Number Of Academic Publications Research Articles

Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on COVID-19 in the Transportation Industry: An Early Study

The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in Wuhan, China in November 2019 and affected the whole world, deeply affected the transportation industry as well as all sectors. The magnitude of the effects is also reflected in the number of academic publications, and the publication pool that would occur in decades has emerged in only 3 years. In this study, a quantitative bibliometric analysis, consisting of performance and collaboration analyses, was conducted to examine the vast publication pool in the context of the transportation sector. "Articles, final versions of articles and articles published in English only" filters were used to limit data. As the time limit, the years 2019-2022 were chosen. As a result of the search made in the Scopus database, a total of 951 articles were reached. R statistical program was used for data analysis and Biblioshiny was used for visualizations. Analyzes were carried out both in the context of all transport modes and separately for each transport mode. The results show that a total of 2605 authors were employed in 951 articles, 155 articles were single-authored, and 796 articles were multi-authored. Results of the analysis have revealed that the most productive countries are the USA and China, the most used keyword is “COVID-19”, the most cited country is Norway, the countries with the most publication cooperation in the context of country collaborations are UK and Hong Kong, the lowest cooperation rate belongs to Türkiye and South Africa. On the other hand, it has been determined that the author with the most academic studies on COVID-19 for transport modes is HAN H. In this study, the most important result revealed within the scope of performance analyzes and cooperation analyzes is that development level of the country and the importance given to education are important variables in country productivity. As the level of development and the importance given to education increase, the number of academic studies also increases. On the other hand, another important result revealed in the study is that early COVID-19 studies receive more citations and occupy central positions in citation networks. In addition, it can be mentioned that method studies are also cited more.

Importance of periodontal phenotype in periodontics and restorative dentistry: a systematic review

BackgroundPeriodontal phenotype is regarded to be one of the key factors influencing the efficacy of restorative therapies in dental practice. The objective of the systematic review was to explore the importance of thin and thick periodontal phenotypes and how they affect the outcome of periodontal and restorative therapies by looking at a number of academic publications from various online databases.MethodsFollowing the PRISMA guidelines (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review standards), relevant data will be searched and retrieved from three significant scientific databases, including PubMed, EBSCO, and Scopus. The articles with full texts that matched the keywords and published in English between 2018 and 2023 were taken into consideration.ResultsThe majorities of these articles were based on the type of periodontal phenotype and their impact on periodontal and restorative treatment outcomes were selected. The initial search yielded a total of 530 articles. Only 273 were relevant to the review’s objectives, and these were considered for determining eligibility. Only 20 publications were eligible for analysis.ConclusionUnderstanding these anatomical aspects of periodontal phenotype is crucial to both periodontology and restorative dentistry. The clinical outcome of restorative, prosthetic, orthodontic, surgical, and periodontal therapies is determined in large part by the periodontal phenotype, which also plays a significant role in clinical failure or success in dental treatments.Trial registrationThis study protocol registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) dated 16th June 2023 with the registration ID CRD42023432568.

Does the tenure track influence academic research? An empirical study of faculty members in China

ABSTRACT Since the twenty-first century, universities in many countries, including China, have introduced tenure-track employment to attract outstanding faculty. Through a survey of 1099 faculty members from 21 high-level research universities in China, this study used a quasi-experimental method to examine the effect of the tenure track on faculty members’ academic performance. The results suggest that the implementation of the tenure track led to an increase in the number of academic publications, but a decrease in the number of high-quality academic articles. The study further analyzed the underlying mechanisms by which the tenure track affected faculty members’ academic performance, and found that introducing the tenure track increased cross-institutional collaboration, thereby promoting academic productivity. However, it resulted in a reduction in research collaboration within the institution, which hindered academic publication in high-impact journals. In terms of disciplinary heterogeneity, this study shows that the negative effect of the tenure track on publication quality was more significant in science than in engineering. Based on the research results above, this paper proposed several suggestions for improving the tenure system to ensure research excellence.

