Global performance and development on sustainable city based on natural science and social science research: A bibliometric analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 666 ◽  
pp. 1245-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Huang Wang ◽  
Yuh-Shan Ho ◽  
Hui-Zhen Fu
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Global Performance

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9132
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
Scientific Disciplines

The lack of knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged extensive research in the academic sphere, reflected in the exponentially growing scientific literature. While the state of COVID-19 research reveals it is currently in an early stage of developing knowledge, a comprehensive and in-depth overview is still missing. Accordingly, the paper’s main aim is to provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across the science and social science research landscape, using innovative bibliometric approaches (e.g., Venn diagram, Biblioshiny descriptive statistics, VOSviewer co-occurrence network analysis, Jaccard distance cluster analysis, text mining based on binary logistic regression). The bibliometric analysis considers the Scopus database, including all relevant information on COVID-19 related publications (n = 16,866) available in the first half of 2020. The empirical results indicate the domination of health sciences in terms of number of relevant publications and total citations, while physical sciences and social sciences and humanities lag behind significantly. Nevertheless, there is an evidence of COVID-19 research collaboration within and between different subject area classifications with a gradual increase in importance of non-health scientific disciplines. The findings emphasize the great need for a comprehensive and in-depth approach that considers various scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research so as to benefit not only the scientific community but evidence-based policymaking as part of efforts to properly respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Fast Spreading ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape, using innovative and sophisticated bibliometric approaches (e.g. Venn diagram, Biblioshiny descriptive statistics, VOSviewer co-occurrence network analysis, Jaccard distance cluster analysis, text mining based on logistic regression). The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications (n=16,866) in the first half of 2020. The empirical results indicate that there is still a lack of publications of COVID-19 and its implications in less-explored (non-health) sciences, especially in social sciences. Accordingly, the findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its high spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape. The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications. The findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Possibility of Objectivity in Social Science Research: From the Standpoint of Max Weber

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pal Swarup ◽  
Ghosh Sudip
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Value Neutrality ◽  
Value Free Ideal ◽  
Successful Science ◽  
Theory Ladenness

In this essay, I have attempted to defense the possibility of objectivity in case of social science research. It is basically an evaluation of Max Weber’s interpretation in maintaining the possibility of objectivity in social science. There is a long tradition in the philosophy of social science maintaing a sharp distinction between social science and natural science in terms of both goals as well as method; and there is no doubt about that natural sciences have the higher degree of objectivity in comparison with social science. It is not possible to maintain absolute objectivity in case of social science research. But, by following some tricksit is possible to make a social inquiry more reliable and justifiable.This paper aims to improve such tricks as well as such a unique methodology adopted by Max Weber through which it is possible to maintain objectivity in social science as well as to establish social science as a successful science. Keywords: Max Weber, Objectivity, Social Science, Natural Science, Value-free Ideal, Theory-Ladenness, Value-Neutrality

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Fast Spreading ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape. The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications (n=16,866) in the first half of 2020. The findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Fast Spreading ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape. The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications (n=10,344) in the January-May 2020 period. The findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

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