A Scientometric Review of Powered Micromobility

Steve O’Hern; Nora Estgfaeller

doi:10.3390/su12229505

A Scientometric Review of Powered Micromobility

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12229505 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (22) ◽

pp. 9505

Author(s):

Steve O’Hern ◽

Nora Estgfaeller

Keyword(s):

Web Of Science ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Technology Planning ◽

Research Topics ◽

Knowledge Domain ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

Planning Policy ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Vehicle Technology

Micromobility is an emerging field of transportation, referring to trips undertaken by a range of microvehicles. Microvehicles encompass both traditional and emerging types of light vehicles from conventional bicycles and powered-two wheelers, through to e-bikes and e-scooters, e-skateboards and “hoverboards”. The recent uptake in powered microvehicles emphasizes the need to understand the knowledge domain of micromobility research. This paper summarises the research status by identifying main contributors to and evolutionary trends in the field. The study applied scientometric analysis techniques to review 474 articles published between 1991 and 2020. The search on Thomson Reuter’s Web of Science database was guided by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) common vocabulary for powered micromobility. Results show a proliferation of research in the field of powered micromobility since 2012, which demonstrates that the growth in research is occurring alongside the increased availability of microvehicles and trips being made using microvehicles. A broad range of research topics including user behaviour, vehicle technology, planning, policy, health and safety were identified with the latter two found to be the most studied areas. Findings suggest many potential benefits of using micromobility and that the field will continue to grow, spurred by the popularity of shared e-scooter schemes. Greater collaboration in the field is desirable to broaden the dissemination of knowledge.

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Heritage Education and Research in Museums. Conceptual, Intellectual and Social Structure within a Knowledge Domain (2000–2019)

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13126667 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (12) ◽

pp. 6667

Author(s):

José Monteagudo-Fernández ◽

Cosme J. Gómez-Carrasco ◽

Álvaro Chaparro-Sainz

Keyword(s):

Education Research ◽

Informal Learning ◽

Informal Education ◽

Web Of Science ◽

R Package ◽

Research Topics ◽

Knowledge Domain ◽

Academic Production ◽

Research Paradigms ◽

Heritage Education

Heritage and museums have constituted two fundamental axes of heritage education research in recent decades. This can be defined as the pedagogical process in which people can learn about heritage assets in formal or informal learning contexts. Museums, as centres of reference in informal education, are in constant and fluid contact with schools and produce different and varied didactic materials related to heritage. This paper provides results concerning the development and shaping of the knowledge domain known as heritage education between 2000 and 2019 on the Web of Science (WoS). To this end, different techniques and tools have been used: R-package Bibliometrix and VOSviewer. This analysis has identified five clusters with the topics underpinning heritage education as a specific field of knowledge. Our inquiry has highlighted the fact that there has been an increase in production regarding research topics associated with heritage education and museums in this period, particularly between 2015 and 2019. The inclusion of ESCI journals has led to a greater visibility of WoS-indexed academic production in some countries. Finally, the concepts “heritage”, “museum” and “education” are the axes around which the research paradigms related to heritage education research seem to have been developed.

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Mercury (Hg) researches in Brazilian biomes: A scientometric analysis between the years 1991 and 2018

10.36811/jvsr.2021.110012 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 01-13

Author(s):

Miguel V. M. Neto ◽

Darlan Q. Brito

Keyword(s):

Web Of Science ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Spatial Bias ◽

