Scientific literature addressing brain glioma in the Web of Science A 10-year bibliometric analysis

Brain glioma is a hot topic in recent years; however, brain glioma remains poorly understood. A bibliometric analysis based on the Science Citation Index （SCI） published by the Institute of Scientific Information （ISI） was performed to identify the global research and to improve the understanding of research trends in the brain glioma field from 2001 to 2010. During 2001 to 2010, there were 8 413 papers addressing brain glioma added to the SCI, and this trend is increasing annually. Of these reports, 6 945 papers are written in English. Journals published in the United States had the most papers, including ten core source titles. The Journal of Neuro-Oncology published the most articles followed by Cancer Research. Furthermore, the University of California San Francisco, is the most productive institution for publishing articles in the brain glioma field. Finally, this study highlights the topics in brain glioma research that are being published around th~ world.

Scientific literature addressing detection of monosialoganglioside A 10-year bibliometric analysis

OBJECTIVE： The study was undertaken to explore a bibliometric approach to quantitatively assess the research on detection of monosialoganglioside from 2002 to 2011. DATA RETRIEVAL： A bibliometric analysis based on the publications on Web of Science was performed using key words such as ＂monosialoganglioside＂, ＂colloidal gold＂, ＂high performance liquid chromatography＂ and ＂detection＂. SELECTION CRITERIA： （1） Research articles on the detection of monosialoganglioside; （2） researches on human and animal fundamentals, clinical trials and case reports; （3） article types： article, review, proceedings paper, note, letter, editorial material, discussion, book chapter; （4） Publication year： 2002-2011. Exclusion criteria： （1） unrelated articles; （2） type of articles： correction; （3） articles from following databases： all databases related to social science and arts ＆ humanities in Web of Science were excluded. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES： （1） distribution of subject areas; （2） number of publications annually; （3） document type and language of publications; （4） distribution of institutions; （5） distribution of output in journals; （6） the number of countries in which the article is published; （7） top cited paper. RESULTS： Overall population stands at 1 880 research articles addressing detection of monosialoganglioside in Web of Science during the study period. Articles （1 599） were the most frequently used document type comprising 85.05%, followed by meeting abstracts, reviews and proceedings papers. The distribution of subject categories showed that monosialoganglioside research covered both clinical and basic science research. The USA, Japan, and Italy were the three most productive countries, and the publication numbers in the USA were highest with 559 papers. The University of Milan, Nagoya University, and Kinki University are the most productive institutions regarding detection of monosialoganglioside. In 559 articles published by Americans, Medical College of Georgia ranked the first with 30 articles, followed by University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey （28 articles）, Cornell University （24 articles） and Johns Hopkins University （24 articles）. In 442 articles published by Japanese, Nagoya University ranked the first with 40 articles, followed by Kinki University （36 articles）, and Dokkyo University （31 articles）. Though the total number of publications by Japanese is smaller than Americans, the top three institutions published more publications than American institutions. There is a markedly increase in the number of publications on the subject detection of monosialoganglioside in 2004, which the peak in the past 10 years. The valley bottom of the subject appeared in 2005. In total, the research is increased with time prolonged. Journal of Neurochemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Neuroimmunology were core subject journals in monosialoganglioside studies. CONCLUSION： This study highlights the topics in detection of monosialoganglioside research that are being published around the world.

Scientific literature on monosialoganglioside in the Science Citation Index-Expanded A bibliometric analysis of articles from 1942 to 2011 by each decade

