International Research Field Research Articles

International psychological research addressing the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid scoping review and implications for global psychology.

In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Given that keeping abreast of international perspectives and research results is of particular importance for such massive global emergencies, we employed a scoping review methodology to rapidly map the field of international psychological research addressing this important early phase of the pandemic. We included a total of 79 studies, with data mostly collected between March and June 2020. This review aimed to systematically identify and map the nature and scope of international studies examining psychological aspects of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. We mapped key research themes, subfields of psychology, the nature and extent of international research collaboration, data methods employed, and challenges and enablers faced by psychological researchers in the early stages of the pandemic. Among the wide range of themes covered, mental health and social behaviours were the key themes. Most studies were in clinical/health psychology and social psychology. Network analyses revealed how authors collaborated and to what extent the studies were international. Europe and the United States were often at the centre of international collaboration. The predominant study design was cross-sectional and online with quantitative analyses. We also summarised author reported critical challenges and enablers for international psychological research during the COVID pandemic, and conclude with implications for the field of psychology.

A review of the research on externality of urban network

Urban network research has become the frontier academic field of international urban research and has gradually become a hot spot. At present, the related literature on “urban network” mostly focuses on conceptual discussion, dimension analysis, and network structure analysis. Research on the influence of network on regional economic development is relatively weak. Externality, as an essential attribute of urban network, is of great significance to the evolution of urban network and the development of cities and regions. This article starts from a comparison of agglomeration externalities with urban network externalities, focusing on the review and evaluation of the formation mechanism, utility, and measurement methods of urban network externalities.The synergy effect, integration effect, and borrowing size are considered important reasons for the formation of urban network externalities. The research on the effectiveness of urban network externalities focuses on two aspects. The first is the role of factor mobility in promoting knowledge diffusion and innovation, and the second is the impact of urban network on competitiveness and economic growth. Based on the existing literatures, the research on the measurement of urban network externalities mainly involves identification and estimation, including three common methods as correlation analysis, regression analysis, and spatial econometric analysis. The existing empirical researches on externalities are still mostly based on static analysis and lack dynamic consideration. The issues that need further attention in the future include theoretical understanding of urban network externalities, externality measurement methods, and empirical research.

A decade review and bibliometric analysis of the journal Compare

ABSTRACT Compare is a leading journal in the comparative and international education research field. To assess this journal’s productivity and influence, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of 428 papers published in Compare between 2010 and 2019. The findings show that in the past decade, Compare experienced significant growth in the number of publications and citations. This growth primarily stemmed from England, which yielded over half of the top 20 most productive authors and institutions. Among the numerous research topics discussed in Compare, the disciplinary development of comparative and international education, the internationalisation of education, gender studies in education, and citizenship education were the most frequently addressed. A detailed analysis of these four topics reveals that despite having published many papers falling within the scope of international education, Compare is encouraged to publish more papers about this subfield in the post-COVID-19 era.

The Research Hotspots and Visualization Analysis Technology of Health Big Data

By understanding the international research hotspots in this field, we hope to provide reference information for health big data researchers to grasp the research hotspots and frontiers. By searching the relevant literature in the field of international health big data research in the Web of Science database, using the method of bibliometrics to draw a visual map. Results A total of 3850 articles were retrieved. Since 2013, the number of health big data research papers has shown a rapid growth. Harvard Medical School, University of Michigan and Stanford University are the research institutions with the largest number of papers in this field. The United States is the most active in the field of big data research, with 1506 papers, far higher than other countries, followed by China, the United Kingdom and South Korea. International health big data research hotspots include research on Intelligent wearable devices, design and development of health big data monitoring system, and application of health big data in precision medicine. The research reveals the characteristics and hotspots of international health big data research field, and provides some references for the development direction of this field in China.

