Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chiara Latour, Franco Peracchi, Giancarlo Spagnolo
Summary: Using the synthetic control method, the study examines the potential effects of a lockdown in Sweden during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic. By correcting for data problems and considering multiple indicators, the study finds that a lockdown would have had significant effects within one week and that the quantitative effects of the lockdown are stronger than previously estimated.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lena Roelfer, Arianna Liconti, Natalie Prinz, Clara Antonia Kloecker
Summary: The paper highlights the importance of integrated research approaches in addressing the challenges of managing coastal and ocean spaces in support of sustainable governance. Three key considerations are proposed: target setting, knowledge production, and cooperation, to facilitate effective translation between science, policy, and society.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Audley Genus, Marfuga Iskandarova, Gary Goggins, Frances Fahy, Senja Laakso
Summary: The paper highlights the shortcomings of qualitative social sciences and humanities research in addressing energy and climate change challenges, advocating for a more nuanced and context-sensitive approach. By analyzing data, an alternative 'practices and cultural change' energy imaginary is proposed, emphasizing the importance of social practices, interdisciplinarity, and knowledge co-production.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mathijs Harmsen, Elmar Kriegler, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Kaj-Ivar van der Wijst, Gunnar Luderer, Ryna Cui, Olivier Dessens, Laurent Drouet, Johannes Emmerling, Jennifer Faye Morris, Florian Fosse, Dimitris Fragkiadakis, Kostas Fragkiadakis, Panagiotis Fragkos, Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori, David Gernaat, Celine Guivarch, Gokul Iyer, Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, Ilkka Keppo, Kimon Keramidas, Alexandre Koberle, Peter Kolp, Volker Krey, Christoph Kruger, Florian Leblanc, Shivika Mittal, Sergey Paltsev, Pedro Rochedo, Bas J. van Ruijven, Ronald D. Sands, Fuminori Sano, Jessica Strefler, Eveline Vasquez Arroyo, Kenichi Wada, Behnam Zakeri
Summary: Integrated assessment models are crucial for understanding climate mitigation strategies, and diagnostic indicators can help compare different models and increase transparency. By applying a set of well-defined indicators as a community standard, it is possible to systematically assess IAM behavior, identify key differences between models and versions, and link model behavior to characteristics and assumptions.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Azzam Abu-Rayash, Ibrahim Dincer
Summary: This study introduces a new model to assess the smartness of cities, focusing on 8 main domains of smart cities, providing new insights for sustainable urban development. Empirical analysis of 20 cities shows that increasing the smart energy index significantly promotes the smart economy development of cities, and smart governance has a positive correlation with smart economy.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Asael Greenfeld, Nir Becker, Janet F. Bornman, Sabrina Spatari, Dror L. Angel
Summary: Aquaponics is promoted as a sustainable agricultural practice, but its economic sustainability is challenging due to external benefits necessitating public intervention. A proposed aquaponic system for producing ornamental fish and lettuce was estimated to have an environmental cost of 10,700 EUR annually, mainly attributed to industrial processes. Life cycle assessment and economic valuation methods can potentially assess the cost-effectiveness of aquaponics from an environmental perspective.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Herman Aguinis, Sascha Kraus, Jasna Pocek, Natanya Meyer, Soren H. Jensen
Summary: We synthesized policy implications of tourism and hospitality research by reviewing 12,269 articles published in 10 leading journals from 2011 to 2021. The most common rationale for policies is market failure, while the most typical role of policies is to create incentives. Our review revealed a lack of articles discussing the reasons, methods, and content of actual policies, so we propose a theory-based research agenda focusing on inclusivity, evolutionary dynamics, crisis impact and contemporary solutions, resilience and institutional complexity, and actors and time dimension. Implementing our suggested research directions will benefit organizations, society, and enhance the perceived value and contributions of tourism and hospitality research.
TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Review
Agronomy
Michele Giuseppe Salvan, Danilo Bertoni, Daniele Cavicchioli, Stefano Bocchi
Summary: This study aims to fill the gap in the selection methodology of agri-environmental indicators and assess the environmental impact of land use change in Northern Italy. The results reveal comparisons of original crops' impacts and significant knowledge gaps in the available literature.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Donele Wilkins, Amy J. Schulz
Summary: Communities affected by environmental exposures and health disparities recognize the role of racism in shaping these risks. More researchers are focusing on racism as a fundamental driver of racial inequities in environmental health. Research and funding institutions are committed to addressing structural racism. This article discusses strategies for taking explicitly antiracist approaches to community engagement in environmental health research.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
S. Shahvi, P-E Mellander, P. Jordan, O. Fenton
Summary: The study used a systems thinking approach and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to investigate different stakeholders' views on the water governance framework and influencing factors, revealing diverse perceptions of governance structures and factor rankings among stakeholders.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Adrian Brown, Stuart W. Flint, Rachel L. Batterham
Summary: Evidence has shown the pervasive, impact, and implications of weight stigma, calling for concerted efforts to address it in areas such as policy, healthcare, media, workplaces, and education. This health policy review provides an analysis of the research evidence, emphasizing the widespread nature of weight stigma, its impact on health policy, and the need for action at a policy level. Short- and medium-term recommendations are proposed to tackle weight stigma and discrimination, highlighting the importance of societal change to end it.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel Assefa Tofu, Kebede Wolka, Teshale Woldeamanuel
Summary: Energy poverty is a global issue that hinders economic development. This study focuses on the domestic energy sources and their impact on the environment and food insecurity in the drought-affected highlands of Ethiopia. The use of traditional biomass fuels is prevalent in the area, leading to agricultural land degradation. The majority of people in this region do not adopt modern energy sources due to financial constraints, lack of access, durability issues, and limited awareness. The degradation of land has resulted in chronic and transitory food insecurity, prompting reliance on food aid. Biomass energy exacerbates land degradation, adversely affecting agricultural production and food security. Investing in alternative energy technologies can improve the environment, food security, and people's health.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Biology
Tyrone H. Lavery, Rachel Morgain, James A. Fitzsimons, Jennie Fluin, Nicholas A. Macgregor, Natasha M. Robinson, Ben C. Scheele, Katherine E. Selwood, Rebecca Spindler, Holly Vuong, Simon West, Brendan A. Wintle, David B. Lindenmayer
Summary: Measuring, reporting, and forecasting research impact beyond academia is increasingly important, especially in crisis disciplines like medicine, environmental sustainability, and biodiversity conservation. While theoretical guidance and practical tools tailored to various disciplines have been developed, the development of tools specific to conservation research is still lacking. This article reviews available tools for evaluating research impact in conservation research and provides a list of 96 impact indicators that can guide and measure the potential impacts of conservation research within and beyond academia.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Suresh K. Rana, Bhawana Dangwal, Vikram S. Negi, Indra D. Bhatt
Summary: This article systematically reviews and evaluates the scientific literature on the Himalayas, finding that agriculture and biological sciences are the dominant fields of research. The research output in the region has been steadily increasing, with the highest funding and scientific contribution from India, China, and the USA. The quality of research publications is generally high, with a significant portion being published in SCI indexed journals.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Bintu Mansaray, Laura Dean, Phil Tubb, Kunhi Lakshmi Josyula, Linet Okoth, Ivy Chumo, Jane Waritu, Andrea Klingel, Farzana Manzoor, Bachera Aktar, Surekha Garimella, Shrutika Murthy, Rachel Tolhurst, Lana Whittaker, Linsay Gray, Ross Forsyth, Helen Elsey, Linda Waldman, Sally Theobald
Summary: COVID-19 has brought uncertainties and new vulnerabilities for communities and researchers, leading to changes in research approaches. This article discusses the new challenges that have emerged during the pandemic and provides practical recommendations for addressing these challenges.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild
Summary: This paper presents a methodological approach to analyze the dynamics of scientific progress at the level of research fields, focusing on the annual number of publications in chemistry. The study reveals that research on optical phenomena and electrochemical technologies has emerged as key topics in recent years.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2022)
Article
Communication
Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild, Alexander Tekles
Summary: Tweets serve as alternative metrics to measure research impact or attention, but biases must not influence tweet decisions for Twitter data to be used in research evaluation. Investigating the existence of biases requires an experimental design with controlled manipulations. This comment proposes an experimental approach to study scientists' decision to tweet about a paper, describing a study design adaptable to various social media platforms.
PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Antonio Osorio, Lutz Bornmann
Summary: This article explores four ways to reduce inefficiency in research funding calls, and suggests that reducing the dependence on fund-seeking activities and narrowing the subject scope of the calls may be particularly effective.
