Cloud Computing Research Profiling: Mapping Scholarly Community and Identifying Thematic Boundaries of the Field

Sudolska, Agata; Lis, Andrzej; Błaś, Róża

doi:10.3390/socsci8040112

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“…On the other hand, the analysis variables were established from the review of previous bibliometric studies in the area of social sciences, with a topic similar to the object of study (Batanero et al 2019;Hinojo-Lucena et al 2019;Oravec et al 2019;Rodríguez-García et al 2019;Sudolska et al 2019):…”

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Big Data in Education. A Bibliometric Review

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The handling of a large amount of data to analyze certain behaviors is reaching a great popularity in the decade 2010–2020. This phenomenon has been called Big Data. In the field of education, the analysis of this large amount of data, generated to a greater extent by students, has begun to be introduced in order to improve the teaching–learning process. In this paper, it was proposed as an objective to analyze the scientific production on Big Data in education in the databases Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, ERIC, and PsycINFO. A bibliometric study was carried out on a sample of 1491 scientific documents. Among the results, the increase in publications in 2017 and the configuration of certain journals, countries and authors as references in the subject matter stand out. Finally, potential explanations for the study findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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Big Data in Education. A Bibliometric Review

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“…countries, research institutions, journals, authors). Instead of a traditional topic profiling [33][34][35], we followed the benchmarks of other bibliometric studies [36,37] and applied keywords co-occurrence analysis to assess the trends in scientific production and to identify and explore major thematic areas as well as emerging topics within the research field. VOSviewer software, developed by the researchers of Leiden University [38,39], was used to support the analysis process and visualize the findings.…”

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Managing information on the physical education research field: Bibliometric analysis

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Lis

2020

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Background and Study Aim: The aim of the study is to assess the development of scientific production and to map thematic coverage of research in physical education. The research process is focused on the following study questions: (1) how has the research productivity developed in the physical education research field?, (2) who are the main contributors (countries, universities, authors, source titles) to the amassing research output in the field?, (3) what are the leading thematic areas attracting the most attention of the academia?, (4) what are the emerging topics in the research field? Material and Methods: The Scopus database was used as a source of bibliometric data for the research sampling process. The research sample (N=9,224) consisted of the publications including the phrase ‘physical education’ in their titles. In order to achieve the aim of the study, we employed bibliometric methods i.e. research profiling and keywords co-occurrence analysis. We conducted general publication profiling to assess the trends in scientific production and to recognize leading contributors to the research field. We applied keywords co-occurrence analysis in order to identify and explore major thematic areas as well as emerging topics within the research field. VOSviewer software was used to support the analysis process and visualize the findings. Results: The study shows that physical education is a well-established research field with a long tradition. In the 2010s, it has received an increasing attention of academia which resulted in breakthrough growth in the number of publications indexed in Scopus. The amassing research output is distributed over 26 subject areas. Social Sciences, Medicine and Health Professions are the subject areas grouping the highest number of publications. The leading contributors to the research field are: the most productive country – the United States, the most productive research institution – Loughborough University, the United Kingdom, the most prolific author – David Kirk from the University of Strathclyde, the United Kingdom, the first choice source title – Teoriya i Praktika Fizicheskoy Kultury. Within the physical education research field, there are identified five leading thematic clusters related to: (1) physical education didactics, (2) physical activity of school pupils, (3) physical education of adolescents, (4) human motor competence, (5) physical activity of adults. Emerging topics include the following issues: (1) physical education teachers and their training/education, (2) physical education in the tertiary education context, (3) physical education in the secondary education context. Conclusions: The study contributes to better understanding of development patterns in research on physical education. It provides an added value for managing information on scientific productivity in the research field. Through discovering leading thematic areas and emerging topics within the research field, the study points out the issues important both for further research and development of theory as well as for educational and business practice.

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“…Firstly, research profiling [19] supports the analysis of scientific production distribution in the field and identification of leading contributors. We employ general publication profiling, which together with subject area profiling and topic profiling constitute the research profiling framework [9,24,25]. The aim of general publication profiling is to recognize the most productive countries, research institutions, source titles, and authors conducting research on energy efficiency in cloud computing.…”

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“…Co-word analysis shows a high potential for mapping the cognitive structure of the field [27]. Therefore, we use it to replace a traditional topic profiling focused on identifying leading topics in a field from the perspective of source titles, authors, subject areas, and core references [9,24,25], with science mapping displaying leading thematic areas and relationships among them and their components, as well as "hot" emerging topics. We employ VOSviewer [28,29] science mapping software to support our keyword co-occurrence analysis and visualize its findings.…”

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“…Searching in the Web of Science Core Collection database, we received the same negative result. Taking into account that bibliometric methodologies are successfully used to map the research field focused on cloud computing in general [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] or some of its detailed aspects-such as, e.g., the risks and uncertainties related to cloud computing [11], cloud computing security [12], cloud computing in the healthcare sector [13], or cloud computing and customer quality of experience [14]-we identified a need for a bibliometric study exploring scientific production dealing with energy efficiency in cloud computing systems.…”

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

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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.

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Cloud Computing Research Profiling: Mapping Scholarly Community and Identifying Thematic Boundaries of the Field

Cited by 7 publications

References 54 publications

Big Data in Education. A Bibliometric Review

Big Data in Education. A Bibliometric Review

Managing information on the physical education research field: Bibliometric analysis

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

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