Sources Of Influence Research Articles

Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) forms a significant base for higher education. SoTL has the potential to lead higher education institutions in terms of teaching, research, and service. The purpose of the current study is to perform a bibliometric analysis of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education. A bibliometric review was conducted in both Scopus and Web of Science databases, including 1491 and 1002 studies published in the sources indexed, respectively, in Scopus and Web of Science from the past to 2020. PRISMA was used to identify and select the documents in the sample. The data were analyzed using Scopus Analytic Tools, Excel functions, and VOSviewer. A considerable upward trend was observed in the number of documents from the past until 2020. “ASEE Annual Conference” was found to be the most influential source in Scopus, while “Teaching Sociology” was found to be the most influential source in Web of Science. Kreber, C., Healey, M., and Marquis, E. were the authors most drawing attention to both Scopus and the Web of Science. The intellectual structure of the knowledge base was based mainly on student voice, scholarship or teaching, and learning tips for both databases. Temporal analyses showed that the topical foci of SoTL were identity and critical pedagogy for Scopus and leadership and sustainability for Web of Science.

The shortest way to diffuse agricultural innovations: A network study in the paddy sector in Türkiye

The study revealed the diffusion processes of agricultural innovations and the influential advice sources in the diffusion process by using the network approach. The study sought to answer the questions of how agricultural innovations diffuse in the paddy sector, how agricultural innovations can be delivered to paddy farmers in the most concise form, and what are the typical characteristics of influential advice sources. Data were collected using questionnaires from paddy farmers, input suppliers, rice mills, and other relevant people and organizations in 2017. Social network analysis was used to analyze farmer advice networks, and Ordinal Logistic Regression was used to identify the common characteristics of influential actors in the network. The research results indicated that the farmers were a bridge between innovation creators and other farmers. The local pesticide dealers were the intermediary position among the paddy farmers with the innovation creators. Collective action, membership in agricultural organizations, social status, and project experience were influential factors in being an advice source. The study found that agricultural innovations in the paddy sector can diffuse most quickly from innovation creators to local pesticide dealers and farmers.

The Impact of Newspapers on William Blake’s The French Revolution and “Tyger”

This study explores the impact of newspapers on William Blake’s perception of the French Revolution in the light of archival documents. The Revolution is indeed one of the defining events that deeply influenced the poetry of Blake. However, how the poet learned about the course of the events in France and what his sources were have been a matter of debate. Various studies indicated that the poet followed the turbulent events of the Revolution closely through several sources ranging from the political statements of the politicians to the dinner conversations at Joseph Jonson’s, from newspapers to the sophisticated political works of Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke. Among these sources, the newspapers appear to be the most influential source for Blake due to their accessibility and ability to provide a constant flow of information about the events of the Revolution. Accordingly, focusing on Blake’s The French Revolution (1791) and “Tyger” (1792-93) in the light of the original newspaper documents from British archives, this study hypothesises that the impact of the early phases of the French Revolution on William Blake’s poetry was shaped by the newspapers of the period. Furthermore, the newspapers’ representation of the Revolution as an embracing, liberating and pacifist force had direct impact on Blake’s poetry. After 1793, the Revolution entered into a new bloody phase, also known as The Reign of Terror Period, during which many people, including the members of the monarchy, were executed. This new phase posed threat for the British monarchy; therefore, the newspapers of the period started to employ counter-revolutionary discourse. During this period, Blake continued to use newspapers as a source, however, instead of using the content of the columns directly, he subverted the news by attributing positive connotations to the monstrous image of revolution and revolutionaries.

