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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
Method and apparatus for processing electronic data
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing electronic data, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for assisting a user to map different descriptions of stored electronic data, or ontologies or data schema, to one another to render considerably easier the process of enabling computers to process stored electronic data stored on different heterogeneous databases according to correspondingly different methodologies. In particular, it relates to a method of generating a mapping from a global ontology to a plurality of databases and/or database tables to enable queries rendered using the global ontology to be answered using data stored in the database tables
Semantics-aware matching strategy (SAMS) for the ontology mediated data integration (ODDI)
Data integration systems are used to integrate heterogeneous data sources in a single view. Recent work on business intelligence highlights the need of on-time, reliable and sound data access systems relying on methods based on semi-automatic procedures. A crucial factor for any semi-automatic algorithm is that of the matching strategy. Different categories of matching operators carry different semantics. For this reason, combining them into a single strategy is a non-trivial process that has to take into account a variety of options. This paper presents SAMS, a matching strategy based on a semantics-aware categorisation of matching operators that allows to group similar attributes on a semantically-rich form
Variations on the Author
“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
We 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
We 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
We 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
An FCA-based mapping generator
We present an overview of ODDI an Ontology Driven Data Integration system based on Formal concept analysis and instance comparison. Data Integration systems are used to integrate heterogeneous data sources in a single view. Following the Global-as-View approach the data is retrieved through a common conceptualization, that in our system is modeled as an ontology. This paper focuses on the problem of matching and mapping of elements between the common ontology and the data sources. The problem of query translation is also mentioned for sake of completeness, but it will be treated in detail in a future paper. Recent works on Business Intelligence do highlight the need oftrustable and sound data access systems. We propose a system based on FCA to generate the mapping to the common representation and the relations between the heterogeneous data sources
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