Environmental Matrices ◽

Research Topics ◽

Research Directions ◽

Natural Sources ◽

Isi Web Of Science ◽

Number Of Publications

Mercury is a metal present in natural sources and its concentration have been allocated by human activities, posing impacts in environmental matrices and organisms. In this study, we highlight the panorama of Hg researches in Brazilian biomes in the scientific literature published between 1991 and 2018. Although the appreciated attention to the mercury researches in Amazon context, there has not been an assessment of Hg research within other Brazilian biomes. With this in mind, we searched for articles in the periodic database the Thomson’s ISI Web of Science database and observed an oscillated trend of the number of publications throughout this period. The low percentage of papers performed in Pantanal (8%), Caatinga (4%), Atlantic Rainforest (4%), Pampa (3%) and Cerrado (0.36%) was contrasted to majority academic works performed in Amazon regions (83%), indicating the asymmetrical geographical distribution in Hg researches. The five top keywords of research topics were mercury, Amazon, Brazil, river, Brazilian and fish. The top authors formed 19 different clusters, with different research directions and strengths. Our data shows that Hg studies have been geographically biased. The lack of Hg studies on other Brazilian biomes may mask the extent and intensity of the impacts related to the Hg mobilization in these areas. Concerning Hg concentration is context-dependent, we emphasize the need for investment in Hg research in different tropical biomes in order to overcome spatial bias of Hg knowledge, particularly with organisms from different environmental matrices. Keywords: Scientometry; Mercury; Brazilian biomes, Web of science (WoS)

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Trends in Educational Research about Social Attitudes Education and Learning: A Systematic Literature Review

10.31219/osf.io/zep34 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Hengki Wijaya ◽

Arismunandar ◽

Hamsu Abdul Gani

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Inclusive Education ◽

Social Life ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

Research Topics ◽

Social Attitude ◽

Main Research ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

The Past

Until now, learning is still focused on thecognitive realm only. One aspect that is often neglected issocial attitudes, which are part of the affective aspect thathas an essential role in social life. The limited number ofresearchers who touch on this area makes referencesources of social attitudes still limited. This study is aSystematic Literature Review (SLR) using the PRISMAmodel. This model is considered a reasonablycomprehensive model because it has four main stages:identification, screening, eligibility, and inclusion.Researchers collected data from various open access datasources such as Google Scholar, Web of Science (WoS),Scopus, ERIC, Researchgate.net, Academia.com, andSciencedirect.com. Furthermore, the data were analyzedusing content analysis techniques in obtaining anoverview of trends and implications of research oneducation and learning social attitudes over the past tenyears. The results showed that there were only 14 articlesthat met the criteria for further analysis. The fourteenarticles discuss several main research topics, such as (1)improving students' social attitudes through learningmodels/approaches/methods, (2) learning social attitudesin the context of inclusive education, (3) developing andvalidating social attitude instruments, and so on other.These findings indicate the need for further and morecomprehensive research on learning social attitudes sothat this aspect is increasingly understood by variouselements of education as an aspect that is as important asthe cognitive aspect.

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Questions to the Article of research output and international cooperation among countries during the COVID-19 pandemic (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.26576 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Shu-Chun Kuo ◽

Tsair-Wei Chien ◽

Willy Chou

Keyword(s):

Citation Analysis ◽

International Cooperation ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Research Output ◽

Visual Representations ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Medical Subject Headings ◽

Pubmed Central ◽

The Us ◽

Circle Diagram

UNSTRUCTURED We read with great interest the study by Grammes et al. on research output and international cooperation among countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper is a quantitative study using scientometric analysis instead of a qualitative research using citation analysis. A total of 7,185 publications were extracted from Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) with keywords of “covid19 OR covid-19 OR sarscov2 OR sars-cov-2” as of July 4, 2020. We replicated a citation analysis study to extract abstracts from Pubmed Central(PMC) with similar keywords mentioned above and obtained 35,421 articles relevant to COVID-10 matching their corresponding number of citation in PMC. one hundred top-cited atricles were selected and compared on diagrams. Social network analysis combined with citation numbers in articles was performed to analyze international cooperation among countries. The results were shown on a world map instead of the circle diagram in the previous study. A Sankey diagram was applied to highlight entities(e.g., countries, article types, medical subject headings, and journals) with the most citations. Authors from Chian dominated citations in these 100 top-cited articles rather than the US in publications addressed in the previous study. Both visual representations of the world map and Sankey diagram were provided to readers with a better understanding of the research output and international cooperation among countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Landscape and Tourism: Evolution of Research Topics