Confronting the Climate Crisis: Slow Geographies and Relational Approaches to International Research

Greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise despite domestic and international efforts to mitigate climate change. Recent scholarship has expressed concerns that academic careers require considerable amounts of air travel. These trends raise a series of ethical dilemmas for academic geographers who conduct international field research. Building on work on slow geographies and slow scholarship, we argue for more relational approaches and understandings of the field, which could help to mitigate our travel emissions without requiring a full-scale end to international engagement. We propose four sociospatial iterations of the field as a terrain of interactions: the virtual field, the field at home, the field as a network, and the extended field of routes and journeys. Additionally, we argue that slow geographies of international field research must be paired with a transformation in our institutions, away from individualism and neoliberal metrics of productivity and toward more collective and relational approaches to both research and emissions.

Internationalization of culture and soft power

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the moderating effect of soft power on the relationships between affinity toward country, country image, cosmopolitanism and preference on the internationalization of Brazilian cultural products.Design/methodology/approachThis survey used data collected from a non-probabilistic sample of 478 Portuguese respondents, which was further analyzed using the partial least squares technique.FindingsAffinity related to Brazil, the image of Brazil and cosmopolitanism influenced preference, and this, in turn, influenced the internationalization of Brazilian cultural products. Soft power moderated the relationships between cosmopolitanism and preference, country image and preference and preference and internationalization of cultural products.Research limitations/implicationsThis study focuses on the internationalization of a cultural product from one particular emerging economy (Brazil) to a specific developed economy (Portugal). Thus, the findings are bound to this specific context. However, it contributes to the field of international marketing research by concentrating on the moderating effects of soft power in the relationship between the investigated constructs.Practical implicationsIn the case of Brazilian cultural products, i.e. music, emphases on Brazilian unique resources, i.e. the beauty, excitement, fantasy, mystique, prestige, etc. of natural resources, may be important features to be taken into consideration in national cultural policies.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the international marketing and consumer behavior literature by showing that consumer preference, affinity toward country and cosmopolitanism are important antecedents of the internationalization of cultural products.

Preface

With the 2020 volume, the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book marks its 65th birthday, a truly impressive achievement for a scholarly journal. We are not, however, resting on our laurels. This year, as ever, we present a fine collection of original and thought-provoking articles in the field of German-Jewish studies. The breadth and depth of the essays presented here are evidence of a multidisciplinary international field of research in good health. They range chronologically from fifteenth-century Nuremberg in the Holy Roman Empire to 1980s Bitburg in the Federal Republic of Germany and explore themes as diverse as the Jewry Oath, expressionist Kabbalah, gendered space in fin-de-siècle Vienna, the Jewish family, Stefan Zweig’s humanism, and Jewish nationalism in post-First World War Posen/Poznań. Our 2020 Essay Prize winner is Dr Daniel Herskowitz of Wolfson College, Oxford, for his article ‘Between Exclusion and Intersection: Heidegger’s Philosophy and Jewish Volkism’. This eclectic mix of politics, philosophy, literature, and legal, textual, and cultural studies reflects today’s imaginative multinational research into the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry, as well as the Year Book’s role in its promotion and dissemination.

A Bibliometric Research on International Pragmatic Inference based on Web of Science

With the help of the bibliometric software CiteSpace, this paper combs and analyzes the pragmatic inference research in the core periodicals retrieved in core collection of Web of Science from 1977 to 2018. Co-author network, the keywords co-occurrence network and co-citation network in the field of international pragmatic research were displayed in the form of knowledge map, for the purpose of detecting research hotspots and trends in this field. The results reveal that: 1) International research on pragmatic inference has been steadily increasing for over forty years and keeps vigorous. 2) Researchers combine theoretical research and empirical research and pay special attention to adult’s utterance, children’s utterance as well as patients’ utterance. 3) The interdisciplinary phenomenon is quite obvious. Issues on linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy, psychology and pedagogy are involved in.

