Textual Statistics Research Articles

Agroecology as a new frame of reference for French agricultural policy? Insights from a lexicometric analysis of policy documents

ABSTRACT References to agroecology have gradually started appearing in national and international public policies. We examine the extent to which agroecology is becoming a frame of reference for public action in the French national and regional context. Using textual statistics, we analyzed institutional documents concerning agroecology put out by public policy actors between 2008 and the summer of 2021, and conducted interviews with key actors of the Agroecological Project for France (PAEF, Projet Agroécologique pour la France). Our analysis shows that agroecology invoked in framing texts is reclassified in the vocabulary of triple performance, dominated by the notion of economic performance. A comparative analysis of the national and regional texts reveals mismatches, especially in terms of the level of autonomy of the actors concerned, and in the processes of knowledge transfer and support for changes in agricultural practices.

What do Contemporary Publications Report about the Generation of Urban Solid Waste (MSW) and/or Consumption from the Perspective of Chemistry Teaching?

The present study aimed to highlight the research on the topics of urban solid waste generation and consumerism from the perspective of Chemistry teaching between the years 2018 and 2023. To this end, a State-of-the-Art research, according to Romanowski and Ens (2006), in Periódicos Capes database on the aforementioned themes was realized. The methodology used was qualitative. The forms of analysis applied were both mediated by the IRAMuTeQ software and processed by the content analysis of Bardin (2002). In relation to the survey in Periódicos Capes, a textual corpus was obtained with 15 article summaries. Still as results, for textual statistics, the emergence of 82 text segments (ST) was observed, with the use of 65 ST (79.3%) and six classes in the Descending Hierarchical Classification (DHC). This is a satisfactory use and allows us to classify this analysis as consistent and consequently move on to content analysis based on the DHC. The mottos Waste and Generation were the highlights of the similarity analysis, preceded by the mottos Technology, Environmental, Student and Consumerism. In relation to content analysis, two very important categories emerged that communicate well with this object of study. As a consideration, it appears that in the contemporaneity of the last five years, there are strong signs of gaps regarding the use of these themes in the teaching of Chemistry, making it important for researchers to invest more time in the development of the area.

Online scientific research on placentophagy: a bibliometric analysis.

To classify the bibliometric indicators of online scientific research on placentophagy. A bibliometric study was conducted to quantify the scientific production of authors and institutions with the aim of highlighting the growth and impact of these publications nationally and internationally. The Bradford Law, network maps, and textual statistics were used, with searches conducted in libraries and databases in October 2021. The sample consisted of 64 articles, whose primary authors were associated with 49 institutions, and mostly with degrees in anthropology. The United States of America was the country that published the most papers on the theme, and most studies were reviews with individual production. Through the term analysis, it was found that the predominant themes regarding placentophagy were the following: Alternative therapy for women's health, methodologies used for research in this area, period of placenta ingestion (postpartum period), and its benefits. The bibliometric indicators found are essential for the development of future research.

Conformist singularities. Standardized discourses on the local specificities of urban projects

This article addresses a paradox: whereas urban projects are meant to have a specific local (historical, geographical, and cultural) color, the projects themselves and the discourse about them are highly standardized. Collected through semi-structured interviews, the discourses of the designers (architects, urban planners, landscape architects, promoters, and project managers) of two urban projects in France are scrutinized using discourse analysis (textual statistics) and content analysis (qualitative approach). First, the study reveals the uniformity of these actors’ discourse: textual statistics show a striking similarity in discourse across the two sites even if the differences among professions are more apparent. Second, it highlights the role of local specificities within this uniformity: the qualitative analysis shows that the discourse remains standardized despite its purpose to highlight singularities. Finally, the paper reveals how the actors themselves perceive this paradox and maintain a critical distance regarding the dominant trends in the production of contemporary cities.

Culture’s Representation in Van Gulik’s Transcreated Novel The Chinese Maze Murders: A Multimodal Corpus Approach

