Analysis and Evaluation of Scientific Papers of Five Common Marine Colleges and Universities With the Core Collection of Web of Science as the Tool and Source of Data

As nautical tourism and recreational activities involving boats have become highly popular, research interest on various effects of nautical tourism is also increasing. This paper aims to analyze the main scientific contributions in the field of nautical tourism and its impact on the environment. The focus of the analysis is on the methods used to estimate and model recreational boating activities. Since nautical tourism plays a crucial role in the context of the growth and development of the economy, it is necessary to consider the environmental component of its development. The background objective of the paper is to provide a representation of environmental descriptors, i.e., to highlight in particular the environmental impact of nautical tourism. A search on the Web of Science Core Collection, touching on this topic, is composed of scientific papers published in the period 2010–2021. The papers examined are divided into five categories according to the impact of nautical tourism they study: Environmental, Economic, Social, Technical or Other. The results show that most papers were published in the area of environmental impacts of nautical tourism, with most papers examining invasive species, antifouling and impacts on species. The analysis showed that the negative impacts were mainly studied individually. Based on the analysis and evaluation of the scientific publications, a basic recommendation is given for the construction of a model to estimate recreational boating activities and its impact on the environment.

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Port Governance and Cruise Tourism

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13094877 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 4877

Author(s):

Alejandro Vega-Muñoz ◽

Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda ◽

Nicolás Contreras-Barraza ◽

Lorena Araya-Silva

Keyword(s):

Core Collection ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Selection Process ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Eligibility Criteria ◽

The Core ◽

Cruise Ships ◽

Governance Model ◽

Cruise Tourism ◽

Governance Models

Cruise activities, until 2020, have presented a significant increase in revenue, as well as number of cruises and passengers transported, and it has become a challenge for ports to respond to this demand for services. In response to this, the world’s ports have implemented different governance models. In this context, in this paper, we aim to review the different governance models, as well as port cooperation, competition, and stakeholders. For this purpose, using science metric meta-analysis, an article set is extracted that strictly refers to the governance model of two databases integrated into the Core Collection Web of Science, whose selection process is polished with the PRISMA guidelines, establishing the eligibility criteria of studies using PICOS tool, to which a qualitative meta-analysis is applied. A limited studies set is identified, that includes governance model implementations, private strategies and internalization patterns in the port sector and cruise ships, patterns of port cooperation and governance, governance models in cruise ports, structures and strategies, and changes in the cruise market. Finally, various governance model forms are determined, all documented in the scientific research worldwide, discussing the various components of study topics.

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An Overview of Flood Risk Analysis Methods

Water ◽

10.3390/w13040474 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 474

Author(s):

Daniel Constantin Diaconu ◽

Romulus Costache ◽

Mihnea Cristian Popa

Keyword(s):

Core Collection ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Research Directions ◽

Economic Implications ◽

Forecasting Methods ◽

Wide Range ◽

Scientific Papers ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Flood Analysis ◽

Temporal And Spatial

Scientific papers present a wide range of methods of flood analysis and forecasting. Floods are a phenomenon with significant socio-economic implications, for which many researchers try to identify the most appropriate methodologies to analyze their temporal and spatial development. This research aims to create an overview of flood analysis and forecasting methods. The study is based on the need to select and group papers into well-defined methodological categories. The article provides an overview of recent developments in the analysis of flood methodologies and shows current research directions based on this overview. The study was performed taking into account the information included in the Web of Science Core Collection, which brought together 1326 articles. The research concludes with a discussion on the relevance, ease of application, and usefulness of the methodologies.

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Scientometric analysis activity in the publication «life sciences» in the world and in Ukraine

Science, technologies, innovation ◽

10.35668/2520-6524-2019-2-04 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 23-33

Author(s):

V.M. Yevtushenko

Keyword(s):

Core Collection ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Journal Citation Report ◽

Life Sciences ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Research Areas ◽

The World ◽

Scientific Papers ◽

Scientific Fields ◽

The Web

The article is devoted to the study of the state and trends of the publishing activity of Ukrainian scientists and leading countries in the field of life sciences («Life sciences»). The Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC), Journal Citation Report (JSR) and InCites, as well as classifications of scientific fields designed to structure the publication flow of scientific papers and journals in these information resources, are used for the research base – Web of Science Categories and Research Areas. The article presents the results of the author’s research on the publication indices of scientists of Ukraine and the leading countries of the world for the period 2008-2018 in the field of “Life Sciences” according to the international science-computer database of Web of Science. Conclusions about the growth of indicators of publication activity of scientific works in the field of “Life Sciences” are made. The tendency of a significant increase in their number in Ukraine has been revealed, but domestic studies do not represent all the areas of «Life Sciences» most popular in foreign scientists

