From a systematic literature review to integrated definition for sustainable supply chain innovation (SSCI)

publisher: Elsevier articletitle: From a systematic literature review to integrated definition for sustainable supply chain innovation (SSCI) journaltitle: Journal of Cleaner Production articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.153 content_type: article copyright: © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

ResearchGate versus Google Scholar: Which finds more early citations?

ResearchGate has launched its own citation index by extracting citations from documents uploaded to the site and reporting citation counts on article profile pages. Since authors may upload preprints to ResearchGate, it may use these to provide early impact evidence for new papers. This article assesses the whether the number of citations found for recent articles is comparable to other citation indexes using 2675 recently-published library and information science articles. The results show that in March 2017, ResearchGate found less citations than did Google Scholar but more than both Web of Science and Scopus. This held true for the dataset overall and for the six largest journals in it. ResearchGate correlated most strongly with Google Scholar citations, suggesting that ResearchGate is not predominantly tapping a fundamentally different source of data than Google Scholar. Nevertheless, preprint sharing in ResearchGate is substantial enough for authors to take seriously

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

Research Priorities in Mobile Learning: An International Delphi Study

Along with advancing mobile technologies and proliferating mobile devices and applications, mobile learning research has gained great momentum in recent years. While there have been review articles summarizing past research, studies identifying mobile learning research priorities based on experts’ latest insights have been lacking. This study employed the Delphi method to obtain a consensus from experts about areas that are most in need of research in mobile learning. An international expert panel participated in a three-round Delphi process involving two cycles of online questionnaires and feedback reports. Participants responded to the question, “What should be the research priorities for the field of mobile learning over the next 5 years?” Ten research categories were identified and ranked in order of priority: 1) teaching and learning strategies; 2) affordances; 3) theory; 4) settings of learning; 5) evaluation/assessment; 6) learners; 7) mobile technologies and interface design; 8) context awareness and augmented reality; 9) infrastructure and management; and 10) country and digital divide. This study also reported expert-generated research statements for each research category and the importance of these research statements rated by the experts. Selected research papers were summarized to help contextualize the discussions of research categories and statements

A Bibliometric Analysis of 21st Century Research Trends in Early Childhood Education

The importance of early childhood education (ECE) as a foundation for lifelong learning and human development has been examined from different points of view, including those of economists, child developers, psychologists, and educators. This study aimed to explore ECE research trends by employing bibliometric mapping and bibliometric analysis. All 6,730 Web of Science records from 2000 to 2016 were analyzed using social network analysis software. We further employed bibliometric analyses on a sample of 500 of the most cited articles to identify the articles with higher quality or impact. Major trends in early childhood education research showed variations across publication years, the identification of active research areas, and the most prolific authors. The results of the bibliometric mapping showed that education and curriculum-based research; health-, safety-, nutrition-, and physical activity-related research; and gender- and family-related studies are among the most valuable ECE research themes. Implications for research institutions, education policymakers, and educational researchers are discussed

Construction health and safety: A topic landscape study

We aim to draw in-depth insights into the current literature in construction health and safety and provide perspectives for future research efforts. The existing literature on construction health and safety is not only diverse and rich in sight, but also complex and fragmented in structure. It is essential for the construction industry and research community to understand the overall development and existing challenges of construction health and safety to adapt to future new code of practice and challenges in this field. We mapped the topic landscape followed by identifying the salient development trajectories of this research area over time. We used the topic modeling algorithm to extract 10 distinct topics from 662 abstracts (filtered from a total of 895) of articles published between 1991 and 2020. In addition, we provided the most cited references and the most popular journal per topic as well. The results from a time series analysis suggested that the construction health and safety would maintain its popularity in the next 5 years. Research efforts would be devoted to the topics including “Physical health and disease”, “Migrant and race”, “Vocational ability and training”, and “Smart devices.” Among these topics, “Smart devices” would be the most promising one

Trends in smartphone-supported medical education: A review of journal publications from 2007 to 2016

