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Construction Project Performance Research: A Bibliometric, Scientometric, and Qualitative Review (1989–2023)

  • Abdelnaser Abdelhameed,
  • Mohamed S. Yamany,
  • Ahmed Abdelaty,
  • Emad Elbeltagi and
  • Hany Abd Elshakour Mohamed

2 February 2026

Despite the significant increase in publications on construction project performance (CPP), there is a deficiency of research that rigorously assesses and synthesizes previous studies to delineate the field’s development, themes, and research g...

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Quantifying Memory Vulnerabilities in IoT Edge Devices Using Functional Sizing

  • Salma Salem,
  • Hassan Soubra,
  • Peter Langendoerfer and
  • Milad Michel Ghantous

19 January 2026

The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved through the interconnection of edge devices, enabling seamless data exchange across networks. With IoT adoption expanding into various sectors, the massive growth of generated data has raised concerns about th...

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Secondary Education Teachers and Climate Change Education: A Complementary Bibliometric and Methodological Review

  • Antonio García-Vinuesa,
  • Jorge Conde Miguélez,
  • Mayara Palmieri and
  • Andrea Correa-Chica

13 January 2026

Climate change is the most significant socio-environmental challenges of our time, and education has been recognized as a fundamental strategy to confront it. Yet research efforts have focused more on students than on teachers, despite the latter&rsq...

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10 December 2025

This paper presents a bibliometric and literature review on decarbonization strategies in sustainability-oriented contractor selection within Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) frameworks. The study analyzes 972 journal articles published between 2002...

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1 Citations
1,298 Views
21 Pages

One Size Fits None: Rethinking Bibliometric Indicators for Fairer Assessment and Strategic Research Planning

  • Dimitrios Kouis,
  • Evangelia Triperina,
  • Ioannis Drivas,
  • Foteini Efthymiou,
  • Alexandros Koulouris and
  • Ruben Comas-Forgas

3 November 2025

Bibliometric indicators play a key role in assessing research performance at individual, departmental, and institutional levels, influencing both funding allocation, and university rankings. However, despite their widespread use, bibliometrics are of...

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51 Pages

3 November 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly permeated education since 2014, propelled by technological innovation and global investment, yet scholarly discourse on contemporary AI-Education intersections remains largely fragmented. The present study add...

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11 October 2025

Star scientists are highly influential researchers who have made significant contributions to their field, gained widespread recognition, and often attracted substantial research funding. They are critical for the advancement of science and innovatio...

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4 October 2025

The fashion industry, despite its global economic importance, is a major contributor to environmental degradation and social inequality. In response, sustainable fashion has emerged as a growing movement advocating ethical, ecological, and socially r...

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670 Views
17 Pages

4 October 2025

Digital transformation in higher education necessitates a central role for university faculty, yet there is a lack of comprehensive tools to measure their actual pedagogical use of technology. This study aims to refine the definition of a composite i...

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20 Pages

Can Social Innovation and Agriculture Serve as a Turning Point in Rural Areas? Insights from a Bibliometric Literature Review

  • Mattia Mogetta,
  • Deborah Bentivoglio,
  • Giulia Chiaraluce,
  • Giacomo Staffolani and
  • Adele Finco

10 September 2025

Rural areas are facing major challenges and profound changes that directly affect the quality of life of rural populations. In this context, new ideas and opportunities are emerging, where social innovation initiatives are leading to solutions that a...

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1,062 Views
41 Pages

CTAARCHS: Cloud-Based Technologies for Archival Astronomical Research Contents and Handling Systems

  • Stefano Gallozzi,
  • Georgios Zacharis,
  • Federico Fiordoliva and
  • Fabrizio Lucarelli

8 September 2025

This paper presents a flexible approach to a multipurpose, heterogeneous archive and data management system model that merges the robustness of legacy grid-based technologies with modern cloud and edge computing paradigms. It leverages innovations dr...

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1 September 2025

The higher education sector is increasingly being reshaped and reimagined in the era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). For instance, the promise of GenAI to innovate pedagogical approaches in the way teaching and learning (T&L) occur...

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1 September 2025

In recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of retractions across the biomedical and social sciences. A high rate of retractions undermines the integrity of scholarly journals and threatens the credibility of scientific disciplines. I...

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1,934 Views
35 Pages

13 August 2025

In the ongoing ‘data revolution’, the ubiquity of digital data in society underlines a transformative era. This is mirrored in the sciences, where ‘big data’ has emerged as a major research field. This article significantly ex...

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1 Citations
1,159 Views
21 Pages

Directed Energy Deposition: A Scientometric Study and Its Practical Implications

  • Mehran Ghasempour-Mouziraji,
  • Daniel Afonso,
  • Behrouz Nemati and
  • Ricardo Alves de Sousa

5 August 2025

Directed Energy Deposition is an additive manufacturing subgroup that uses a laser beam to melt the wire or powder to create a melt pool. In the current study, a scientometric analysis has been carried out to analyze the contribution of countries, pu...

