Category: Network analysis
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Mapping Case-Based Learning Research from 2014 to 2024: a Bibliometric and Network Analysis
Abstract Case-based learning (CBL) is a globally recognized pedagogical approach known forfostering critical thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and active engagementamong learners. Despite its implementation across multiple educational levels and disciplines worldwide, the global research landscape of CBL remains underexplored. Toaddress this gap, a comprehensive overview is needed to map the evolution of CBLresearch, delineate its geographical…
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Research on Shelf-Life Extension Technologies for Food Sustainability: An Assessment of Scientific Activities and Networks (FULL-TEXT)
A clearer understanding of research streams and players involved in efforts to address the sustainability of global food and agricultural systems is needed to clarify the current state of scientific knowledge and form collaborations to pursue future research directions. This study presents new insights into this issue through a scientometric process involving a case study…
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Scientific Trends in Artificial Neural Networks for Management Science
The use of artificial neural network (ANN) is growing significantly, and their areas of application are varied. In this case, the main aim of the study is to present an overall view of trends and research carried out in ANNs specifically in management science. To this aim, the data of publications about ANN in the…
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Social life cycle assessment: mapping scientific knowledge
Social life cycle assessment (sLCA) is a methodology to support decision making on social impacts, positive and negative, actual or potential, related to product life cycles [1,2]. Being a relatively new tool, the indicators are not yet homogenized and the method does not have a standard to be followed nor a code of practice [3]…
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Detecting trends in sustainability publications: research development and dynamics in “Green and sustainable science and technology” category
Although the sustainability movement began to take shape in the early nineteen seventies, it was not until 1987 with the publication of the Brundtland Report that it acquired institutional recognition. The academic community’s engagement with the movement came a few years later in the form of sustainability science, which developed and consolidated in keeping with…
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A postcolonial feminist exploration of the scholarship on women and educational leadership with a bibliometric approach
This study applied a bibliometric approach to a dataset of publications on women and educational leadership to critically explore the nature of research in the field and the utility of the bibliometric method in its mapping. The analysis was conducted on bibliographic records of 823 papers on women and educational leadership published from 1975 to…
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Dynamic network analytics for recommending scientific collaborators
Collaboration is one of the most important contributors to scientific advancement and a crucial aspect of an academic’s career. However, the explosion in academic publications has, for some time, been making it more challenging to find suitable research partners. Recommendation approaches to help academics find potential collaborators are not new. However, the existing methods operate…
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Identification of topic evolution: network analytics with piecewise linear representation and word embedding
Understanding the evolutionary relationships among scientific topics and learning the evolutionary process of innovations is a crucial issue for strategic decision makers in governments, firms and funding agencies when they carry out forward-looking research activities. However, traditional co-word network analysis on topic identification cannot effectively excavate semantic relationship from the context, and fixed time window…
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Scientific collaboration analysis of Brazilian postgraduate programs in information science (full-text Spanish)
Due to the growing interest in metric studies on the scientific collaboration of national postgraduate studies, together with the theoretical and applied bases of Information Science supported by metric studies of information, it became relevant to identify how scientific collaborations occur in postgraduate programs in Information Science. The research method included the use of bibliometrics…
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Scientific mapping of stem cells associated with Chagas disease : A bibliometric analysis
The objective is to map the scientific publications of research involving stem cells associated with Chagas disease. We used bibliometric and social network analysis techniques to analyze scientific data collected in the Web of Science. Most of the articles were published in 2014 and 2015. The organizations and authors with the largest number of publications…