scholarly journals The Intellectual Structure of Social and Sustainable Public Procurement Research: A Co-Citation Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 774
Author(s):  
Jose Torres-Pruñonosa ◽  
Miquel Angel Plaza-Navas ◽  
Francisco Díez-Martín ◽  
Albert Beltran-Cangrós
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Bibliometric Studies

Public procurement has recently taken into account social and sustainable factors, increasing academic literature in this field. The aim of this paper is to map the intellectual structure of social and sustainable public procurement research by means of delimiting the scientific domain’s research traditions, its disciplinary composition, and influential research topics. Given that there is a literature gap in bibliometric studies applied to this field, we conducted a co-citation analysis to identify the intellectual structure of this area of knowledge. Co-citation analyses identify networks of interconnections and, consequently, detect the most (and the least) active research areas, being a good complement to traditional literature reviews. This article contributes to science development because it is the first paper to carry out a bibliometric analysis in the field of social and sustainable public procurement, as well as the first one to conduct a co-citation analysis among public procurement research. Consequently, it is also the first article to detect which papers have become burst in this research field. The results show twelve different clusters of publications that were cited by researchers who wrote papers on social and sustainable public procurement. In other words, the sources of knowledge that scholars used as references are analysed, identifying papers that can be considered turning points, as well as those that became specially cited over a discrete period of time. Six different research trends were identified over the last decade in regard to social and sustainable public procurement research. The conclusions highlight the relevance of the findings, especially because they provide guidance to researchers when conducting literature reviews, given that the most significant journals and papers are identified.

scholarly journals The Sources of Knowledge of the Economic and Social Value in Sport Industry Research: A Co-citation Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Torres-Pruñonosa ◽  
Miquel Angel Plaza-Navas ◽  
Francisco Díez-Martín ◽  
Camilo Prado-Roman
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Research Opportunity ◽  
Active Research

The aim of this article is to map the intellectual structure of scholarship on economic and social value in the sport industry. Given that bibliometric techniques are specially appropriate for identifying the intellectual structures of a field of knowledge and complement traditional literature reviews, a co-citation bibliometric analysis has been applied. This kind of analysis identifies networks of interconnections. Therefore, we aim to detect both the most and the least active research areas in this field, as well as their sub-disciplinary composition. There is an abundance of literature on sport efficiency and economic efficiency in the sport industry, our main conclusion is the identification of a literature gap in regard to social value in sport organisations, which is expected to be a research opportunity for scholars. This is in line with the lack of standardisation in the measurement for social value in sport organisations. In fact, similar to analysis undertaken in the past few decades of other industries with contributions to stakeholders and the multi-fiduciary theory of stakeholders, both the creation of social value indicators for sport entities and the empirical analysis of social efficiency in sport institutions, are identified and outlined as future areas of research. Therefore, this bibliometric analysis will contribute to determine the future challenges that this area of research will face in the following years so as to fill the literature gap identified.

scholarly journals ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE LEGITIMACY MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Cruz-Suárez ◽  
Domenico Marino ◽  
Camilo Prado-Roman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Current View ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
State Of Research

What is being researched and which is the sources of knowledge? Those are questions that researchers ask in the construction of new scientific advances. Research on legitimacy and higher education has grown in recent years. This make difficult to get a current view of the situation in which this field of research is. The purpose of this research is to identify and visualize the current state of research in the field of legitimacy and higher education. Through a bibliometric methodology based on co-citations, the current intellectual structure of this research field is analyzed. Furthermore, the main research areas, the main contributors and the means of dissemination of this knowledge are identified. This work contributes to the development of the field of legitimacy and higher education by providing an integral vision of the situation of this domain, a starting point and an adequate theoretical basis for researchers to build new advances.