长江中游地区生态系统服务平衡与城镇化的空间关系

生态系统服务与城镇化的相互作用关系研究是目前国际人地系统研究的热点和前沿领域。以长江中游地区325个县为研究单元，通过生态系统服务供需平衡评估矩阵法与城镇化相关指标分别测算了1995年、2005年、2015年生态系统服务平衡状况和城镇化水平，同时运用双变量空间自相关模型、空间计量模型探索了生态系统服务平衡与城镇化的空间关系。研究结果表明：（1）研究期间长江中游地区生态系统服务平衡状况不断恶化，而城镇化水平则持续上升；（2）生态系统服务平衡与城镇化之间存在显著负相关关系，不同区域的空间聚类模式表现出异质性；（3）添加控制变量的空间计量模型被证明能更好解释生态系统服务平衡与城镇化的空间关系，结果显示城镇化对态系统服务平衡的影响具有负外部效应，这种负外部效应在城镇化发展到一定阶段时逐渐减弱。建议，在城镇化进程中应统筹管理生态空间，尝试跨区域合作，实现生态与经济资源的共享与互补。;The research on the interaction between ecosystem services and urbanization is a hot and frontier field of international human-earth system research. This study selected 325 counties in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and estimated the ecosystem services balance and the level of urbanization in 1995, 2005, and 2015 through the ecosystem services supply and demand balance assessment matrix method and urbanization-related indicators. Meanwhile, the bivariate spatial autocorrelation model and spatial measurement model were used to explore the spatial relationship between ecosystem services balance and urbanization. The results showed that:(1) during the study period, the ecosystem services balance in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River has deteriorated, while the level of urbanization continued to rise. (2) There was a significantly negative correlation between the ecosystem services balance and urbanization, and the spatial clustering patterns of different regions showed heterogeneity. (3) The spatial measurement model with added control variables was proved to be more suitable for explaining the spatial relationship between the ecosystem services balance and urbanization. It showed that the impact of urbanization on the ecosystem services balance had a negatively external effect, and this negatively external effect gradually weakend when urbanization reached a certain stage. Finally, we suggest that in the process of urbanization, ecological space should be managed as a whole; cross-regional cooperation needs to be tried; and ecological and economic resources should be shared and complemented.

Инновационная экосистема: теоретический обзор предметной области

The article focuses on a relatively new concept of innovation ecosystem. The purpose of this article is to provide an analytical review of the Russian and international research field associated with this concept. The study relies on the methods of meaningful content analysis of publications. The article outlines the history of the concept’s emergence; six different approaches to its understanding and their evolution. Based on a wide range of sources, the analysis reveals the fundamental aspects of the concept directly related to the diversity of its applications. Demonstrating the differences between the concept of innovation ecosystem and other similar concepts (e. g. digital ecosystem, regional innovation ecosystem), we show the main feature of all ecosystems — the coevolution of its participants throughout their interaction. The factors that affect the development of innovation ecosystems are also identified. The final part of the article is devoted to the analysis of the interpretations of the concept ‘innovation ecosystem’ and to the conceptual ‘traps’ inherent in the operationalization of this concept. The concept ‘innovation ecosystem’ is now beginning to acquire practical significance marking the transition to a new paradigm in management; it is the starting point for a variety of approaches designed to solve specific practical problems.

Editor’s Comment

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From FAIR Leading Practices to FAIR Implementation and Back: An Inclusive Approach to FAIR at Leiden University Libraries

Leiden University (LU) adopted a data management regulation in 2016. The regulation embraces the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles. To implement the regulation a programme was established. The focus of the programme was initially to raise awareness and to set up services to make data Findable and Accessible and to train researchers on data management planning. In 2019, the programme entered its second phase, with an increased focus on Interoperable and Reusable data, and on implementing the machine-actionable aspects of FAIR data. This step is non-trivial, however, because of the fast-developing FAIR research data international research field that requires fast adoption of leading practices by support professionals with the adequate skills. In this paper we describe how LU aims to close the feedback loop between international bottom-up organisations such as GOFAIR, the Research Data Alliance and CODATA on the one hand and university staff engaged in developing and implementing emerging FAIR leading practices on the other. During processes such as these, it is of crucial importance to focus primarily on the needs of researchers. We describe how LU builds up its support for FAIR data before, during and after research through its involvement in leading practices, training and consultancy and end with recommendations for other universities wanting to implement the FAIR principles.

