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Knowledge mapping of research progress in blast-induced ground vibration from 1990 to 2022 using CiteSpace-based scientometric analysis

- Zhang, Yulin, He, Haini, Khandelwal, Manoj, Du, Kun, Zhou, Jian

Authors: Zhang, Yulin , He, Haini , Khandelwal, Manoj , Du, Kun , Zhou, Jian
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article , Review
Relation: Environmental Science and Pollution Research Vol. 30, no. 47 (2023), p. 103534-103555
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Description: Blasting constitutes an essential component of the mining and construction industries. However, the associated nuisances, particularly blast vibration, have emerged as significant concerns that pose threats to operational stability and the safety of the surrounding areas. Given the increasing emphasis on sustainability, ecological responsibility, safety, and geo-environmental practices, the impact of blast vibration has garnered heightened attention and scrutiny. Nevertheless, the field still lacks comprehensive phase analysis studies. Therefore, it is imperative to elucidate the research progress on blast vibration and discern its current frontiers of investigation. To address this need, this study employs bibliometric methods and the CiteSpace 6.1.R2 software to analyze 3093 papers from the Web of Science database. Through this comprehensive analysis, the study aims to chronicle the developmental trajectory, assess the present research status, and identify future trends in the field of blast vibration. The findings of this study reveal that research on “blasting vibration” is advancing rapidly, with the number of citations exhibiting a J-shaped growth curve over time. China emerges as the leading contributor to this research, followed by India, and the foremost institution in this field is Central South University in China. Cluster analysis identifies the effects of ground vibration, numerical simulation, blast load, blasting vibration and rockburst hazard as the most prominent research areas presently. The primary research directions in this domain revolve around the rock fragmentation, compressive strength, particle swarm optimization, and ann. The emergence of these keywords underscores a dynamic shift towards a more holistic and multidisciplinary approach in the field of blasting-induced ground vibration. Furthermore, this study provides a concise overview of blast vibration, discusses prediction techniques, and proposes measures for its control. Additionally, the discussion delves into the social significance of intelligent blasting systems within the context of artificial intelligence, aiming to address the hazards associated with blast-induced ground vibrations. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

The significance and impact of winning an academic award : a study of early career academics

- Ren, Jing, Shi, Yajie, Shatte, Adrian, Kong, Xiangjie, Xia, Feng

Authors: Ren, Jing , Shi, Yajie , Shatte, Adrian , Kong, Xiangjie , Xia, Feng
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2022, Virtual, online, 20-24 June 2022, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
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Description: Academic award plays an important role in an academic's careerparticularly for early career academics. Previous studies have primarilyfocused on the impact of awards conferred to academics whoe made outstanding contributions to a specific research field, such as the Nobel Prize. In contrast, this paper aims to investigatethe effect of awards conferred to academics at an earlier careerstage, who have the potential to make a great impact in the future. We devise a metric named Award Change Factor (ACF), to evaluatethe change of a recipient's academic behavior after winningan academic award. Next, we propose a model to compare awardrecipients with academics who have similar performance beforewinning an academic award. In summary, we analyze the impact ofan award on the recipients' academic impact and their teams fromdifferent perspectives. Experimental results show that most recipientsdo have improvements in both productivity and citations afterwinning an academic award, while there is no significant impacton publication quality. In addition, receipt of an academic awardnot only expands recipients' collaboration network, but also has apositive effect on their team size. © 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. All rights reserved.

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Hyperaccumulators for potentially toxic elements: A scientometric analysis

- Zhang, Dongming, Dyck, Miles, Filipović, Lana, Filipović, Vilim, Lv, Jialong, He, Hailong

Authors: Zhang, Dongming , Dyck, Miles , Filipović, Lana , Filipović, Vilim , Lv, Jialong , He, Hailong
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Agronomy (Basel) Vol. 11, no. 9 (2021), p. 1729
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Description: Phytoremediation is an effective and low-cost method for the remediation of soil contaminated by potentially toxic elements (metals and metalloids) with hyperaccumulating plants. This study analyzed hyperaccumulator publications using data from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) (1992–2020). We explored the research status on this topic by creating a series of scientific maps using VOSviewer, HistCite Pro, and CiteSpace. The results showed that the total number of publications in this field shows an upward trend. Dr. Xiaoe Yang is the most productive researcher on hyperaccumulators and has the broadest international collaboration network. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), Zhejiang University (China), and the University of Florida (USA) are the top three most productive institutions in the field. China, the USA, and India are the top three most productive countries. The most widely used journals were the International Journal of Phytoremediation, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, and Chemosphere. Co-occurrence and citation analysis were used to identify the most influential publications in this field. In addition, possible knowledge gaps and perspectives for future studies are also presented.