The theme trends and knowledge structure of H19 gene in cancer research: a scientometric analysis (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhigang Cui ◽  
Zhihua Yin ◽  
Lei Cui
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Research ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Cancer Metastasis ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Pivotal Study ◽  
Matrix Construction

BACKGROUND Background:H19 gene is maternally expressed imprinted oncofetal gene. This study aimed to explore distribution pattern and intellectual structure of H19 in cancer. OBJECTIVE Published scientific 826 papers related to H19 from Jan 1st, 2000 to March 22st, 2019 were obtained from the Web of Science core collection. METHODS We performed extraction of keywords and co-word matrix construction using BICOMB software. Then gCLUTO software, ucinet, excel software, Citespace, Vosviewer were successfully used for double -cluster analysis, social network analysis, Strategic coordinate analysis, co-citation analysis, and journal analysis. RESULTS We analyzed the distributions of included article of H19, identified 34 high-frequency keywords and classified them into 6 categories. Through co-word analysis and co-citation analysis for these categories, we identified the hotspot areas and intellectual basis about H19 in cancer research. Then the prospects of hotspots and their associations were accesssed by strategic coordinate diagrams and social network diagrams. CONCLUSIONS 6 research categories of 34 high-frequency keywords could represent the theme trends on H19 to some extent. Mir-675, cancer metastasis and risk, Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, SNP, and ceRNA network were core and mature research areas in this field. There is a lack of promising areas of H19 research. Matouk(2006) article play a key role in H19 research, and Murphy SK(2006)and Luo M(2013) articles serve knowledge transmission as pivotal study.

Knowledge management within a strategic alliances context: past, present and future

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha Bamel ◽  
Vijay Pereira ◽  
Umesh Bamel ◽  
Giuseppe Cappiello
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Strategic Alliance ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current State ◽  
Literature Reviews

Purpose This paper aims at reviewing the extant knowledge management (KM) research field within a strategic alliance context to understand the historical roots, its temporal progression, current state and potential future in a meaningful way. Design/methodology/approach Data for this study was retrieved from the Scopus database using a systematic literature search process. The bibliometric characteristics of 393 research documents were analyzed using bibliometric and structured network analysis. Findings The findings of the study suggest that the publication in the field have been growing with an average rate of 8.48%. This analysis also lists the most productive and impactful authors, main outlets, and the most impactful secondary and primary publication in the field. In addition, the conceptual and intellectual structure of the research field was constructed and discussed. Originality/value This paper uses an objective and quantitative approach by reviewing the related publications and virtually included all the relevant publications in the analysis, which was seen to be uneconomical when doing traditional literature reviews.

scholarly journals Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing: Exploring the Intellectual Structure of the Research Field and Its Research Fronts with Direct Citation Analysis

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 7036
Author(s):  
Adam Kozakiewicz ◽  
Andrzej Lis
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Research Fronts ◽  
Direct Citation

The aim of the study is to explore the intellectual structure of the field and fronts in research on energy efficiency in the context of cloud computing and thus to contribute to science mapping of the research field. The research process was driven by the following study questions: (1) what are the most influential publications in the research field? and (2) what are the research fronts in the research field? The method of direct citation analysis was employed in the research process. Data for analysis were obtained from the Scopus database and analyzed with the use of VOSviewer science mapping software. In response to the first question, we identified the most influential publications in the research field and analyzed their types (i.e., whether they are original research papers or rather the “context” papers e.g., survey or review papers, framework papers, challenges papers, and study papers). Moreover, a comparison analysis between the types of papers among the most cited “classical” publications and “emerging stars” was conducted. In response to the second research question, we identified five research fronts concentrated around the issues of: virtual machine management (“VM”); task-focus, concerning data replication, task consolidation, and task scheduling (“task”); energy efficiency (“energy”); modelling and optimization (“model”); and energy efficiency in the networking context (“network”).

The Intellectual Structure of the American Behavioral Scientist: Five Decades of Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 1002-1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Pascual-Nebreda ◽  
Francisco Díez-Martín ◽  
Camilo Prado-Román
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Behavioral Scientist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bibliometric Methodology ◽  
Active Research

Over the past 50 years, the American Behavioral Scientist has become one of the most representative journals within the social and behavioral sciences field. The journal has disseminated large amounts of knowledge, which has increased the complexity of having a global picture of its contributions. The aim of this research is to identify and visualize the intellectual structure of this journal in order to appreciate the changes that have taken place over the five decades since its establishment. Following a bibliometric methodology, the most active research areas of the journal, the main contributors, knowledge sources, dissemination paths, as well as the emerging tendencies are identified within this article.