The Chinese Maze Murders, a Chinese culture-based detective novel transcreated by Dutch sinologist Robert Hans van Gulik, represents Chinese cultures multimodally and reconciles Chinese-English cultural gaps effectively. Figuring out what cross-cultural functions and contributions of illustration-text multimodal combinations in The Chinese Maze Murders make would be inspiring for effectively promoting and applying multimodal ways in Chinese-English cultural translation. Yet, there is a scarcity of translation studies investigating it directly. This multimodal corpus-based study first identifies the different culture-representing features of the illustration-text multimodal combinations in the Chinese and English versions of The Chinese Maze Murders quantitatively, and then proposes the fundamental functions and contributions of illustration-text combinations that could facilitate cross-cultural translation qualitatively. The corpus textual statistics show that the Chinese version comprises 23.04% material cultural elements and 76.96% non-material cultural elements. While the English version comprises 36.58% material cultural elements and 63.42% non-material cultural elements. The different type-allocation of textually represented cultural elements in two language versions is regarded as an operating result of the mechanism of illustration-text multimodal combinations. Based on further retroductive corpus statistics-derived example analysis, it is argued that illustration-text multimodal combinations could facilitate cross-cultural translation in (a) transforming abstract cultural elements into concrete cultural elements, (b) integrating cultural elements as “meaning wholes,” and (c) visualizing cultural implications. This study sheds new light on the cultural functions of illustration-text multimodal combinations in translation, which provides practical implications for mitigating the cultural incommensurability of Chinese-English translation.

Looking Back and Moving Forward: Developments in Economic Stress Research

The last few years have highlighted the intertwined nature of the coronavirus pandemic and economic stressors that many individuals face globally. Economic stressors refer to income- and employment-related sources of stress and include: economic instability (e.g., number and duration of periods of unemployment, downward mobility), economic deprivation (e.g., loss of income and financial resources), employment uncertainty (e.g., job insecurity), and economic strain (e.g., financial insecurity). As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, it was often the most economically vulnerable who lost their jobs, were forced to choose between protecting their health and protecting their livelihoods, and faced growing food and income insecurity. Unfortunately, much pre-pandemic research highlighted the numerous adverse negative effects that these stressors can have on workers and their families, including reduced physical and mental health, poorer long-term career outcomes, and impaired marital, family, and social relationships. The purpose of this symposium is to respond to the AOM 2022 call for research that can enable us to create a better world together; indeed, our presenters bring valuable perspectives from multiple countries (Canada, the Republic of Korea, Italy, and the United States) and continents (Asia, Europe, and North America).Topics include: the impact of technology-induced job insecurity and benefits of organizationally-provided training; the relationship between childhood economic stress and the experience of adulthood subjective economic stress; a textual statistics analysis of the past 40 years of job insecurity research; the impact of managerial listening quality on affective commitment trajectories in response to job insecurity; and, an examination of the cross-level effects of organizational financial strain climate on employee-level reactions to job insecurity. Our symposium’s theme of “Looking Back and Moving Forward” captures the thread underlying the session’s five presentations with the aim of understanding how we can leverage prior and current research on economic stressors to improve the well-being of today’s employees and what steps organizations might take moving forward to facilitate this. Technology Advancements and Employees’ Qualitative Job Insecurity: Moderating Effects of Training Presenter: Hyun Jung Lee; Washington State U. Vancouver Presenter: Andrea Bazzoli; Washington State U. Vancouver Presenter: Tahira M. Probst; Washington State U. Vancouver Presenter: Sunhee Lee; Chungnam National U. Childhood Economic Stress: How The Past Shapes The Present Presenter: Baylor Graham; Clemson U. Presenter: Robert R Sinclair; Clemson U. Synthesizing Forty Years Of Job Insecurity Research: A Textual Statistics Approach Presenter: Andrea Bazzoli; Washington State U. Vancouver Presenter: Tahira M. Probst; Washington State U. Vancouver Job Insecurity and Commitment Inconsistency: Listening as a Buffer Against Commitment Decline Presenter: Tiffany Kriz; MacEwan U. Presenter: Phillip M. Jolly; Pennsylvania State U. Presenter: Mindy Krischer Shoss; U. of Central Florida Job Insecurity and Job-related Affective Wellbeing: The Moderating Role of Financial Strain Climate Presenter: Laura Petitta; Sapienza U. of Rome Presenter: Valerio Ghezzi; Sapienza U. of Rome Presenter: Tahira M. Probst; Washington State U. Vancouver Presenter: Claudio Barbaranelli; Sapienza U. of Rome

Taking stock and moving forward: A textual statistics approach to synthesizing four decades of job insecurity research