BACKGROUND： The monosialoganglioside （GM1） is a popular topic of research but the bibliometric analysis of GM1 over the decades in Science Citation Index-Expanded （SCI-E） remains poorly understood. OBJECTIVE： To identify the global research and to improve the understanding of research trends in the GM1 field from 1942 to 2011. DESIGN： A bibliometric study. DATA RETRIEVAL： We performed a bibliometric analysis based on the SCI-E published by the Institute of Scientific Information. INCLUSIVE CRITERIA： Articles closely related to GM1 were included. Exclusive criteria： （1） Articles related to gangliosidosis, disialo-ganglioside, trisialo-ganglioside or ganglioside GQIb. （2） Document types such as meeting abstracts, reviews, proceedings papers, notes, and letters. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES： （1） Type of publication output; （2） number of author outputs; （3） distribution of output in subject categories; （4） publication distribution of countries; （5） distribution of output in journals, and （6） distribution of citations in each decade. RESULTS： During 1942 to 2011, there were 10 126 papers on GM1 that were added to the SCI. Articles （8 004） were the most frequently used document type comprising 79.0%, followed by meeting abstracts, reviews and proceedings papers. Research on GM1 could be found in the SCI from 1942, it was developed in the 1970s, greatly increased in the 1980s, and reached a peak in the 1990s, and it was slightly decreased in 2000. The distribution of subject categories showed that GM1 research covered both clinical and basic science research. The USA, Japan, and Germany were the three most productive countries, and the publication numbers in the USA were highest in all decades. The Joumal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neurochemistry and Biochemistry were core subject journals in GM1 studies in each decade. CONCLUSION： This study highlights the topics in GM1 research that are being published around the world.

Transformation and influencing factors of scholarly communication based on knowledge transfer: A case study of science and technology literature

Purpose: The process of scientific literature use can be regarded as that of knowledge transfer. With the help of the knowledge transfer theory and data from scientific literature databases, we explored the behavior of scientific researchers during their scholarly communication, and studied the factors that influenced the behavior of researchers under network environment. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the literature databases of CNKI, Elsevier Science Direct and Springer Link, we used the knowledge transfer theory to construct a model for describing the scholarly communication process, which attempts to find out factors that may influence the communication behavior of researchers. With a focus laid on the absorption behavior of researchers during the knowledge acceptance process, we defined the independent variables of the model and proposed hypotheses on the basis of a comprehensive literature study. Afterwards, college students were invited to participate in a questionnaire survey, which was designed to prove our research model and hypotheses.Findings: Our results showed that during the scholarly communication, it is not the professional knowledge, but the ability and willingness for knowledge acceptance, organizations’ importance and internal atmosphere as well as knowledge authority and relevance that have played a positive significant role in the knowledge transfer performance. In addition, our distance indicators showed that knowledge distance and knowledge transfer performance have significant negative correlations. Research limitations: This study is mainly based on a questionnaire survey of college students, which may limit the generalization of our research results. In addition, more resource types need be considered for further studies.Practical implications: Under network environment, scholarly communication performance based on knowledge transfer theory could greatly contribute to the enrichment of the contentof the knowledge transfer theory, and stretch out the range of the field. In addition, our result could help commercial scientific database providers to learn more about the users’ needs, which would not only benefit both scientific communities and content providers, but also promote scholarly communication effectively. Originality/value: Compared with existing researches which mainly emphasized the model construction of scholarly communication, our study focused the knowledge relevance during the scholarly communication and influence factors that impacted on the performance of knowledge acceptance under the network environment, which could provide helpful guides for further studies.

Discussion on“Dispersion characteristics of clayey soils containing waste rubber particles”[J Rock Mech Geotech Eng 15(2023)3050-3058]

We read with great interest the recent article by Erenson(2023)entitled“Dispersion characteristics of clayey soils containing waste rubber particles”.The author has studied the dispersion characteristics of clayey soils containing different percentages of waste rubber particles(WRPs)by performing several tests(viz.consistency limit,linear shrinkage limit,double hydrometer,crumb test and pinhole test)and scanning electron microscopy(SEM)analysis on five clayey(viz.Na-activated bentonite,refined ball clay,Ukrainian kaolin,Avanos kaolin and Afyon clay)samples containing 0%,5%,10%and 15%WRPs.It should be noted that Erenson(2023)has presented some interesting observations,but there are some serious issues that we want to share through this discussion and request the author of the original paper to address them to avoid their persistence in the scientific literature.