The Makerspace Phenomenon: A Bibliometric Review of Literature (2012–2020)

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150006
Author(s):  
Gautam Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Programming Knowledge ◽  
Over Time

This paper uses bibliometric methods to review the research on makerspaces. The objective of the study was to document the growth and geographic distribution of makerspace literature, identify the main authors, documents. In addition to this, the study also combined two bibliometric analysis methods, co-citation analysis and co-word analysis to identify the intellectual structure of the makerspace knowledge base and the evolution of research themes over time. A total of 654 documents related to makerspaces between 2012 and 2020 were identified from the Scopus database. The review found that research base on makerspace is starting to grow from 2017 onwards with an accelerating growth rate, however, the published studies are mainly from USA and Europe. The paper also lists the most cited documents, the influential sources of publications and the main authors working on this area. The review also identified five research clusters using co-citation analysis that have emerged over time which are “innovation and development in makerspaces”, “child development in makerspaces”, “learning and STEM education in makerspaces”, “implementation of makerspaces in education”, and “university makerspaces”. Another major finding highlighted “innovation, design, and creativity”, “engineering curriculum”, “skill development”, “computer programming knowledge”, and “learning, collaboration and community development” as the five main research themes using the co-word analysis. These findings provide a robust roadmap for further investigation in this research field.

scholarly journals Molecular genetic studies of Chilean avifauna: an overview about current progress

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-477
Author(s):  
Nelson Colihueque ◽  
Alberto Gantz
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Genetic ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
D Loop ◽  
History Of ◽  
Active Research

The biodiversity of Chilean avifauna has been shaped by geological events, geographical factors and extreme climatic regimens. Molecular genetic studies developed to date have begun to provide valuable information to elucidate the effect of these factors on the evolutionary history of Chilean birds. We conducted a search in two bibliographic databases (PubMed and Scopus) over the period between 1998 and 2018 to identify the number and class of articles published in this research field. The quantification of specific research categories was also performed to assess progress in different molecular genetic issues of Chilean birds. Representative studies of the more active research areas: population structure, phylogeography, systematics and taxonomy and genetic diversity, were briefly commented on. Studies on genetic divergence analysis of cryptic species and the underlying genetics at molecular level of adaptive phenotypes in populations, were very scarce. Several types of mitochondrial and nuclear markers have been used, with COI plus D-loop and microsatellite loci, respectively, being the most widely-used markers. However, high-throughput analyses based on complete mitochondrial genomes have also been published. More than one hundred species have been analyzed; the most studied groups being penguins, followed by New World swallows. Although, to date, molecular genetic studies of Chilean birds still require further analysis, the studies available on some species or groups have provided important data to improve our understanding of the origin and evolution of this avifauna.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinarity in medical education research: myth and reality

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 1243-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Albert ◽  
Paula Rowland ◽  
Farah Friesen ◽  
Suzanne Laberge
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Other ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Common View ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Applied Health Research

AbstractThe medical education (Med Ed) research community characterises itself as drawing on the insights, methods, and knowledge from multiple disciplines and research domains (e.g. Sociology, Anthropology, Education, Humanities, Psychology). This common view of Med Ed research is echoed and reinforced by the narrative used by leading Med Ed departments and research centres to describe their activities as “interdisciplinary.” Bibliometrics offers an effective method of investigating scholarly communication to determine what knowledge is valued, recognized, and utilized. By empirically examining whether knowledge production in Med Ed research draws from multiple disciplines and research areas, or whether it primarily draws on the knowledge generated internally within the field of Med Ed, this article explores whether the characterisation of Med Ed research as interdisciplinary is substantiated. A citation analysis of 1412 references from research articles published in 2017 in the top five Med Ed journals was undertaken. A typology of six knowledge clusters was inductively developed. Findings show that the field of Med Ed research draws predominantly from two knowledge clusters: the Applied Health Research cluster (made of clinical and health services research), which represents 41% of the references, and the Med Ed research cluster, which represents 40% of the references. These two clusters cover 81% of all references in our sample, leaving 19% distributed among the other knowledge clusters (i.e., Education, disciplinary, interdisciplinary and topic centered research). The quasi-hegemonic position held by the Applied Health and Med Ed research clusters confines the other sources of knowledge to a peripheral role within the Med Ed research field. Our findings suggest that the assumption that Med Ed research is an interdisciplinary field is not convincingly supported by empirical data and that the knowledge entering Med Ed comes mostly from the health research domain.

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