Land ◽

10.3390/land9120488 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (12) ◽

pp. 488

Author(s):

Mercedes Jiménez-García ◽

José Ruiz-Chico ◽

Antonio Rafael Peña-Sánchez

Keyword(s):

National Parks ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Software Tool ◽

Research Topics ◽

Science Mapping ◽

Research Fields ◽

Complete Knowledge ◽

Mapping Analysis ◽

Landscape Research ◽

Emerging Themes

Tourism and landscape are broad and complex scientific research fields, as is the synergy between them has given rise to a volume of articles diverse in nature, subject matter and methodology. These difficulties mean that, at present, there is no complete theoretical framework to support this tourism and landscape research, nor complete knowledge of its structure and organization. This motivates the present work, which constitutes the first attempt at mapping this research topic by applying bibliometric techniques using VOSviewer and Science Mapping Analysis Software Tool (SciMAT) software. A total of 3340 articles from journals indexed in Web of Science were analyzed. The results obtained confirm that interest in the study of these concepts has been growing, especially in the last decade. The main contribution of this work lies in the identification of work themes that were basic to the construction of the field but that are currently in decline, such as “cultural heritage” and other themes important to the field that should continue to be dealt with, such as “national parks” or “geotourism”. The transversal nature of sustainability that appears in the network of keywords related to currently emerging themes, such as “planning” and “environment”, is also highlighted and reinforced.

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Systematic review and bibliometric analysis of African anesthesia and critical care medicine research part II: a scientometric analysis of the 116 most cited articles

BMC Anesthesiology ◽

10.1186/s12871-021-01246-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye ◽

Joel Noutakdie Tochie ◽

Aimé Mbonda ◽

Cynthia Kévine Wafo ◽

Leonid Daya ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Critical Care ◽

South African ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

World Journal ◽

Critical Care Medicine ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Medicine Research ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background Scientometrics is used to assess the impact of research in several health fields, including Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. The purpose of this study was to identify contributors to highly-cited African Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine research. Methods The authors searched Web of Science from inception to May 4, 2020, for articles on and about Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine in Africa with ≥2 citations. Quantitative (H-index) and qualitative (descriptive analysis of yearly publications and interpretation of document, co-authorship, author country, and keyword) bibliometric analyses were done. Results The search strategy returned 116 articles with a median of 5 (IQR: 3–12) citations on Web of Science. Articles were published in Anesthesia and Analgesia (18, 15.5%), World Journal of Surgery (13, 11.2%), and South African Medical Journal (8, 6.9%). Most (74, 63.8%) articles were published on or after 2013. Seven authors had more than 1 article in the top 116 articles: Epiu I (3, 2.6%), Elobu AE (2, 1.7%), Fenton PM (2, 1.7%), Kibwana S (2, 1.7%), Rukewe A (2, 1.7%), Sama HD (2, 1.7%), and Zoumenou E (2, 1.7%). The bibliometric coupling analysis of documents highlighted 10 clusters, with the most significant nodes being Biccard BM, 2018; Baker T, 2013; Llewellyn RL, 2009; Nigussie S, 2014; and Aziato L, 2015. Dubowitz G (5) and Ozgediz D (4) had the highest H-indices among the authors referenced by the most-cited African Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine articles. The U.S.A., England, and Uganda had the strongest collaboration links among the articles, and most articles focused on perioperative care. Conclusion This study highlighted trends in top-cited African articles and African and non-African academic institutions’ contributions to these articles.