Issues relevant to smartphone-supported mobile learning have been extensively discussed and investigated over the past years. Unlike general mobile devices, the advantages of smartphones, such as recording learning and portability, can cross formal and informal education. Smartphones can promote communication between health professionals; however, there is still a lack of systematic analysis of the application and development trends of smartphone use in medical education. The present study systematically reviewed research articles published in international academic journals from 2007 to 2016, analyzed the application domains, subjects, and adopted learning strategies, and investigated the research issues of smartphone-supported medical education. The findings revealed that the application of smartphones in medical education and training has not gained much popularity over the past years. In addition to the changes in the software technology in smartphones and the rising number of studies on mobile learning in medical education, research issues have become increasingly diverse in recent years. Smartphone-supported learning has mainly been implemented to develop basic concepts of biomedical information and in information technology environments; moreover, applying smartphones in medical education did not extensively adopt such learning strategies as inquiry-based learning, contextual mobile learning, mindtools, game-based learning, or synchronous sharing. This indicates that most of the studies adopting smartphones focused on skills training and basic knowledge acquisition rather than on the development of learners’ higher-order thinking, for example, problem solving or critical thinking. On the other hand, it was found that the number of experimental studies related to smartphones has increased recently. The majority of research adopted questionnaire surveys and reported learners’ cognitive performances and concepts, while learning behaviors were seldom analyzed. Therefore, this study indicates the research trends and potential research issues of integrating smartphones into medical education, and provides suggestions and references for researchers, medical teachers, and decision-makers

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION FACTORS TO DRIVE ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF THE ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY (ADNOC)

The study of technology-based change and innovation is receiving much attention from academics and practitioners as change/innovation plays a vital role in organisations’ growth success and improved performance. Despite the potential benefits associated with new technologies, employees and organisations are generally reluctant to adopt them. In response to this issue, this study aims to enhance the general understanding concerning the factors that affect employees’ adoption of technology in a Middle Eastern country (UAE), where the results can also be applied to other Arab countries in the region. In spite of the recent progress in understanding how radio frequency identification (RFID) systems can substantially advance logistics and other services within the oil and gas sector, there is a significant gap in the literature concerning determinants of RFID application in managing various forms of operations. Hence, this study attempts to fill this gap by examining the key enablers and impediments of adopting RFID systems in the UAE oil and gas sector using the technology, organisation and environment framework (TOE). The purpose of this research is to refine and expand technology adoption theory for the oil and gas sector by testing the technology–organisation–environment framework in the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) UAE. The research work identifies and ranks factors impacting employees’ decision to implement RFID in ADNOC UAE. A theoretical model was developed using a variety of TOE factors that may enable or impede RFID adoption in managing operations within the oil and gas sector. Then, the model was empirically tested by means of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) based on survey data of 301 online questionnaire responses that were collected from managers, technicians, physicians and general employees working in ADNOC UAE. Results showed that Technology Competence, Top Management, Competitive Pressure, Firm’s Size and Government Regulations showed significant and positive relationship with employees’ intention to adopt RFID. However, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and perceived financial cost were found to have no significant effect on employees’ willingness to adopt RFID. The study contributes to the empirical research within the field of RFID and technology adoption in the UAE oil and gas sector. Furthermore, the findings of this study enable managers to make an informed decision about technology adoption within the oil and gas logistics setting

The Digital Agricultural Revolution: a Bibliometric Analysis Literature Review

The application of digital technologies in agriculture can improve traditional practices to adapt to climate change, reduce Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions, and promote a sustainable intensification for food security. Some authors argued that we are experiencing a Digital Agricultural Revolution (DAR) that will boost sustainable farming. This study aims to find evidence of the ongoing DAR process and clarify its roots, what it means, and where it is heading. We investigated the scientific literature with bibliometric analysis tools to produce an objective and reproducible literature review. We retrieved 4995 articles by querying the Web of Science database in the timespan 2012-2019, and we analyzed the obtained dataset to answer three specific research questions: i) what is the spectrum of the DAR-related terminology?; ii) what are the key articles and the most influential journals, institutions, and countries?; iii) what are the main research streams and the emerging topics? By grouping the authors' keywords reported on publications, we identified five main research streams: Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), Site-Specific Management (SSM), Remote Sensing (RS), Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). To provide a broad overview of each of these topics, we analyzed relevant review articles, and we present here the main achievements and the ongoing challenges. Finally, we showed the trending topics of the last three years (2017, 2018, 2019)