Author: VPInstitute

  • A case study on the use of machine learning techniques for supporting technology watch

    Technology Watch human agents have to read many documents in order to manually categorize and dispatch them to the correct expert, that will later add valued information to each document. In this two step process, the first one, the categorization of documents, is time consuming and relies on the knowledge of a human categorizer agent.…

  • Correlation of Betel Quid with Oral Cancer from 1998 to 2017 A Study Based on Bibliometric Analysis (full-text)

    Betel quid chewing has been a major risk factor for oral cancer (OC) in southern China. This study aimed to analyze the scientific publications on the relationship between betel quid chewing and OC and construct a model to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate pertinent publications from 1998 to 2017. The publications from 1998 to 2017 were…

  • Mapping the Healthcare Service Quality Domain: A Bibliometric Analysis (full-text)

    Quality in healthcare services has become a subject of study, acquiring a special connotation for both individual and collective health services. The aim of this study is to examine the scientific literature on healthcare service quality indexed in SCOPUS between 1994 and 2015. A bibliometric study was conducted using the SCOPUS database along with a…

  • Institutional shaping of research priorities: A case study on avian influenza

    Since outbreaks in 2003, avian influenza has received a considerable amount of funding and become a controversial science policy issue in various respects. Like in many other global and multidisciplinary societal problems fraught with high levels of uncertainty, a variety of perspectives have emerged over how to “tackle” avian influenza and public voices have expressed…