Influential cited references in FEMS Microbiology Letters: lessons from Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS)

The journal FEMS Microbiology Letters covers all aspects of microbiology including virology. On which scientific shoulders do the papers published in this journal stand? Which are the classic papers used by the authors? We aim to answer these questions in this study by applying the Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) analysis to all papers published in this journal between 1977 and 2017. In total, 16 837 publications with 410 586 cited references are analyzed. Mainly, the studies published in the journal FEMS Microbiology Letters draw knowledge from methods developed to quantify or characterize biochemical substances such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, or carbohydrates and from improvements of techniques suitable for studies of bacterial genetics. The techniques frequently used for studying the genetic of microorganisms in FEMS Microbiology Letters' studies were developed using samples prepared from microorganisms. Methods required for the investigation of proteins, carbohydrates, or lipids were mostly transferred from other fields of life science to microbiology

A Bibliometric Review of Technostress: Historical Roots, Evolution and Central Publications of a Growing Research Field

While previous research has provided critical insights into the different perspectives, methods, and theories on technostress, there is currently no bibliometric review available that clarifies the evolution and structure of the field. We use three bibliometric methods to assess the body of 252 technostress publications until 2019: reference publication year spectroscopy, co-word analysis, and co-citation analysis. In doing so, we analyze how the technostress field has evolved over time, clarify the interconnected concepts forming the discourse and identify the most influential works

Is there cross-fertilization in macroeconomics? A quantitative exploration of the interactions between DSGE and macro agent-based models

This paper compares Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) and Macro Agent-Based Models(MABMs) by adopting mainly a distant reading perspective. A set of 2,299 papers is retrieved from Scopus byusing keywords related to MABM and DSGE domains. The interactions between the two streams of DSGE andMABM literature are explored by considering a social axis (co-authorship network), and an intellectual axis (citedreferences and bibliographic coupling). The analysis gave results that are neither consistent with a unitarystructure of macroeconomics, nor with a simple dichotomic structure of alternative paradigms and separatedacademics communities. Indeed, the co-authorship network shows that DSGE and MABM form fragmentedcommunities still belonging to two different larger MABM and DSGE communities rather neatly separated.Collaboration insists mainly inside the smaller groups and inside each of the two larger DSGE and MABMcommunities. Moreover, the co-authorship network analysis does not show evidence of systematic collaborationbetween MABM and DSGE authors. From an intellectual point of view, data show that DSGE and MABM articlesrefer to two different sets of bibliographic references. When a measure of paper-similarity is adopted, it appearsthat DSGE literature is fragmented in 4 groups while the MABM articles are clustered together in a unique group.Hence, DSGE approach is less monolithic than at the time of the New Synthesis: indeed, a large and a growingliterature has developed at the margins of the core DSGE approach which includes elements of heterogeneousagent modelling, social interactions, experiments, expectations formation, learning etc. The analysis gave noevidence of cross-fertilization between DSGE and MABM literature whilst it rather suggests a totallydissymmetric influence of DSGE over MABM literature, i.e., only MABM modelers look at DSGE but not vice-versa. The paper questions the capacity of the current dominant approach to benefit from cross-fertilization

Suffolk University Undergraduate Academic Catalog, College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School, 2015-2016

This catalog contains information for the undergraduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Sawyer Business School. The catalog is a PDF version of the Suffolk website, so many pages have repeated information and links in the document will not work. The catalog is keyword searchable by clicking ctrl+f. A-Z course descriptions are also included here as separate PDF files with lists of CAS and SBS courses. Please contact the Archives if you need assistance navigating this catalog or finding information on degree requirements or course descriptions.https://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1170/thumbnail.jp