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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Junwan Liu, Xiaofei Guo, Shuo Xu, Yueyan Zhang
Summary: The impact of strong ties in the international collaboration network on scientific performance has been neglected, but this study shows that establishing strong ties contributes to above-average productivity and citation frequency for countries/regions.
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Environmental Sciences
Chuanwu Zhao, Yaozhong Pan, Hanyi Wu, Yu Zhu
Summary: This study analyzed the impact of industrial zones on urban heat islands using remote sensing images and a novel spectral index. The research found that the contraction or expansion of industrial zones has a significant effect on land surface temperature. The results are valuable for environmental assessment and fine management of industrial cities.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Shengzhi Huang, Wei Lu, Yong Huang, Zhuoran Luo
Summary: In this article, the authors propose the institution Q model (IQ) and its two variants (IQ-2 and IQ-3) to evaluate individual-level research ability in publishing high-quality scientific papers. The models integrate information about scientists' institutions, countries, and collaborators to jointly evaluate their research ability across different institutions. The effectiveness of the models is tested on synthetic and empirical data, showing that they can accurately quantify research ability and predict scientific impact more effectively than existing models. The study contributes to the idea of incorporating the academic environment into scientific evaluation.
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2023)
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Business
Holger Schiele, Stefan Krummaker, Petra Hoffmann, Rita Kowalski
Summary: This paper addresses the challenge of speed in joint academic practitioner inquiries and proposes the world cafe method as a technique to accelerate data collection. It illustrates the use of the world cafe method with an example and compares it to alternative methods. Results of a survey show that world cafe research is able to present practitioner results twice as fast as conventional research methods.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Wataru Anzai, Kazuyuki Ban, Shintaro Hagiwara, Tomoya Kako, Nobuyuki Kashiwagi, Keisuke Kawase, Yumi Yamanashi, Koichi Murata
Summary: This study examines the trends in research papers published by Japanese zoos and aquariums over the past 62 years. The research found that the number of papers published has significantly increased and the research fields have diversified since around 1990. However, there are still issues such as a quarter of institutions not publishing papers and biases in the research targets and subjects. Addressing these issues will contribute to further progress in Japanese zoos and aquariums.
Review
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Matteo Marsili, Yasser Roudi
Summary: Learning is a distinctive feature of intelligent behavior, but our conceptual understanding of learning is still poor. This article reviews recent progress in understanding learning based on the concept of relevance, which quantifies the amount of information contained in a dataset or the internal representation of a learning machine about the generative model of the data. The theoretical framework is supported by empirical analysis.
PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
J. Silvestre-Albero, M. Martinez-Escandell, J. Narciso, A. Sepulveda-Escribano, M. Molina-Sabio
Summary: This review article is dedicated to the memory of Francisco (Paco) Rodriguez-Reinoso, who dedicated over 56 years of his life to research on carbon materials, contributing extensively to the field with more than 400 research articles in high quality international journals.