A Review of Chitosan and Chitosan Nanofiber: Preparation, Characterization, and Its Potential Applications

Chitosan is produced by deacetylating the abundant natural chitin polymer. It has been employed in a variety of applications due to its unique solubility as well as its chemical and biological properties. In addition to being biodegradable and biocompatible, it also possesses a lot of reactive amino side groups that allow for chemical modification and the creation of a wide range of useful derivatives. The physical and chemical characteristics of chitosan, as well as how it is used in the food, environmental, and medical industries, have all been covered in a number of academic publications. Chitosan offers a wide range of possibilities in environmentally friendly textile processes because of its superior absorption and biological characteristics. Chitosan has the ability to give textile fibers and fabrics antibacterial, antiviral, anti-odor, and other biological functions. One of the most well-known and frequently used methods to create nanofibers is electrospinning. This technique is adaptable and effective for creating continuous nanofibers. In the field of biomaterials, new materials include nanofibers made of chitosan. Numerous medications, including antibiotics, chemotherapeutic agents, proteins, and analgesics for inflammatory pain, have been successfully loaded onto electro-spun nanofibers, according to recent investigations. Chitosan nanofibers have several exceptional qualities that make them ideal for use in important pharmaceutical applications, such as tissue engineering, drug delivery systems, wound dressing, and enzyme immobilization. The preparation of chitosan nanofibers, followed by a discussion of the biocompatibility and degradation of chitosan nanofibers, followed by a description of how to load the drug into the nanofibers, are the first issues highlighted by this review of chitosan nanofibers in drug delivery applications. The main uses of chitosan nanofibers in drug delivery systems will be discussed last.

TRUST IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS (1967–2020)

The sphere of trust in the financial sector, which is actively developing in the conditions of financial crises and recessions, is accompanied by a significant increase in the scientific literature that requires detailed analysis. The changes faced by trust in the financial sector over the past thirty years have remain unprecedented. Recent developments in financial technologies, blockchain, risk assessments have led to a renewed interest and rapid growth in the number of academic publications on trust in the financial domain. A number of literature reviews have been published focusing on specific aspects and trends of trust in the financial sector. However, far too little attention has been given to developing a global vision of academic knowledge about trust in the financial sector from a statistical perspective. This study was designed to provide insights and updates that have not yet been fully understood or described by other reviews in the domain of trust in the financial system by applying a thorough bibliometric (Scopus tools, Google Trends) and network (VOSviewer) analysis. This paper will make it possible to create a global picture of the phenomenon, to determine the dynamic aspects of trends from a statistical point of view, using content-contextual, descriptive, comparative, cluster, and evolutionary-temporal methods. The methodological basis of the study is a set of scientific publications indexed in the Scopus scientometric database, which were analysed using ScopusTools and VOSViewer analytical tools. A total of 1,148 academic studies published between 1967 and 2020 were analysed, including 364 authors, 158 journals, and 101 countries. By applying rigorous bibliometric and network tools, established and emergent research clusters were identified based on the key research topics and interrelations. With the help of built-in tools of the Scopus scientometric base, the main stages of scientific interest in the trust in the financial sector were determined. The most significant studies in this area by influence and citations were identified. In addition, the classification of the research on trust in the financial sector by scientific fields was considered, and the geographical centers of research were determined. A comparative analysis of Google searches showed that trust in the financial sector could be considered as one of the critical conditions for overcoming macroeconomic imbalances. Cluster analysis made it possible to identify five main clusters of scientific research. The main research findings showed that trust in the financial sector is one of the most multidisciplinary phenomena, and the keywords such as human, economy, financial management, finance, organization and management, private sector, public sector are closely related. The results of the study provide a solid roadmap for further consideration in this area.

