scholarly journals Heritage Education and Research in Museums. Conceptual, Intellectual and Social Structure within a Knowledge Domain (2000–2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6667
Author(s):  
José Monteagudo-Fernández ◽  
Cosme J. Gómez-Carrasco ◽  
Álvaro Chaparro-Sainz
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
R Package ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Heritage Education

Heritage and museums have constituted two fundamental axes of heritage education research in recent decades. This can be defined as the pedagogical process in which people can learn about heritage assets in formal or informal learning contexts. Museums, as centres of reference in informal education, are in constant and fluid contact with schools and produce different and varied didactic materials related to heritage. This paper provides results concerning the development and shaping of the knowledge domain known as heritage education between 2000 and 2019 on the Web of Science (WoS). To this end, different techniques and tools have been used: R-package Bibliometrix and VOSviewer. This analysis has identified five clusters with the topics underpinning heritage education as a specific field of knowledge. Our inquiry has highlighted the fact that there has been an increase in production regarding research topics associated with heritage education and museums in this period, particularly between 2015 and 2019. The inclusion of ESCI journals has led to a greater visibility of WoS-indexed academic production in some countries. Finally, the concepts “heritage”, “museum” and “education” are the axes around which the research paradigms related to heritage education research seem to have been developed.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Overview of Twitter-Related Studies Indexed in Web of Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Jingyuan Yu ◽  
Juan Muñoz-Justicia
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
R Package ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Productive Authors

Twitter has been one of the most popular social network sites for academic research; the main objective of this study was to update the current knowledge boundary surrounding Twitter-related investigations and, further, identify the major research topics and analyze their evolution across time. A bibliometric analysis has been applied in this article: we retrieved 19,205 Twitter-related academic articles from Web of Science after several steps of data cleaning and preparation. The R package “Bibliometrix” was mainly used in analyzing this content. Our study has two sections, and performance analysis contains 5 categories (Annual Scientific Production, Most Relevant Sources, Most Productive Authors, Most Cited Publications, Most Relevant Keywords.). The science mapping included country collaboration analysis and thematic analysis. We highlight our thematic analysis by splitting the whole bibliographic dataset into three temporal periods, thus a thematic evolution across time has been presented. This study is one of the most comprehensive bibliometric overview in analyzing Twitter-related studies by far. We proceed to explain how the results will benefit the understanding of current academic research interests on the social media giant.

scholarly journals A Scientometric Review of Powered Micromobility

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9505
Author(s):  
Steve O’Hern ◽  
Nora Estgfaeller
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Technology Planning ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Vehicle Technology

Micromobility is an emerging field of transportation, referring to trips undertaken by a range of microvehicles. Microvehicles encompass both traditional and emerging types of light vehicles from conventional bicycles and powered-two wheelers, through to e-bikes and e-scooters, e-skateboards and “hoverboards”. The recent uptake in powered microvehicles emphasizes the need to understand the knowledge domain of micromobility research. This paper summarises the research status by identifying main contributors to and evolutionary trends in the field. The study applied scientometric analysis techniques to review 474 articles published between 1991 and 2020. The search on Thomson Reuter’s Web of Science database was guided by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) common vocabulary for powered micromobility. Results show a proliferation of research in the field of powered micromobility since 2012, which demonstrates that the growth in research is occurring alongside the increased availability of microvehicles and trips being made using microvehicles. A broad range of research topics including user behaviour, vehicle technology, planning, policy, health and safety were identified with the latter two found to be the most studied areas. Findings suggest many potential benefits of using micromobility and that the field will continue to grow, spurred by the popularity of shared e-scooter schemes. Greater collaboration in the field is desirable to broaden the dissemination of knowledge.

scholarly journals Landscape and Tourism: Evolution of Research Topics

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Mercedes Jiménez-García ◽  
José Ruiz-Chico ◽  
Antonio Rafael Peña-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Complete Knowledge ◽  
Mapping Analysis ◽  
Landscape Research ◽  
Emerging Themes