We collected the abstracts of manuscripts examining job insecurity published between 1984 and 2019 and carried out a textual analysis to investigate the defining clusters, their development over time, and whether there was evidence of siloed knowledge. Results suggested that job insecurity research seems to be fragmented into disciplinary foci (organizational psychology, public health, economics, and sociology). Further analyses on the organizational psychology corpus, revealed 25 topics with distinct temporal trajectories: some were increasing (analytical advances and differentiation between cognitive and affective job insecurity) while other were decreasing (scale development). The remaining abstracts revealed 15 topics with more stable trajectories. Based on these results, we identified five areas for future organizational research on job insecurity: the changing labor market, the need to better understand the experiences of marginalized workers and non-work outcomes of job insecurity, the added-value of qualitative research, and the need to critically evaluate our assumptions as researchers. Since the paper by Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt, research on job insecurity has burgeoned. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, we collected the abstracts of all peer-reviewed manuscripts examining job insecurity published between 1984 and 2019 and carried out a textual analysis using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation and the Reinert method to investigate (a) the defining clusters of job insecurity research, (b) the development of such clusters over time, and (c) whether there was any evidence of siloed knowledge. Results suggested that indeed job insecurity research seems to be fragmented into four main disciplinary foci (organizational psychology, public health, economics, and sociology) with relatively little cross-fertilization. We conducted further analyses of the abstracts stemming from organizational research on job insecurity, revealing 25 topics with distinct temporal trajectories (e.g., “hot” topics including the increasing use of advanced analytic techniques and differentiation between cognitive and affective job insecurity) and “cold” topics including the development of job insecurity measures). The remaining abstracts revealed 15 topics with more stable research interests over time (e.g., a continued reliance on appraisal theories). Based on these results, we identified five areas for future organizational research on job insecurity based on: the changing labor market, the need to better understand the experiences of marginalized workers and non-work outcomes of job insecurity, the added-value of qualitative research, and finally the need to critically evaluate our assumptions as researchers.

Trends in integrated waste management research: A content analysis

Analyze the trends that characterize scientific production through textual statistics and text mining methods, highlighting the most debated topics useful for developing new research perspectives in this field. Textual statistics and text mining methods were chosen to analyse the real scope of integrated waste management, focus the investigation on the central elements of their discussion, and the trends that characterized scientific production in that field. Two argumentative dimensions that characterize the corpus, the one with the greatest response, in terms of quotation, is aspects with 48 extracted quotations. This result indicates how scientific research focuses more on the relationship between integrated waste management and waste treatment, recycling, disposal, and environmental. The analysis made it possible to define the most debated issues in integrated waste management clearly. From an elements point of view, integrating waste management depends on the treatment, recycling, and disposal.

Wineries communication strategies. A text mining analysis

The digital literacy that has developed in recent decades has resulted in internet playing an important role in the communication of wineries. Business websites, initially used as an exhibitor of products, quickly became one of the most important tools to implement communication strategies used to successfully place the wine product in a competitive market. The purpose of this study is to analyse major Italian wineries websites through textual statistics and text mining methods to provide evidence on the storytelling device adopted by these companies to promote and brand themselves. The information contained in the websites of the selected businesses in Northern, Central and Southern Italy, has been analysed in three steps. The first consisted in investigating categories with which the contents were organized, and the second step involved examining the contents’ word clouds which are useful for a qualitative analysis on similarities and differences found in the three different areas. Finally, different strategies were formalized, by reconstructing the structure of concepts underlying the communication models of the wineries of the three areas examined. The results demonstrate considerably different approaches adopted by the areas. While the wineries in Central Italy focus on communication concerning the company, in the North and South, more attention is given to production methods and territory respectively. Thanks to the analysis of word clouds it was also possible to expose the construct which is the basis of narratives used by wineries, followed by the typical communication strategy of the different Italian areas.

Trends in Environmental Management Systems Research. A Content Analysis

Abstract Environmental Management Systems (EMS) represent a solid opportunity for companies that voluntarily undertake a path towards the adoption of environmental protection policies. Many studies investigated the link between EMS and improvement of environmental performance, demonstrating how the adoption of an international standard as ISO 14000 or EMAS guarantees the company an improvement in its performance and an increase in transparency towards stakeholders. However, scientific research in this field reflects the strong variability due to the breadth and diversity of sectors in which the two international standards can be adopted. The aim of this work is to analyse, through textual statistics and text mining methods, the trends that characterize scientific production, highlighting most debated topics useful for developing new research perspectives in this research field.

Textbooks on Differential Calculus in Eighteenth Century Europe: A Comparative Stylistic Analysis

Comparative mathematical textbook analysis aims at the de termination of differences among countries concerning the development and transmission of mathematics. On the other hand, textual statistics provides a means to quantify a text by applying multivariate statistical techniques. So far this statistical approach has not been applied to comparative math ematical textbook analysis yet. The object of this paper is to quantify and compare the style of a number of textbooks on differential calculus writ ten in 18th century Europe. To that purpose two multivariate statistical techniques have been applied: 1) simple correspondence analysis and 2) hi erarchical clustering analysis. The results of both analysis help to detect some interesting associations among the analysed textbooks.