Evolutionary Study of Three Decades Literatures Related to Disaster Management Agency and Public Policy: A Bibliometric Study

This study is aimed at examining scientific literatures written by international authors focusing on disaster management agency topic that are related to public policy from the first paper published in 1995 to 2022 using bibliometric study employing a database from Scopus. To visualize the results, this study utilizes VOSviewer version 1.6.17. The results showed that this topic emerged in Thailand which focused on roles of local level disaster management agency in carrying out rehabilitation and reconstruction activities in district level. However, Federal Emergency Management Agency, or the United States Disaster Management Agency, was considered to be the most researched disaster management agency. Besides, open-access social science articles dominated the type of publications in this research area. Moreover, the United States and its authors were perceived as the most productive and influential country and authors. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom was recognized as the most influential sources title with Journal “Disasters” served the most productive and influential source title. Besides, the affiliation among Austria, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States were acknowledged as the most productive and influential affiliations. The analysis also indicated that this topic developed and strongly connected to disaster and disaster management research areas. Considering the comprehensive nature of bibliometric analysis, this study may help scholars get a broad view of the relevant issues, while at the same time identifying reputable publications worth studying for reference.

Assessing the Authors and Source Impact of Financial Literacy: A Bibliometric Analysis Using R

Using a bibliometric analysis, the goal of this review is to assess and systematically document the author and source's impact on the area of financial literacy. Using R Studio, information is compiled from Scopus databases and analysed. We gathered a searchable database of the 1737 most relevant papers from 2018 to 2022. Assuming the trend continues, the number of publications dedicated to financial literacy is expected to rise between 2018 and 2022. During that period, it was seen that the authors and journals contributed significant impact with a high reputation. The most influential authors and sources on the topic are identified by the bibliometric analysis done using R. It demonstrates the writers’ comprehensive knowledge and grasp of their speciality topic. Furthermore, it aids readers in determining the most relevant source for future study of the scientific and empirical article.

Steroid Phobia in Patients With Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus.

Steroid phobia in people with dermatologic conditions is associated with noncompliance with topical corticosteroids (TCS). Although it has not been studied in those with vulvar lichen sclerosus (vLS), first-line therapy is lifelong maintenance TCS, and noncompliance is associated with impaired quality of life, progression of architecture changes, and vulvar skin cancer. The authors aimed to measure steroid phobia in patients with vLS and determine their most valued sources of information to direct future interventions to address this phenomenon. The authors adapted a preexisting, validated scale for steroid phobia (TOPICOP), which is a 12-item questionnaire that produces a score of 0 = no phobia and 100 = maximum phobia. The anonymous survey was distributed across social media platforms with an in-person component at the authors' institution. Eligible participants included those with clinical or biopsy-proven LS. Participants were excluded if they did not consent or did not communicate in English. The authors obtained 865 online responses over a 1-week period. The in-person pilot obtained 31 responses, with a response rate of 79.5%. Mean global steroid phobia score was 43.02 (21.9)% and in-person responses were not significantly different (40.94 [16.03]%, p = .59). Approximately 40% endorsed waiting as long as they can before using TCS and stop as soon as possible. The most influential sources to improve patient comfort with TCS were physician and pharmacist reassurance over online resources. Steroid phobia is common in patients with vLS. Focused efforts to address steroid phobia among health care providers is the next best step toward improving patient comfort with TCS.

YouNICon: YouTube’s CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos

Conspiracy theories are widely propagated on social media. Among various social media services, YouTube is one of the most influential sources of news and entertainment. This paper seeks to develop a dataset, YOUNICON, to enable researchers to perform conspiracy theory detection as well as classification of videos with conspiracy theories into different topics. YOUNICON is a dataset with a large collection of videos from suspicious channels that were identified to contain conspiracy theories in a previous study. Overall, YOUNICON will enable researchers to study trends in conspiracy theories and understand how individuals can interact with the conspiracy theory producing community or channel. Our data is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7466262.

