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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
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
Methods for Matching of Linked Open Social Science Data
Full text linkIn recent years, the concept of Linked Open Data (LOD), has gained popularity and acceptance across various communities and domains. Science politics and organizations claim that the potential of semantic technologies and data exposed in this manner may support and enhance research processes and infrastructures providing research information and services.
In this thesis, we investigate whether these expectations can be met in the domain of the social sciences. In particular, we analyse and develop methods for matching social scientific data that is published as Linked Data, which we introduce as Linked Open Social Science Data. Based on expert interviews and a prototype application, we investigate the current consumption of LOD in the social sciences and its requirements. Following these insights, we first focus on the complete publication of Linked Open Social Science Data by extending and developing domain-specific ontologies for representing research communities, research data and thesauri. In the second part, methods for matching Linked Open Social Science Data are developed that address particular patterns and characteristics of the data typically used in social research. The results of this work contribute towards enabling a meaningful application of Linked Data in a scientific domain
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
Dynamisches Browsing im Kontext von Informationsarchitekturen
Full text linkWissenschaftliche Fachportale bieten Nutzern in der Regel ein umfangreiches Angebot an verschiedenen Informationen und Dienstleistungen. Die Organisation dieser Angebotsvielfalt lässt sich jedoch nur schwer oder gar nicht mit softwareergonomischen Richtlinien bezüglich Navigations- und Menüstrukturen vereinen. Nutzern wird zudem oft eine feste inhaltliche Sicht auf die enthaltenen Informationsangebote präsentiert, von der angenommen wird, dass sie all ihre Informationsbedürfnisse befriedigt. Der folgende Beitrag zeigt, wie ein Referenzmodell für die Informationsarchitektur in Fachportalen die Informationsangebote als dynamisches Browsing in Form eines Produktkataloges integriert und verschiedene Sichten auf die Angebote ermöglicht. Eine abschließende Evaluation des Konzepts zeigt, dass die Nutzer mithilfe des Produktkataloges die Informationsangebote der Website einfacher finden können als mit einem herkömmlichen statischen Menü. (Autorenreferat
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
Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (SKOS version)
No full textThe Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (TheSoz) contains about 12,000 entries, of which more than 8,000 are descriptors (authorised keywords) and about 6,000 non-descriptors. Topics from all disciplines of the social sciences are covered. This SKOS version of the thesaurus contains descriptors and non-descriptors in four languages (German, English, French, and Russian) as well as links to the TheSoz Classification, the STW Thesaurus for Economics, the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, and to DBpedia. The TheSoz Classification (TheSoz-CL) is a topic hierarchy complementing the Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (TheSoz). Within this SKOS version of the classification, individual classification items contain links to entries from the TheSoz. The zip archive contains the following files: - thesoz.ttl: the SKOS version of the TheSoz in Turtle format - thesoz_classification.ttl: the SKOS version of the TheSoz Classification in Turtle format - readme.txt: readme fileThe Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (TheSoz) contains about 12,000 entries, of which more than 8,000 are descriptors (authorised keywords) and about 6,000 non-descriptors. Topics from all disciplines of the social sciences are covered. This SKOS version of the thesaurus contains descriptors and non-descriptors in four languages (German, English, French, and Russian) as well as links to the TheSoz Classification, the STW Thesaurus for Economics, the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, and to DBpedia. The TheSoz Classification (TheSoz-CL) is a topic hierarchy complementing the Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (TheSoz). Within this SKOS version of the classification, individual classification items contain links to entries from the TheSoz. The zip archive contains the following files: - thesoz.ttl: the SKOS version of the TheSoz in Turtle format - thesoz_classification.ttl: the SKOS version of the TheSoz Classification in Turtle format - readme.txt: readme fil
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