Software tools for conducting bibliometric analysis in science: An up-to-date review

Bibliometrics has become an essential tool for assessing and analyzing the output of scientists, cooperation between universities, the effect of state-owned science funding on national research and development performance and educational efficiency, among other applications. Therefore, professionals and scientists need a range of theoretical and practical tools to measure experimental data. This review aims to provide an up-to-date review of the various tools available for conducting bibliometric and scientometric analyses, including the sources of data acquisition, performance analysis and visualization tools. The included tools were divided into three categories: general bibliometric and performance analysis, science mapping analysis, and libraries; a description of all of them is provided. A comparative analysis of the database sources support, pre-processing capabilities, analysis and visualization options were also provided in order to facilitate its understanding. Although there are numerous bibliometric databases to obtain data for bibliometric and scientometric analysis, they have been developed for a different purpose. The number of exportable records is between 500 and 50,000 and the coverage of the different science fields is unequal in each database. Concerning the analyzed tools, Bibliometrix contains the more extensive set of techniques and suitable for practitioners through Biblioshiny. VOSviewer has a fantastic visualization and is capable of loading and exporting information from many sources. SciMAT is the tool with a powerful pre-processing and export capability. In views of the variability of features, the users need to decide the desired analysis output and chose the option that better fits into their aims

Does slack influence public and private labour market interactions?

Este trabajo analiza el impacto del empleo y de los salarios públicos sobre el mercado de trabajo. En particular, analizamos si los mecanismos de transmisión desde el sector público al sector privado funcionan de manera diferente según la economía se encuentre en recesión (elevada tasa de paro) o en expansión. Explotamos datos tanto de España como de la zona del euro en su conjunto, y utilizamos el método de proyecciones locales [Jordà (2005)]. Los resultados indican que la situación de la tasa de paro es clave para determinar: i) si el empleo público desplaza al empleo privado, y ii) la magnitud de la influencia de los salarios públicos en el sector privado. Además, observamos que, en momentos de crisis económica, el ajuste salarial es menos costoso en términos de PIB que una reducción del empleo público para el caso español, mientras que lo contrario sucede en el área del euro. Conjeturamos que las diferencias en el grado de rigidez de los salarios y la tasa de paro pueden racionalizar estos hallazgosWe empirically analyse the impact of public employment and public wages shocks on private labour market outcomes by examining whether policies operate differently in periods of economic slack than in normal times. We use local projection methods and focus on the Spanish and euro area aggregate cases. We find that the degree of unemployment slack is key for determining: (i) whether public employment crowds out private employment, and (ii) the degree and extent of the infl uence of public wages on the private sector. In addition, we find that at times of economic distress, public wage adjustment has lower output costs than public employment cuts for the Spanish case, while the opposite occurs at the euro area level. We conjecture that differences in the degree of wage rigidities and the size of the unemployment pool may rationalise our finding

Design Thinking (DT) in Engineering Education (EE): A Systematic Literature Review (SLR)

Trabajo presentado en el “13th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management/XXIII Congreso en Ingeniería de Organización (CIO 2019)”, Gijon (Asturias, Spain) , 11 y 12 de julio de 2019[EN] Design Thinking not only is a well-known technique for user-oriented product design, but also is an education technique in Higher Education. Design thinking is increasingly used as an innovative educational tool to promote in engineering student transversal skills as critical thinking, creativity, and teamwork. However, despite its popularity, the teaching community has implemented it in many different ways focusing on specific aspects without taking in notice of previous experiences. The aim of this work is to analyze the literature published about Design Thinking experience in Engineering Education through a systematic literature review. Our conclusions will contribute to this educational area pointing the state of the art and the future lines of this educational methodolog

Small Synthetic Hyaluronan Disaccharide BIS014 Mitigates Neuropathic Pain in Mice

Supplementary data Supplementary data related to this article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2022.07.014.Neuropathic pain (NP) is a challenging condition to treat, as the need for new drugs to treat NP is an unmet goal. We investigated the analgesic potential of a new sulfated disaccharide compound, named BIS014. Oral administration (p.o.) of this compound induced ameliorative effects in formalin-induced nociception and capsaicin-induced secondary mechanical hypersensitivity in mice, but also after partial sciatic nerve transection (spared nerve injury), chemotherapy (paclitaxel)-induced NP, and diabetic neuropathy induced by streptozotocin. Importantly, BIS014, at doses active on neuropathic hypersensitivity (60 mg/kg/p.o.), did not alter exploratory activity or motor coordination (in the rotarod test), unlike a standard dose of gabapentin (40 mg/kg/p.o.) which although inducing antiallodynic effects on the NP models, it also markedly decreased exploration and motor coordination. In docking and molecular dynamic simulation studies, BIS014 interacted with TRPV1, a receptor involved in pain transmission where it behaved as a partial agonist. Additionally, similar to capsaicin, BIS014 increased cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]c) in neuroblastoma cells expressing TRPV1 receptors; these elevations were blocked by ruthenium red. BIS014 did not block capsaicin-elicited [Ca2+]c transients, but inhibited the increase in the firing rate of action potentials in bradykinin-sensitized dorsal root ganglion neurons stimulated with capsaicin. Perspective: We report that the oral administration of a new sulfated disaccharide compound, named BIS014, decreases neuropathic pain from diverse etiology in mice. Unlike the comparator gabapentin, BIS014 does not induce sedation. Thus, BIS014 has the potential to become a new efficacious non-sedative oral medication for the treatment of neuropathic pain.Laboratorios Bioibérica (Barcelona)Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM

Business cycles and investment in intangibles : evidence from Spanish firms

This paper tests the opportunity-cost theory using a panel of Spanish firms during the period 1991-2010. Under this theory, productivity-enhancing activities, such as R&D investment, should increase during downturns because of the fall in their relative cost – in terms of forgone output –. This would imply that business cycles may have a (positive) long-term impact on productivity growth. In the spirit of Aghion et al. (2007) we allow the impact of the cycle on R&D to vary between firms with different access to credit, finding that credit constraints may reverse the countercyclicality of R&D, even if it is optimal for them. We go one step further and explore whether other productivity-enhancing activities, like on-the-job training and the purchase of patents, follow a similar pattern. We find that on-the-job training expenditures are countercyclical and, unlike R&D investment, credit constraints seem not to affect their cyclical behaviour. Investments in other intangibles, such as patent purchases, are found to be acyclical, also irrespective of financial constraints, which could suggest some kind of substitution between R&D and patent purchases over the cycle. Finally, complementarities between the different intangible investments and the traditional productive factors (labour and capital) are also investigated via production function estimates, in order to assess potential indirect effects of the cycle on long-run growthEste trabajo contrasta la teoría del coste de oportunidad utilizando un panel de empresas españolas para el período 1991-2010. Según esta teoría, las actividades que mejoran la productividad empresarial, como por ejemplo la inversión en I+D, deberían aumentar durante la fase baja del ciclo, ya que su coste relativo en términos del producto final que se deja de producir cae. Este hecho podría implicar que los ciclos económicos pueden tener un impacto (positivo) sobre el crecimiento de la productividad a largo plazo. En línea con la importante contribución de Aghion et al. (2007), realizamos un ejercicio empírico en el que permitimos que el efecto del ciclo económico sobre el gasto en I+D varíe entre empresas con distinta capacidad de acceder a la financiación externa, y encontramos que las restricciones crediticias pueden llegar a revertir la contraciclicidad de la I+D, aunque ello no sea lo óptimo para la empresa. En este trabajo se da un paso más y se explora si existen otras actividades beneficiosas para la productividad empresarial, como el gasto en formación o la adquisición del derecho de uso de patentes, que siguen un patrón cíclico similar al de la I+D. Los resultados apuntan a que el gasto en formación de las empresas es contracíclico y, a diferencia de la inversión en I+D, dicho patrón no parece verse afectado por la presencia de restricciones financieras. La inversión en otros activos intangibles, como las compras de patentes, resulta ser acíclica, también con independencia de las restricciones de crédito, lo que podría sugerir cierto grado de sustituibilidad entre la inversión en I+D y las compras de patentes a lo largo del ciclo económico. Finalmente, también se estudian las complementariedades entre los diferentes tipos de inversión en activos intangibles y los factores productivos tradicionales (trabajo y capital físico) mediante la estimación de una función de producció

External stakeholder engagement: Complementary and substitutive effects on firms' eco‐innovation

[EN] In this paper, we investigate whether firms' engagements in collaboration agreements with different types of external stakeholders produce complementary effects on the likelihood of eco-innovation. Although collaboration network and open eco-innovation theories affirm that the combination of external partners such as scientific partners, suppliers and customers produces complementary effects on the firm's likelihood of eco-innovation, several empirical studies found the existence of substitutive effects between them. To bridge this gap in the literature, we shape the nature of the interaction between different external partners, analysing an unbalanced panel sample of 10,918 innovative Spanish firms, covering the period 2008–2016. Consequently, we can show how firms benefit the most from collaboration with external partners. Our results show that firms that simultaneously collaborate with scientific partners, suppliers and customers generate partial complementary effects, which increase the firm's likelihood to eco-innovate the most, and that the combination of customer-collaboration with scientific partners, or supplier-collaboration, produces partial substitutive effects. Taking this in account, our results also confirm that engaging with scientific partners, suppliers or customers, independent of one another, increases firms' likelihood of eco-innovation more than noncollaboration. These results have important implications for managers, researchers and policy designers. For managers, this study provides a correct understanding of the benefits that they can expect to obtain from multi-partner external collaboration. For researchers, it introduces the marginal analysis to estimate interaction on nonlinear models. Finally, for policy designers, it shows the need for sponsored R&D collaboration to encourage coordinated ecosystems in which sustainability goals are pursued together.SIThis work has received support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of through research projects (FPU18/00343) and (PID2019-105140RB-I00)

