scholarly journals Insight into the workforce advancing fields of science and technology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank W. Pfrieger
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Publication Output ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractAdvances in biomedicine and other fields of science and technology depend on research teams and their peer-reviewed publications. The scientific literature represents an invaluable socioeconomic resource guiding future research. Typically, this growing body of information is explored by queries in bibliographic databases concerning topics of interest and by subsequent scrutiny of matching publications. This approach informs readily about content, but leaves the workforce driving the field largely unexplored. The hurdle can be overcome by a transparent team-centered analysis that visualizes the teams working in a field of interest and that delineates their genealogic and collaborative relations. Context-specific, but citation-independent metrics gauge team impact and reveal key contributors valuing publication output, mentorship and collaboration. The new insight into the structure, dynamics and performance of the workforce driving research in distinct disciplines complements ongoing efforts to mine the scientific literature, foster collaboration, evaluate research and guide future policies and investments.

scholarly journals Weight-for-Age Percentiles and Experience Impact Youth Wrestling Record over the Course of a Season (P23-010-19)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Reymunde Wittmer ◽  
Steven Reggie ◽  
Erin O'Hora ◽  
Diane DellaValle
Keyword(s):  
Small Sample ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Hydration Status ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Performance Variables ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Weight For Age

Abstract Objectives Youth in weight-classified combat sports may attempt to change body weight to gain performance advantage. Differences between weight-for-age percentiles (WAP) and performance in youth wrestlers remains unknown. The purpose of this retrospective study was to examine the differences in performance between wrestlers above and below the 50th WAP over a wrestling season. Methods Participants included 22 male wrestlers from a team in the Pennsylvania Elementary Wrestling League (8.8 ± 2.1 years of age, 2.3 ± 2.3 years of experience). Retrospective data included age, weight, years of experience, family history, and frequency of wins, losses and forfeits over a 3-month wrestling season. Average WAP were calculated using CDC growth charts and wrestlers were assigned to one of two groups <50 th WAP (n = 10) and >50 th WAP (n = 12). Wrestlers were also categorized into two groups in terms of experience (≤2 years, >2 years). Differences between the two groups in performance variables were examined using ANOVA. Results We observed a significant difference between <50th and >50th WAP groups in total forfeits (0.6 ± 1.0; 2.0 ± 1.5, respectively, P < 0.02). There was an interaction observed between WAP group and years of experience in number of total forfeits (P < 0.132) such that wrestlers with <2 years of experience and <50th WAP experienced fewer total forfeits (0.3 ± 0.8) than those >50th percentile (2.0 ± 1.4). Those with more experience in <50th WAP also had fewer forfeits compared to >50th WAP. A similar interaction was observed between WAP group and years of experience in number of total losses (P < 0.187). Wrestlers with <2 years of experience, and <50th WAP experienced more total losses (4.8 ± 1.5) than wrestlers >50th WAP (2.0 ± 1.4). Those with more experience and <50th WAP experienced fewer losses than those >50th WAP. Conclusions We observed a significant difference in forfeits between average WAP groups and an interaction between experience and WAP groups in losses and forfeits in this small sample. Further research is needed to provide insight into how WAP mayaffect performance in this population. Future research may include a larger population, and variables such as BMI-for-age, hydration status, nutrition, body composition and additional factors that affect both weight and performance. Funding Sources n/a.

scholarly journals PERSONAL TRAITS OF CEOS, INTER-FIRM NETWORKING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THEIR FIRMS: INVESTIGATING STRATEGIC SME NETWORK PARTICIPANTS

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 271-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOAKIM WINCENT ◽  
MATS WESTERBERG
Keyword(s):  
Firm Behavior ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behavior ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Tolerance For Ambiguity ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Context Specific

This research tests a model including direct and indirect effects of CEO's personal traits (i.e., tolerance for ambiguity and self-efficacy) on entrepreneurial behavior for firms in a specific context, namely strategic SME networks. Findings indicate no direct relationship between personal traits and entrepreneurial behavior on the firm level but reports positive relationship between CEO's traits and levels of inter-firm networking with other strategic SME network participants. Inter-firm networking, in turn, is positively related to entrepreneurial behavior on the firm level. Our results thus indicate that personal traits of the CEO can be important to study in order to understand small firm behavior and performance. The absence of direct links may hide interesting indirect and mediating influences. Based on this, we argue that it is important for future research in the entrepreneurship domain to consider inclusion of context-specific action-based factors that may link CEO traits to entrepreneurship.