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A Scientometric Study on Industrial Effluent and Sludge Toxicity

Toxics ◽

10.3390/toxics9080176 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (8) ◽

pp. 176

Author(s):

Amid Mostafaie ◽

Diogo N. Cardoso ◽

Mohammadreza Kamali ◽

Susana Loureiro

Keyword(s):

Industrial Wastewater ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Industrial Effluent ◽

Toxicity Assessment ◽

Complex Compounds ◽

Treated Wastewater ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Water Medium ◽

Before And After ◽

Scientometric Study

The growth of industrialization has led to an increase in the production of highly contaminated wastewater. Industrial wastewater contains highly complex compounds varying in characteristics and required to be treated before its discharge into a water medium from various industries. However, the efficiency of the treated wastewater from the toxicity reduction perspective is unclear. In order to overcome this barrier, toxicity assessment of the industrial wastewater before and after treatment is crucial. Thus, in this study, a scientometric analysis has been performed on the toxicity assessment of industrial wastewater and sludges, which have been reported in the literature. Web of Science (WoS) core collection database has been considered the main database to execute this analysis. Via the search of pre-researched keywords, a total number of 1038 documents were collected, which have been published from 1951 to 2020. Via CiteSpace software and WoS analyser, these documents went under analysis regarding some of the scientometry criteria, and the detailed results obtained are provided in this study. The total number of published documents on this topic is relatively low during such a long period of time. In conclusion, the need for more detailed contributions among the scientific and industrial communities has been felt.

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Research on the Literature of Green Building Based on the Web of Science: A Scientometric Analysis in CiteSpace (2002–2018)

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11133716 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (13) ◽

pp. 3716 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Yingling Shi ◽

Xinping Liu

Keyword(s):

Web Of Science ◽

Green Building ◽

Development Trend ◽

Status Quo ◽

Future Research ◽

Building Industry ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

The Past ◽

Evolution Pattern ◽

The Status

Since the 21st century, the concept of green building has been gradually popularized and implemented in more countries, which has become a popular direction in the area of sustainability in the building industry. Over the past few decades, many scholars and experts have done extensive research on green building. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze and visualize the status quo of green building. Therefore, based on Web of Science (WoS), this paper analyzed the existing knowledge system of green building using CiteSpace, identified keywords related to green building and their frequency of occurrence using the function of keyword co-occurrence analysis, recognized five clusters using the function of cluster analysis, and explored the knowledge evolution pattern of green building using citation bursts analysis in order to reveal how research related to green building has evolved over time. On the basis of aforementioned keywords, clusters, and citation bursts analysis, this paper has built a knowledge graph for green building. This paper can help readers to better understand the status quo and development trend of green building and to easier recognize the shortcomings in the development of green building, so as to provide a promising direction for future research.

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A review of Waste Tyre Rubber as an Alternative Concrete Consituent Material

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201819911003 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 199 ◽

pp. 11003 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kudzai Mushunje ◽

Mike Otieno ◽

Yunus Ballim

Keyword(s):

Health And Safety ◽

Engineering Properties ◽

Future Research ◽

Rubber Material ◽

Safety Risks ◽

Concrete Production ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Waste Tyre ◽

Health And Safety Risks ◽

Published Research

The current global waste tyre generation far exceeds its consumption in terms of recycling and re-use. The traditional recycling and re-use methods like thermal incineration have proven ineffective, costly and in some cases environmentally unsustainable. Particularly, in developing countries where some of the sophisticated techniques required to process tyres to allow them to be utilised are either too costly or have not yet been developed. The situation has resulted in accumulation of large waste tyre stockpiles that pose health and safety risks. To combat the problem, the use of waste tyre rubber in concrete construction has been proposed. Several studies have been conducted to assess the effects of the inclusion of waste tyre rubber in its different forms (fibres, particles), for concrete production and the results are promising. Although there are some apparent demerits to the inclusion of tyre rubber in concrete, the potential benefits seem to overshadow the negatives. This paper reviews published research on the scientific and technical viability of using waste tyre rubber in concrete production. It discusses the production and properties of waste tyre particles. It highlights advances made with regards to the incorporation of tyre rubber material in concrete, focusing on the engineering properties of the tyre rubber modified concrete. In conclusion, recommendations for future research and possible application for the material will be discussed.

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