Relationship between rescue distance and the quality of simulated CPR: a pilot study with lifeguards

Objective: The aim of this research was to investigate if the distance travelled in a ‘rescue’ is associated with differences in the quality of the CPR provided. Methods: A group of 10 lifeguards performed simulated CPR for 2 minutes at rest. Next, they performed 2 rescues, one of 50 meters and the other of 100 meters. After each rescue, the lifeguards immediately performed simulated CPR. Results: The time invested in the rescue of 50 meters was significantly lower than in the 100 meters (P < 0.001). Simulated CPR at rest obtained high quality values in the compressions (94.8 ± 9.6%) but not in the ventilations (41.0 ± 22.8%). 50 and 100 meter rescues were associated with a significant decline in the overall quality of CPR (68.4 ± 11.0 vs. 51.0 ± 9.3 vs. 49.7 ± 7.2%, P = 0.002), correctness of hand position (100% vs. 91.0 ± 7.0 vs. 85.9 ± 12.3, P = 0.006), and in the quality of the ventilations (41.0 ± 22.8 vs. 12.0 ± 17.5 vs. 11.0 ± 12.8%, P = 0.001). The quality of the above measures was similar in 50 and 100 meter rescues. Conclusions: Rescues of 50 and 100 meters were similarly associated with a decrease in the quality of simulated CPR vs. at rest simulated CPR. Lifeguards should practice performing CPR following rescue activities with added focus on performing rescue ventilations correctly

An Axiomatic Framework for Propagating Uncertainty in Directed Acyclic Networks

This paper presents an axiomatic system for propagating uncertainty in Pearl's causal networks, (Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference, 1988 [7]). The main objective is to study all aspects of knowledge representation and reasoning in causal networks from an abstract point of view, independent of the particular theory being used to represent information (probabilities, belief functions or upper and lower probabilities). This is achieved by expressing concepts and algorithms in terms of valuations, an abstract mathematical concept representing a piece of information, introduced by Shenoy and Sharer [1, 2]. Three new axioms are added to Shenoy and Shafer's axiomatic framework [1, 2], for the propagation of general valuations in hypertrees. These axioms allow us to address from an abstract point of view concepts such as conditional information (a generalization of conditional probabilities) and give rules relating the decomposition of global information with the concept of independence (a generalization of probability rules allowing the decomposition of a bidimensional distribution with independent marginals in the product of its two marginals). Finally, Pearl's propagation algorithms are also developed and expressed in terms of operations with valuations.Commission of the European Communities under ESPRIT BRA 3085: DRUM

Psychopathological Risk Factors Associated with Body Image, Body Dissatisfaction and Weight-Loss Dieting in School-Age Adolescents

Determining the comorbidity patterns leading to suffering behavioural eating disorders (BED) that are identifiable in the early stages of life, can help prevent their becoming chronic, as well as preventing the consequences deriving from the cost and effectiveness of intervention programs. The paper focuses mainly on analysing the association between behavioural/emotional risk factors and body image, body satisfaction and diet in school children, as well as confirming whether there are differences based on sex. Several questionnaires (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and several items of Health Behaviour in School-age Children) including these variables were distributed and completed by the 647 adolescents (16 year olds on average) who took part in the research project. The findings confirmed a differentiated risk profile in adolescent girls in that they had greater prevalence of emotional symptoms as a general psychopathological trait, although this was offset with their prosocial behaviour. Additionally, the findings also allowed us to conclude that the factors that predict vulnerability to BEDs are sex, the presence of emotional symptoms and social and behavioural issues. At the end of this paper, we discuss some implications and consequences that should be taken into account for future work

Relationship of parental support on healthy habits, school motivations and academic performance in adolescents.

©2020. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This document is the Published, version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030882The objective of the study was to analyze how parental support relates to the physical activity practice, satisfaction with sports, level of physical activity, academic performance and alcohol consumption. Descriptive cross-sectional study, with 1100 adolescents (12–16 years old), where the factors related to parental support, gender and age acted as independent variables, and satisfaction with sport, level of physical activity (PA), academic performance and alcohol consumption acted as dependent variables. A multivariate statistical analysis was conducted. Adolescents with little parental support show (p < 0.001) more boredom, less fun, worse academic performance and higher alcohol consumption. Gender shows differences (p < 0.001) experiencing girls more boredom, less fun, less PA practice and higher academic performance than boys. Age establishes (p < 0.01) that older adolescents (15–16 years old) experience more boredom, less fun, less PA practice, lower academic performance and higher alcohol consumption than young boys and girls (12–14 years old). Parental support towards PA practice improves healthy habits, benefits academic performance and school satisfaction with physical and sports activity