Desalination in nuclear plants: a bibliometric study of research activity in scientific literature indexed by SCOPUS base

With the scarcity of fresh water, desalination is an important instrument to be considered for the production of non-salinized water through waste heat in the dual use of nuclear reactors. The gap that this study seeks to fill is related to the use of bibliometric method, based on information structure, about the scientific studies indexed on the evolution of the topic desalination in nuclear power plants. The objective of this work is to map the themes in the scientific literature between 1966 and the first semester of 2017. Data were collected from the research activities indexed by the SCOPUS database and analyzed with the support of bibliometric software VOSviewer. Among others, the results of the research led to the following conclusions: (1) the articles published in indexed journals represent the largest percentage of the type of instrument used for scientific dissemination, representing 64% of the documents; (2) it is estimated that between the years 2016 and 2025 the indexed research activities involving nuclear desalination continued to grow sharply

Journals Bibliometric Portfolios; Case of Nursing Research

Number of journals is raising exponentially. Consequently authors have a problem which journal to select when publishing their research. Journal portfolios including information like impact factors and productivity trends, state of the art topics, topics evolution and citation patterns might help authors to select the journal where their paper will have optimal chances to be published, read and cited. To build portfolios we used two approaches; namely descriptive bibliometric analysis to extract distribution of types of documents, most prolific authors, institutions, countries, citation histories, etc. and bibliometric mapping to visualize the content Our study showed that journals portfolios can improve evidence based nursing and on the other hand offer health librarians an opportunity to extend their services and help prospective authors to select the optimal journal to publish their research

Project Retrosight. Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: Case Studies

Copyright @ 2011 RAND Europe. All rights reserved. The full text article is available via the link below.This project explores the impacts arising from cardiovascular and stroke research funded 15-20 years ago and attempts to draw out aspects of the research, researcher or environment that are associated with high or low impact. The project is a case study-based review of 29 cardiovascular and stroke research grants, funded in Australia, Canada and UK between 1989 and 1993. The case studies focused on the individual grants but considered the development of the investigators and ideas involved in the research projects from initiation to the present day. Grants were selected through a stratified random selection approach that aimed to include both high- and low-impact grants. The key messages are as follows: 1) The cases reveal that a large and diverse range of impacts arose from the 29 grants studied. 2) There are variations between the impacts derived from basic biomedical and clinical research. 3) There is no correlation between knowledge production and wider impacts 4) The majority of economic impacts identified come from a minority of projects. 5) We identified factors that appear to be associated with high and low impact. This report presents the key observations of the study and an overview of the methods involved. It has been written for funders of biomedical and health research and health services, health researchers, and policy makers in those fields. It will also be of interest to those involved in research and impact evaluation.This study was initiated with internal funding from RAND Europe and HERG, with continuing funding from the UK National Institute for Health Research, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the National Heart Foundation of Australia. The UK Stroke Association and the British Heart Foundation provided support in kind through access to their archives

Bibliometric study of the Journal of New Marketing Research

The objective here is first, to analyze the components of the trends of publishing, topics, methodology, authors status and references to the articles of the subject journal; and, next, to compare the content and structure of this journal with the criteria of new regulations on determining the credibility of the Iranian scientific journals. This study is run through a quantitative content analysis and evaluative methods. The statistical population consists of 372 published articles between 2011 and 2018. The findings reveal that the highest count of articles published in a year with a frequency of 80 is 2014 (21.4%). In terms of the count of authors of an article, 96% of articles (357 articles) are co-authored. It is found that72% of the authors are male, 42% of the first authors, and 27% of all of authors are assistant professors. In total, 1331 keywords are assigned to the journal articles, with a minimum of 2 and maximum of 10. Brand, customer, and market and marketing issues are the most frequent, respectively. Most articles are run by adopting the survey (156 articles) and correlation (72 articles) methods. The average count of references per article is 35, with 83% in English and 17% is Farsi. Moreover, errors are observed in cases like the inclusion of organizational affiliation, academic degree, methodological elements, and citation method, while more than 90% of the criteria of new regulations on determining the credibility of the Iranian scientific journals are observed

Past, present and future of membrane technology in Spain

The following review aims at analyzing the contribution of Spanish researchers to membrane science and technology, with a historical compilation of the main milestones. We used a bibliometric analysis based on the Scopus database (1960?2020) dealing with 8707 documents covering the different disciplines and subject areas where membranes are involved. Furthermore, the information has been updated to the present moment of writing this manuscript in order to include the latest research lines and the different research groups currently active in Spain, which may lead the way to the development of the field in the coming years

Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Al-Iqtishad Journal of Islamic Economics: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract. This study bibliometrically evaluates and analyzes the articles published by Al-Iqtishad Journal in the last ten years. Data were obtained from the website of Al-Iqtishad Journal and further edited in Mendeley. The results show that the Al-Iqtishad journal had published 215 articles in the last ten years, mostly in English and Indonesian languages, with the majority of the topics on Islamic banking. These findings tend to be useful for the editorial board of Al-Iqtishad journal to evaluate and improve the publication of their articles. Keywords: Islamic Economics; Bibliometrics Abstrak. Studi ini menganalisis dan mengevaluasi secara bibliometrik artikelartikel yang diterbitkan oleh Jurnal Al-Iqtishad dalam 10 tahun terakhir. Data diperoleh dari situs web dan selanjutnya diedit di Mendeley. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa jurnal Al-Iqtishad telah menerbitkan 215 artikel dalam sepuluh tahun terakhir yang sebagian besar berbahasa Inggris dan Indonesia, dengan mayoritas topik tentang perbankan syariah. Temuan ini cenderung bermanfaat bagi dewan redaksi Iqtishad untuk mengevaluasi dan meningkatkan publikasi artikel mereka.Kata kunci: Ekonomi Islam; Bibliometri