E-voting adoption in many countries: A literature review

Although the number of countries that have adopted e-voting has decreased lately, the number of academic publications on e-voting adoption has increased in the last two years. To date, there is no coherent narrative in the existing literature that explains the progress of the research on e-voting adoption. This article aims to answer the following research question: “How has research on the topic of e-voting adoption progressed over the last 15 years?” The article provides a semi-systematic review of 78 studies that were conducted from 2005 to 2020. In this article, I argue that although the studies on e-voting adoption are dominated by a single case study, by research in the United States, and by the positivist paradigm, scholars have employed the term “e-voting adoption” diversely and the research on e-voting adoption has evolved to address more specific research questions. Recommendations for the future agenda of research on e-voting adoption are also discussed.

동양미술사] 성장과 사라지는 경계들: 동양미술사연구 회고와 전망(2019~2020년)

Through analyses of the monographs and peer-reviewed articles published in 2019 and 2020, this paper examines the recent trends in Korea academia in the field of Asian art history. The analyses lead to the following conclusions. First, new methodologies are actively adopted in study of various topics in Asian art, and the number of academic publications on Asian art history is dramatically increasing. While the great majority of studies focused on Chinese arts in the past, artworks of more diverse regions began to be explored in recent scholarship. Second, among the subfields of Asian art history, the subfield of modern and contemporary art is rapidly increasing. And a growing number of art historians are now exploring material culture of Asia, which is also a new trend in Korean academia. Third, as the field is being rapidly globalized, more and more Korean scholars began to publish peer-reviewed articles on Asian art in international journals. Simultaneously, some foreign scholars chose to publish their articles in Korean art history journals in the recent two years, which indicates the global growth of art history journals issued in Korea. 2019 and 2020 also witnessed publication of quite a few monographs co-authored by scholars from different countries. All these are indicators that exhibit the development and globalization of the field of Asian art history. In general, the field of Asian art history has shown rapid development and tendency towards positive globalization in recent years.

Anchor Organizations as Change Agents in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Ecosystem Governance

Recently, entrepreneurial ecosystems have become one of the major themes among entrepreneurship scholars and regional policymakers worldwide. Hoping to increase prosperity, politicians are keen to develop thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in their region to foster the creation and growth of innovative startups. While the number of academic publications about entrepreneurial ecosystems has drastically increased in the last few years, understanding of mechanisms of how entrepreneurial ecosystems emerge and develop over time remain mostly unknown. The current research status calls for further investigations on the governance of nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems. Entrepreneurial ecosystems can be governed mainly in two distinctive ways; top-down and bottom-up governance. This study explores hybrid governance mechanisms by shedding light on a particular type of anchor organizations that intertwines these two different governance approaches. We theorize this function of anchor organizations by understanding them as “ecosystem change agents”. As a research setting, this study selected the Windhoek entrepreneurial ecosystem and conducted a single case study. Based on the single case study, this study derives a set of research propositions to conceptualize the functions of anchor organizations. We conclude this paper with limitations, practical implications, as well as research outlook.

Journalistic innovation: How new formats of digital journalism are perceived in the academic literature

This article carries out a systematic review of the literature analysing the following new journalistic formats: structured journalism, immersive journalism, 360° video reports, virtual reality and augmented reality applied to journalism, newsgames and docugames. To do so, the scientific production examining these formats is first analysed to determine the academic impact of these studies, while identifying their characteristics and tracking their evolution over time. Second, the leading researchers in this field are identified and interviewed to ascertain their opinion about the future of journalism and changing trends in journalistic formats. The results show that the number of academic publications about journalistic innovation peaked in 2019, above all in the three journals – Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Profesional de la Información – that lead the way in this discipline. The 23 academics interviewed reported that innovation impacts primarily on four aspects of journalism: information and content; audience; methods and resources and news media companies.

