon, M. (2018). Engaging students with multiple pathways for problem solving. Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (pp. 104-105). Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
New Finds of Frescoes in St George’s Cathedral of the Yuriev Monastery and Teams of Painters in the Novgorod Land of the First Half of the 12th Century
No full textThe archaeological expedition led by Vl. V. Sedov discovered thousands of fragments of the
original painting around 1130 in the St George Cathedral of the Yuriev Monastery in Novgorod during the 2013–2020. Recent finds of fragments of remarkable frescoes in the Yuriev
Monastery, as well as in the Church of the Annunciation on the Hillfort from the beginning
of the 12th century, significantly expand the traditional understanding of early art in Veliky
Novgorod. These murals allow us to consider in a new way the problem of the work of painters’
teams, their migration and succession in the Novgorod land of the first half of the 12th
century. Just as the architecture of St George’s Cathedral is the pinnacle of Novgorod architecture,
so its frescoes demonstrate the unusually luxurious order of Prince Vsevolod and
an outstanding artistic quality. A special team was to be called up for the decoration of the
St George Cathedral. Its work continued the tradition of princely Novgorod churches of the
first quarter of the 12th century. Probably, the team was called to Novgorod from Kiev, it could
consist of artists from Constantinople or be mixed with Kiev painters. Five teams could work
in the churches in the Novgorod land during the first half of the 12th century. Possibly they
were called up from the workshops of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev. The participation of
Byzantine artists in those teams was not excluded. The style of the Novgorod murals is not homogeneous,
and they were created by painters of several generations. There’s no information
about the existence of a local Novgorod team of painters in the first half of the 12th century.The research was carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education
of the Russian Federation (theme “Pre-Mongol frescoes in Novgorod: archaeological context and scientific
research: The frescoes of St George’s Cathedral, Yuriev monastery from the 2013/2020 excavations”),
agreement no. 075-15-2021-576
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