scholarly journals Mapping the thematic evolution in Communication over the first two decades from the 20th century: A longitudinal approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Netzahualcoyotl Hernandez-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Thematic Structure ◽  
Psychological Dimension ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Longitudinal Approach ◽  
Author Keywords ◽  
Commercial Communication

This study offers an overview of the thematic structure in Communication during the first two decades of the 20th century, 2001-2010 and 2011-2020. The included work mapped author keywords and keywords plus of citable articles published in the Journal Citation Reports-2019 edition. A longitudinal perspective was employed to visualize the thematic evolution. Four predominant thematic areas were evidenced in both periods: (1) Speech and Language, (2) Commercial Communication, (3) Health Communication, and (4) Organizational Communication. There were four topics reflecting the formation of substantial research areas during the second decade, such as (1) Science Communication, (2) Scholarly Publishing, (3) Mental Health and Interpersonal Relationships, and (4) Crime and Violence. In general, from the first to the second decade, the technological dimension ceased to be predominant, and instead, there was a more significant presence of themes that responded to a socio-psychological dimension.

The distinctiveness of author interdisciplinarity: A long-neglected issue in research on interdisciplinarity

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152093949
Author(s):  
Wenyu Zhang ◽  
Shunshun Shi ◽  
Xiaoling Huang ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Peijia Yao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Similarity Measure ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diversity Measure ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Network Similarity ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Web

In the research on interdisciplinarity (RID), measures for evaluating the interdisciplinarity of scientific entities (e.g., papers, authors, journals or research areas) have been proposed for a long time. The author interdisciplinarity is very different from the other types of interdisciplinarity because of the complex interpersonal relationships between the connected authors. However, previous work has failed to uncover the distinctiveness of author interdisciplinarity and has regarded it as equivalent to other types of interdisciplinarity. In this work, an extended Rao–Stirling diversity measure is proposed, which incorporates the co-author network and a network similarity measure to specifically evaluate the author interdisciplinarity. Moreover, betweenness centrality is used for improving network similarity measure, because of its intrinsic advantage of expressing how an entity loads on different factors in a network, which is highly in line with the characteristic of interdisciplinarity. An experiment on the papers about Public Administration in the Web of Science is conducted; based on the final results, a deeper investigation is performed into by typical authors. The work proposes a novel idea for measuring author interdisciplinarity, which can promote the study of interdisicplinarity measuring in RID.

Transformation of Newspapers’ Thematic Structure in the 20th Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarja Lõhmus ◽  
Ragne Kõuts ◽  
Hannu Nieminen ◽  
Andres Kõnno ◽  
Agnes Aljas
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Thematic Structure

scholarly journals М. Н. Богданов и Ц. Ж. Жамцарано о развитии капиталистических отношений в бурятском обществе в начале XX в.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Shirap Ts. Tsydene ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Land Relations ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Special Points

Introduction. The article considers works by leaders of the Buryat national movement M. N. Bogdanov and Ts. Zh. Zhamtsarano to provide insight into the issue of capitalist relations development in Buryat society during the early 20th century. Goals. The article seeks to determine specific features of the problem formulation thereto traced in studies conducted by the mentioned scholars. The research analyzes articles of M. N. Bogdanov and Ts. Zh. Zhamtsarano published at the beginning of the 20th century. The objectives set in the article are aimed at characterizing the social and political standpoints of M. N. Bogdanov and Ts. Zhamtsarano; revealing their attitudes to the problem of capitalist relations development among the Buryats; exploring general and special points in their reasoning. Conclusions. The study of socioeconomic development of the Buryats, including that of land relations, are associated with the resettlement campaign. Russian historiography notes that the ethnic intelligentsia considered the problem at the stage of the initial accumulation of capital with its inherent social stratification and manufacturing differentiation. It is also clear that the social and political affiliation of the authors had no significant negative impacts on the course of their judgments but did determine the specificities of their views. Despite this, they found common ground in their reasoning for each of the research areas.

Research constituents and citation analysis of the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (1986–2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveen Donthu ◽  
Satish Kumar ◽  
Riya Sureka ◽  
Rohit Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Thematic Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Industrial Marketing ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Author Keywords ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Prolific Authors ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to map the major research constituents and trends for the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (JBIM) during its 34-year history (1986–2019). It also identifies JBIM’s thematic structure and the key factors affecting the impact of its articles. Design/methodology/approach The Scopus database is used to identify the bibliographic data of JBIM. The most prolific authors, institutions and countries in the journal are analyzed through weighted distributions of articles. The thematic structure of the journal is evaluated by means of bibliographic coupling analysis. The study also examines the factors influencing citations of JBIM articles through regression modeling. Findings JBIM publishes contributions from around the world, though the most prolific contributors are affiliated with the USA, UK and Finland. Thematic analysis divided JBIM articles into five major themes. Citation analysis reveals that article age, special issue appearance, number of author keywords and number of references are prominent factors explaining an article’s impact. Research limitations/implications This study uses data from the Scopus database, and limitations of the database have implications for the findings. Originality/value This is the first comprehensive study to identify the thematic structure and the factors affecting citations of JBIM articles.

scholarly journals Cloud Computing and Energy Efficiency: Mapping the Thematic Structure of Research

