Contribution Of Geography Research Articles

Geographical Contributions to Understanding and Resolving the Russo- Ukraine Conflict

The war in Ukraine poses an exceptionally dangerous risk of major escalation by design, accident or miscalculation. However, the causes and drivers of the war are far from exceptional, being struggles over how to imagine, name, organize, and control space at local, regional (subnational), national and international scales. Advocating a geography that is “for peace,” this article uses a transscalar conception of how conflict and peace are interrelated within states and internationally. Analyzing a number of key Russian government speeches and legal texts, it identifies major political geographical elements of the conflict and, drawing on comparative examples, proposes creative ways in which they might be addressed as part of negotiations.

The geography of religions: Comparing Buddhist and Taoist sacred mountains in China

AbstractIncreasing attention has been given to geographical contributions to cultural heritage in religion. However, comparative quantitative research remains scarce. As a first attempt, this study presents findings from comparative spatial and statistical analyses of the geographical distribution and features of mountains in China sacred in Taoism and Buddhism. Because both have strong orientations to natural environments, we find more similarities than differences between them, even though the two religions have different origins, philosophies, and doctrines. The results empirically support the influences of Taoism on Buddhism in China, findings that supplement current understandings of Buddhism in China in terms of the geographical dynamics of integration and sinicisation of Chinese culture. The findings also enrich current debates, including in this journal, emphasising the importance of environmental symbols in studies on geography and religion. Connecting humanity with physical geography in light of the changes, including grief, being wrought in the Anthropocene, we hope to inspire more geographically grounded and methodologically eclectic studies on religions.

Interactions between Medications and the Gut Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

In view of the increasing evidence that commonly prescribed, non-antibiotic drugs interact with the gut microbiome, we re-examined the microbiota variance in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to determine the degree to which medication and supplement intake might account for compositional differences between disease subtypes and geographic location. We assessed the confounding effects of various treatments on the faecal microbiota composition (16S rRNA gene sequencing) in persons with Crohn’s disease (CD; n = 188) or ulcerative colitis (UC; n = 161) from either Cork (Ireland) or Manitoba (Canada) sampled at three time points. The medication profiles between persons with UC and CD and from different countries varied in number and type of drugs taken. Among Canadian participants with CD, surgical resection and overall medication and supplement usage is significantly more common than for their Irish counterparts. Treatments explained more microbiota variance (3.5%) than all other factors combined (2.4%) and 40 of the 78 tested medications and supplements showed significant associations with at least one taxon in the gut microbiota. However, while treatments accounted for a relatively small proportion of the geographic contribution to microbiome variance between Irish and Canadian participants, additive effects from multiple medications contributed significantly to microbiome differences between UC and CD.

Bibliometric Analysis of Information Theoretic Studies.

Statistical information theory is a method for quantifying the amount of stochastic uncertainty in a system. This theory originated in communication theory. The application of information theoretic approaches has been extended to different fields. This paper aims to perform a bibliometric analysis of information theoretic publications listed on the Scopus database. The data of 3701 documents were extracted from the Scopus database. The software used for analysis includes Harzing’s Publish or Perish and VOSviewer. Results including publication growth, subject areas, geographical contributions, country co-authorship, most cited publications, keyword co-occurrence analysis, and citation metrics are presented in this paper. Publication growth has been steady since 2003. The United States has the highest number of publications and received more than half of the total citations from all 3701 publications. Most of the publications are in computer science, engineering, and mathematics. The United States, the United Kingdom, and China have the highest collaboration across countries. The focus on information theoretic is slowly shifting from mathematical models to technology-driven applications such as machine learning and robotics. This study highlights the trends and developments of information theoretic publications, which helps researchers to understand the state of the art of information theoretic approaches for future contributions in this research domain.

Content Analysis of Abstracts Published in Autism Journals in 2021: The year in Review.

PurposeEver since Leo Kanner first described autism in 1943, the research in this field has grown immensely. In 2021 alone, 5837 SCOPUS indexed documents were published with a title that contained the words: “autism”, “autistic”, or “ASD”. The purpose of this study was to examine the most common topics of autism research in 2021 and present a geographical contribution to this research.MethodsWe performed a content analysis of 1102 abstracts from the articles published in 11 Autism journals in 2021. The following journals, indexed by the SCOPUS database, were included: Autism, Autism Research, Molecular Autism, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Advances in Autism, Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, and Autism in Adulthood.ResultsAccording to the analysis, the main research topics were: mental health, social communication, social skills, quality of life, parenting stress, ADHD, Covid-19, self-efficacy, special education, and theory of mind. In relation to geographic distribution, most studies came from the USA, followed by the UK, Australia, and Canada.ConclusionResearch topics were aligned with the priorities set by stakeholders in autism, most notably persons with autism themselves and their family members. There is a big gap in research production between developed countries and developing countries.

