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Mapping the Literature on Asset Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Asset management is a contemporary research area that coordinates activities to realize value from assets in organizations. Consolidated with the international ISO 55000 series, it has become an active field of infrastructure. In this context, this paper aims to map the literature on asset management through a bibliometric analysis. In order to have a comprehensive mapping, a bibliometric approach was conducted in three steps: data collection, data processing and extraction of results. The analysis processes focused on publication trends, key research areas, main sources of publication, contributing authors and countries and its collaboration as main topics of bibliometric. A total of 2,449 documents related to asset management was collected according to the search protocol. Publication trends identified a rapid growth over the past 15 years on asset management and a concentration of documents in five research areas: Financial and business, Infrastructure, Maintenance, Optimization and Management. The source of publications and contributing authors were both identified not only by the greatest number of documents on the field but their relevance by citation index. Lastly, the USA, England, Canada, Australia and China were found to be the most publishing countries and strong international collaborators on asset management. Thus, these findings are expected to contribute to researchers around the world as bibliometric mapping is an interesting approach to provide a detailed overview of a scientific field and insights for further research.

  • Autor/es: Renan Favarao da Silva, Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza
  • Año de publicación: 2021
  • País: Brasil
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

Bibliometric study on nanoscience and nanotechnology in Mexico based on Web of Science

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It is evident that the nanosciences and nanotechnologies field will have a significant impact on various fields of action and will be linked to the development of a country, so their study is fundamental; On the other hand, the amount of information generated today makes it difficult to study a scientific topic. Therefore, information analysis tools are needed, both methodological and technological; in this context, metric methodologies are adequate to study a scientific field like this; Therefore, the present work aims to carry out a bibliometric study on the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology in Mexico based on the use of scientific mapping. Documentary analysis and the use of metric indicators of activity and relational indicators were used as methods and procedures. In the practical case, the data was taken from the Web of Science Database and Bibliometrix was used to develop the scientific-technological maps. We retrieved 15,876 research articles on N & N published between 1975 and 2021. The experimental results showed that they received an average of 17.61 citations per article, which were written in 2567 journals, more than 98% of the articles are written in English, and as for authors there is an average of 5.66 by document.

  • Autor/es: Jose Luis Trujillo-Cancino, Cesar H. Limaymanta
  • Año de publicación: 2023
  • País: Mexico, Perú
  • Idioma: Español
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

Climate change, extreme events and mental health in the Pacific region

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PurposeThis paper aims to address a gap in investigating specific impacts of climate change on mental health in the Pacific region, a region prone to extreme events. This paper reports on a study on the connections between climate change, public health, extreme weather and climate events (EWEs), livelihoods and mental health, focusing on the Pacific region Islands countries. Design/methodology/approachThis paper deploys two main methods. The first is a bibliometric analysis to understand the state of the literature. For example, the input data for term co-occurrence analysis using VOSviewer is bibliometric data of publications downloaded from Scopus. The second method describes case studies, which outline some of the EWEs the region has faced, which have also impacted mental health. FindingsThe results suggest that the increased frequency of EWEs in the region contributes to a greater incidence of mental health problems. These, in turn, are associated with a relatively low level of resilience and greater vulnerability. The findings illustrate the need for improvements in the public health systems of Pacific nations so that they are in a better position to cope with the pressures posed by a changing environment. Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the current literature by identifying the links between climate change, extreme events, environmental health and mental health consequences in the Pacific Region. It calls for greater awareness of the subject matter of mental health among public health professionals so that they may be better able to recognise the symptoms and relate them to their climate-related causes and co-determinant factors.

  • Autor/es: Walter Leal Filho, Murukesan Krishnapillai, Aprajita Minhas, Sannia Ali, Gabriela Nagle Alverio, Medhat Sayed Hendy Ahmed, Roselyn Naidu, Ravinesh R. Prasad, Navjot Bhullar, Ayyoob Sharifi, Gustavo J. Nagy, Marina Kovaleva
  • Año de publicación: 2023
  • País: Uruguay, USA, Fiji, Nueva Zelanda, Japon, Inglaterra, Micronesia
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

Are publications on zoological taxonomy under attack?