EXAMINING THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNANCE IN TOURISM RESEARCH

Purpose – Governance is a polysemous concept that has been gaining the attention of social scientists and humanists over the last three decades. Tourism governance studies have mirrored the knowledge developed within traditional disciplines to analyse processes in different spheres of action. This paper aims to perceive how tourism governance has been applied in scientific research over recent decades, in terms of its conceptualization, territorial scale and the type of territory studied. Design – Using a literature review, we present an analysis of governance in tourism studies and we show the potential of textual statistics for the analysis of huge amounts of textual data. Methodology – Data were extracted from SCOPUS, from 1999 to 2020, based on the keywords ‘governance’ and ‘tourism’. All abstracts were encoded and analysed using ALCESTE software. Findings – The findings reveal a great concern with sustainability, especially with the environmental and social impacts generated by tourism, and destination management, with an emphasis on the performance of the public sector through local and regional institutions and their relations with local tourism stakeholders. Originality of the research – The novelty of this work is the analysis of the conceptual framework and implementation practises in governance and tourism using an innovative software tool for textual analysis.

SAÚDE MENTAL NA UNIVERSIDADE: A PERSPECTIVA DE UNIVERSITÁRIOS DA PERMANÊNCIA ESTUDANTIL

The way in which university students relate to society emotionally or psychosocially has been gaining prominence in the contemporary world, which has been highlighted in university research, as well as leading universities to look at their students' mentaland emotional health. . The aim of this study was to analyze the opinion of university students of the student stay on how the university could support them in their psychosocial and mental health experiences. To this end, the qualitative and quantitativemethod involved the participation of 140 students, aged between 17 and 24 years, registered at the Technical Center for Psychosocial Care (NTAPS) of Unesp, Campus de Bauru, in 2018, beneficiaries of student allowance. The treatment of the data occurred through the analysis of textual content of the students answers about how the university could support them in their psychosocial aspects. This content was submitted to the textual statistics software, Iramuteq, which, through two analysis techniques, presented a word cloud and an analysis of similarity among the most evoked words in the students' speeches. The word cloud showed graphically that the most cited words were “student”, “university”, “being”, “offering” and “psychological assistance” and the similarity analysis demonstrated the interrelationships between these words. As a result, it was obtained that the students' speeches converge to highlight the importance of psychological assistance during the university period, as part of the student assistance service.

Interactivity and engagement: a systematic review of academic production in marketing

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the current direction of research on interactivity and engagement, specifically in the field of marketing, evaluating in-depth the main themes and methods of studied research, indicating new directions for future research.Method: From journals listed in the Web of Science, a systematic review of the literature was carried out through textual statistics analysis with the Iramuteq software. We conducted an in-depth analysis of 40 articles on the subject of engagement and interactivity.Results: We identified that the theme is studied in several environments, such as online environment, social communities, social media ads, games advertising and mobile telephony. The textual analysis indicates that the most frequent relation is related to the studies of branding. This work also identified that most of the research was carried out in the United States, and the most used approach was quantitative, primarily with the use of structural equation modeling.Theoretical contributions: This work contributes to consolidate the academic research in interactivity and engagement in the field of marketing. It shows that interactivity is directly related to engagement and its cognitive and affective commitment, generating an active relationship with technology, which influences satisfaction, trust and commitment.Originality/relevance: This study presents the most recent studies and presents relevant research gaps on the topic of engagement and interactivity, reinforcing its current relevance and increasing importance in marketing research.

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION IN ONLINE JOURNALS ABOUT THE NEW CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19): BIBLIOMETRIC RESEARCH

ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the bibliometric indicators of scientific production available in online journals that address Covid-19. Method: bibliometric study using Bradford's Law, network maps and textual statistics conducted with publications available in databases, from January to March 2020. Results: the sample consisted of 110 scientific articles. The main authors of the studies were linked to 83 institutions in 30 countries, giving priority to medical training. China was the country that published the most, providing a large number of research data. Patients infected with Covid-19 and the population in general made up the study populations and the hospital environment was the place where most of the research was performed. The journal with the highest number of publications has a high scientific influence among academic journals. The predominance of themes about Covid-19 was observed through the analysis of terms. Conclusion: bibliometric indicators indicate existing directions and gaps in the scientific production of Covid-19, which will assist in the development of future research, especially at the national level.