Head and Hands: Arthur van Schendel and Henricus Mertens, and Their Unique Role in the Development of the Rijksmuseum’s Paintings Restoration Studio (1930-70)

The unique character of a present-day conservator lies in the rare combination of working at an academic level with your head and at a craftsman level with your hands. This has not always been the case. Historically the role of a restorer was that of a technician, craftsman and artist, while that of the museum curator was that of a thinker, writer and academic. This article focuses on the relationship between the curator and later director, Arthur François Emile van Schendel, and the paintings restorer Henricus Hubertus Mertens. Both started their careers in the museum in the early nineteen-thirties. Van Schendel’s interest in restoration and technical research may have been kindled at that time, but was fanned during the war, when he worked with the museum’s two paintings restorers – Mertens and his colleague Christiaan Jenner – to preserve the paintings collection under difficult circumstances. After the war, Van Schendel continued to develop in this field and quickly became an internationally recognised authority. He was closely involved in the treatment of Rembrandt’s Night Watch, carried out by Mertens in 1946 and 1947. It brought the museum international acclaim and Mertens became known as the specialist in the restoration of Rembrandt paintings. Although the relationship between Mertens and Van Schendel became more distant as the decades progressed, the post-war paintings restoration studio grew into a renowned department with three permanent restorers and many national and international students. While Van Schendel was a key figure in the international field of restoration and technical research, for example as one of the founders of ICC, ICOM Care of Paintings and ICCROM, Mertens played a more modest role. His legacy was the paintings he left behind. His expertise was disseminated at a national and international level through his students. And so both Van Schendel and Mertens played their own unique role in bringing the restoration department of the museum internationally into view.

Global Autocracies: Strategies of Transnational Repression, Legitimation, and Co-Optation in World Politics

AbstractHow, when, and why does a state take repressive action against individuals residing outside its territorial jurisdiction? Beyond state-led domestic forms of control over citizens living within their legal borders, autocracies also seek to target those abroad—from African states’ sponsoring violence against exiled dissidents to Central Asian republics’ extraditions of political émigrés, and from the adoption of spyware software to monitor digital activism across Latin America to enforced disappearances of East Asian expatriates. Despite growing global interconnectedness, the field of international studies currently lacks an adequate comparative framework for analyzing how autocracies adapt to growing cross-border mobility. I argue that the rise of global migration flows has contributed to the emergence of “transnational authoritarianism,” as autocracies aim to both maximize material gains from citizens’ “exit” and minimize political risks by controlling their “voice” abroad. I demonstrate that governments develop strategies of transnational repression, legitimation, and co-optation that transcend state borders, as well as co-operation with a range of non-state actors. Bringing work on the international politics of migration in conversation with the literature on authoritarianism, I provide illustrative examples drawn from a range of transnational authoritarian practices by the fifty countries categorized as “Not Free” by Freedom House in 2019, covering much of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America. I sketch an emerging field of international studies research around the novel means that autocracies employ to exercise power over populations abroad, while shedding light on the evolving nature of global authoritarianism.

Conducting Critical Analysis on International Communication Rights Standards: The Contributions of Graphical Knowledge Modeling

AbstractUsing the computerized application of Modeling using Object Types (MOT) theory, this article examines the normative dimension of official interpretations of a corpus of core “communication rights” (the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the right to privacy, the right to participate in cultural life, and the right to education) enshrined and protected by the International Covenants on Human Rights. This article proposes a methodological contribution whereby the computerized application of knowledge modeling theory promotes the analysis and popularization of international human rights standards. Research findings draw attention to significant conceptual deficiencies included as part of international human rights standards. These deficiencies undermine the applicability of these standards and their relative usefulness in the context of complex sociopolitical issues relating to communication. In addition, this article underscores the need for communication rights studies to further integrate contributions from the field of international human rights law research. It demonstrates that interdisciplinary dialogue can open up new research agendas for communication rights scholars and contribute to a renewed critical analysis of international human rights standards.