Framing Sustainable Practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 1510-1526
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Gauthier ◽  
Chris Meyer ◽  
David Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This paper develops and clarifies social intrapreneurship theory by examining the “how” of effective intrapreneurial championing. More specifically, the authors consider the following research question: How does the manner in which middle managers frame sustainable practices influence successful championing outcomes? The authors integrate the natural-resource-based view of the firm with research on middle management championing behaviors and issue-contingent models of ethical decision making to propose a model of sustainability championing for social intrapreneurs. To that end, propositions are developed concerning the relationship between the types of sustainable practice championed, how the argument for a given practice is framed, and successful championing outcomes. This paper contributes to a growing body of literature on social intrapreneurship, providing insight into how intrapreneurial championing can be more effective and building a foundation for future research.

scholarly journals TeamTree analysis: A new approach to evaluate scientific production

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0253847
Author(s):  
Frank W. Pfrieger
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
New Approach ◽  
H Index ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Independent Measure ◽  
Publication Record ◽  
Bibliometric Approach

Advances in science and technology depend on the work of research teams and the publication of results through peer-reviewed articles representing a growing socio-economic resource. Current methods to mine the scientific literature regarding a field of interest focus on content, but the workforce credited by authorship remains largely unexplored. Notably, appropriate measures of scientific production are debated. Here, a new bibliometric approach named TeamTree analysis is introduced that visualizes the development and composition of the workforce driving a field. A new citation-independent measure that scales with the H index estimates impact based on publication record, genealogical ties and collaborative connections. This author-centered approach complements existing tools to mine the scientific literature and to evaluate research across disciplines.

scholarly journals Perspectives of Legal Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-282
Author(s):  
Mateja Čehulić
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Insight Into

Despite many doubts and criticisms, the use and popularity of the term legal culture have been growing steadily since 1969, when Lawrence Friedman first coined it. Regardless of the difficulties in conceptualising and operationalising legal culture, it is widely used in research and theoretical work. This paper investigates how researchers are overcoming conceptual issues, as well as the similarities and differences in approaches to legal culture and their effects on the comprehensibility and coherence of the concept. Through a systematic literature review of scholarly papers published in two citation bibliographic databases – Web of Science and Scopus – that contain the term legal culture in the title, this paper identifies definitions of legal culture, theoretical assumptions, research methods and specific topics depicted within the field of legal culture. The analysis indicates heterogeneous approaches to legal culture, accompanied by inconsistency in understanding and applying the concept. The notion of legal culture is related to various topics but mainly used as an intervening variable; without empirical research, authors use the term as hypothetical and self-evident, assuming its impact on law and society. Besides, the analysis identified various forms of defining and explaining the legal culture and different methodologies, amongst which a descriptive approach prevails. Based on the insight into scholarly articles on legal culture, the review concludes with suggestions for improving future research and the explanatory power of legal culture.

Professional Athletes’ Social Media Use and Player Performance: Evidence From the National Football League

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Joon Ho Lim ◽  
Leigh Anne Donovan ◽  
Peter Kaufman ◽  
Chiharu Ishida
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Media Content ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Player Performance ◽  
Game Performance ◽  
Insight Into

To examine how the level of humility expressed through athletes’ social media postings and post volume is associated with the athletes’ in-game performance, the authors collected National Football League players’ social media activities throughout one season, in addition to player performance and profile information. To account for the multilevel and panel structure of the data, they conducted a series of fixed-effects panel models. In addition to a negative relationship between social media posting frequency and performance, the authors found that players who post social media content with a higher level of humility are more likely to have better performances. However, this humility–performance association follows an inverted U-shaped relationship. The results provide insight into how critical athletes’ social media activity is for in-game performance. This study also provides important implications for athletes, team coaches, staff, and managers and provides guidance for future research.

scholarly journals How the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Influences Work and Private Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
David Novak
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Point Of Departure