A estatística textual computadorizada e a literatura brasileira: uma análise do romance "Miragem", de Coelho Neto

Neste artigo, revelamos, por meio de uma leitura estilométrica, características do estilo de escrita de Coelho Neto em Miragem (1895). Ademais, comparamos o estilo do escritor com o estilo de três escritores contemporâneos seus: Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço (1890); Adolfo Caminha, Bom-Crioulo (1895); e Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1900). A metodologia de investigação adotada nesse trabalho tem como suporte a estilometria (Brandão, 2006; Cúrcio, 2006, 2007, 2013; Freitas, 2007; Paiva, 2013; Assis, 2013; e Silva, 2014) e dialoga, sempre que possível, com a crítica literária direcionada a Coelho Neto e sua obra, principalmente no tocante ao seu estilo. Dentre os nossos achados, comprovamos que os usos de adjetivos, verbos, e advérbios em –mente apontados como “excessivos” pela crítica por parte de Coelho Neto na composição do seu estilo são, aparentemente, normais quando comparamos o seu estilo com o estilo de seus contemporâneos.

Can social ecological economics of water reinforce the “big tent”?

This paper seeks to characterize the importance of the social and political dimensions of the literature dedicated to water in the field of ecological economics. It attempts to assess the relevance of Spash's division of the community into three “camps”, namely “new resource economists”, “social ecological economists” and “new environmental pragmatists” through the literature focusing on water issues published in leading scientific journals. We begin with an analysis of the main ontological, epistemological and methodological tenets of the three “camps”. We then analyze the relevance and limits of such categorization for water research through papers published in Ecological Economics. We then explore the field of ecological economics of water through textual statistics obtained from research abstracts published in five selected journals since the late 1980s. Our results raise questions regarding the relevance of the partition of the ecological economics community thanks to a Venn diagram that presents limited overlaps. We promote an inclusive representation of the “big tent” of ecological economics, thus suggesting new perspectives for the debate on methodological pluralism in Ecological Economics. To conclude, a series of recommendations are suggested to promote water social ecological economics, and strengthen pluralism within the community.

Hybridization in Public Discourse: the case of the Practices of Servitization

How can hybridization occur at a structural level? Hybrid practices arise from institutional complexity and are recognised for their potential to cope with complex social problems. The literature has concentrated on how practices hybridize at an intra-organisational level, but it has remained silent on how hybridization processes operate at wider – structural – levels. One way to track these processes is to examine how they are materialized in discourses. Thus, this article investigates how discourses capture institutional complexity and shape the emergence of a hybrid practice. Empirically, it studies the emergence of servitization: an innovation whereby manufacturers sell the use of their products instead of products themselves. Through textual statistics based on a media content representing the discourse on servitization in France, I inductively explore the discursive aspects of hybridization. Results capture how institutional logics contribute to and feed the theorization of servitization. They show that the emergence of servitization is supported by the hybridization of the Market and the State logics, both of them being connected through the Climate change one. On this basis, the discursive determinants of hybridization are exposed, and a discursive model of hybridizing is discussed.

Scientific production on workplace bullying and nursing: a bibliometric study.

To verify bibliometric indicators of the scientific production available in online journals that approach workplace bullying and nursing. A bibliometric study making use of Bradford's law, Zipf's law, and textual statistics was carried out with publications in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, made available in national and international databases, from 2000 to 2016. The sample was made up of 111 publications. The main authors had connections with 91 institutions distributed in 24 countries. The United States, Brazil, and Australia were the countries with the most publications. The populations of the studies were made up of nursing professionals and students, and the hospital environment was the most studied setting. The journals with a higher number of publications have international scientific influence. The terms that presented greater semantic power and high frequency in the abstracts were: bullying; assédio moral; and acoso laboral. Indicators showed that workplace bullying occurs in the nursing work environments of several countries, and the number of publications on this theme has tended to increase. Diversifying methods and study settings is important to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and fight against this violence.

Métricas Rosianas (1929-1967)

Neste artigo vamos apresentar brevemente alguns resultados oriundos de um estudo de estatística textual aplicado sobre a obra literária completa de João Guimarães Rosa, sabemos que há as epístolas de Rosa, mas essas não foram utilizadas por não possuírem caráter originalmente literário. Grosso modo, vale dizer que dois campos foram amplamente explorados: o primeiro campo retrata as características gerais e específicas do próprio vocabulário empregado por Guimarães Rosa e o segundo compara os resultados obtidos com três teses da crítica literária rosiana que retratam questões intrigantes sobre o vocabulário de Rosa e suas manifestações ao longo da vida produtiva literária do autor mineiro.