Meeting report of the chief editorial board meeting for World Journal of Diabetes 2021

The 2021 online editorial board meeting of the World Journal of Diabetes(WJD)was held on November 9,2021.Jin-Lei Wang,General Manager on behalf of the Baishideng Publishing Group,and Professor Islam,one of the Editors-in-Chiefs(EiCs)of the WJD,organized the meeting.Three EiCs and 18 Baishideng Publishing Group staff attended the meeting.The meeting goal was to brief the EiCs on the journal’s performance,discuss the issues of concern of the EiCs,and gather ideas for the journal’s development in 2022.As of November 8,the WJD had received 287 manuscripts since the year’s start,among which 122 met the criteria for publication.These numbers represent an increase of 117.4%for submissions and 110.3%for publications compared to those in 2020.However,how to effectively control the academic quality of manuscripts and attract highquality original article submissions remain a challenge.The EiCs provided feedback and suggestions centered on three topics:(1)Who should and how to control the academic quality of the manuscripts;(2)How the EiCs perform their responsibilities;and(3)The distinctive and shared responsibilities of the publisher and the EiCs.

An Advanced Analysis of Cloud Computing Concepts Based on the Computer Science Ontology

Our primary research hypothesis stands on a simple idea:The evolution of top-rated publications on a particular theme depends heavily on the progress and maturity of related topics.And this even when there are no clear relations or some concepts appear to cease to exist and leave place for newer ones starting many years ago.We implemented our model based on Computer Science Ontology(CSO)and analyzed 44 years of publications.Then we derived the most important concepts related to Cloud Computing(CC)from the scientific collection offered by Clarivate Analytics.Our methodology includes data extraction using advanced web crawling techniques,data preparation,statistical data analysis,and graphical representations.We obtained related concepts after aggregating the scores using the Jaccard coefficient and CSO Ontology.Our article reveals the contribution of Cloud Computing topics in research papers in leading scientific journals and the relationships between the field of Cloud Computing and the interdependent subdivisions identified in the broader framework of Computer Science.

Key issues in the strategic environmental assessment of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River

The middle reaches of the Yangtze River were the key areas of central China emphasized in many strategic plans.It was also an important ecological and fragile area,because there are many wetlands,lakes,rivers and soil erosion area.And it linked the ecological fragile upper reaches of the Yangtze River with the most developed Yangtze River Delta in China.It is urgent to figure out the key industries,key areas and key ecological and environmental problems for the strategic environmental assessment of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.The important regions consisted of the economic key region,the planning key region,the ecological key region,and the fragile ecological region.The key industries consisted of the ones contributed to economic growth,or affecting the environment,or preferred by the local government.Besides,the ecological and environmental problems involved the water environment,the atmosphere environment,and the ecological environment.The key regions were identified through word frequency statistics of many plans by ROST Word Parser.And it was spatially overlaid by ArcGIS9.2.The key industries were calculated based on the economic statistics data,the environmental pollution census and the word frequency statistics.Based on SCI-EXPANDED,CPCI-S,CCR-EXPANDED,IC database and Chinese CNKI periodical database,the ecological and environmental problems of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River were analyzed by Citespace software according to the keywords and abstract of every paper.The results show that the important regions of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River concentrated in the central urban region,along the river and lake,surrounding mountains,and the wetland.The equipment manufacturing,chemical industry,mining industry,energy supply industry,food industry,textile and garment industry were the key industries need to be focused on.The urgent ecological and environmental problems in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River were the water environment pollution,water ecosystem,heavy metal pollution,soil and wetlands destruction,organic pollution and biodiversity decrease issues..

Measuring Similarity of Academic Articles with Semantic Profile and Joint Word Embedding

Long-document semantic measurement has great significance in many applications such as semantic searchs, plagiarism detection, and automatic technical surveys. However, research efforts have mainly focused on the semantic similarity of short texts. Document-level semantic measurement remains an open issue due to problems such as the omission of background knowledge and topic transition. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic matching method for long documents in the academic domain. To accurately represent the general meaning of an academic article, we construct a semantic profile in which key semantic elements such as the research purpose, methodology, and domain are included and enriched. As such, we can obtain the overall semantic similarity of two papers by computing the distance between their profiles. The distances between the concepts of two different semantic profiles are measured by word vectors. To improve the semantic representation quality of word vectors, we propose a joint word-embedding model for incorporating a domain-specific semantic relation constraint into the traditional context constraint. Our experimental results demonstrate that, in the measurement of document semantic similarity, our approach achieves substantial improvement over state-of-the-art methods, and our joint word-embedding model produces significantly better word representations than traditional word-embedding models.