Unlocking the Power of Creative Thinking: A bibliometric analysis of the 21st Century

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the creative thinking publication from the Scopus database from 2011-2021. This study reports the results using standard bibliometric indicators: (1) the current state of publication of creative thinking, (2) topic areas in creative thinking, (3) keyword analysis, (4) most productive authors, and (5) geographical contribution of publication. The researchers used VOSviewer, a programme for building and displaying bibliometric networks, which they obtained via the Scopus database and Harzing's Publish-or-Perish analysis to carry out this study. The results provide insightful information on the current level of creative thinking, including existing trends and changes.

Obituary: J.W.R. Whitehand (1938–2021)

This Obituary discusses the geographical contributions of Professor J.W.R. Whitehand.

Multidimensional difference analysis in gastric cancer patients between high and low latitude.

Genetic variation has been shown to affect tumor growth and progression, and the temperature at different latitudes may promote the evolution of genetic variation. Geographical data with latitudinal information is of importance to understand the interplay between genetic variants and environmental influence, such as the temperature, in gastric cancer (GC). In this study, we classified the GC samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas database into two groups based on the latitudinal information of patients and found that GC samples with low-latitude had better clinical outcomes. Further analyses revealed significant differences in other clinical factors such as disease stage and grade between high and low latitudes GC samples. Then, we analyzed the genomic and transcriptomic differences between the two groups. Furthermore, we evaluated the activity score of metabolic pathways and infiltrating immune cells in GC samples with different latitudes using the single-sample gene set enrichment analysis algorithm. These results showed that GC samples at low-latitude had lower tumor mutation burden and subclones as well as higher DNA repair activities. Meanwhile, we found that most immune cells were associated with the prognosis of low-latitude GC patients. At last, we constructed and validated an immune-related prognostic model to evaluate the prognosis of GC samples at different latitudes. This study has provided a further understanding of the geographical contribution to GC at the multiomic level and may benefit the individualized treatment of GC patients at different latitudes.

Bibliometric Analysis of Solar Desalination Systems Powered by Solar Energy and CFD Modelled

Solar desalination is a sustainable approach to producing fresh water from saline water. Researchers have tried modifications to solar desalination systems to enhance the distillate output. This survey aims to recognize the characteristics of research work for investigating solar desalination systems. The essential terms to be focused on are computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and solar radiation consideration for the investigation. The data for this bibliometric study was taken from Scopus, with 1932 publications. The characteristics of the research work were analyzed by identifying the research publications, research subject areas, journals, most contributed countries, and data from the authors. The research trend was investigated utilizing yearly research growth, geographical contributions, source quality of publications, and participation of various institutions. VOSviewer software was used for network analysis of essential keywords used in relevant research works and to understand collaborations between the authors and co-authors. About 76% of the total publications belong to the document type articles. It illuminates research tendencies related to the topic under consideration. Results show that desalination research work concerned with CFD or solar radiation was mainly investigated in Engineering and Environmental Science, with their share of more than 50% of the total publications. Further study of relevant research works was assessed using network analysis that helped to link different keywords and authors’ collaborations. This survey helps to spot the increasing research trends and the necessity of further research.

Research Trends and Geographical Contribution in the Field of Perinatal Mental Health: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1900 to 2020

Objective:The object of this research is to identify growth and geographical distribution of research in the field of perinatal mental health and key research areas.Materials and Methods:We performed a bibliometric analysis on research documents on perinatal mental health from 1900 to 2020. Web of Science was used to download bibliometric data. Search strategy used generic index terms with specific free text searches using “AND” as Boolean function. For example, psycho AND perinatal. Microsoft Excel was used to identify research growth, geographical and research institutes contribution to research in the field. Citation analysis was done using VOSviewer.Results:A total of 11,081 articles were extracted. The most cited research was by Cox et al., which introduced Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. There was exponential increase in the research documents from 1990 to 2020. However, most of the research was contributed by the global north. Among emerging countries, India, South Africa, and Brazil did not contribute in the perinatal research. Postnatal depression and its risk factors were most studied themes. Paternal perinatal mental health and impact on mental health of children were understudied themes.Conclusion:Perinatal mental health research outpaced growth in biomedical research in the past 30 years. The work of leading researcher in the field was initially inspired by his experience in Uganda encountering postnatal depression. However, even after half a century, there is still less contribution from developing countries. This analysis highlights research and possibly access to services inequities in developing countries.