RESEARCH EVALUATION
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Robin Haunschild, Lutz Bornmann
Summary: This study investigates the differences in field-normalized scores under different document type handling methods. By comparing the results at the individual publication level, the country level, and the institutional level, it is found that different handling methods result in significantly different scores. Therefore, caution should be exercised when comparing normalized scores obtained from different handling procedures.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild, Kevin Boyack, Werner Marx, Jan C. Minx
Summary: This study examines the connection between climate change research and policy-making. It found that climate change papers cited in policy documents receive more citations on average. The study also observed an impact of international climate policy cycles on policy document publication and identified similar research fields between the scientific and policy communities.
Article
Communication
Loet Leydesdorff, Lin Zhang, Paul Wouters
Summary: Citation analysis provides models for studying the evolutionary dynamics of scholarly communication. This study proposes distinguishing between institutional research evaluation and knowledge evaluation in citation analysis, and discusses the role of redundancy as a measure of communication potential. It uses indicators at the journal level to analyze citation environments in both the cited and citing directions, and confirms that interdisciplinarity cannot be captured by one-dimensional citation analysis. The study raises questions about developing indicators of interdisciplinarity and discusses the normative implications of the results.
PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild, Werner Marx
Summary: Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) is a bibliometric method used to reveal the historical roots of research topics or fields. It identifies the most frequently referenced publications within a specific reference publication year, instead of the most highly cited papers. This study demonstrates how RPYS can be applied to identify important researchers, institutions, and countries in breakthrough research, using the example of climate modeling and global warming prediction.
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lutz Bornmann, Christian Ganser, Alexander Tekles
Summary: In this study, we empirically investigated the influence of numerical information as anchors, such as citation impact, on the assessment of cited papers. We conducted a survey among corresponding authors and assigned them to different treatment groups receiving various additional numerical information. Our results suggest that the assessment of paper quality is influenced by the citation impact information, but not by other numerical information like an access code or journal impact.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Anton Gruber, Alexander Tekles, Lutz Bornmann
Summary: This paper aims to analyze the academic roots of political scientist John J. Mearsheimer using the method of Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS). By compiling a list of his most cited works and examining temporal peaks, the study reveals both the foundation of his theory of International Relations and his focus on current events and conflicts.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Robin Haunschild, Lutz Bornmann
Summary: Many altmetric studies have examined the frequency of paper mentions on Twitter. This study investigates the citations of tweets in papers to assess their potential relevance. However, the findings suggest a low number of citations and indicate that tweets are more often used as study objects rather than influential content. The subject areas with the most citations of tweets are Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Medicine, with COVID-19/corona pandemic being the dominant topic.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Lutz Bornmann, Sabine Gralka, Felix de Moya Anegon, Klaus Wohlrabe
Summary: One of the core indicators in scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. To properly assess such indicators, it is necessary to consider the unit's available resources. This study introduces a new input indicator, the number of unique authors mentioned on the institutions' papers, and calculates efficiency scores for over 3100 institutions from the higher education sector using this new indicator and output indicators. The results show a strong correlation between the new input indicator and institutional staff numbers.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lutz Bornmann, Christian Ganser
Summary: This study aims to empirically examine the assessment of scientific papers using the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic. By surveying corresponding authors and analyzing their adjustments to the anchor value, the research investigates whether the evaluation can be influenced by both quality-related information and unrelated numerical factors. The study seeks to shed light on whether bibliometrics or other numerical measures create the social order they intend to measure.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Robin Haunschild, Lutz Bornmann
Summary: This study proposes a citation-free method for identifying potential young talented individuals based on their early publication performance. Three different indicators and their combinations were used to define potential talent. The best performing indicator combination was applied to identify young potentially talented individuals who published their first paper between 2007-2011, resulting in a set of 46,200 individuals that can be downloaded for free.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Christian Leibel, Lutz Bornmann
Summary: The paper provides a comprehensive review of the original disruption index (DI1) and its variants in scientometrics. It explains the technical and theoretical properties of these indices and examines their validity and limitations. The review highlights the higher convergent validity of modified index variants compared to DI1 and emphasizes the need for further research on the validity of disruption scores.
Article
Management
Helen Lawton Smith, Loet Leydesdorff
Summary: The Triple Helix model, proposing the interactions among universities, industry, and government, has been the basis for studying entrepreneurship. However, additional helix structures may add little to the discourse. This article responds to criticisms and discusses convenience, presentation, and the need for a more unified theory model.