Identifying Influential Brokers on Social Media from Social Network Structure

Identifying influencers in a given social network has become an important research problem for various applications, including accelerating the spread of information in viral marketing and preventing the spread of fake news and rumors. The literature contains a rich body of studies on identifying influential source spreaders who can spread their own messages to many other nodes. In contrast, the identification of influential brokers who can spread other nodes' messages to many nodes has not been fully explored. Theoretical and empirical studies suggest that involvement of both influential source spreaders and brokers is a key to facilitating large-scale information diffusion cascades. Therefore, this paper explores ways to identify influential brokers from a given social network. By using three social media datasets, we investigate the characteristics of influential brokers by comparing them with influential source spreaders and central nodes obtained from centrality measures. Our results show that (i) most of the influential source spreaders are not influential brokers (and vice versa) and (ii) the overlap between central nodes and influential brokers is small (less than 15%) in Twitter datasets. We also tackle the problem of identifying influential brokers from centrality measures and node embeddings, and we examine the effectiveness of social network features in the broker identification task. Our results show that (iii) although a single centrality measure cannot characterize influential brokers well, prediction models using node embedding features achieve F1 scores of 0.35--0.68, suggesting the effectiveness of social network features for identifying influential brokers.

Assessment of the quality and reliability of the information on spasticity on youtube

BackgroundYoutube has become an influential source of health. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and quality of YouTube videos on spasticity. MethodsThe keywords “ spasticity, spasticity treatment, spasticity exercises” were used to search for videos. According to the search results, 180 videos were analyzed, videometric characteristics of the videos were recorded, and 2 groups were formed as health professionals and non-health professionals according to the video source. In addition, low, medium and high quality groups were formed using the global quality score (GQS). The reliability of the videos was evaluated using the modified DISCERN (mDISCERN) scale. Video popularity was assessed using the video power index (VPI). ResultsAfter excluding videos that met the exclusion criteria, the remaining 68 videos were analyzed. The videos were uploaded by healthcare professionals (n = 47, 69.1%) and non-healthcare professionals (n = 21, 30.9%). The popularity (VPI), reliability (mDISCERN) and quality (GQS) of videos uploaded by healthcare professionals were significantly higher (p = 0.002, p = 0.001, p = 0.021, respectively). Most of the videos were of high quality according to GQS (n = 40, 58.8%). All of the high quality videos were of healthcare professionals. The number of sources from healthcare professionals was significantly higher in high quality videos than in both low (p = 0.001) and medium (p = 0.001) quality videos. ConclusionWe can conclude that most of the YouTube videos on spasticity are reliable and of high quality. However, it should be kept in mind that patients may be exposed to low-quality and unreliable videos with misleading content.

The Images of the First Lady of China and South Korea at the G20 Summit in Bali by Several Online Media

Online media is one of the most influential sources of information for today's society. This aim of this study is to reveal the image of the first lady of China and of South Korea based on the online news collected from the G20 Summit in Bali. The research data were the corpus from the online media texts collected from fragments of several online news which show the different images of the two first ladies (China and South Korea). The data were analyzed using three dimensions of Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis. Based on the study of text analysis, discursive practice, and socio-culture practice, the study shows that there are different images depicted by the online news for those ladies. Peng Liyuan, the first lady of China, is portrayed as a diligent person, enthusiasm for participating in various social activities. This image is closely related to China's image in Indonesia as one of the most developed countries after the United States. In different perspective, many media highlighted the physical beauty possessed by the first lady of South Korea, Kim Keon Hee. This image is directly proportional to the popularity of Korean dramas, which are very popular in Indonesian society today. One of the attractions of these dramas is the beautiful f aces of the actresses.

The Quality, Readability, and Accuracy of the Information on Google About Cannabis and Driving: Quantitative Content Analysis

