scholarly journals COMPUTATIONAL SOCIOLOGY: APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanu Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Computational Sociology

Along with the popularity of research on Big Data and the increasingly massive use of computer as well as internet-based research, the development of studies with a computational sociology approach has also received more attention. Computational sociology approach such as agent-based modeling or social network analysis has become a new landmark of the interest of social scientist around the world to continue develops suitable interdisciplinary research approaches. This article makes mapping and visualizing the trends and developments of computational sociology studies through a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of scientific publications in the Scopus database. Concepts and clusters of studies on contemporary computational sociology are discussed, including international journals that have a focus and interest in this approach and research area.

scholarly journals Agent-based modeling of persons who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago suggests that re-treatment with antivirals of persons who are re-infected with Hep C is critical to achieve the WHO incidence reduction objective by 2030

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tatara ◽  
Alexander Gutfraind ◽  
Nicholson T. Collier ◽  
Scott J. Cotler ◽  
Marian Major ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scale Up ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
World Health ◽  
Persons Who Inject Drugs ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Direct Acting Antiviral ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Direct Acting

ABSTRACTHepatitis C (HCV) is a leading cause of chronic liver disease and mortality worldwide. Persons who inject drugs (PWID) are at the highest risk for acquiring and transmitting HCV infection. We developed an agent-based model (ABM) to identify and optimize direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy scale-up and treatment strategies for achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) goals of HCV elimination by the year 2030. DAA is highly efficacious, but may require re-treatment particularly among PWID who at risk for reinfection after cure. Using an ABM approach, we predict that this prohibition will jeopardize achieving the WHO’s goal of reducing 90% of HCV incidence by 2030. We found that DAA scale-up rates of greater than or equal to 5% per year can achieve the WHO target of 90% incidence reduction. Our model simulations underscore the importance of DAA scale-up that includes re-treatment of re-infected individuals in order to achieve significant reductions in incidence.FUNDINGThis research is supported by NIH grant R01GM121600.

scholarly journals Does aid support democracy? A systematic review of the literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel M. Gisselquist ◽  
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa ◽  
Melissa Samarin
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Democracy Building ◽  
Structural Theories

This study draws on a rigorous systematic review—to our knowledge the first in this area—to take stock of the literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid—especially democracy aid—have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on ‘democracy aid’ as an aggregate category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and ‘developmental aid’. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy aid generally supports rather than hinders democracy building around the world; ii) aid modalities influence the effectiveness of democracy aid; and iii) democracy aid is more associated with positive impact on democracy than developmental aid, probably because it targets key institutions and agents of democratic change. The review presents a new analytical framework for considering the evidence, bringing together core theories of democratization with work on foreign aid effectiveness. Overall, the evidence is most consistent with institutional and agent-based theories of exogenous democratization, and least consistent with expectations drawn from structural theories that would imply stronger positive impact for developmental aid on democratization.

scholarly journals Investigating the Random Seat Boarding Method without Seat Assignments with Common Boarding Practices Using an Agent-Based Modeling

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camelia Delcea ◽  
Liviu-Adrian Cotfas ◽  
Mostafa Salari ◽  
R. Milne
Keyword(s):  
Human Subjects ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
The Other ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World

Research related to creating new and improved airplane boarding methods has seen continuous advancement, in recent years, while most of the airline companies have remained committed to the traditional boarding methods. Among the most-used boarding methods, around the world, are back-to-front and random boarding with and without assigned seats. While the other boarding methods used in practice possess strict rules for passengers’ behavior, random without assigned seats is dependent on the passengers own way of choosing the “best” seats. The aim of this paper is to meticulously model the passengers’ behavior, especially, in random boarding without assigned seats and to test its efficiency in terms of boarding time and interferences, in comparison with the other commonly-adopted methods (random boarding with assigned seats, window-middle-aisle (WilMA), back-to-front, reverse pyramid, etc.). One of the main challenges in our endeavor was the identification of the real human passengers’ way of reasoning, when selecting their seats, and creating a model in which the agents possess preferences and make decisions, as close to those decisions made by the human passengers, as possible. We model their choices based on completed questionnaires from three hundred and eighty-seven human subjects. This paper describes the resulting agent-based model and results from the simulations.

scholarly journals Environment, Business, and Health Care Prevail: A Comprehensive, Systematic Review of System Dynamics Application Domains

Systems ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Marek Zanker ◽  
Vladimír Bureš ◽  
Petr Tučník
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Care ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
New Ideas