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Bibliometric Analysis on Smart Cities Research

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11133606 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (13) ◽

pp. 3606 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Yi-Ming Guo ◽

Zhen-Ling Huang ◽

Ji Guo ◽

Hua Li ◽

Xing-Rong Guo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Core Collection ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Analysis Software ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

Research Directions ◽

The Core ◽

Global Concern

Smart cities have been a global concern in recent years, involving comprehensive scientific research. To obtain a structural overview and assist researchers in making insights into the characteristics of smart cities research, bibliometric analysis was carried out in this paper. With the application of the bibliometric analysis software VOSviewer and CiteSpace, 4409 smart cities were identified by the core collection of the Web of Science in publications between 1998 and 2019 and used in the analysis of this paper. Concretely, this research visually demonstrates a comprehensive overview of the field relating to smart cities in terms of the production of regular publications, main domain of smart cities researchers, most influential countries (institutions, sources and authors), and interesting research directions in the smart city researches. We also present the research collaboration among countries (regions), organizations and authors based on a series of cooperation analyses. The bibliometric analysis of the existing work provided a valuable and seminal reference for researchers and practitioners in smart cities-related research communities.

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Contributions of Indian Authors in the Subject Category Law of the Web of Science Core Collection: ABibliometric Analysis

BRICS Law Journal ◽

10.21684/2412-2343-2020-7-2-148-156 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 148-156

Author(s):

D. Kumar ◽

B. Singh

Keyword(s):

Core Collection ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Published Data ◽

Asian Countries ◽

Law Schools ◽

The Core ◽

Subject Category ◽

The Subject ◽

Indian Law ◽

The Web

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of research works in the subject category Law published with the affiliation of India in the Web of Science Core Collection. A total of 529 published works by Indian authors from Indian law schools and institutions on or relating to the subject of the law have appeared in law journals and other sources. The works are indexed in the Core Collection for the years 1999–2019 and have been cited 2,041 times over this 20-year period. To conduct the analysis of the published data based on norms such as author-wise, country-wise and citation-wise figures, normative bibliographic techniques were applied to attain the objectives. After adetailed discussion of the analysis of the data, the research arrives at the conclusion that Indian authors have fewer published works in the subject category Law in the Core Collection than two other Asian countries, but that there has been a gradual increase in their number since 2011.

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Trends in Research on Art Therapy Indexed in the Web of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.752026 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Natalia Rodriguez Novo ◽

Maria Mercedes Novo Muñoz ◽

Leticia Cuellar-Pompa ◽

Jose Angel Rodriguez Gomez

Keyword(s):

Art Therapy ◽

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Visual Arts ◽

Core Collection ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Scientific Production ◽

The Core ◽

The Subject ◽

The Mean ◽

Number Of Citations

Aim: Despite the increase in international research in art therapy, few studies have been developed with a bibliometric approach which describe the situation regarding this area of knowledge. Thus, the aim of this study is to describe and contextualize international scientific production in the visual arts modality in the context of artistic therapies, to offer a broader and more in-depth vision of the structure of this area of knowledge through of a bibliometric analysis of the publications indexed in the core collection of the Web of Science.Methods: This is a retrospective, exploratory and descriptive, cross-sectional study to analyze the bibliographic data retrieved from the databases of the core collection. The analysis parameters included the data corresponding to the production according to type of document, country, journal, and institution. In addition, the main lines of research were located and classified and the subject matter of the most cited articles in each of them was summarized. Four periods were selected, between 1994 and 2020, to facilitate the thematic analysis and offer an evolutionary perspective of art therapy research.Results: A total of 563 works were published, in 250 journals, in the 63 years between 1958, when the first document was published, and April 2021. The annual growth rate was 7.3% with a mean average of 8.7 publications per year, and 83.13% of the published works were articles. A total of 1,269 authors from 56 countries were counted. The mean number of citations per document was 5.6 and the mean number of citations per document and year was 0.6. The main research domains were psychology and/or rehabilitation and the highest production on this topic was concentrated in only three journals. In general, a high degree of variability was observed in the study topics and numerous theoretical and methodological articles. The most used visual arts modalities were in the main drawing, painting and photography.Conclusion: This work did not find previous existence of any bibliometric analysis on the international scientific production in art therapy. In general terms, there has been a substantial growth in the number of publications on the subject over the last decade. However, this research area does not appear to have peaked, but, on the contrary, is still growing and progressing despite its long history in clinical practice.