Digitally-enabled social innovation. Mapping discourses on an emergent social technology

The growing number of digitally-enabled social innovation initiatives have recently attracted social scholars’ interest; and required an attentive consideration the complex entanglements between innovation, social agency and power. This paper contributes to the debate on this juvenile research field by analysing the different conceptualisations, cultural framing, and socio-political entanglements of digitally-enabled social innovation. It adopts a Foucauldian perspective in order to analyse the diverse discourses on socially transformative digital initiatives that work as ‘social technologies’ and support distinctive power/knowledge nexuses within diverse coalitions of actors. To this end, the paper applies a combination of bibliographic and text-mining methodologies to a large number of academic publications (191 scientific papers) and grey literature (1948 EU-project reports). Retrieved data are elaborated to map the emerging discursive field and identify a genealogy of associated concepts, the distribution of co-incidences and linkages with other concepts, and their ideological layers.

Analysis and Classification Applied to the Methods of Industrial Symbiosis Platform Evaluation

The search for solutions that would help reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources and at the same time limit the emissions of greenhouse gases is a crucial factor for the sustainable economic growth. Industrial symbiosis proved to be that strong ally in the fight for the ecological, economic and social achievements – this bold statement is confirmed by the rapid rise in the number of academic publications on this topic, especially starting from the year 2007. In Europe and Asia, especially in China, the growth of industrial symbiosis has become more evident due to the state policy support. The industrial sector was obviously more active and involved in that trend, specifically because of the produced wastes and higher potential to recycle those waste products and by-products and integrate them into the production cycle. The most common examples come from the chemical, cement, paper and steel industries, as well as oil refineries. Reuse of production wastes from other industries does not always lead to beneficial results for the companies. These wastes are quite often of low quality in comparison with the initial materials for replacement. In cases when production technology is oversensitive towards low-quality materials, then the problems may arise at the stage of manufacture. In our article, we pay attention to the way the companies can manage wastes quality by integrating their suppliers of wastes into operational business processes of the buying company. Wastes quality control is an important capacity of industrial symbiosis, especially if the companies try to raise their efficiency in that area.

Mapping family firm internationalization research: bibliometric and literature review

Internationalization is an important entrepreneurial strategy for the growth and long-term survivability of family firms. Research on family firm internationalization (FFI) has attracted increasing interest as there has been rapid growth in the number of academic publications in recent years. Since its initial stages, this research field has evolved significantly and developed in different directions. In this context, the goal of this study is to provide an overview of the cornerstones of the FFI literature, its main research trends, and promising avenues for future research. To this end, we conducted several analyses, including bibliometric performance and co-word analyses as well as a literature review that provide an updated overview of this growing research field and identify key topics underpinning it. Our analysis covered 115 journal articles published in the Web of Science between 2002 and 2018. The main results of the co-word analysis reveal six thematic clusters: (1) corporate governance, (2) entry mode, (3) board of directors, (4) foreign market knowledge, (5) entrepreneurship, and (6) competitive advantage, which provide a holistic view of the field and offer a new and useful means of determining its traceability. Subsequently, we conducted an in-depth full text review of the articles whose keywords are included in each of these clusters with the objective of identifying potential avenues for future research that can contribute to advancing the knowledge of the uniqueness and heterogeneity of family firms. Hence, we help in understanding the interplay between family and firm behavior, and how family firm-specific features shape the dynamics and processes of internationalization.

A bibliometric overview of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological in the past forty years (1979–2019)

In 1979, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (TR-Part B) split from its mother journal Transportation Research, which was founded by Dr. Frank A. Haight in 1967, to set off on a journey as an independent journal with a theme on methodological development of transportation science. Since then, TR-Part B has been a leading international journal in the field of transportation research. Motivated by the 40th anniversary of TR-Part B (1979–2019), this paper utilized a bibliometric analysis technique to present a lifetime overview of the development characteristics and contribution details of TR-Part B in the past 40 years. The data used in this analysis were derived from the Core Collection Database of Web of Science, producing a total of 2,697 papers that were regular articles and reviews published in TR-Part B during the study period from 1979 to 2019. A systematic bibliometric analysis was conducted using VOSviewer software around two main aspects. First, analysis was conducted on publication and citation structures, the leading authors, organizations, and regions/countries with the most number of academic publications in TR-Part B, as well as those individuals and sources citing TR-Part B the most. Second, a visualization of the bibliometric characteristics of TR-Part B was presented in a knowledge mapping network analysis of co-authorship and bibliographic coupling. This paper reviews the contributions made to the lifetime development of TR-Part B during the past four decades and reveals insightful bibliometric findings.