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Lis ◽  
Agata Sudolska ◽  
Ilona Pietryka ◽  
Adam Kozakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Thematic Structure ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Research Areas

The dynamic growth in the use of cloud computing systems results in increasing energy consumption. Consequently, more and more attention is given to energy efficiency issues both in research and theory development as well as the business practice of cloud computing systems. In spite of the rapid development of research, the field has not been mapped from the bibliometric perspective yet. This study aims at publication profiling and mapping the thematic structure of the cloud computing energy efficiency research field. Detailed research objectives include: (1) profiling scientific publications in the field, (2) identifying and exploring thematic research areas, (3) identifying emerging topics and discussing their potential as future research lines. The aforementioned objectives are translated into the following study questions: (1) What are the most productive nations, institutions, source titles, and scholars contributing to research on energy efficiency in cloud computing? (2) What does the thematic structure of the research field look like? (3) What are the “hot” research topics attracting scholars’ attention? The research methodology toolbox includes a combination of bibliometric descriptive studies (research profiling), science mapping (keyword co-occurrence analysis), and literature reviews (systematic literature review). Bibliometric data for analysis were elicited from the Scopus database. The VOSviewer software supported bibliometric analysis and data visualization.

scholarly journals Science audiences, misinformation, and fake news

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (16) ◽  
pp. 7662-7669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietram A. Scheufele ◽  
Nicole M. Krause
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Societal Factors ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Information Ecologies ◽  
Individual Information

Concerns about public misinformation in the United States—ranging from politics to science—are growing. Here, we provide an overview of how and why citizens become (and sometimes remain) misinformed about science. Our discussion focuses specifically on misinformation among individual citizens. However, it is impossible to understand individual information processing and acceptance without taking into account social networks, information ecologies, and other macro-level variables that provide important social context. Specifically, we show how being misinformed is a function of a person’s ability and motivation to spot falsehoods, but also of other group-level and societal factors that increase the chances of citizens to be exposed to correct(ive) information. We conclude by discussing a number of research areas—some of which echo themes of the 2017 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Communicating Science Effectively report—that will be particularly important for our future understanding of misinformation, specifically a systems approach to the problem of misinformation, the need for more systematic analyses of science communication in new media environments, and a (re)focusing on traditionally underserved audiences.

scholarly journals Reorienting science communication towards communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. A12
Author(s):  
Lindy A. Orthia ◽  
Merryn McKinnon ◽  
John Noel Viana ◽  
Graham Walker
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Meaningful Engagement ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Ideal

Communities are rarely seen as the ideal level at which to focus science communication efforts, compared to the individual, psychological or mass, societal levels. Yet evidence from allied fields suggests building interpersonal relationships with specific communities over time is key to meaningful engagement, so orienting science communication towards communities is warranted. In this paper, we argue this case. We review previous studies, identifying three existing models of community-oriented science communication, which we label ‘neighbourly’, ‘problem-solving’ and ‘brokering’. We illustrate the effectiveness of the ‘problem-solving’ approach and the desirable ideal of ‘brokering’ using recent examples of community-oriented science communication from Australia.

scholarly journals Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Fürst ◽  
Sébastien Salerno
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Journalism Research

We are pleased to introduce the first issue of 2021, which comprises many contributions from a wide range of research fields in communication and media studies, including digital communication, gender studies, media reception and effects, political communication, journalism research, and science communication. With authors from the universities of Zurich, Berne, and Fribourg, as well as from universities in Germany, Austria, Spain, Sweden, and Canada, this issue illustrates that SComS is a home for Swiss studies as well as international research. This is also highlighted by our advisory board, which was renewed in spring 2021. Its fourteen members are distinguished scholars with expertise in a wide range of research areas within communication and media studies. They also represent different Swiss language regions, neighboring countries of Switzerland, and other European countries (see more information on our website).With this issue, SComS has also renewed its editorial team and journal management. While Jolanta Drzewiecka and Silke Fürst are welcomed as new editors and Mike Meißner as new journal manager, SComS bids farewell to Sara Greco and Thomas Häussler, who served the editorial team for more than five years. Their engagement greatly contributed to SComS becoming a well-established open access journal within communication and media research.

scholarly journals Lithuanian language intonation: history of research, in the context of language intonology

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1(14)/2020) ◽  
pp. 195-204
Author(s):  
Gintautas Kundrotas
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
European Languages ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
Intonation Units ◽  
History Of ◽  
Author Keywords ◽  
Productive Research ◽  
Experimental Phonetics

The linguists Jablonskis (1911) and Durys (1927) were the first to study Lithuanian language intonation. Research on intonation in other European languages (English, Russian) began earlier, in the 16th and 17th centuries (English: Hart (1551) and Butler (1634); Russian: Lomonosov (1743, 1765)). The beginning and the second half of the 20th century were the most productive research periods on Lithuanian language intonation. Intonation was studied by Lithuanian linguists – syntax specialists and phoneticians. A considerable amount of research using methods of experimental phonetics was carried out. The main authors were the syntactician Balkevičius (1963, 1998) and the phoneticians Pukelis (1972) and Bikulčienė (1976), Pakerys (2003), Girdenis (1980; 2003). Variants of the Lithuanian language intonation system inventory are presented in the numerous works of the author. Keywords: intonation, experimental phonetics, intonation units, intonation system of the Lithuanian language, intonation typology.

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