Prospects of Mind Maps for Better Visualization of Infrastructure Literature

Hegazy, Tarek; Ali, Abdelbaset; Abdel-Monem, Mohamed

doi:10.1061/(asce)ei.1943-5541.0000072

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“…They found that studies could be divided into many categories and belonged to more than one research area. Also, Hegazy, Ali, and Abdel-Monem (2011) point to the diverse nature of the 'management' of infrastructure assets. They consider the infrastructure domain to be one of the largest with a wide spread of research.…”

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“…Recent developments in this type of analysis could help in addressing the different orientations and scope in the research of managing infrastructure assets. In addition, Hegazy et al (2011) show that researchers could gain a more realistic and simplified understanding of the IAM concept through using visualisation tools, such as visual mapping, to analyse the literature. Elsewhere and related to other management topics, similar visualisation techniques combined with bibliometric analysis have proven beneficial in this respect (e.g.…”

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Research orientations towards the ‘management’ of infrastructure assets: an intellectual structure approach

Schraven

Hartmann

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2013

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

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In recent decades, research on the management of infrastructure assets has increased steadily. However, there are concerns raised about the contribution of studies to a coherent body of knowledge. There is a call for a more structured understanding of the knowledge that is emerging around the management of infrastructure assets. This paper attempts to answer this call through an empirical study based on the reference lists of over 8200 articles that present their study relevant to the management of infrastructure assets. In so doing, we apply recognised techniques from bibliometric and social network analyses to visualise and identify major and minor topics, where researchers have oriented and contributed. We find that managing infrastructure assets traditionally was object-oriented, such as pavements, bridges, water and utility networks, and that attention is only now emerging on the life-cycle decision-making and organisational aspects, although the latter remains weakly linked with technical aspects. We conclude with shared research orientations in 'managing' infrastructure assets.

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confidence: 99%

Research orientations towards the ‘management’ of infrastructure assets: an intellectual structure approach

Schraven

Hartmann

Dewulf

2013

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

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“…In that respect, our study provides greater insight into the observation, made by some researchers (e.g. Moon et al, 2009;Hegazy et al, 2011), that IAM oriented studies have mushroomed to cover a wide range of topics. In addition to this, the changes in levels of cite frequency between 1996 and 2013 enable us to indicate relatedness and emergence of topics concerning the 'management' of infrastructure assets.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They found that studies could be divided into many categories and belonged to more than one research area. Also, Hegazy et al (2011) point to the diverse nature of the "management" of infrastructure assets. They consider the infrastructure domain to be one of the largest with a wide spread of research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent developments in this type of analysis could help in addressing the different orientations and scope in the research of managing infrastructure assets. In addition, Hegazy et al (2011) show that researchers could gain a more realistic and simplified understanding of the IAM concept through using visualization tools, such as visual mapping, to analyze the literature. Elsewhere and related to other management topics, similar visualization techniques combined with bibliometric analysis have proven beneficial in this respect (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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