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Augustine and the number six : a look to the arithmological account in de genesi ad litteram iv.2-14
No full textResumen: El objetivo de este estudio es el de examinar la exposición aritmológica que Augustín expone en el libro IV de su escrito De Genesi ad litteram (2-6; 13-14), dentro de su interpretación de la creación por parte de Dios en seis días, y de reconstruir las posibles fuentes de dicho texto. Tres son las etapas principales de este estudio: en la primera parte evaluaremos el punto de vista de un conocido estudioso, Aimé Solignac, en relación a las fuentes aritmológicas de Augustín; luego, confrontaremos dicho texto de Augustín con un extracto paralelo de su pupilo Favonio Eulogio, autor de un comentario al Somnium Sciopinis; por último, resaltaremos las semejanzas y las aparentes diferencias entre los textos de Augustín y de Favonio y demostraremos que ambos comparten el mismo material aritmológico y las mismas fuentes.Abstract: The aim of this research is to explore the arithmological account which Augustine exposes in the book IV of the writing De Genesi ad litteram (2-6; 13-14), in the course of his interpretation of the creation of God in six days, and to outline the possible sources of this text. Three are the main steps of this research: in the first section, we shall assess the view of a well-known scholar, Aimé Solignac, about the arithmological sources of Augustine; then, we shall compare the aforesaid text of Augustine with a parallel passage of his pupil Favonius Eulogius, author of a commentary on the Somnium Scipionis; finally, we shall underscore the similarities and the apparent differences between the texts of Augustine and Favonius and point out that they share the same arithmological material and the same source
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
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