<p><em>The purpose is about the influence of ICT on increasing the efficiency and performance of employees, the workload and the increasing complexity of the requirements and the constantly increasing pressure to perform at all employee levels.</em></p><p><em>The used methodology is as follows: An evaluation of the scientific literature is carried out here. The point of departure of the considerations is the fact that the ICT changes the world and with it also the professional and private life of the users.</em></p><p><em>The results of the analysis show a constantly changing environment, which is both cause and effect of the changes.</em></p><p><em>The influence of the ICT on people is given, no matter if it concerns direct users or indirect affected persons. This relationship must be realized and further investigated. Employers should generally note that the actual work changes massively for their own employees. Interestingly, it does not play a significant role in how far they systematically deal with hardware and software. Future research has to deal much more with the consequences of constantly changing boundary conditions. This includes the efficiency measurement through ICT use, which is completely missing so far.</em></p><p><em>The ICT has a massive impact on all people, regardless of whether they like it or not and whether or not they handle it themselves.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Research on Contamination of Foods with Mercury Mining: A Ten-Year (2011-2020) Bibliometric Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 926 (1) ◽  
pp. 012058
Author(s):  
O Zuas ◽  
C Elishian ◽  
N T E Darmayanti ◽  
H Budiman ◽  
U K Yaumidin
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Hg Mining ◽  
Mercury Mining

Abstract The first study on bibliometric network analysis of research on contamination of foods with mercury (Hg) mining is presented. The Hg mining has been reported as the primary source of toxic Hg contamination of foods. The living population’s exposure to Hg is highly associated with the consumption of Hg-contaminated foods and water. This study aims to explore the global scientific literature to gain insight into how the scientific literature addresses contamination of foods with Hg mining using bibliometric network analysis. The study was conducted on 319 documents from publications indexed in the Scopus database from 2011 to 2020. We collected reviewed documents using various techniques to analyze this issue, including general statistics, bibliometrics, and analytics. According to analysis results, several significant findings were found as follows. The co-authorship network demonstrates the relationship among authors and countries regarding contamination of foods with Hg mining. Co-authorship authors and country analysis indicate that “Chinese authors” and “the Chinese Academic of Sciences” are the first among the most influential authors and institution, respectively. Moreover, from systematic visualization of co-occurrence keywords and clustering analyses, six major clusters were reviewed and have been identified as potential opportunities for future research.

A program evaluation of a recreation-based military family camp

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Kathryn Mitchell, MS, CTRS ◽  
Jasmine Townsend, PhD, CTRS, CARSS-I ◽  
Brent Hawkins, PhD, CTRS ◽  
Marieke Van Puymbroeck, PhD, FDRT, CTRS
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Military Families ◽  
Therapeutic Recreation ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Future Research ◽  
High Importance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Program Components ◽  
The Military ◽  
Insight Into

Camps may be beneficial environments to provide military families with opportunities to participate in meaningful leisure to revitalize family relationships and to form connections within the military family community. While research has investigated the effects of these programs on veterans and families, limited research incorporates consumer-based evaluations of the service provider. Thus, the purpose of this study was to perform an evaluation of a therapeutic, recreation-based military family camp. A multiphase importance performance analysis (IPA) was implemented with 19 individuals who attended the camp. Participants rated program components using a 5-point Likert scale. Results revealed high importance and performance scores on all program components, as well as highlighted areas of programing with opportunity for maintenance and improvement. These findings provide recommendations for the improvement of this camp, as well as insight into future research and/or evaluations of military family camp programing.

Assessing Youth Sprint Ability–Methodological Issues, Reliability and Performance Data

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Rumpf ◽  
John B. Cronin ◽  
Jon L. Oliver ◽  
Michael Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Sprint Performance ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Youth Athletes ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Acceptable Reliability ◽  
And Training ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Sprint Ability

The primary purpose of this paper was to provide insight into the methodological issues and associated reliability of assessments used to quantify running sprint ability in youth athletes aged 8–18 years. Over-ground sprinting was the most reliable and common used choice of assessment to measure sprint performance of youth. In addition, the performance data of those athletes over distances ranging from 5 to 40 meters was collated from 34 published articles and tabulated with regards to the athlete’s chronological age. Torque or nonmotorized treadmills have been used to quantify sprint performance in youth with acceptable reliability, this technology providing deeper insight into sprint kinetics and kinematics; however there is limited performance data on youth using the torque and the nonmotorized treadmill. It is suggested that future research should use this technology in youth to better understand changes associated with growth, maturation and training.

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