From preference to landscape sustainability:a bibliometric review of landscape preference research from 1968 to 2019

Landscape preference(LP)studies highlight one of the most important issues of human-environment relationship,and their related publications have increased rapidly over the last two decades.However,there is no systematic review with a holistic understanding of this field.here we applied a bibliometric approach to examine the evolution of LP research and identify its status and future prospects.We obtained 7,637 LP research publications from Web of Science core collection from 1968 to 2019 and analyzed the characteristics of publication outputs as well as performances in various countries and institutions.Besides,content keywords analysis was conducted to discover the drivers,focus,motivation,and trends of LP research.We found that 1)publications,subject categories,and active journals increased rapidly since the 2000s;2)the USA,England,and Australia are the leading countries in LP research,while China is starting to have some influence;3)LP research is most closely linked to ecological and environmental studies,being developed by objective drivers,i.e.,interactions with landscape change,and subjective motivations;and 4)LP research is advancing the landscape sustainability science,integrating natural and social science together through ecosystem services.By comprehensively reviewing the evolution and prospect of LP research,we provide insights for further research in this field.

PubExplorer:An interactive analytical system for visualizing publication data

With the intersection and convergence of multiple disciplines and technologies,more and more researchers are actively exploring interdisciplinary cooperation outside their main research fields.Facing a new research field,researchers often hope to quickly learn what is being studied in this field,which research points are receiving high attention,which researchers are studying these research points,and then consider the possibility of collaborating with core researchers on these research points.In addition,students who are preparing for academic further education usually conduct research on mentors and mentors’research platforms,including academic connections,employment opportunities,etc.In order to satisfy these requirements,we(1)design a research point state map based on a science map to help researchers and students understand the development state of a new research field;(2)design a bar-link author-affiliation information graph to help researchers and students clarify academic networks of scholars and find suitable collaborators or mentors;(3)designs citation pattern histogram to quickly discover research achievements with high research value,such as the Sleeping Beauty papers,recently hot papers,classic papers and so on.Finally,an interactive analytical system named PubExplorer was implemented with IEEE VIS publication data,and its effectiveness is verified through case studies.

Knowledge Structure,Evolution Process,and Emerging Trends in Spatial Justice Research:A Scientometric Review Through CiteSpace Analysis

By applying the computational tool CiteSpace,the paper explored 9,553 documents relevant to spatial justice research from the Web of Science Core Collection and their 384,786 references.With the visualization of the document/author co-citation and co-author/term network and the detection of pivotal nodes,the knowledge structure,evolution process,and emerging trends of spatial justice research have been teased out.The findings revealed that the spatial justice research is mainly supported by geography,environmental science,and urban studies and planning.Having formed 15 document co-citation clusters since 1993,the mainstream of the research directions consists of distributive justice in geography and socio-spatial relationship focusing on specific vulnerable groups.Four stages of the spatial justice research,combined with a comparative view on spatial equality,equity,and justice,depicted how its concept grew up from describing the subtle relationship between space and justice to a specific research topic accompanied by research collaboration network.Learning from environmental justice,spatial justice has been developing its indepth theories and methodologies since the 2000s,but still lacking sufficient connection with each other.Its recent research enjoys the diversity of researching orientation,scale,and object.The continuous improvement of spatial justice assessment has helped to introduce spatial justice towards a new researching domain,while there also has been a tendency of the return of theoretical study in the recent decade.This scientometric review demonstrates a relatively comprehensive measurement of spatial justice research,which establishes the background for future theoretical approaches and provides practical instructions for spatial justice participatory development and social activities.