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Planning and Design Support Tools for Walkability: A Guide for Urban Analysts

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12114405 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (11) ◽

pp. 4405 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ivan Blečić ◽

Tanja Congiu ◽

Giovanna Fancello ◽

Giuseppe Andrea Trunfio

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Decision Support Tools ◽

Analysis And Evaluation ◽

Planning And Design ◽

Support Tools ◽

Scientific Papers ◽

Definition Of ◽

Operational Methods ◽

Selection Of

We present a survey of operational methods for walkability analysis and evaluation, which we hold show promise as decision-support tools for sustainability-oriented planning and urban design. An initial overview of the literature revealed a subdivision of walkability studies into three main lines of research: transport and land use, urban health, and livable cities. A further selection of articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases focused on scientific papers that deal with walkability evaluation methods and their suitability as planning and decision-support tools. This led to the definition of a taxonomy to systematize and compare the methods with regard to factors of walkability, scale of analysis, attention on profiling, aggregation methods, spatialization and sources of data used for calibration and validation. The proposed systematization aspires to offer to non-specialist but competent urban analysts a guide and an orienteering, to help them integrate walkability analysis and evaluation into their research and practice.

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Hot topics and frontier evolution of research on entrepreneurial intentions——Visual analysis based on the core collection of Web of science database

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202125203015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 252 ◽

pp. 03015

Author(s):

Lou Liu ◽

Bingni Chen

Keyword(s):

Core Collection ◽

Visual Analysis ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽

Future Research ◽

Bibliometric Method ◽

The Core ◽

The Past ◽

Database Platform ◽

Foreign Universities

Since the Chinese slogan “Mass Entrepreneurship, Mass Innovation” was put forward, entrepreneurship has become a hot topic of research in academic circles and even people from all walks of life. Entrepreneurial Intentions is the best indicator to effectively predict entrepreneurial behavior. In order to understand the research status and trends of entrepreneurship intentions, based on the bibliometric method, this paper uses citespace software to visually analyze 1,038 core collections published in the Web of science database platform from January 1, 1997 to December 31, 2020. The results show that in the past 20 years, the research on entrepreneurial intentions has mainly focused on scholars from foreign universities. The distribution of research institutions is relatively concentrated, but the distribution of journals is relatively loose. Antecedent variables have become the focus of research. Future research should focus on outcome variables.

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The Prediction of Infectious Diseases: A Bibliometric Analysis

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17176218 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (17) ◽

pp. 6218

Author(s):

Wenting Yang ◽

Jiantong Zhang ◽

Ruolin Ma

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Infectious Disease ◽

Infectious Diseases ◽

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Core Collection ◽

Large Scale ◽

Web Of Science ◽

The United States ◽

Current Status ◽

The Core

Objective: The outbreak of infectious diseases has a negative influence on public health and the economy. The prediction of infectious diseases can effectively control large-scale outbreaks and reduce transmission of epidemics in rapid response to serious public health events. Therefore, experts and scholars are increasingly concerned with the prediction of infectious diseases. However, a knowledge mapping analysis of literature regarding the prediction of infectious diseases using rigorous bibliometric tools, which are supposed to offer further knowledge structure and distribution, has been conducted infrequently. Therefore, we implement a bibliometric analysis about the prediction of infectious diseases to objectively analyze the current status and research hotspots, in order to provide a reference for related researchers. Methods: We viewed “infectious disease*” and “prediction” or “forecasting” as search theme in the core collection of Web of Science from inception to 1 May 2020. We used two effective bibliometric tools, i.e., CiteSpace (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) and VOSviewer (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands) to objectively analyze the data of the prediction of infectious disease domain based on related publications, which can be downloaded from the core collection of Web of Science. Then, the leading publications of the prediction of infectious diseases were identified to detect the historical progress based on collaboration analysis, co-citation analysis, and co-occurrence analysis. Results: 1880 documents that met the inclusion criteria were extracted from Web of Science in this study. The number of documents exhibited a growing trend, which can be expressed an increasing number of experts and scholars paying attention to the field year by year. These publications were published in 427 different journals with 11 different document types, and the most frequently studied types were articles 1618 (83%). In addition, as the most productive country, the United States has provided a lot of scientific research achievements in the field of infectious diseases. Conclusion: Our study provides a systematic and objective view of the field, which can be useful for readers to evaluate the characteristics of publications involving the prediction of infectious diseases and for policymakers to take timely scientific responses.

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