Rise in higher education researchers and academic publications

Background: How many higher education researchers are there in the world? How many academic articles are published by researchers each year? This paper aims to answer these two questions by tracking the number of higher education teachers and the number of publications over the past four decades. Methods: We collected data on the number of higher education institutions and researchers from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the US, China, and UK governments (three countries with the largest number of academic publications in recent years). We used Scopus to obtain the number of publications per year. The growth of higher education researchers and academic publications were characterized using 4-parameter logistic models. Results: The number of higher education teachers-cum-researchers increased from 4 million in 1980 to 13.1 million in 2018 worldwide. Concurrently, the number of academic publications increased from 0.65 million in 1980 to 3.16 million in 2018 based on data from Scopus. At the country level, the number of academic publications from the USA increased from 0.15 million in 1980 to 0.70 million in 2018, while that from China increased by almost 1,000 times from 629 in 1980 to 0.60 million in 2018. Conclusions: The number of higher education researchers would reach 13.6 million and they would publish 3.21 million academic articles in 2020, imposing enormous pressure to publishers, peer-reviewers, and people who want to understand emerging scientific development. Additionally, not all academic publications are easily assessable because most articles are behind pay-walls. In addition, unethical research practices including falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, slicing publication, publication in a predatory journal or conference, etc. may hinder scientific and human development.

Rise in higher education researchers and academic publications

Background: How many higher education researchers are there in the world? How many academic articles are published by researchers each year? This paper aims to answer these two questions by tracking the number of higher education teachers and the number of publications over the past four decades. Methods: We collected data on the number of higher education institutions and researchers from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the U.S., China, and U.K. governments (three countries with the largest number of academic publications in recent years). We used Scopus to obtain the number of publications per year. The growth of higher education researchers and academic publications were characterized using 4-parameter logistic models. Results: The number of higher education teachers-cum-researchers increased from 4 million in 1980 to 13.1 million in 2018 worldwide. Concurrently, the number of academic publications increased from 0.65 million in 1980 to 3.16 million in 2018 based on data from Scopus. At the country level, the number of academic publications from the U.S. increased from 0.15 million in 1980 to 0.70 million in 2018, while that from China increased by almost 1,000 times from 629 in 1980 to 0.60 million in 2018. Conclusions: The number of higher education researchers would reach 13.6 million and they would publish 3.21 million academic articles in 2020, imposing enormous pressure to publishers, peer-reviewers, and people who want to understand emerging scientific development. Additionally, not all academic publications are easily assessable because most articles are behind pay-walls. In addition, unethical research practices including falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, slicing publication, publication in a predatory journal or conference, etc. may hinder scientific and human development.

Coopetition as an Emerging Trend in Research: Perspectives for Safety & Security

The study of coopetition has been evolving with rapid growth in the number of academic publications in this field. A number of literature reviews have been published focusing on nature, antecedents of coopetition and future perspectives of its implementation. Coopetition is proved to be beneficial for joint investments and Research and development (R&D) projects, and yet competitive games take place in the global markets that may lead to safety hazards. There are few studies that investigate possible perspectives of coopetition strategy for solutions in safety and security, and therefore considering the global tendencies objective, necessity arises for a more detailed study of it. The analysis begins by identifying over 600 published studies where the terms “coopetition”, “safety”, “security” were used. Using rigorous bibliometric tools, established and emergent research clusters were identified, as well as the most influential studies, the most contributing authors and topical areas for further investigations. The systematic combination of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools helps to identify the potential directions for future research. By combining bibliometric analysis and content analysis, the main perspective areas for coopetition implementation towards safety and security were identified.