Background The public perception of driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) is not consistent with current evidence. The internet is an influential source of information available for people to find information about cannabis. Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the quality, readability, and accuracy of the information about DUIC found on the internet using the Google Canada search engine. Methods A quantitative content analysis of the top Google search web pages was conducted to analyze the information available to the public about DUIC. Google searches were performed using keywords, and the first 20 pages were selected. Web pages or web-based resources were eligible if they had text on cannabis and driving in English. We assessed (1) the quality of information using the Quality Evaluation Scoring Tool (QUEST) and the presence of the Health on the Net (HON) code; (2) the readability of information using the Gunning Fox Index (GFI), Flesch Reading Ease Scale (FRES), Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) scores; and (3) the accuracy of information pertaining to the effects of cannabis consumption, prevalence of DUIC, DUIC effects on driving ability, risk of collision, and detection by law enforcement using an adapted version of the 5Cs website evaluation tool. Results A total of 82 web pages were included in the data analysis. The average QUEST score was 17.4 (SD 5.6) out of 28. The average readability scores were 9.7 (SD 2.3) for FKGL, 11.4 (SD 2.9) for GFI, 12.2 (SD 1.9) for SMOG index, and 49.9 (SD 12.3) for FRES. The readability scores demonstrated that 8 (9.8%) to 16 (19.5%) web pages were considered readable by the public. The accuracy results showed that of the web pages that presented information on each key topic, 96% (22/23) of them were accurate about the effects of cannabis consumption; 97% (30/31) were accurate about the prevalence of DUIC; 92% (49/53) were accurate about the DUIC effects on driving ability; 80% (41/51) were accurate about the risk of collision; and 71% (35/49) were accurate about detection by law enforcement. Conclusions Health organizations should consider health literacy of the public when creating content to help prevent misinterpretation and perpetuate prevailing misperceptions surrounding DUIC. Delivering high quality, readable, and accurate information in a way that is comprehensible to the public is needed to support informed decision-making.

Motivations for choosing an allied health profession career: findings from a scoping review

Fourteen professions are recognised as AHPs in England representing the third largest workforce in health and care. Although there is a need to significantly grow the AHP workforce in England, recruitment to many AHP courses is an issue. To increase course applications and encourage individuals to choose AHP careers, we need to understand the decision-making process in choosing an AHP career. The aim of this scoping review was to examine the nature and breadth of evidence internationally regarding the motivations for choosing an AHP career as well as any sources of influence and barriers. A comprehensive search identified 61 relevant studies. Findings revealed inconsistency in the evidence base and the literature focused on a select number of professions and countries. No relevant studies were found for three professions. Whilst many motivations and sources of influence were identified, barriers to entering an AHP career were explored less. The opportunity to help people was a key motivation with financially based motivations less important. Personal influences, such as a relative working in healthcare, were the most influential source to choosing this career pathway, media was the least. The main barrier to choosing an AHP career identified was a lack of awareness of the profession. There is a need to further investigate career choice motivations, sources of influence and barriers for all AHPs; gaining this knowledge will help tailor future healthcare career promotion and advice for each profession and assist with overall AHP recruitment.

Collective Resilience and Coping Mechanisms Among International Faculty Members Amid Snap Lockdowns During the Delta and Omicron Variant Outbreaks in East China.

This study explores international faculty members' resilience and the active challenges to establishing coping mechanisms while facing a mental health crisis provoked by the Delta and Omicron lockdowns in China. Grounded in a qualitative approach, this study used a transcendental phenomenological methodology to examine 16 international faculty members affiliated with higher education institutions in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing. The findings showed that participants had various mental health issues amid snap lockdowns and persistent nucleic acid application tests. They perceived the most influential sources of coping mechanisms to be (a) social and emotional support; (b) prosocial behavior; and (c) engagement with the public and social services alongside the domestic faculty members. This study emphasizes the significance of collective resilience and prosocial behaviors, calling on future scholars to pay more attention to the host group's cultural values and community resilience as coping mechanisms during the public health crisis provoked by the pandemic.

EUROPEAN GUIDEBOOKS AS A GENRE OF TOURISM DISCOURSE: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AND MODERN CLASSIFICATION

The article studies the formation of the travel guidebook as a genre of tourism discourse, whose key features are a high degree of generalization, the accuracy of information, impersonality and persuasion. The tourist guide is an applied genre and also a cultural representation of the past of a city or region. Moreover, the guidebook is a historical object, which can say a great deal about both the destination that it describes and the culture in which it is made, as well as the values of society in the period when it was written. The main stages of the genre development are researched on the material of specific printed guidebooks. Particular attention is paid to European guidebooks. The article highlights some socio-cultural peculiarities that influence the development of the genre. The paper also provides the classification of modern tourist guidebooks and shows their changing role in the digital era. While more people report using the Internet for travel, guidebooks are still rated as the most influential source of information by travellers. The findings suggest that both the uses and the value types of guidebooks are related to emerging information communication technologies.