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1 Citations
4,288 Views
19 Pages

The Use of Video Games in Language Learning: A Bibliometric Analysis

  • Alain Presentación-Muñoz,
  • Alberto González-Fernández,
  • Miguel Rodal and
  • Jesús Acevedo-Borrega

21 July 2025

Advances in technology and changes in the way people entertain themselves have made video games a cultural agent on a par with more traditional games, including language learning. In addition, the use of video games in education is becoming increasin...

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Cognitive Systems and Artificial Consciousness: What It Is Like to Be a Bat Is Not the Point

  • Javier Arévalo-Royo,
  • Juan-Ignacio Latorre-Biel and
  • Francisco-Javier Flor-Montalvo

17 July 2025

A longstanding ambiguity surrounds the operationalization of consciousness in artificial systems, complicated by the philosophical and cultural weight of subjective experience. This work examines whether cognitive architectures may be designed to sup...

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23 June 2025

This paper explores the link between the results of the UK’s Research Evaluation Exercises (REEs) and university decisions on which Units of Assessment (UOA) to submit to in future REEs. How the raw data from REEs can be converted into two nove...

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Comprehensive Review of Metrics and Measurements of Quantum Systems

  • Hassan Soubra,
  • Hatem Elsayed,
  • Yousef Elbrolosy,
  • Youssef Adel and
  • Zeyad Attia

Quantum computing promises to offer significant computational advantages over classical computing, leveraging principles such as superposition and entanglement. This necessitates effective metrics and measurement techniques for evaluating quantum sys...

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30 Pages

In this research, we aim to synthesize the complex issue of students’ and science teachers’ conceptions of the nature of science (NOS). We identified the conceptions of ninety-five pre-service science teachers (PSTcs) enrolled in the Qual...

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1,213 Views
17 Pages

Scatterplots can reveal important data relationships, but their visual complexity can make pattern identification challenging. Systematic analytical approaches help structure interpretation by dividing scatterplots into meaningful regions. This paper...

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3 Citations
6,334 Views
76 Pages

Mapping Data-Driven Research Impact Science: The Role of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

  • Mudassar Hassan Arsalan,
  • Omar Mubin,
  • Abdullah Al Mahmud,
  • Imran Ahmed Khan and
  • Ali Jan Hassan

In an era of evolving scholarly ecosystems, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have become pivotal in advancing research impact analysis. Despite their transformative potential, the fragmented body of literature in this domain nec...

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1 Citations
2,920 Views
29 Pages

NeuroIS: A Systematic Review of NeuroIS Through Bibliometric Analysis

  • Nahid Entezarian,
  • Rouhollah Bagheri,
  • Javad Rezazadeh and
  • John Ayoade

10 March 2025

This study aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge mapping and extensive analysis of NeuroIS research, elucidating global trends and directions within this field from January 2007 to January 2024. A visual analysis of 256 research articles sourced...

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3 Citations
2,727 Views
17 Pages

Agri-Food Sector: Contemporary Trends, Possible Gaps, and Prospective Directions

  • José Roberto Herrera Cantorani,
  • Meire Ramalho de Oliveira,
  • Luiz Alberto Pilatti and
  • Thales Botelho de Sousa

5 February 2025

The agri-food sector is expanding, driven by growing global demand. At the same time, it faces the challenge of increasing its efficiency and adopting sustainable practices. This study aimed to map scientific production in this field, identifying tre...

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1 Citations
1,237 Views
15 Pages

26 January 2025

Background: The literature has addressed the negative impact of poor neonatal conditions (NCs) across regions. This has drawn attention to the need to improve NCs, particularly in Africa. NCs research can make an important contribution. However, ther...

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4 Citations
4,313 Views
21 Pages

2 January 2025

The digital transformation of museums has elevated their websites from mere informational tools to dynamic platforms that foster cultural engagement, inclusivity, and preservation. This study evaluates the performance of 234 museum websites worldwide...

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1 Citations
3,093 Views
15 Pages

13 October 2024

This study investigates the diversity and evolution of research topics within the dental sciences from 1994 to 2023, using Topic modeling and Shannon’s entropy as a measure of research diversity. We analyzed a dataset of 412,036 scientific arti...

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6 Citations
5,870 Views
24 Pages

Topic Modeling for Faster Literature Screening Using Transformer-Based Embeddings

  • Carlo Galli,
  • Claudio Cusano,
  • Marco Meleti,
  • Nikolaos Donos and
  • Elena Calciolari

8 October 2024

Systematic reviews are a powerful tool to summarize the existing evidence in medical literature. However, identifying relevant articles is difficult, and this typically involves structured searches with keyword-based strategies, followed by the pains...

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2 Citations
3,819 Views
14 Pages

Embeddings for Efficient Literature Screening: A Primer for Life Science Investigators

  • Carlo Galli,
  • Claudio Cusano,
  • Stefano Guizzardi,
  • Nikolaos Donos and
  • Elena Calciolari

30 September 2024

As the number of publications is quickly growing in any area of science, the need to efficiently find relevant information amidst a large number of similarly themed articles becomes very important. Semantic searching through text documents has the po...

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