Why are some universities better? An evaluation in terms of organizational culture and academic performance

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between organizational culture and academic performance among higher education institutions. The sample was composed of 647 faculty members working in the colleges of education, health, engineering, law, economics, and administrative sciences in four central research universities in Turkey. The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was used to describe organizational culture, whereas University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) data were used to investigate academic performance. A multilevel analysis in which one unit of analysis (i.e., faculty member) was nested within another (i.e., college) was performed. The original contribution made to the literature by this research is its examination of the relationships between organizational culture and tangible performance indicators (e.g., the number of academic publications and citations). Results show that three different culture types were observed in the universities: Innovative team culture, competitive culture, and hierarchic culture. Although significant relationships were found between academic performance and both competitive culture and innovative team culture, the sole significant predictor of academic performance was competitive culture. One particularly interesting finding was that whereas competitive culture was effective on quantitative indicators (i.e., number of publications and number of citations), only innovative team culture affected the indicators related to effectiveness (i.e., article impact level and citation impact level).

Bibliometric Analysis of Trends in the Study of Social Media

Social media has become not only an integral part of the life of most people, but also has a significant impact on the development of all spheres of society, which determines a steady increase in the number of academic publications on this issue. The analysis of the structure and dynamics of social media research has been carried out in May 2018 on the basis of the Web of Science database using the analytical resources of this platform, as well as the CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer tools. The research technique, including assessment of social media from the point of view of their essence and structure is proved and is described step by step. The temporal dynamics of scientific results, the spatial and institutional distribution of publications from 2009 to 2017, and the thematic focus of research based on bibliometric analysis are estimated. The most productive and rating journals that publish studies of social media in the sphere of communications, the most influential universities are analyzed. The most cited (resonant) articles are presented. Bibliometric analysis with application of the VOSviewer program has revealed four clusters of researches on the basis of thematic proximity of terms. Visualization made it possible to trace the change in the thematic focus of scientific research over time. Clustering was continued by means of the CitNetExplorer. Six clusters are described on the basis of one hundred most cited articles. Comparative characteristics of each cluster are given in terms of the research topics, the "influence" of the cluster (the number of articles in the cluster and the number of most cited articles). Research opportunities of combined use of software for achievement of necessary depth of the analysis of publications are shown.

From Academic Publications and Patents to the Technological Development of the Economy: Short and Long Run Causalities

Purpose: The paper examines the potential effects of academic publications on patenting and the share of high technology exports. We test the short-run and the long-run causalities among high technology exports, the number of academic publications and the number of patents in three separate models.Methodology/Approach: Our sample consists of panel data for 61 countries and 20 years. The panel Granger causality and vector error correction model have been used in order to capture the short-run causalities. Furthermore, panel cointegration regressions have been applied to test for long-run causalities.Findings: Our results strongly suggest that there is a positive long-run effect of academic publications on both patenting and the share of high technology exports. This suggests that the outcomes of basic science in the form publications strongly support technological development, and thus emphasises the importance of basic research. In addition the effect of patents on high technology exports is mostly insignificant when controlling for academic publications and GDP.Research Limitation/implication: First, the variables used in the analysis are only proxies. The scope of the data has been significantly limited by the data availability. This leads also to limited the number of control variables.Originality/Value of paper: There are still only a very limited number of studies testing the effect of academic outcomes on the technological development of the economy. Our research brings new empirical insights into this problem.

Insights into international branch campuses: Mapping trends through a systematic review

This study analyzes international branch campus (IBC) literature trends from 1960 to 2017 through a systematic review of the different research approaches, views, and positions to map the global scientific production. Over the last two decades, universities worldwide have opened branch campuses abroad, reaching a peak of 249 across thirty-three countries in January 2017. In fact, international studies and surveys have identified a 26% increase over the last five years as well as a concentration of the industry. Since 2017, the emergent field of IBC has experienced a geometric growth regarding the number of academic publications on this topic. The results of the review indicate an important amount of literature on IBC related to some of the topics studied—managerial and academic staff issues and educational hubs—and a lack of research on a wide range of areas.