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Taxonomy is essential to biological sciences and the priority field in face of the biodiversity crisis. The industry of scientific publications has made extensive promotion and display of bibliometric indexes, resulting in side effects such as the Journal Impact Factor (TM) (JIF) mania. Inadequacies of the widely used indexes to assess taxonomic publications are among the impediments for the progress of this field. Based on an unusually high proportion of self-citations, the mega-journal Zootaxa, focused on zoological taxonomy, was suppressed from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR, Clarivate (TM)). A prompt reaction from the scientific community against this decision took place exposing myths and misuses of bibliometrics. Our goal is to shed light on the impact of misuse of bibliometrics to the production in taxonomy. We explored JCR’s metrics for 2010-2018 of 123 zoological journals publishing taxonomic studies. Zootaxa, with around 15 000 citations, received 311% more citations than the second most cited journal, and shows higher levels of self-citations than similar journals. We consider Zootaxa’s scope and the fact that it is a mega-journal are insufficient to explain its high level of self-citation. Instead, this result is related to the ‘Zootaxa phenomenon’, a sociological bias that includes visibility and potentially harmful misconceptions that portray the journal as the only one that publishes taxonomic studies. Menaces to taxonomy come from many sources and the low bibliometric indexes, including JIF, are only one factor among a range of threats. Instead of being focused on statistically illiterate journal metrics endorsing the villainy of policies imposed by profit-motivated companies, taxonomists should be engaged with renewed strength in actions directly connected to the promotion and practice of this science without regard for citation analysis.

  • Autor/es: Ângelo Parise Pinto, Gabriel Mejdalani, Ross Mounce, Luís Fábio Silveira, Luciane Marinoni, and José Albertino Rafael
  • Año de publicación: 2020
  • País: Brasil, Inglaterra
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

Climate in tourism’s research agenda: future directions based on literature review

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One of the major challenges’ tourism faces today is climate change, which inevitably involves adjusting many destinations and tourists to new scenarios. For that, a literature review about the link between tourism and climate is mandatory. Therefore, the present paper aims to establish the evolution of the relationship between tourism and climate, since relevant studies were published from 1940 to 2020. A bibliometric analysis using qualitative and quantitative methods were used for measuring the coverage ratio of tourism and climate (change) in spatial-temporal studies. Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases were used to carry out an in-depth analysis based on 889 publications related to tourism climatology. These were synthesized in attributes and codes (e.g. location, journal name, geographic level, methods of analysis, results, implications, and trends). It is true that in the context of tourism research, themes and assumptions give or take a few exceptions, remain constant. Most of the 889 studies analyzed focused on climatological hotspots, such as impacts of climate change on tourism (28.4%) and urban and bioclimatic comfort of tourists in affected destinations (13.2%), with a lower coverage of tourism-related topics such as policies of climate change in tourism (6.1%) or strategies and concrete options to re-enable tourist destinations for climate change (0.2%). The research methods, procedures and results can contribute to advance tourism climatology to a new phase of theoretical and practical application for tourism planning.

  • Autor/es: Hélder Lopes, Paula Remoaldo , Maurício Silva , Vitor Ribeiro , Javier Martín-Vide
  • Año de publicación: 2021
  • País: Portugal, Brasil
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

Sixty years of research in dental age estimation: a bibliometric study

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BackgroundDental age estimation (DAE) research has grown rapidly and became one of the biggest topics in forensic odontology. This study aimed to evaluate the DAE research trends over the span of 60 years using bibliometric analysis.MethodsSampling was performed in the Scopus database using a search string (“Dental Age Estimation” OR “Age Determination by Teeth”) to detect DAE-related studies. The search was performed from inception to the year 2022. A data-cleaning intervention using a fuzzy-matching technique was done to unify the author and affiliation name variations.ResultsThe initial search returned 1638 articles, years of publication ranging from 1964 to 2022, with an approximate growth rate of 5.9% a year. Source analysis showed that most of the top article sources were Forensic Science International (n = 200). Cameriere R presents the overall highest score (77 articles, Local h-index 30). Authors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University produced the highest number of publications (n = 111). The most locally cited study was “A New System of Dental Age Assessment” by Demirjian et al. (Hum Biol 45:211-227, 1973) (n = 1507). The trending topics analysis shows that earlier DAE studies were focused on dental regressive changes and later changed focus to utilizing technological advancements. Institutions and Author’s collaborations were also found to be internationally diverse with 20.82% of the articles being a product of international co-authorships.ConclusionsDAE research has grown rapidly helped by multiple advancements in various technological ends. Along with the high demand for DAE analysis, authors and publishers need to continually improve their standards for their respective research and reporting and continue to increase collaboration.

