Identification of barriers and challenges to teaching English at an early age in Indonesia: an international publication analysis study

This paper will identify some of the barriers and challenges in teaching English early in Indonesia. We believe that teaching English as a foreign language has many obstacles and challenges that must be raised and published so that all parties with interest in teaching foreign languages ??in Indonesia, especially in early childhood, will receive enlightenment. So, we have first received much input from various data sources that we access electronically. All of our data is related to the purpose of this study, and we analyze it with a descriptive qualitative design under the control of a phenomenological approach so that the results will be valid and reliable findings. Based on the discussion of the findings, we can conclude that many teachers are often hampered by a lack of enthusiasm, limited study schedules, teaching resources, inadequate materials, and excess students in class. On the other hand, students have shallow learning motivation and very few skills related to learning English as a foreigner. Therefore, this is an insight for many parties who work in succeeding in English teaching in Indonesia.

Eszett (ẞ; ß)-Glucuronidase, a False Positive of Beta (β)-Glucuronidase: Focus on Plant Genetic Transformation

The Escherichia coli beta (β)-glucuronidase gene ( GUS ), coded for by the uidA gene, is a popular reporter gene in plant genetic transformation experiments. As a result of a typographic-type error, leading to confusion between Eszett (uppercase ẞ; lowercase ß), a German special character, and Greek lowercase beta (β), some published papers claimed to have used Eszett (ẞ/ß)-glucuronidase, which does not exist. Attention was paid to the 114 false positive entries, i.e., ẞ/ß-glucuronidase, that were detected on PubMed on July 6, 2021. From the 114 entries, 81 (71.1%) were in papers in the field of plant science. After screening 79 of the full texts, the error was quantified in the article’s location. The error was detected in 100% of abstracts on PubMed and also in 100% of the abstracts on the original journal/publisher websites, while 62.0% of papers had this error in the text (once or multiple times). The origin of these errors is unclear. Given that there are approximately 4000, 1100 and 10,600 hits for this false positive on sciencedirect.com, Springer Link, and Google Scholar, respectively, the quantification of this error based on PubMed suggests that a large and thorough quantitative post-publication analysis of papers claiming erroneously to have used non-existent Eszett (ẞ/ß)-glucuronidase is needed. Importantly, where possible, those errors should be corrected.

Within Group Ethnic Diversity in Latinx Psychological Research: A Publication Analysis

Based on a population-representation approach using census data we explored the breadth of research in the Journal of Latinx Psychology ( N = 154) and Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences ( N = 94) with respect to distribution across states and nationality background of the Latinx’ samples. Over 90% of the empirical studies are based on Latinx samples within the US. Out of those, only 60% provided information specific enough to identify the ethnic background of the sample beyond Hispanic/Latinx or other vague descriptors (e.g., “multiethnic”). With 80% of the samples, Mexicans are overrepresented compared to the population statistics of (documented) Latinx in the US. Findings also reveal an overrepresentation of the Southwest region compared to the overall distribution of Latinx across the US. It is suggested that Latinx journals take a more active role in fostering publications of Latinx subpopulations which are often clustered in regions other than the Southwest.

Citations Network Analysis of Vision and Sport

Background: Sports vision is a relatively new specialty, which has attracted particular interest in recent years from trainers and athletes, who are looking at ways of improving their visual skills to attain better performance on the field of play. The objective of this study was to use citation networks to analyze the relationships between the different publications and authors, as well as to identify the different areas of research and determine the most cited publication. Methods: The search for publications was carried out in the Web of Science database, using the terms “sport”, “vision”, and “eye” for the period between 1911 and August 2020. The publication analysis was performed using the Citation Network Explorer and CiteSpace software. Results: In total, 635 publications and 801 citations were found across the network, with 2019 being the year with the highest number of publications. The most cited publication was published in 2002 by Williams et al. By using the clustering functionality, four groups covering the different research areas in this field were found: ocular lesion, visual training methods and efficiency, visual fixation training, and concussions. Conclusions: The citation network offers an objective and comprehensive analysis of the main papers on sports vision.