Tendencies of the Absorptive Capacity and Its Correlation with Innovation and the Incubated Companies’ Performance

Author(s):  
Ana Lucia Brenner Barreto Miranda ◽  
Cristine Hermann Nodari ◽  
Eliana Andrea Severo ◽  
Raquel Engelman

This study aims at mapping the scientific production of absorptive capacity (ACAP) and identifying how these studies analyse the correlation of ACAP with company innovation and with organisational performance. For such, a bibliometric study was carried out, and it used criteria that selected the main articles that have been published on absorptive capacity in two research bases—ISI Web of Science and Scopus—within a temporal cut from the past 5 years (2014–2018). With the help of the HistCiteTM and VOSviewer software, it was possible to select the articles that addressed the correlation of absorptive capacity with company innovation and organisational performance in the incubated companies’ context. By analysing these articles’ findings, it can be concluded that the absorptive capacity is an antecedent of innovation in companies and has a positive correlation with organisational performance. The studies’ tendencies show that the factors which help with the external knowledge intake are social networks, bonds with agents and partner proximity. However, the incubated companies need the incubators’ support to help with these factors, since they are novice companies and do not keep in touch with important partners. They also need to know how to explore and transform external knowledge into internal benefits.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Paula Sanches Santana ◽  
Franciane Freitas Silveira

The aim of this study is to discuss the scientific production scenario related to the theme entrepreneurship in the creative industries sector through a bibliometric study, using co-citation network. The sample was based on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform (Web of Science), totaling 131 selected articles. Based on data analysis, we concluded that entrepreneurship in the creative industry sector is a subject still under-explored, but there has been a significant increase in publications in the last five years. Looking at the co-citation network, we were able to map the intellectual structure of entrepreneurship in the creative industries sector and the development in research and publications as well.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 478
Author(s):  
Adilson Carlos Da Rocha ◽  
Pedro José Steiner Neto ◽  
João Carlos Cunha ◽  
Larissa Mongruel Martins de Lara ◽  
Zélia Halick

This study aimed to analyze the characteristics of publications dealing with the Eco-innovation and Strategy issues in the databases Web of Science and Scopus in the period 2001-2015, and identify what topics are being studied along this theme and which are the most relevant, conducting a comparison of results found in the two databases (Web of Science and Scopus). The study has a quantitative approach in order that sought to evaluate some variables related to scientific production on the subject researched. The analysis found 96 publications in the Web of Science and 109 in Scopus. Comparing both surveyed bases it is found that the number of publications increased dramatically in the last decade and that European countries lead the ranking as the number of publications. It is noticed that in both databases, the authors of the most cited publications are not among the authors who have published over in the period. The most cited articles in both surveyed bases belong to the journals: Journal of Cleaner Production and Technovation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 223 ◽  
Author(s):  
José-Antonio Marín-Marín ◽  
Jesús López-Belmonte ◽  
Juan-Miguel Fernández-Campoy ◽  
José-María Romero-Rodríguez

The handling of a large amount of data to analyze certain behaviors is reaching a great popularity in the decade 2010–2020. This phenomenon has been called Big Data. In the field of education, the analysis of this large amount of data, generated to a greater extent by students, has begun to be introduced in order to improve the teaching–learning process. In this paper, it was proposed as an objective to analyze the scientific production on Big Data in education in the databases Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, ERIC, and PsycINFO. A bibliometric study was carried out on a sample of 1491 scientific documents. Among the results, the increase in publications in 2017 and the configuration of certain journals, countries and authors as references in the subject matter stand out. Finally, potential explanations for the study findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliane Mendonça ◽  
José M. Castro-Lopes