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On the correlation between research complexity and academic competitiveness

- Ren, Jing, Lee, Ivan, Wang, Lei, Chen, Xiangtai, Xia, Feng

Authors: Ren, Jing , Lee, Ivan , Wang, Lei , Chen, Xiangtai , Xia, Feng
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2020, Kyoto, Japan, 30 November to 1 December 2020, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 12504 LNCS, p. 416-422
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Description: Academic capacity is a common way to reflect the educational level of a country or district. The aim of this study is to explore the difference between the scientific research level of institutions and countries. By proposing an indicator named Citation-weighted Research Complexity Index (CRCI), we profile the academic capacity of universities and countries with respect to research complexity. The relationships between CRCI of universities and other relevant academic evaluation indicators are examined. To explore the correlation between academic capacity and economic level, the relationship between research complexity and GDP per capita is analysed. With experiments on the Microsoft Academic Graph data set, we investigate publications across 183 countries and universities from the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 19 research fields. Experimental results reveal that universities with higher research complexity have higher fitness. In addition, for developed countries, the development of economics has a positive correlation with scientific research. Furthermore, we visualize the current level of scientific research across all disciplines from a global perspective. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: A scientometric analysis

- He, Donghui, Bristow, Keith, Filipović, Vilim, Lv, Jialong, He, Hailong

Authors: He, Donghui , Bristow, Keith , Filipović, Vilim , Lv, Jialong , He, Hailong
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Sustainability Vol. 12, no. 20 (2020), p. 8739
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Description: Microplastics, as an emerging contaminant, have been shown to threaten the sustainability of ecosystems, and there is also concern about human exposure, as microplastic particles tend to bioaccumulate and biomagnify through the food chain. While microplastics in marine environments have been extensively studied, research on microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems is just starting to gain momentum. In this paper, we used scientometric analysis to understand the current status of microplastic research in terrestrial systems. The global scientific literature on microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems, based on data from the Web of Science between 1986 and 2020, was explored with the VOSviewer scientometric software. Co-occurrence visualization maps and citation analysis were used to identify the relationship among keywords, authors, organizations, countries, and journals focusing on the issues of terrestrial microplastics. The results show that research on microplastics in terrestrial systems just started in the past few years but is increasing rapidly. Science of the Total Environment ranks first among the journals publishing papers on terrestrial microplastics. In addition, we also highlighted the desire to establish standards/protocols for extracting and quantifying microplastics in soils. Future studies are recommended to fill the knowledge gaps on the abundance, distribution, ecological and economic effects, and toxicity of microplastics.

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Managing depression with complementary and alternative medicine therapies: a scientometric analysis and visualization of research activities

- Zhao, Fei-Yi, Xu, Peijie, Zheng, Zhen, Conduit, Russell, Xu, Yan, Yue, Li-Ping, Wang, Hui-Ru, Wang, Yan-Mei, Li, Yuan-Xin, Li, Chun-Yan, Zhang, Wen-Jing, Fu, Qiang-Qiang, Kennedy, Gerard

Authors: Zhao, Fei-Yi , Xu, Peijie , Zheng, Zhen , Conduit, Russell , Xu, Yan , Yue, Li-Ping , Wang, Hui-Ru , Wang, Yan-Mei , Li, Yuan-Xin , Li, Chun-Yan , Zhang, Wen-Jing , Fu, Qiang-Qiang , Kennedy, Gerard
Date: 2023
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Relation: Frontiers in Psychiatry Vol. 14, no. (2023), p.
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Description: Background: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) interventions may prove to be an attractive option for the treatment of depression. The aim of this scientometric analysis is to determine the global scientific output of research regarding managing depression with CAM and identify the hotspots and frontiers within this theme. Methods: Publications regarding the utilization of CAM for treating depression were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection from 1993 to 2022, and analyzed and visualized by Bibliometrix R-package, VOSviewer, and CiteSpace. Results: A total of 1,710 publications were acquired. The number of annual publications showed an overall rapid upward trend, with the figure peaking at 179 in 2021. The USA was the leading research center. Totally 2,323 distinct institutions involving 7,638 scholars contributed to the research theme. However, most of the cooperation was limited to within the same country, institution or research team. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine was the most productive periodical. The CAM therapies of most interest to researchers were acupuncture and body–mind techniques, such as yoga, meditation and mindfulness. Systematic review and meta-analysis are commonly used methods. “Inflammation,” “rating scale” and “psychological stress” were identified as the most studied trend topics recently. Conclusion: Managing depression with evidence-based CAM treatment is gaining attention globally. Body–mind techniques and acupuncture are growing research hotspots or emerging trending topics. Future studies are predicted to potentially investigate the possible mechanisms of action underlying CAM treatments in reducing depression in terms of modulation of psychological stress and inflammation levels. Cross-countries/institutes/team research collaborations should be encouraged and further enhanced. Copyright © 2023 Zhao, Xu, Zheng, Conduit, Xu, Yue, Wang, Wang, Li, Li, Zhang, Fu and Kennedy.

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