Conducting Critical Analysis on International Communication Rights Standards: The Contributions of Graphical Knowledge Modeling

AbstractUsing the computerized application of Modeling using Object Types (MOT) theory, this article examines the normative dimension of official interpretations of a corpus of core “communication rights” (the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the right to privacy, the right to participate in cultural life, and the right to education) enshrined and protected by the International Covenants on Human Rights. This article proposes a methodological contribution whereby the computerized application of knowledge modeling theory promotes the analysis and popularization of international human rights standards. Research findings draw attention to significant conceptual deficiencies included as part of international human rights standards. These deficiencies undermine the applicability of these standards and their relative usefulness in the context of complex sociopolitical issues relating to communication. In addition, this article underscores the need for communication rights studies to further integrate contributions from the field of international human rights law research. It demonstrates that interdisciplinary dialogue can open up new research agendas for communication rights scholars and contribute to a renewed critical analysis of international human rights standards.

Mapping the field of international comparative research in school social work

This article maps the field of international comparative research in school social work. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted and subjected to a narrative synthesis. The review reveals 11 publications that are predominantly non-empirical, take mainly Asian, European, North American countries and Australia and New Zealand into account, and are focused on profession-related and sociopolitical aspects of school social work. A synthesis of school social work practice themes transcending national boundaries emerged from the findings, covering child-, family-, school-, and community-related issues. Accordingly, children are predominantly confronted with similar issues, irrespective of the place where they live, such as violence toward themselves, at home, in school, and in their community. Bearing in mind methodological challenges when carrying out comparative studies, recommendations include the conduct of practice-focused studies that generate new stimuli to improve already well-developed practices in a culturally appropriate way and enable mutual learning among school social workers.

Research of method for non-point source pollution load

With the increasingly prominent problem of non-point source pollution in river basin water environment, it has attracted people’s attention and become a hot field of international research. This paper summarizes the digital model of non-point source pollution, briefly sketches the simulation analysis method of non-point source pollution model, and introduces an increasingly sophisticated method-SWAT model combined with scenario analysis. The application of the author’s preliminary research in the Minjiang River Basin using the SWAT model and scenario analysis is described. Finally, the development prospect of non-point source pollution model is analyzed and predicted.

A New Assessment on Two Portraits

The most important issue in the field of international portrait research is whether a portrait is official or private. This question also presents the answers to the questions of which emperor or empress the portrait belongs to or which emperor or empress was inspired by. Thus, this important issue is an important factor guiding us in the definition and dating of the work we are dealing with. In this article, which I dealt with according to the criteria of international portrait research, the male head which dealt with by Buschor in 1949 and 1971 and was also handled by Inan Rosenbaum in 1966, has emerged two different definitions and dating dates. The female head has been studied by Inan in 1974 and Inan-Rosenbaum in 1979 and later, it has been examined by many researchers, including Fejfer and Güven and a different definition and dating has been made by each researcher. Therefore, in this paper prepared with the concern of finding answers to the questions mentioned above, I will try to make a new interpretation about male and female heads on which there are disagreements about definition and dating.

Refining the relation between cause-related marketing and consumers purchase intentions

PurposeCause-related marketing (CRM) is an ever growing marketing strategy developed by companies that may result in a win-win-win strategy for business, non-profit organizations and society. However, the specific relationship between CRM and consumers purchase intentions (PI) has been analyzed in a fragmented way within the mainstream literature. Grounding on this, the purpose of this paper is to give a more comprehensive and fine grained view of this phenomenon, testing the effect of several moderators on the relationships between CRM and consumers PI in two different countries.Design/methodology/approachThe sample consists of 234 Italian (individualistic culture) and 164 Brazilian (collectivist culture) consumers surveyed online. Ordinary least squares analysis has been carried out in order to test the moderator effects hypothesized.FindingsRegarding Italian respondents, the author found positive evidence for moderator effects of the perception of CRM goal achievement (GA), brand-fit (BF) and gender. On the contrary, the author did not find a significant moderator effect of brand-use, while the author found it significant but negative for Brazilian respondents. Moreover, the author found that the perception of CRM GA does not moderate the aforementioned relationship for Brazilians while BF and gender still have positive effects.Originality/valueA more fine grained picture of the CRM–PI relationships have been provided through the empirical test of several moderators, finding different effects in individualistic (Italians) and collectivist culture (Brazilians), thus deriving interesting implications in the international marketing field of research.