Synergistic Curriculum Development: an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Chopra, Raj Kumar

doi:10.1177/019263658907351810

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“…What emerged from the collaborative network pattern based on centrality indicators was that researchers had come together with individual capabilities. Their interaction and collaboration had resulted in the top and higher quality publications, as Chopra (1989) explained the concept of synergy.…”

Section: The Co-authorship Synergy Patterns Of Authors Journals and I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Synergistic networks of COVID-19’s top papers

Riahinia

Danesh

Ghavidel

2021

LHT

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PurposeSynergy indicators and social network analysis (SNA), as practical tools, provide the possibility of explaining the pattern of scientific collaboration and visualization of network relations. Recognition of scientific capacities is the basis of synergy. The present study aims to measure and discover the synergistic networks of COVID-19’s top papers at the level of co-authorship, countries, journals, bibliographic couples and titles.Design/methodology/approachThe synergy indicator, co-authorship co-citation network analysis methods were applied. The research population comprises COVID-19’s top papers indexed in Essential Science Indicator and Web of Science Core Collection 2020 and 2021. Excel 2016, UCINET 6.528.0.0 2017, NetDraw, Ravar Matrix, VOSviewer version 1.6.14 and Python 3.9.5 were applied to analyze the data and visualize the networks.FindingsThe findings indicate that considering the three possible possibilities for authors, countries and journals, more redundancy and information are created and potential for further cooperation is observed. The synergy of scientific collaboration has revealed that “Wang, Y,” “USA” and “Science of the Total Environment” have the most effective capabilities and results. “Guan (2020b)” and “Zhou (2020)” are bibliographic couplings that have received the most citations. The keywords “CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19)” were the most frequent in article titles.Originality/valueIn a circumstance that the world is suffering from a COVID-19 pandemic and all scientists are conducting various researches to discover vaccines, medicines and new treatment methods, scientometric studies, and analysis of social networks of COVID-19 publications to be able to specify the synergy rate and the scientific collaboration networks, are not only innovative and original but also of great importance and priority; SNA tools along with the synergy indicator is capable of visualizing the complicated and multifaceted pattern of scientific collaboration in COVID-19. As a result, analyses can help identify existing capacities and define a new space for using COVID-19 researchers’ capabilities.

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Section: The Co-authorship Synergy Patterns Of Authors Journals and I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Synergistic networks of COVID-19’s top papers

Riahinia

Danesh

Ghavidel

2021

LHT

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“…(3) there is a strong chance that when everything is said and done, there will be no quality control and no accountability with the system (Chopra, 1989). …”

Section: School-based Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is clear that the closer the decision-making power is to the learner, the more the system can be 'fine tuned'. However, it should be remembered that this refers to tuning the means, not the end (Chopra, 1989).…”

Section: School-based Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%