A bibliometric-based evaluation on environmental research in the Arab world

Zyoud, Sh. H.; Fuchs-Hanusch, Daniela; Zyoud, Sa’ed H; Al‐Rawajfeh, Aiman Eid; Shaheen, Hafez

doi:10.1007/s13762-016-1180-3

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“…Undoubtedly, the most productive country is the USA in terms of the number of total publications from single-country articles and international collaborations (6,442 papers), followed by United Kingdom (2,717), Australia (1,624), Canada (1,371), Germany (976), China (946), Netherlands (867), Spain (807), Italy (743) and Sweden (718). The predominance of USA and United Kingdom to the scientific production has been also revealed by previous studies [37].…”

Section: Analysis Of the Major Sources Of Publication And Citationsupporting

confidence: 73%

Analysis of the world scientific production on public’s opinion on environmental issues

Zervas¹

2019

Environmental Research and Technology

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The aim of this study is to investigate the scientific production related to public attitude, behavior and acceptance of environmental issues through a bibliometric analysis. The databases Scopus was used to analyze the papers published in the subject area of environmental science. Bibliometric analysis was performed for authors, institutions, source type, document type, number of citations and countries in relation to publication year. An analysis of keywords of publications was also performed. The number of publications shows an overall exponential trend after 1965 until 2017. The most productive institution is the Wageningen University and Research Centre, followed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing Normal University. The keywords of the categories associated with "Ecology", "Sustainability," and "Environmental Policy-Management" are the most commonly used in most studies. It seems that there is room for more intensive research on fields related to public's opinion on specific environmental issues. The findings of the research will contribute to a better understanding of the current state of the art, identifying key research areas in the field of public opinion on environmental issues and identifying future research trends and directions.

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Section: Analysis Of the Major Sources Of Publication And Citationsupporting

confidence: 73%

Analysis of the world scientific production on public’s opinion on environmental issues

Zervas¹

2019

Environmental Research and Technology

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“…According to UNESCO report, the researchers in the Arab world do not publish in refereed journals listed by the Web of Science or Scopus, and many Arab universities are not considered as research universities 13 . However, the findings of this study confirmed that the Arab world contributions to IoT research is higher than that of their contributions to the environmental and medical research 14,15 but lower than their contributions to leishmaniasis research 16 . A report by Wasim Maziak 14 found that Arab countries contributed to less than 0.5 per cent of the papers appeared in 200 leading medical journals.…”

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“…A report by Wasim Maziak 14 found that Arab countries contributed to less than 0.5 per cent of the papers appeared in 200 leading medical journals. Similarly, a research by Zyoud 15 and his colleagues found that Arab world contributed to 1.25 per cent of world productivity in environmental research, while Al Jabi 16 reported 5.65 per cent of Arab contributions to leishmaniansis research at the global level.…”

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confidence: 95%

Bibliometric Analysis of Research Output on the Internet of Things in the Arab World

Kaba¹,

Ramaiah

2019

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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Arab countries understand the importance of the Internet of things for the development of society. This entails many efforts to conduct research related to the Internet of things in the Arab countries. Analysing contributions of researchers to the Internet of things research could be useful to go further in this filed. In this study, bibliometric techniques are used to investigate publications indexed in the Scopus database with the affiliation to the Arab countries. The paper used research outputs of Arab nations as quantitative measure, while it also used citation rates and citation scores for qualitative measure. Data analysis focuses on the growth in the Internet of things research, types of publication, core journals, subject and keyword analysis, top productive authors, top productive institutes and countries, and collaborative countries with the Arab countries. Findings of the study highlighted the differences among the Arab group countries with regard to IoT research. In addition, the Arab nations appeared performing better in IoT research than the environmental and medical research.

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“…Although most definitions of bibliometrics are too broad, it could be defined as the research methodology employed in library and information sciences that utilizes quantitative analysis and statistics methods to describe the distribution of patterns of publications according to some given categories such as topic, field, source, author or country [25,26]. The bibliometric methodology allows access to relevant information and knowledge about the status of scientific research activities in specific disciplines, which helps researchers to identify novel schemes among research [27]. Moreover, it is a well-recognized technique for conducting systematic analyses about the study of science as a knowledge-generating and communication system and its interaction with technology [28].…”

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confidence: 99%

A Bibliometric Study of Scientific Publications regarding Hemicellulose Valorization during the 2000–2016 Period: Identification of Alternatives and Hot Topics

Abejón

2018

ChemEngineering

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A bibliometric analysis of the Scopus database was carried out to identify the research trends related to hemicellulose valorization from 2000 to 2016. The results from the analysis revealed an increasing number of annual publications, a high degree of transdisciplinary collaboration and prolific contributions by European researchers on this topic. The importance of a holistic approach to consider the simultaneous valorization of the three main components of lignocellulosic biomass (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) must be highlighted. Optimal pretreatment processes are critical for the correct fractionation of the biomass and the subsequent valorization. On the one hand, biological conversion of sugars derived from hemicellulose can be employed for the production of biofuel (ethanol) or chemicals such as 2,3-butadiene, xylitol and lactic acid. On the other hand, the chemical transformation of these sugars produces furfural, 5-hydroxyfurfural and levulinic acid, which must be considered very important starting blocks for the synthesis of organic derivatives.

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A bibliometric-based evaluation on environmental research in the Arab world

Cited by 34 publications

References 87 publications

Analysis of the world scientific production on public’s opinion on environmental issues

Analysis of the world scientific production on public’s opinion on environmental issues

Bibliometric Analysis of Research Output on the Internet of Things in the Arab World

A Bibliometric Study of Scientific Publications regarding Hemicellulose Valorization during the 2000–2016 Period: Identification of Alternatives and Hot Topics

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