LIVELIHOOD RESILIENCE AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: TOWARD INTEGRATION OF OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE APPROACHES OF ANALYSIS

ABSTRACT Resilience thinking is a common component in the planning and implementation of interventions in humanitarian activities, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and food security. Attention to the concept of livelihood resilience specifically has grown in these sectors in order to improve households’ resilience to the impacts of climate change and other shocks. However, resilience is difficult to empirically measure and commonly-used approaches are top-down, expert-driven, and suffer from measurement-bias. To address these issues, in this paper we explore the contributions of geographers to this research, critique top-down objective measurements of resilience, highlight the benefits of employing subjective conceptualizations of resilience, and outline methods for measuring subjective resilience with participatory methods. By drawing from both objective and subjective methods of analysis we can expand upon the normative questions of “resilience of what, to what, and for whom” to include “resilience as defined and measured by whom” in future research and policy-making.

Consideraciones teórico-metodológicas sobre la identificación de Lugares de Interés Didáctico para la enseñanza del paisaje

This article raises the importance of geographical contributions to the didactics of landscape and the recent significance of the identification of various proposals and criteria for the recognition of specific places or enclaves that favor its teaching. Starting from a mixed method based on the interrelation of theoretical and cartographic contents, together with explorations and field work, the design and selection of a set of indicators is approached that can be applied to the teaching of landscape through its interpretation and possible environmental and cultural assessment. It is proposed, from the Didactics of Geography, the definition of the Place of Didactic Interest, as well as a methodology for its recognition, selection and evaluation for its possible application in different territorial areas and curricular contexts. For this purpose, the identification of 13 criteria, grouped into 5 levels, focused, firstly, on the importance of close contact with the territory and the object of learning as educational reasons outside the classroom and, secondly, on the importance of the education of the student's gaze, necessary for the understanding and appreciation of their environment or study areas and determining for the acquisition of a significant landscape education. It concludes considering the Places of Didactic Interest as strategic enclaves from which to promote the reading, interpretation and explanation of the landscape, as well as one of the main tools for the design of itineraries with adaptation of curricular contents in Geography.

A bibliometric study on library and information science and information systems literature during 2010–2019

PurposeStudying the nature of research progress in interrelated research domains is important for evaluating the research productivity and to understand the current trends of the area of research. This study aims to examine a research domain that combines library and information science with information systems (IS).Design/methodology/approachQuartile 1 journals that cover both subject domains in SCImago were selected for the study. Bibliographic records of the publications during 2010 and 2019 were retrieved from the Scopus database. VOSviewer data visualization tool was used to perform citation, coauthorship, bibliographic coupling, cocitation and co-occurrence analysis. In addition, descriptive and inferential statistics were exploited.FindingsThe absence of a consistent association between the number of documents authored and the number of citations received by a researcher was an important finding of the study. The strong association of authors regardless of the different topics they researched and the trend of increasing interest on collaborative research were also highlighted. Moreover, the authors who received the highest number of citations were not always the first authors of the documents which received the most citations. The documents published in information management, information theory and IS journals attained the most citations. The journals, institutions and countries with the highest number of documents and citations were also revealed by the research. Electrical engineering departments showed a higher research productivity, while they were utilized more compared to that of other departments. IS and management, information theory, communication, information retrieval, geographic-based IS and bioinformatics were the six major research areas of the considered domain.Originality/valueThis is the first study related to examining the research progress in a combined subject domain using multiple aspects including, individual performance, institutional progress, geographical contribution and so on. Identifying the major research areas in the combined subject domain can also be considered a novel contribution to the field.

Geographical Contributions and Prospects of Chinese Heritage Studies in the Past 30 Years

Geographical Contributions and Prospects of Chinese Heritage Studies in the Past 30 Years

Aligning green infrastructure to sustainable development: A geographical contribution to an ongoing debate

AbstractBlue and green infrastructure (BGI) is increasingly viewed as a promising solution to promoting a shift beyond traditionally engineered “grey” approaches towards more socially and environmentally sustainable infrastructure systems. The specific insights of geographical scholarship on how to address issues of processes, scale, and place in BGI design, implementation, and long‐term management would help unlock the potential for BGI to be appropriate and inclusive, as well as support environmentally sound solutions. In this paper we unpack issues of processes for inclusive decision‐making to design and implement BGI projects that can advance sustainable development. We present an assessment framework and its application to two case studies that highlight the potential for better alignment of BGI projects to the three pillars of sustainable development and that reveal key research challenges that geographical scholarship could address. We believe that co‐produced geographical research in this domain is well placed to tackle these research challenges.

Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions

Critical insurance studies recognises insurance as not purely actuarial and calculative. From this recognition, this theoretically informed research pays attention to the reproduction of power in insurantial discourse and practice, and possibilities for equitable change. To extend geographical contributions in this regard, I review critical insurance research and describe three intersecting foci – governmentality, materiality and spatiality. I also contribute new insights in considering insurance as co-constituting fluid and fire space – as flowing and adapting within everyday complexities, and as fiery and constituted through multiple flickering realities. These contestable multiplicities and mobilities may contribute to more equitable configurations beyond the hegemonic.

Visionary geographies and European Studies

This article discusses the relation between human geography and European Studies and critically questions the role of geography in producing knowledge on ‘Europe’ and shaping debates about it. It lays out how geographic contributions to European Studies can roughly be grouped into three broad categories: Europeanization and economic geographies of integration; urban, regional and spatial planning; and critical (geopolitical) approaches to the European Union. They lack, however, an engagement with future processes of European (dis)integration. This article, thus, offers an approach to visionary geographies that seeks to strengthen both geography’s theoretical input and applied contributions to European Studies.

Sub-Saharan migrants ‘in transit’: intersections between mobility and immobility and the production of (in)securities

ABSTRACT This article argues that addressing the security threats -and protection needs- of the so-called ‘transit migrants’ requires an understanding of (im)mobility as a politically constitutive force. In doing so, it points to the analytical advantages of expanding critical security studies in International Relations to include the politics of mobility, as opposed to a sedentary focus on the security-migration nexus. Building on the contributions of anthropologists and geographers of migration yet with a specific focus on understanding how (im)mobility and (in)security are mutually constitutive political practices that produce migrants’ travel experiences, the article problematizes the category of transit. By way of empirical illustration, the journey experiences of thirty-one sub-Saharan migrants as they traveled in Spain are reconstructed using a multi-sited ethnography, with the goal of analyzing the specific locations where mobility and immobility intersect, the co-production between (im)mobility and (in)security, and how migrants’ agency is transformed at these intersection nodes.

Trends and Future Prospects in MOOC Researches: A Systematic Literature Review 2013–2020

Advent of internet has a revolutionary impact on every sector of economy and so is with the education sector, which has witnessed the evolution of online education through scalable educational technology, namely, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The purpose of this paper is to summarize the pool of available knowledge related to MOOCs in the scholarly literature, published during the period 2013–2020. One hundred and two available published studies in peer reviewed journals & conferences searched in major academic databases have been reviewed and presented in the systematic literature review. The findings have been divided under the various research themes of MOOCs including geographical contribution of MOOC studies, citation trends, prominent research themes, theoretical frameworks and methodological rigor in the existing scholarly works. The results demonstrate that most empirical research were conducted by the researchers having affiliation to institutions based out of United States followed by institutions in the developing economies of China and India. The most focused area of research in MOOCs is on MOOC adoption. Limited research has happened on poor MOOC completion status, the instructor-related topics and on democratization of MOOC. Thrust areas of MOOC researches and future research directions are also discussed.

Spatial characterization of surface water vulnerability to diffuse pollution related to pesticide contamination: case of the Gimone watershed in France.

The preservation of natural resources via the management of diffuse pollution is currently considered to be a significant challenge in France. Pollution reduction policies are notably based on the identification of vulnerable areas. In this context, our work aims to develop a method for characterizing the surface water vulnerability to phytosanitary pollution by implementing an interdisciplinary methodology combining geomatics, environmental science and agronomy. Such work consists in offering local stakeholders a decision support tool towards the participatory management of the diffuse pollution issue. This study is based on the geographic contribution of spatial analysis to the large-scale and high-definition identification of physical elements of the environment. It is also based on the study of agro-environmental indicators for the analysis of phytosanitary pressure on watercourses. The combination of these different data sources will make it possible to assess the vulnerability of diffuse pollution at a territorial level, by taking into account factors of agricultural pressure at plot level (crop types and phytosanitary practices), as well as factors of environmental sensitivity at watershed level (pedology, rainfall, topography, etc.). The results obtained will be mapped at plot level, then at the level of the Gimone watershed located in the southwest of France.