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Xiaomei Bai, Fuli Zhang, Jinzhou Li, Zhong Xu, Zeeshan Patoli, Ivan Lee
Summary: This paper explores collaboration and productivity in science careers, quantifies the impact of collaboration in collaboration-citation networks, and proposes the SCIRank model. It also examines the typical duration of research collaborations.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chakresh Kumar Singh, Emma Barme, Robert Ward, Liubov Tupikina, Marc Santolini
Summary: The rise and fall of scientific fields follow a common evolutionary pattern, with early stages characterized by interdisciplinary works and small teams, while late stages involve specialized, large teams building on previous works. This method provides a foundation for quantitatively exploring generic patterns in the evolution of research fields, with implications for innovation studies.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qi Li, Xinbing Wang, Luoyi Fu, Jianghao Wang, Ling Yao, Xiaoying Gan, Chenghu Zhou
Summary: The rapid development of modern science presents a challenge in identifying valuable ideas from a vast amount of literature. This study proposes a framework called Scientific X-ray, inspired by traditional X-ray imaging, to quantify the development degree and potential of scientific ideas through scanning, visualization, and parsing of the citation network. Scientific X-ray successfully identifies high-potential research topics and provides a user-friendly tool for researchers at all levels of expertise. It has significant implications for research trends, scientific policy-making, and social development.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Jorge Chamorro-Padial, Rosa Rodriguez-Sanchez
Summary: Authors, editors, and reviewers need to accurately perceive the quality of a manuscript in order to improve their skills and prevent errors. This paper compared the author's perception of a manuscript's quality with its actual impact and analyzed the uncertainty in this perception. A website was launched to help researchers improve their understanding of manuscript quality, and the experiment showed that the Abstract, Title, and Keywords were sufficient for evaluating a manuscript in less than a minute.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Bing Li, Shiji Chen, Vincent Lariviere
Summary: This study investigates the correlation between interdisciplinary research and technological impact, finding that variety and Rao-Stirling have a positive correlation with technological impact while balance and disparity have a negative correlation. The significance of interdisciplinary research in technological impact is more prominent in the long term and varies across different disciplines.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Xiaomei Bai, Fuli Zhang, Jiaying Liu, Feng Xia
Summary: MSCIRank is a framework for ranking scientific collaboration impact based on triangular motifs and the PageRank algorithm. It quantifies the impact of scientific collaboration and scholarly papers, addressing the issue of indistinguishable self-citations in existing methods. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of MSCIRank over SCIRank in identifying Nobel Prize papers in terms of Recall, and the linear MSCIRank model aligns with Pareto's principle while the non-linear MSCIRank model does not.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Corrine Y. Jurgens, Christopher S. Lee, Dawn M. Aycock, Ruth Masterson Creber, Quin E. Denfeld, Holli A. DeVon, Linda R. Evers, Miyeon Jung, Gianluca Pucciarelli, Megan M. Streur, Marvin A. Konstam
Summary: Symptoms of cardiovascular disease are crucial for diagnosis and treatment evaluation, as well as impacting patients' daily lives. This scientific statement aims to present the state of science and relevance of these symptoms, including their genesis, manifestation, and similarities or differences between diagnoses.
Article
Management
Andrew W. Lo, Ruixun Zhang
Summary: This article proposes a quantitative framework for evaluating the financial impact of impact investing. It derives the conditions under which impact investing affects the performance of traditional portfolios and provides an explicit measure of the financial reward or cost of impact investing compared to passive index benchmarks. The approach is illustrated through applications to various investment scenarios.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Henry Hakkinen, Silviu O. Petrovan, William J. Sutherland, Maria P. Dias, Eric I. Ameca, Steffen Oppel, Ivan Ramirez, Becki Lawson, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Katharine M. Bowgen, Nigel G. Taylor, Nathalie Pettorelli
Summary: The increasing threat of climate change to species' long-term survival requires the integration of scientific knowledge and conservation actions. However, the lack of strategic collection and collation of information on species' climate change vulnerability and the effectiveness of conservation actions hinders decision-making and conservation outcomes. By utilizing a pressure-state-response framework, existing knowledge can be effectively utilized to identify missing information and improve conservation outcomes.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Janine Griffiths-Lee, Elizabeth Nicholls, Dave Goulson
Summary: Habitat loss and fragmentation are severe threats to pollinator decline, with 97% of wildflower meadows lost in England and Wales. Creating flower-rich margins in agricultural environments is effective, and there is growing potential to support pollinators in urban landscapes.
JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Entomology
Nicolas Buck, Michelle T. Fountain, Simon G. Potts, Jacob Bishop, Michael P. D. Garratt
Summary: Drosophila suzukii (SWD) poses a threat to fruit crops worldwide. Non-crop habitats, particularly woodland and field margins with host plants, have a greater impact on SWD population than cropped areas. The difference in SWD abundance between crop and non-crop habitats is influenced by winter months and conventional farming methods.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Entomology
Janine Griffiths-Lee, Balin Davenport, Bradley Foster, Elizabeth Nicholls, Dave Goulson
Summary: Planting perennial wildflowers or allowing natural regeneration in vineyards can increase floral abundance and diversity, supporting beneficial insects and their pollination activities. This simple and effective approach can be widely adopted in British viticulture to enhance biodiversity in vineyards.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Mike Image, Emma Gardner, Yann Clough, William E. Kunin, Simon G. Potts, Henrik G. Smith, Graham N. Stone, Duncan B. Westbury, Tom D. Breeze
Summary: This study investigates the impact of the English agri-environment scheme on pollination services and identifies hedge/woodland edge management and fallow areas as the main drivers. Floral margins have limited benefits, and interventions are more effective in areas with fewer semi-natural habitats.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Elizabeth M. Alejandre, Laura Scherer, Jeroen B. Guinee, Marcelo A. Aizen, Matthias Albrecht, Mario V. Balzan, Ignasi Bartomeus, Danilo Bevk, Laura A. Burkle, Yann Clough, Lorna J. Cole, Casey M. Delphia, Lynn V. Dicks, Michael P. D. Garratt, David Kleijn, Aniko Kovacs-Hostyanszki, Yael Mandelik, Robert J. Paxton, Theodora Petanidou, Simon Potts, Miklos Sarospataki, Catharina J. E. Schulp, Menelaos Stavrinides, Katharina Stein, Jane C. Stout, Hajnalka Szentgyorgyi, Androulla I. Varnava, Ben A. Woodcock, Peter M. van Bodegom
Summary: While wild pollinators are crucial for global food production, they are currently not included in the commonly used environmental impact assessment method, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), due to data limitations and compatibility issues. To address this gap, a Delphi assessment was conducted to obtain relative pollinator abundance estimates from 25 experts covering 16 nationalities and 45 countries. Based on the estimates, globally generic characterization factors (CFs) were developed to assess the impact of land use on wild pollinator abundance in LCA studies.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Henry Hakkinen, Nigel G. Taylor, Nathalie Pettorelli, William J. Sutherland, Jon Aldara, Tycho Anker-Nilssen, Christophe Aulert, Rob S. A. van Bemmelen, Daisy Burnell, Bernard Cadiou, Letizia Campioni, Bethany L. Clark, Nina Dehnhard, Maria P. Dias, Leonie Enners, Robert W. Furness, Gunnar thorn or Hallgrimsson, Sjurour Hammer, Erpur Snaer Hansen, Martti Hario, Stephen Hurling, Mark Jessopp, Birgit Kleinschmidt, Meelis Leivits, Klaudyna Maniszewska, Steffen Oppel, Ana Payo-Payo, Daniel Piec, Jaime A. Ramos, Frederic Robin, Iben Hove Sorensen, Antra Stipniece, Danielle L. Thompson, Antonio Vulcano, Silviu Petrovan
Summary: Conservation guidance is an important tool to communicate evidence-based advice to conservation actors, especially in the face of rapidly increasing pressure from climate change. However, the process of developing guidance documents with input from stakeholders can be complicated and costly. There is currently little direct evidence and guidance specifically targeting climate change. This study introduces a process for co-developing guidance for species conservation in the context of a changing climate, using seabirds in the North-East Atlantic as a case study.
CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Business
T. B. White, S. O. Petrovan, L. A. Bennun, T. Butterworth, A. P. Christie, H. Downey, S. B. Hunter, B. R. Jobson, S. O. S. E. Zu Ermgassen, W. J. Sutherland
Summary: Currently, there is an increasing expectation for the private sector to address biodiversity impacts and contribute to global conservation goals. Appropriate evidence use can help businesses minimize biodiversity losses, reduce ineffective actions, and secure opportunities from engaging with biodiversity. This study reviews the status of evidence-based action in the private sector, identifies concerning trends, and proposes principles for evidence-based biodiversity impact mitigation. Meeting these principles would improve biodiversity outcomes, but broader political and socio-economic issues also need to be addressed for business action to fully contribute to global conservation goals.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Amelia S. C. Hood, Gorm E. Shackelford, Alec P. Christie, Hope O. Usieta, Philip A. Martin, William J. Sutherland
Summary: This article presents a systematic map of scientific studies on cassava farming practices, aiming to identify knowledge gaps and clusters. The study found regional knowledge clusters and gaps, as well as issues with study design and reporting standards. The map can guide researchers and funders in addressing knowledge gaps, and the ontologies developed can facilitate more efficient synthesis.
ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS AND EVIDENCE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Elizabeth Nicholls, Janine Griffiths-Lee, Parthiba Basu, Soumik Chatterjee, Dave Goulson
Summary: Urban food production can contribute to sustainable food provision and the health of urban residents, as well as benefit biodiversity. However, there is limited research on urban pollinator populations. This study found a diverse range of insects visiting urban allotments and pollinating crops, with certain crops attracting more visitors. Natural pollination of strawberries resulted in lower quality fruit compared to hand-pollination, highlighting the need to improve urban crop pollination through habitat provision for insects.
PLANTS PEOPLE PLANET
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Peter Lampert, Dave Goulson, Daniel Olsson, John Piccolo, Niklas Gericke
Summary: In this paper, the Action Competence for Insect Conservation (ACIC) framework is developed as a tool for improving education and citizen action for insect biodiversity conservation. The ACIC aims to bridge the gap between knowledge and action implementation by fostering peoples' action-oriented knowledge, confidence, and willingness to take action. It covers not only actions in private greenspaces but also emphasizes the importance of actions that involve others in the community and relevant stakeholders.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bryony K. Willcox, Simon G. Potts, Mark J. F. Brown, Anne Alix, Yahya Al Naggar, Marie-Pierre Chauzat, Cecilia Costa, Antoine Gekiere, Chris Hartfield, Fani Hatjina, Jessica L. Knapp, Vicente Martinez-Lopez, Christian Maus, Teodor Metodiev, Francesco Nazzi, Julia Osterman, Risto Raimets, Verena Strobl, Annette Van Oystaeyen, Dimitry Wintermantel, Nikol Yovcheva, Deepa Senapathi
Summary: Managed bees play a vital role in global food security through their pollination services. However, they face various threats and it is important to anticipate and reduce risks for sustainable management. In a horizon scanning exercise conducted in Europe, experts identified emerging threats and opportunities for managed bees in agricultural systems, calling for renewed research and policy focus to maintain sustainable and healthy managed bee pollinators.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Edward A. Straw, Elena Cini, Harriet Gold, Alberto Linguadoca, Chloe Mayne, Joris Rockx, Mark J. F. Brown, Michael P. D. Garratt, Simon G. Potts, Deepa Senapathi
Summary: Many pollinators, including bumble bees, are declining due to various factors. This study tested the effects of an insecticide and a common bumble bee parasite on bumble bee colonies and found that they did not have an impact on foraging performance or fruit set. These results suggest that the insecticide tested may be less harmful to bee health compared to other commonly used insecticides.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Chris Wyver, Simon G. Potts, Mike Edwards, Rowan Edwards, Stuart Roberts, Deepa Senapathi
Summary: Climate change has a diverse range of impacts on wild bees, including their phenology. This study analyzes the shifts in emergence dates of British wild bees over 40 years, showing widespread advances. Temperature is the key driver of this shift, with an average advance of 6.5 days per 1 degree Celsius warming. Species-specific variation is observed, highlighting the possible impact on the temporal structure of bee communities and pollination networks.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Chris Wyver, Simon G. Potts, Mike Edwards, Rowan Edwards, Deepa Senapathi
Summary: Climate plays a significant role in species distribution and activity timing. With changing climate, many species are shifting their ranges and emergence phenology. This study examined the impact of climate on bee emergence dates and predicted future trends. The results suggest that wild bees in Great Britain are susceptible to climate changes and are likely to shift their ranges northward in the future. Species distribution models were used to predict suitable climate envelopes, showing an increase in suitable habitats for most species.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