Tourism and landscape are broad and complex scientific research fields, as is the synergy between them has given rise to a volume of articles diverse in nature, subject matter and methodology. These difficulties mean that, at present, there is no complete theoretical framework to support this tourism and landscape research, nor complete knowledge of its structure and organization. This motivates the present work, which constitutes the first attempt at mapping this research topic by applying bibliometric techniques using VOSviewer and Science Mapping Analysis Software Tool (SciMAT) software. A total of 3340 articles from journals indexed in Web of Science were analyzed. The results obtained confirm that interest in the study of these concepts has been growing, especially in the last decade. The main contribution of this work lies in the identification of work themes that were basic to the construction of the field but that are currently in decline, such as “cultural heritage” and other themes important to the field that should continue to be dealt with, such as “national parks” or “geotourism”. The transversal nature of sustainability that appears in the network of keywords related to currently emerging themes, such as “planning” and “environment”, is also highlighted and reinforced.

scholarly journals What Are the Drivers of Citations?: Application in Tourism and Hospitality Journals

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 9288
Author(s):  
Eunhye Park ◽  
Woohyuk Kim
Keyword(s):  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Hospitality And Tourism ◽  
Citation Counts ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Topic Structure

In line with the qualitative and quantitative growth of academic papers, it is critical to understand the factors driving citations in scholarly articles. This study discovered the up-to-date academic structure in the tourism and hospitality literature and tested the comprehensive sets of factors driving citation counts using articles published in first-tier hospitality and tourism journals found on the Web of Science. To further test the effects of research topic structure on citation counts, unsupervised topic modeling was conducted with 9910 tourism and hospitality papers published in 12 journals over 10 years. Articles specific to online media and the sharing economy have received numerous citations and that recently published papers with particular research topics (e.g., rural tourism and eco-tourism) were frequently cited. This study makes a major contribution to hospitality and tourism literature by testing the effects of topic structure and topic originality discovered by text mining on citation counts.

The big picture on supply chain integration – insights from a bibliometric analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Kotzab ◽  
Ilja Bäumler ◽  
Paul Gerken
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
R Package ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Research Front ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Big Picture

Purpose Integration is a key element of supply chain management (SCM) and a lot of research has been executed within the field of supply chain integration (SCI). The purpose of this paper is to particularly identify the intellectual research front and foundation of SCI and how they developed over time. Design/methodology/approach The authors examined more than 1,700 peer-reviewed academic papers that were published between 1995 and 2019 in nearly 40 relevant peer-reviewed academic journals (all indexed in Web of Science). The authors analysed the structure of more than 55,000 individual references with the R-package bibliometrix and used VOSviewer for visualization. Findings The SCI research front is characterized by papers that show the effects of SCI on the firm performance, the consequences of SCI on SCM in general and present the enablers of SCI. The research front is embedded within the resource-based, transaction cost and contingency theory. The intellectual foundation refers to conceptual modelling, definitional clarification and integration dimensions. The research identifies Frohlich and Westbrook’s (2001) paper as the central reference for this research area. The dynamic evolution of the intellectual foundation of SCI changed from theorising in Phase 1 (1995–2006) towards empirical testing in Phase 2 (2007–2019). Research limitations/implications The results refer to the SCI discussion within a preselected number of peer-reviewed academic journals and to the data quality as provided by the Web of Science. Originality/value The study explored the research front and intellectual foundation of SCI. It reveals the most important papers and journals of this area by using bibliometric tools such as bibliometrix, biblioshiny and VOSviewer. The paper shows trends in research themes, theories and methodological developments.

On Informal Learning, Informal Teaching, and Informal Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 18-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Schugurensky
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Methodological Challenge ◽  
Pedagogical Challenge

Informal learning has always been part of humankind, but only in recent decades has it attracted the attention of educational researchers. This chapter examines four challenges (conceptual, methodological, institutional, and pedagogical) related to informal learning. The section on the conceptual challenge addresses the distinctions between informal learning, informal teaching, and informal education, and identifies three forms of informal learning: self-directed, incidental, and tacit. The section on the methodological challenge discusses the difficulties of researching informal learning (particularly incidental and tacit forms), describes an approach to elicit informal learning, and presents a critical analysis of its strengths and limitations. The section on the institutional challenge discusses issues related to the assessment and recognition of informal learning. Finally, the section on the pedagogical challenge highlights the potential of informal education to nurture informal learning.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
pp. 345-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Ling ◽  
Peter Ling
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
The World ◽  
New Research