Social media links with social capital to trust in healthcare facilities: empirical evidence from Bangladesh

PurposeThe paper aims to investigate the most influential social media information sources to trust in healthcare facilities. The article shows a valuable point of reference for understanding how social media becomes the casting of social capital.Design/methodology/approachThis paper has taken 660 responses from the people who used social media for healthcare information in the mid of 2020 during the pandemic. The people were approached through different social media groups. The paper conducted structural equation modelling (SEM). The result has shown that with the instigating power of social capital where people put trust in social media information during pandemics.FindingsThe findings demonstrated that personal sources, government organisations and healthcare professionals are the most influential sources of social media. In order to effectively ensure the encompassing provision of COVID-19 health services, this article argues that social capital considerations establish trust between healthcare facilities seeking community to healthcare information providers.Research limitations/implicationsThis research has signified that social cohesion and concern for community welfare instigated people to engage in social media communication. The inherent social capital belongings influence people to trust the sources of health information from selected sources that appear on social media.Practical implicationsHealthcare policymakers may utilise this intense feeling of belongingness and cohesion of social capital and use social media platforms to spread health-related information.Originality/valueThe study shows social capital has the strength to entice people into healthcare-seeking behaviour. In this era, social capital is reformulated to digital social capital through social media and strongly affects people's trust.

Analyzing referencing patterns in grey literature produced by influential global management consulting firms and international organizations.

Given the growing influence of non-academic organizations in the policy sphere, it is important to investigate the evidence both produced by and relied on by these organizations. Using citation analysis, a methodology primarily used in academic literature, we investigated the evidence base supporting the grey literature published by leading global management consulting firms (GMCFs) and international organizations (IOs). With the topic of the skills needed for the future of work as a case study, we collected 234 reports published by influential GMCFs and IOs over twenty years. By extracting references from the bibliographies of these reports we: 1) analyzed referencing patterns by measuring citation counts, institutional self-referencing and utilization of scholarly sources; 2) compared reference patterns across GMCFs and IOs; and 3) described the most influential sources. Overall, both GMCFs and IOs showed increasing reliance on grey literature, demonstrated high levels of self-referencing, and had considerable variation in the number of sources referred to. Across type of publishing organization, we found that IOs had better referencing practices than GMCFs. Our findings call into question the evidence-base behind the reports published by these policy actors. We emphasize the need to rely on strong academic literature to inform policy decisions around the future of work.

Evolving alliance between corporate environmental performance and financial performance: A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review

AbstractThis study aims to overview the existing literature, knowledge framework, and intellectual structure mapping in the field of corporate environmental performance (CEP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) by employing a bibliometric analysis approach to selected 311 papers sourced from the Scopus database between 1994 and 2022. It presents the publication growth, influential sources, productive authors, and collaboration index of countries using Biblioshiny software. Stringent regulatory regime and stakeholders' pressure followed by a growing trend of publication motivated us to comprehend the evolving facets of the relationship using co‐citation analysis followed by a systematic literature review using coupling analysis which identified five research themes as CEP–CFP relationships—facets, strategies and dimensions, and methodological choices during the initial phase of 1994–2014; and green innovation and corporate sustainability practices, environmental disclosure and environmental responsibility, and green development behavior and practices during 2015–2022. From the insights congregated from research themes, the study discusses prominent developments and provides future research directions to further enrich the field of CEP and CFP. Our findings provide various global regulatory frameworks, government, policymakers, and firm managers the need to explore the dynamic factors while formulating the strategic environmental policy and how it contributes to the financial performance of the firms.

Pharmaceutical active compounds in a heavily industrialized and urbanized bay, Eastern China.

