Author: VPInstitute

  • Probing Expert Opinions on the Future of Kidney Replacement Therapies

    Patients with kidney failure can only survive with some form of kidney replacement (transplant or dialysis). Unfortunately, innovations in kidney replacement therapy lag behind many other medical fields. This study compiles expert opinions on candidate technologies for future kidney replacement therapies. A worldwide web‐based survey was conducted with 1,566 responding experts, identified via a text-mining…

  • Twenty-five years’ contribution of “Benchmarking: an International Journal” to manufacturing strategy: a scientometric review

    This study aims at reviewing the articles on the themes of manufacturing strategy (MS) published in “Benchmarking: An International Journal (BIJ)” and investigating the trends of publication for future research. Five-stage methodology to conduct a literature review is adopted comprising: (1) article collection, (2) inclusion/exclusion criteria, (3) reviewing the articles, (4) analyzing the articles and…

  • What are the most promising treatments and vaccine candidates for COVID-19? A global survey of experts involved in virus research (FULL-TEXT)

    The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presents a great public health challenge around the world, especially given the urgency to identify effective drugs and develop a vaccine in a short period of time. Globally, there are several drug and vaccine candidates currently in clinical trials, yet it is not yet clear which will prove successful.…

  • Consolidation in a crisis: Patterns of international collaboration in early COVID-19 research (FULL-TEXT)

    This paper seeks to understand whether a catastrophic and urgent event, such as the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerates or reverses trends in international collaboration, especially in and between China and the United States. A review of research articles produced in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that COVID-19 research had…

  • Agents for sludge dewatering in fundamental research and applied research: a bibliometric analysis

    Highlights A bibliometric analysis on agents for sludge dewatering was conducted. Highly cited papers support applied research. Japan is application-oriented and USA performed well in both fundamental research and applied research. Developing countries still need to optimize their pattern or promote technology innovation. Interdisciplinary collaboration covering the lifecycle of industrial chain is needed. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122907 In…

  • Measuring tech emergence: A contest

    Highlights Thirteen teams strive to distinguish emerging research topics in synthetic biology. Analyses of ten years of article abstracts predict topics in the next two years. Augmenting, consolidating, embedding, and clustering text help detect emergence. Analyses of citation patterns and research networking also help discern emergence. We conducted a contest to predict highly active research…

  • Parallel or Intersecting Lines? Intelligent Bibliometrics for Investigating the Involvement of Data Science in Policy Analysis

    Efforts to involve data science in policy analysis can be traced back decades but transforming analytic findings into decisions is still far from straightforward task. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding approaches, practices, and research results from many disciplines, which makes it interesting to investigate whether data science and policy analysis are moving in parallel or whether…

  • Parameter tuning Naïve Bayes for automatic patent classification

    In an era of exponential technological growth, business intelligence professionals are more in need than ever of an organized patent landscape in which to conduct technology forecasting and industry positioning. However, the construction of such a system requires time and trained experts, both of which are expensive investments for such a small part of any…

  • Do national funding organizations properly address the diseases with the highest burden? – Observations from China and the UK (Full-Text)

    Recent years have witnessed an incipient shift in science policy from a focus mainly on academic excellence to a focus that also takes into account “societal impact”. This shift raises the question as to whether medical research has given proper attention to the diseases imposing the greatest burden on society. Therefore, with the aim of…

  • A 3-dimensional analysis for evaluating technology emergence indicators

    Technology emergence has become a hot topic in R&D policy and management communities. Various methods of measuring technology emergence have been developed. However, there is little literature discussing how to evaluate the results identified by different methods. This research sharpens a promising Technology Emergence Indicator (TEI) set by assessing alternative formulations on three distinct datasets:…