  • Autor/es: Rizky Merdietio Boedi, Scheila Mânica & Ademir Franco
  • Año de publicación: 2023
  • País: Brasil, Escocia, Indonesia
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

Recent trend in studies on ecosystem and environmental services: 2016-2020

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The global perception of the need to integrate the concept of sustainability in the economic, social and environmental dimensions in current societies has generated an effort between countries and institutions for the conservation of biodiversity and an understanding of the benefits obtained by human beings provided by the ecosystem. In order to assess the state of the art in the scope of ecosystem and environmental services research, a bibliometric survey was carried out in the Scopus database to analyse the scientific production on the subject and detect trends and highlights in the period between 2016 and 2020, referring to the number of publications, journals, institutions, countries and keywords. The results obtained show:1) the attention paid to the topic has evolved, resulting in an increase of 60% in the number of publications between 2016 and 2020; 2) the multidisciplinary nature of the theme reflects the diversity of journals that publish on the topic, with a predominance of those in the area of Ecology; 3) the growing interest in the social study of ES stands out; 4) there is a predominance of publication by the category of provision, services linked to the soil ecosystem and those aimed at monitoring ecosystem and environmental services; 5) in absolute numbers, the United States is the leading country in this field of study, followed by China and European countries such as Germany and Italy; such interest is reflected in the institutions that most analyze the scope of ecosystem and environmental services; 6) the high frequency keywords in the publications are “Ecosystem”, “Environmental” and “Management”, demonstrate the integrative nature of the ecosystem services studies.

  • Autor/es: Joice Machado Garcia, Adélia Nobre Nunes, Regina Márcia Longo
  • Año de publicación: 2022
  • País: Brasil, Portugal
  • Idioma: Portugues
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

The Top 100 Most-Cited Papers in Erosive Tooth Wear: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Citation rates can be used as an indicator of the influence and relevance of scientific papers. The present study analyzed the 100 most-cited articles related to erosive tooth wear (ETW). The top 100 most-cited papers focusing on ETW topics were collected from the Web of Science database on November 11, 2020. The following bibliometric data were extracted from papers: title, authorship, institutions, countries, number of citations, year of publication, journal title, study design, topic, and keywords. Scopus and Google Scholar were searched to compare the number of citations. The VOSviewer software was used to generate collaborative network maps for the authors and keywords. The number of citations of the 100 most-cited papers ranged from 71 to 330 (average: 97.44). The papers were published between 1949 and 2015. Caries Research (28%) and The Journal of Dentistry (16%) presented the majority of papers. Laboratorial (44%) and observational studies (33%) were the most common study designs. The most studied topics were epidemiology (31%) and the erosive potential of substances (drinks, foods, or medicines) (22%). The countries with the highest number of most-cited papers were England (32%), Germany (18%), and Switzerland (10%). The University of Bern was the institution with the most papers (10%). Lussi A was the author with the highest number of papers in the top 100 (14%). The most common keyword was “dental erosion” with 64 occurrences. The top 100 most-cited papers related to ETW were composed mainly of laboratorial and observational studies focusing on epidemiology and the erosive potential of substances.

  • Autor/es: Aurélio de Oliveira Rocha; Pablo Silveira Santos; Bárbara Azevedo Machado; Michele Bolan ; Mariane Cardoso; Paulo Antônio Martins-Júnior; Carla Miranda Santana
  • Año de publicación: 2022
  • País: Brasil
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

Mapping the use of Google Scholar in evaluative bibliometric or scientometric studies: A bibliometric review

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Google Scholar (GS) has aroused a good deal of interest among the bibliometric and scientometric community, owing to its capacity for gathering publication data, tracking citations, and creating metrics. This has led to reflections on its potential value as a means of enhancing evaluative procedures. However, despite being a useful tool because of its wide coverage, it has been monitored by specialists. For this reason, we aimed to map out the publications in the areas of Information Science & Library Science and/or Computer Science that make use of GS through a bibliometric review. Comprising data retrieved from the WoS and Dimensions, the results drew the attention of the bibliometric and scientometric community to the range of research problems in studies using GS. They also made it possible to identify the most prolific countries and authors and their preferred sources for publication. The presence of non-Anglophone countries and those from Latin America highlights the importance of alternative information sources to bibliometric and scientometric studies.

  • Autor/es: Fabiana Andrade Pereira and Rogério Mugnaini
  • Año de publicación: 2023
  • País: Brasil
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS

Analyzing the evolution of technostress: A science mapping approach

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This paper analyzes the scientific map of technostress and the scientific production on this topic between 1982 and 2017, highlighting its structure, evolution, and trends in this field. A literature review based on bibliometric analysis of 246 records indexed in Scopus database was conducted. These publications were analyzed according to bibliometric indicators and through science maps with SciMAT. Co-occurrence of terms by grouping techniques was implemented. In addition, elaboration of maps of science and performance analysis for periods was executed. The main contribution of this work is to provide the first scientific map of technostress and a detailed understanding of the scientific production that predicts the directions of future research. The bibliometric analyses permit an overview of the growth, extent and distribution of the scientific literature related to the technostress and the study of the scientific production of an institution, country, author or research group.

  • Autor/es: Cristian Salazar-Concha Pilar Ficapal-Cusí Joan Boada-Grau Luis J. Camacho
  • Año de publicación: 2021
  • País: Chiñe, USA, España
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Fuente de indexación: WOS
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