Authors of the chapters of this book have reflected on education research undertakings and research paradigms applicable to their work. Their writing is revisited here as it links education research in practice to underpinning understandings of the nature of the aspect of the world investigated, the drivers of the research and the contributions to knowledge that emerge. Instances that fit within or move between established research paradigms are addressed first. The case for a new research paradigm—the supercomplexity paradigm—is then rehearsed and contributions of chapter authors to that concept and its application summarized. While research reviewed in the chapters covers the full array of paradigms, the endeavors portrayed are linked by the act of research itself. In this endeavor, whatever the education research topic, approach and methods employed, being clear about the research paradigm that applies helps in ensuring the research exercise is coherent and the outcomes appropriate and defensible.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ling ◽  
Lorraine Ling
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pragmatic Research

The title of this book refers to both methods and paradigms in education research. Both are addressed, but this book is distinguished from others in that the research paradigm, rather than choice of research method, is placed front of stage. The related field of study is education. The study of education intertwines with a range of disciplines in the social sciences so the research issues arising have implications beyond the education context. The research paradigms addressed in this book include the traditional positivist and post-positivist—here labelled neo-positivist—paradigms. The interpretivist, transformative and pragmatic research paradigms, which have also been nominated in existing literature, are included. A novel supercomplexity paradigm has been added here in acknowledgement of the “supercomplex” environment (Barnett, 2000a) in which education research now operates. Following chapters explore issues relating to the design, implementation and critique of education research in the light of this understanding of research paradigms.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH IN BRAZIL: A STUDY OF THE EARTE PLATFORM

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 128-141
Author(s):  
Rosana Louro Ferreira Silva ◽  
José Artur Barroso Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Research Themes

Following on from discussions on the ‘languages and discourses’ subtheme at the 13 th Invitational Seminar on Environmental Education Research, this exploratory study in document analysis discusses various aspects of academic production on language and discourse in the area of Environmental Education (EE). The study centers on the analysis of thesis and dissertation abstracts contained in the EArte Project database, an open access digital repository of state of the art EE research in Brazil. Results suggest that the term ‘language’ appears only infrequently and then usually in relation to different forms of expression, whereas the term ‘discourse’ is far more pervasive, present in the titles of studies on a highly diverse range of research themes.

scholarly journals Review of Influential Articles in Surgical Education: 2002–2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max V. Wohlauer ◽  
Brian George ◽  
Peter F. Lawrence ◽  
Carla M. Pugh ◽  
Erik G. Van Eaton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Surgical Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
English Language ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Surgical Simulation ◽  
Specialty Choice ◽  
Resident Assessment ◽  
Number Of Citations

Abstract Background Exploring the trends in surgical education research offers insight into concerns, developments, and questions researchers are exploring that are relevant to teaching and learning in surgical specialties. Objective We conducted a review of the surgical education literature published between 2002 and 2012. The purpose was 2-fold: to provide an overview of the most frequently cited articles in the field of surgical education during the last decade and to describe the study designs and themes featured in these articles. Methods Articles were identified through Web of Science by using “surgical education” and “English language” as search terms. Using a feature in Web of Science, we tracked the number of citations of any publication. Of the 800 articles produced by the initial search, we initially selected 23 articles with 45 or more citations, and ultimately chose the 20 articles that were most frequently cited for our analysis. Results Analysis of the most frequently cited articles published in US journals between the years 2002–2012 identified 7 research themes and presented them in order of frequency with which they appear: use of simulation, issues in student/resident assessment, specialty choice, patient safety, team training, clinical competence assessment, and teaching the clinical sciences, with surgical simulation being the central theme. Researchers primarily used descriptive methods. Conclusions Popular themes in surgical education research illuminate the information needs of surgical educators as well as topics of high interest to the surgical community.

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