Morphological Analysis of technologies using multidimensional scaling

This study focuses on the application of Morphological Analysis to making technology analyses. In this study, Morphological Analysis is used as a framework for applying expert opinion, bibliometrics, text mining and multidimensional scaling to problem- structuring. We describe the method used as well as its application and apply it to a case of portable fuel cell technology. The results demonstrate the practicality of using Morphological Analysis in structuring complex problems and offer an example of its application in assessing the status of a technology.<br

Scientometric mapping as a strategic intelligence tool for the governance of emerging technologies

How can scientometric mapping function as a tool of ’strategic intelligence’ to aid the governance of emerging technologies? The present paper aims to address this question by focusing on a set of recently developed scientometric techniques, namely overlay mapping. We examine the potential these techniques have to inform, in a timely manner, analysts and decision-makers about relevant dynamics of technical emergence. We investigate the capability of overlay mapping in generating informed perspectives about emergence across three spaces: geographical, social, and cognitive. Our analysis relies on three empirical studies of emerging technologies in the biomedical domain: RNA interference (RNAi), Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) testing technologies for cervical cancer, and Thiopurine Methyltransferase (TPMT) genetic testing. The case-studies are analysed and mapped longitudinally by using publication and patent data. Results show the variety of ’intelligence’ inputs overlay mapping can produce for the governance of emerging technologies. Overlay mapping also confers to the investigation of emergence flexibility and granularity in terms of adaptability to different sources of data and selection of the levels of the analysis, respectively. These features make possible the integration and comparison of results from different contexts and cases, thus providing possibilities for a potentially more ’distributed’ strategic intelligence. The generated perspectives allow triangulation of findings, which is important given the complexity featuring in technical emergence and the limitations associated with the use of single scientometric approaches

MAPPING LIFE SCIENCES & BIOMEDICINE RESEARCH

Purpose: This study analyzes and highlights the research productivity and the trend in the top fields of “Life sciences and Biomedicine”. Methods: The data were collected from Clarivate Analytic’s “Web of Science” for a period of 10 years (2006-2016). The search was further refined to the top 10 fields in the field of “Life Sciences and Biomedicine”. The data were downloaded on the following parameters: “author productivity”, “country contribution”, “organisational involvement”, “funding agencies”, “publication year”, “most preferred document type” and “language”. Findings: No consistent growth is observed in the research activities pertinent to the fields of “Life sciences and Biomedicine”. Among the studied fields, “Neurosciences and Neurology” is in lead with “2016” as the most productive year. Research in “Life sciences and Biomedicine” is quantitatively dominated by the “USA”, followed by the “England” and “Japan”. Authors have mostly reported their findings in the form of “Research articles” and “English” as a language of publication has remained a dominant medium of communication. Furthermore, it is also observed that “National Institute of Health (NIH)” and “National Natural Science Foundation of China” are the top funders across all the fields with “Harvard University”, “Chinese Academy of Science” and “University Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre” as the leading organizations in terms of contribution. Limitations: However, more research would have been published across other indexing and abstracting services, but the results of the study are confined to the data indexed by “Web of Science”. Research implications: The study may serve as a summary of global history on “Life sciences and Biomedicine” research and a potential basis for future research

Evaluasi Produktivitas Publikasi Internasional Sivitas Akademika Universitas Diponegoro tahun 1999-2018: Sebuah kajian bibliometri

Perguruan tinggi perlu melakukan evaluasi terhadap kegiatan penelitian yang dilakukannya, baik dari sisi jumlah maupun dampak. Evaluasi ini bisa dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode bibliometri, yang merupakan penerapan analisis kuantitatif dan statistik terhadap publikasi.Evaluasi seperti perlu dilakukan di Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP) terutama terkait dengan publikasi internasional terindeks SCOPUS. Penelitian ini bertujuan bertujuan untuk (1) mengetahui perkembangan jumlah publikasi dalam kurun waktu tahun 1999 hingga 2018; (2) mengidentifikasi sivitas akademika yang memiliki publikasi terbanyak; (3) mengidentifikasi karya sivitas akademika UNDIP yang paling banyak disitir; (4) mengidentifikasi media publikasi yang paling sering digunakan sivitas akademika UNDIP. Data penelitian berupa data bibliografi yang diperoleh dari pangkalan data SCOPUS. Data dianalisis menggunakan software bibliometri yakni VOSviewer. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: (1) terjadi lonjakan jumlah publikasi yang signifikan pada tahun 2017, (2) penulis yang paling produktif berasal dari Fakultas Teknik, (3) karya yang paling banyak disitir berasal dari bidang rekayasa, (4) media publikasi yang paling menerbitkan karya sivitas akademika UNDIP adalah prosiding IOP: Earth And Environmental Scienc