Author: VPInstitute

Tracking developments in artificial intelligence research: constructing and applying a new search strategy (FULL-TEXT)

Artificial intelligence, as an emerging and multidisciplinary domain of research and innovation, has attracted growing attention in recent years. Delineating the domain composition of artificial intelligence is central to profiling and tracking its development and trajectories. This paper puts forward a bibliometric definition for artificial intelligence which can be readily applied, including by researchers, managers,…
Expert Opinions on the Most Promising Treatments and Vaccine Candidates for COVID-19: Global Cross-sectional Survey of Virus Researchers in the Early Months of the Pandemic (FULL-TEXT)

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a great public health challenge worldwide, especially given the urgent need to identify effective drugs and develop a vaccine in a short period of time. Globally, several drugs and vaccine candidates are in clinical trials. However, because these drugs and vaccines are still being tested, there is still no definition of…
A Panorama of Human-Animal Interactions Research: Bibliometric Analysis of HAI Articles 1982-2018 (FULL-TEXT)

What can we know about human-animal interactions (HAI) research by looking at information about its research articles, such as publication information, text of abstracts or author keywords, or citation patterns? Bibliometric analysis, the quantification of information about published articles, is a tool we can use to gain a perspective of the status of research in…
The Profile of Studies on Renewable Energy in Sustainable Supply Chain (FULL-TEXT)

Over the years, has been growing policies aiming to reduce the greenhouses gases emissions – GHG, which lead for the searching of sustainable alternative solutions. One way mitigates the GHG emissions is the use of renewable energy sources. Nevertheless, for the use of such resources there are a series of processes inherent to the energy…
Charting the terrain of global research on graduate education: a bibliometric approach

The paper provides an overview of the global research on graduate education. The study applied a combination of a bibliometric and social network analysis methods to bibliographic data from Thompson Reuters’ Web of Science. More specifically, a keyword search approach was used to retrieve 2,454 articles on graduate education from 1996 until 2020. The set…
An exploratory perspective to measure the emergence degree for a specific technology based on the philosophy of swarm intelligence (FULL-TEXT)

How to evaluate or measure the emergence degree or level for a specific technology is rarely discussed in the prior studies, and it should be a valuable issue for the relevant areas on technology forecasting, foresight, and technological strategies for macro and micro economies, particularly for those emerging economies who are chasing the technology advances…
Recommendations from paediatric dentistry associations of the Americas on breastfeeding and sugar consumption and oral hygiene in infants for the prevention of dental caries: a bibliometric review

The internet provides a plethora of information, including concerning health issues. The aim of this paper is to identify online recommendations of paediatric dentistry associations of the Americas (PDAAs) regarding breastfeeding practices, weaning, sugar introduction and initiating oral hygiene. Websites of PDAAs were access to record recommendations/questions (Q) relevant to early childhood that specifically covered…
Bibliometric analysis of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) in wastewater treatment: global and Ibero-American research trends

Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) constitute a developing area of particular interest for researchers in different fields due to their broad range of applications. However, there are few studies dedicated to the bibliometric analysis of AOPs. Hence, a systematic literature review of research publications (research articles, review articles, and book chapters) from 1980 to 2018 was…
2020 Dissertation: INTEGRATING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY IDENTIFICATION INTO SCENARIO-BASED TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPPING FOR TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT: A CASE EXAMPLE OF THAILAND’S AMBULANCE TECHNOLOGIES

Technology foresight allows an organization to systematically keep track of emerging technologies to be adopted in its technology development plan. In Thailand, the National Institute for Emergency Medicine (NIEM) develops the nation-wide emergency service system. While foresight methods such as scenario planning and technology roadmapping are already deployed at NIEM, the experts are unable to…
Lifestyle risk behaviors of university students: a bibliometric analysis (Full-Text)

Examine the evolution of publications on the lifestyle risk behaviors of university students. Methods: Bibliometric research was carried out on using 9011 articles retrieved from the SciELO and Web of Science database. The analyses included, the trend of the production, the most productive countries, journals, institutions, and the relevant information was extracted based on frequency…