Bays are transition zones connecting freshwater ecosystems and marine ecosystems, and they are strongly influenced by intensive human activities. Pharmaceuticals are of concern in bay aquatic environments because of their potential threat to marine food web. We studied the occurrence, spatial distribution, and ecological risks of 34 pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) in Xiangshan Bay, a heavily industrialized and urbanized area in Zhejiang Province, Eastern China. PhACs were ubiquitously detected in the coastal waters of the study area. A total of twenty-nine compounds were detected in at least one sample. Carbamazepine, lincomycin, diltiazem, propranolol, venlafaxine, anhydro erythromycin, and ofloxacin had the highest detection rate (≥ 93%). These compounds were detected with maximum concentrations of 31, 127, 0.52, 1.96, 2.98, 75, and 98ng/L, respectively. Human pollution activities included marine aquacultural discharge and effluents from the local sewage treatment plants. These activities were the most influential sources in this study area based on principal component analysis. Lincomycin was an indicator of veterinary pollution of coastal aquatic environment, and the concentrations of lincomycin were positively related to the total phosphorus in this area (r = 0.28, p < 0.05). Typical PhACs such as venlafaxine, ofloxacin, norfloxacin, roxithromycin, and clarithromycin were significantly and positively correlated with nitrate and total nitrogen (r > 0.26, p < 0.05) based on Pearson's correlation analysis. Carbamazepine was negatively correlated with salinity (r < - 0.30, p < 0.01). Land use pattern was also correlated with the occurrence and distribution of PhACs in the Xiangshan Bay. Some PhACs, i.e., ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, carbamazepine, and amitriptyline posed medium to highecological risks to this coastal environment. The results of this study could be helpful to understand the levels of pharmaceuticals, potential sources, and ecological risks in marine aquacultural environment.

상담전공 특수대학원에 재학하는 성인학습자의 학습경험에 대한 합의적 질적 연구

Objectives The aim of the study is to analyze the learning experience of adult learners in professional counseling program based on the expectancy-value theory.&#x0D; Methods Focus group interviews were conducted with ten students in the program and the data was analyzed using Consensual Qualitative Research(CQR) method. Consensual Qualitative Research is a method in which a research team consisting of evaluators and one supervisor analyzes data and checks the overall pattern through consensus.&#x0D; Results The major results are as follows. First, most of the students had a motivation to go to graduate school by recognizing the intrinsic value such as interest in counseling, the desire to learn, and the utility value such as the second job preparation and center opening plan. However, there was no expectancy belief for success that the degree course would be completed successfully. Second, the anticipated cost before entering the program is the opportunity cost incurred by not being able to participate in work or family life as before and the effort cost from engaging in the program. Despite of the cost perception, they decided to participate in the program. After entering the program, these anticipated cost perceptions partly continued with other newly emerged costs, such as doubts and concerns about ability in counseling and counseling research methodology. Third, emotional support from the interpersonal relationships, interest and mastery experience in the counseling domain were the most influential sources for being continuously engaged in the program, compared to the perceptions of utility values such as obtaining a license or preparing for a second job were dominant before entering the program.&#x0D; Conclusions This research allowed exploration of adult learner's various difficulties and sources of continuing study during attending a special graduate school majoring in counseling. Implications for further research and practices were provided.

4-E (Energy-Emission-Environment-Economic) Dispatch Problem in Solar PV Energy Using Hybrid PSOTLBO Search Algorithm

Renewable energy sources have evolved into a technologically and economically feasible choice for use by electrical utilities. Furthermore, the widespread usage of renewable energy sources is driving policymakers and utilities to increase green energy’s role to ensure long-term economic growth. The most influential non-conventional energy source for generating power is solar energy. Electric power systems must be designed, built, and run in such a way that the majority of energy demand for loads is supplied reliably, cost-effectively, and in an environmentally responsible manner. In 4-E dispatch, the term “energy” refers to generated power in the scheduled period, the term “emission” refers to the amount of emission released in the scheduled period, and the term “environment” refers to health and environmental damage costs in the scheduled period and the term “economic” refers to power generating cost in the scheduled period. In this paper a hybrid of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and teaching learning-based optimization (TLBO), named as PSOTLBO is proposed, developed, and effectively applied to attain the best or optimum solutions for the 4-E (Energy-Emission-Environment-Economic) dispatch problem for scenarios involving ten thermal power plants and thirteen solar photovoltaic (PV) plants.