Abstract Background and aims The recent economic crisis started in the USA in 2008 but quickly had worldwide impact. Ireland, Greece, and Portugal were in economic distress in 2009 and received rescue monetary packages from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the following years. Meanwhile, the economic recovery has begun for those countries, but at different paces. The aim of the present study was to evaluate if the economic crisis influenced pain research outcomes, by performing a bibliometric analysis based on the ISI Web of Science to evaluate the evolution of the scientific production and performance in the field of pain research between 1997 and 2017. Methods Articles search was conducted using the ISI Web of Science, search keywords “pain or nocicep*”, between 1997 and 2017, and one author affiliated in an Irish, Greek or Portuguese institution. The total number of published articles per country, total citations, h-index, document types and authors’ institution were tabulated to determine the quantity and quality of the publications in this field. Results The search retrieved 2,368 publications over the 20 years’ period, increasing from 26 in 1997 to 230 in 2017. The number of Irish publications per year increased steadily along the studied period, while the number of Greek publications stabilized from 2008 onward and Portuguese publications started to increase only in 2007 but declined slightly after 2014. In total, Irish authors published 1,143 articles, Greek authors 624 and Portuguese authors 618. There were nine articles with more than 100 citations, and Irish publications had a higher h-index (52) than Greek’s (45) or Portuguese’s (36) publications. Ireland had the highest number of pain publications per capita, but in 2016 Portugal had the lowest cost per publication, as measured by the GDP per capita per publication (in 1997 Portugal had the highest cost). The three major research fields of the publications were neurosciences/neurology (19%), general internal medicine (16%) and anaesthesiology (13%), and the affiliation institutions were mostly universities or universities hospitals. Conclusions The number of Irish, Greek, and Portuguese pain publications increased between 1997 and 2017, but at different paces. It appears that the economic crisis had no impact on the rate of pain publications in Ireland, had a delayed impact in Portugal, and affected mostly Greek pain scientific research. This may be related to the fact that Greece was the country that received more rescue packages and where the economic crisis was deepest and lasted longer. Implications Economics and scientific production have a mutual influence: usually research investment decreases in recession times (reducing grants and scientific employment), but health scientific production can improve health and quality of life and also benefit the economy. So in crisis periods, governments should create means to protect and foster scientific work.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 839-845
Author(s):  
Juan D Machin-Mastromatteo

This article advances a research agenda from analyzing the state of the Venezuelan scientific production, to promote its recovery and boosting it. Bibliometric indicators extracted from Scopus, Sci-Val, Scimago and Web of science are used to diagnose Venezuela’s ranking and its variations during the past years. We include suggestions to develop a completer and more effective diagnostic, and strategies that may aid in reverting the situation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin A Pontefract ◽  
Hong T Ho ◽  
Alexandria Crain ◽  
Madan K Kharel ◽  
S Eric Nybo

Abstract A literature review spanning January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2019, was conducted using the PubMed and ISI Web of Science databases to determine the breadth of publication activity in the area of gram-negative bacteria antimicrobial therapy. The number of articles was used as a reflection of scholarly activity. First, PubMed was searched using the following Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): antibacterial agents, Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter, and Pseudomonas. A total of 12 643 articles were identified within PubMed, and 77 862 articles were identified within ISI Web of Science that included these terms. Second, these articles were categorized by antibiotic class to identify relative contributions to the literature by drug category. Third, these studies were used to identify key trends in the treatment of gram-negative bacterial infections from the past decade. This review highlights advances made in the past 10 years in antibacterial pharmacotherapy and some of the challenges that await the next decade of practice.


Author(s):  
Marián Navarro-Beltrá ◽  
Susana Miquel-Segarra ◽  
Lorena López Font

<p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Pese a los avances logrados todavía se pueden observar desigualdades de género en la investigación en comunicación al existir barreras en el acceso de las mujeres a puestos directivos. Debido a que publicar en revistas de prestigio y la productividad en investigación son factores esenciales para la promoción se pretende localizar, sintetizar y comparar en función del sexo de la autoría la producción científica sobre RRPP, comunicación corporativa y redes sociales. Para ello se ha realizado un análisis bibliométrico de los artículos indexados en Web of Science y Scopus entre 1995 y 2018 relacionados con esta temática. La investigación parece indicar que ellas son más productivas y que existen importantes similitudes en la producción científica de hombres y mujeres.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Despite the progress made, gender inequalities can still be observed in the field of research in communication research as there are barriers in women’s access to managerial positions. Due to publishing in prestigious journals and research productivity are essential factors for promotion, the aim is to locate, synthesize and compare the scientific production on PR, corporate communication and social networks based on the gender of authorship. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis of the articles indexed in Web of Science and Scopus between 1995 and 2018 related to this topic has been carried out. This work seems to indicate that women are more productive, and that there are important similarities in the scientific production of men and women.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-258
Author(s):  
Luiza Magalli Pinto HENRIQUES ◽  
Mark UNGAR ◽  
George Henrique REBELO