System dynamics, as a methodology for analyzing and understanding various types of systems, has been applied in research for several decades. We undertook a review to identify the latest application domains and map the realm of system dynamics. The systematic review was conducted according to the PRISMA methodology. We analyzed and categorized 212 articles and found that the vast majority of studies belong to the fields of business administration, health, and environmental research. Altogether, 20 groups of modeling and simulation topics can be recognized. System dynamics is occasionally supported by other modeling methodologies such as the agent-based modeling approach. There are issues related to published studies mostly associated with testing of validity and reasonability of models, leading to the development of predictions that are not grounded in verified models. This study contributes to the development of system dynamics as a methodology that can offer new ideas, highlight limitations, or provide analogies for further research in various research disciplines.

scholarly journals Mapping of the Research Output in Food Economics: A Scientometrics View of the Scopus Database

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 349-363
Author(s):  
R. Sebastiyan ◽  
◽  
V. Rameshbabu ◽  
T.M. Surulinathi ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Publication Output ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Vos Viewer ◽  
The World ◽  
Total Publication ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Scopus Database

Since food is considered important in the world, the current study analyzed the characteristics of scientific publications based on several subtle indicators of scientometrics in the field of food economics for strengthening public health in the future. Accordingly, a total of 26306 publications from 1915 to 2021 are evaluated based on the Scopus database with the help of scientific tools such as Hitcite, Biblioshiny and VoS viewer. The results show that the resourcefulness experts are identified in terms of their publication only, that namely Drewnowski, Kesselheim. On the other hand, the author Popkini is considered as the key author rather than the above-said authors in terms of global citations. The similarity in the above context is that all the topmost authors belong to the USA. More importantly, the summary of citations in total publication output is revealed that a single paper is recorded the range of citations between 1042-2766, the 500 citations are recorded from the 64 papers, and 844 papers accounted with more than 100 citations.

scholarly journals Research status in Halal: a review and bibliometric analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abid Haleem ◽  
Mohd Imran Khan ◽  
Shahbaz Khan ◽  
Abdur Rahman Jami
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Bibliometric Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Scopus Database

Purpose Halal is an emerging business sector and is steadily gaining popularity among scholars and practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate and review the reported literature in the broad area of Halal using bibliometric technique and network analysis tools. Moreover, this paper also proposes future research directions in the field of Halal. Design/methodology/approach This paper employed a systematic review technique followed by bibliometric analysis to gain insight and to evaluate the research area associated with Halal. Furthermore, data mining techniques are used for analysing the concerned article title, keywords and abstract of 946 research articles obtained through the Scopus database. Finally, network analysis is used to identify significant research clusters. Findings This study reports top authors contributing to this area, the key sub-research areas and the influential works based on citations and PageRank. We identified from the citation analysis that major influential works of Halal are from the subject area of biological science and related areas. Further, this study reports established and emerging research clusters, which provide future research directions. Research limitations/implications Scopus database is used to conduct a systematic review and corresponding bibliometric study; the authors might have missed some peer-reviewed studies not reported in Scopus. The selection of keywords for article search may not be accurate for the multi-disciplinary Halal area. Also, the authors have not considered the banking/financial aspects of Halal. The proposed four research clusters may inform potential researcher towards supporting the industry. Originality/value The novelty of the study is that no published study has reported the bibliometric study and network analysis techniques in the area of Halal.

scholarly journals Scientometric review of the scientific publications about COVID-19 in children

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Barbosa ◽  
Anne Caroline Brandelero ◽  
Vinícius Oliveira ◽  
Lucas Santos ◽  
Alexandre Araújo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Pediatric Population ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Leadership Position ◽  
Institutional Affiliation ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Scopus Database

OBJECTIVES: To perform a scientometric review of the world literature that is related to the infection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the pediatric population. METHODS: The Elseviers Scopus database was used to the research of the keywords Covid* AND child*, in the period between 01/01 to 25/06/2020. The documents were classified according to the studies areas, types of research, financing, country of origin, periodic and institutional affiliation of the researchers. RESULTS: 826 documents were published, from which 34.5% had some kind of foment. Its observed the predominance of publications coming from countries that become the epicenters of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, highlighting China, United States, Italy, and United Kingdom. Brazil was in the tenth place on worldwide ranking with 26 publications, 26.9% from that having financing. The predominance of publications is in the medical area both in Brazil and in the world. CONCLUSION: The big amount of researches published about COVID-19 in children in the short period comprehended between the emergency of the pandemic and nowadays shows the fastness of knowledge generation and the importance of the theme to public health. The analysis of information about Brazil reveals that, even being the second country of cases and deaths, the country represents only 3.14% of the researches about COVID-19 in children, and assumes a leadership position of the scientific publications about the theme in Latin America.

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