ABSTRACT In the 1990s, scientific cooperation at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA), one of the oldest research institutions in Amazonia with the highest regional international cooperation, was dominated by research conducted by INPA’s foreign partners. In this article, the evolution of this situation is evaluated, with the hypothesis that, as the internal and the external environments have changed over the past decade, this should be reflected in more symmetrical research cooperation. The analysis was based on a 2004 to 2014 Web of Science search of scientific production at INPA, from which 786 papers were recovered. The results indicated an increase in scientific production but without a corresponding increase in symmetrical cooperation. The level of symmetry varied according to the type of cooperation; it increased when Brazilian institutions were exclusively involved, although these papers tended to be published in journals with a low impact factor. However, the scientific relationships remained relatively asymmetrical when only foreign institutions were involved, although these papers were published in journals with high impact factors. Network analyses indicated that most international scientific cooperation was concentrated in just two INPA research departments: Biodiversity and Environmental Dynamics. In contrast, INPA’s other two research departments, Technology & Innovation and Society, Environment & Health were peripheral, fragmented and benefited little from international cooperation.


Author(s):  
Dayara de Nazaré Rosa de Carvalho ◽  
Viviane Ferraz Ferreira de Aguiar ◽  
Manuela Furtado Veloso de Oliveira ◽  
Monique Lindsy Silva de Souza ◽  
Sandra Suely Silva de Oliveira ◽  
...  

Objective: This study aims to quantify and describe the characteristics of scientific production in Brazilian Nursing on Palliative Care between the years 2015-2020. Methodology: This is a descriptive, bibliometric study. At the end of the selection stage, the final sample of 98 publications emerged. Results: Of the total number of publications, 28 (28.57%) in the VHL database and 70 (71.43%) in SciELO. Most publications occurred in 2018 with 26 (26.53%) and 2016 with 19 (19.39%) publications, followed by 2017 with 16 (15.36%) publications. Conclusion: The findings in this study show that in the past 5 years, Brazilian nursing has been discussing and researching palliative care. However, it was also observed that the concentration of Brazilian nursing publications in palliative care is in the Southeast and South regions of Brazil, with the North region falling far short of study in the area.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudia Daniele Souza

Resumo Dada a importância econômica que o setor citrícola tem no Brasil, foram utilizados indicadores bibliométricos para analisar as principais características das publicações científicas indexadas na base de dados Web of Science. Através dos indicadores de atividade, especialização temática, impacto, visibilidade e colaboração, apresentam-se os resultados publicados na década 2000-2010. Os dados demonstram um notável crescimento na produção científica, especialmente nos últimos anos, e permitem detectar as instituições mais produtivas, entre as quais se destacam as universidades paulistas. Além dos resultados obtidos, a proposta metodológica é uma das principais contribuições do estudo.Palavras-chave Bibliometria, Indicadores de produção científica, Setor citrícola brasileiro, Citricultura, Brasil.Abstract Given the economic importance that the citrus sector has in Brazil, bibliometrics indicators have been used in this work to analyze the main characteristics of papers indexed in the Web of Science database. Through activity indicators, thematic specialization, impact, visibility and collaboration, we present the results published in the decade 2000-2010. Data show a notable growth in scientific production, especially in recent years, and can detect the most productive institutions, which are the universities of São Paulo. Besides the results obtained, the proposed methodology is one of the main contributions of this study.Keywords Bibliometrics, Indicators on scientific production, Citrus industry sector, Citriculture, Brazil.


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